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steveriggins

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iOS engineer at eBay. He/Him. Started my career in the 80s at The Voyager Company working on laserdisc and CD-ROM interfaced HyperCard stacks. Shipped QuickTime video at launch. Bad puns are the best. All posts are mine and do not represent my employer.

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https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/10/24153867/marathon-bungie-shooter-steam-release-date-price

MAR-A-THON

craiggrannell, to random
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Lots of arguments still raging about that Apple ad. Some claiming things have changed. Apple is too big now. It would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids*.

But now imagine Apple swapped out its cool (for the day) iPod ads for one in which an amazing record and CD collection, along with vintage players, are destroyed by a soulless crusher, before an iPod is revealed. I don’t imagine people would have been cheering about that either.

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steveriggins,
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@craiggrannell I wonder how offended people would be without a place to express themselves.

molly0xfff, to random
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the team behind Critical Role just launched its own subscription membership service called "Beacon"

pretty cool to see a creative team trying out a new model to give them so much control over their own content/platform

steveriggins,
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@molly0xfff I do not consume their content but I do thank them for causing the word “precarity” to enter my vocabulary, which macOS spell check doesn't know is a word.

pixel, to random
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In today’s episode of Stupid Swift Tricks, I introduce you to Write Only Variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(joke)

steveriggins,
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@pixel isn’t this a Write Once Read Never? Heh

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Apple keynote first thoughts:

A big new iPad Pro with the new keyboard would be great but I checked and it’s $1848 which is $500+ more than a new 15” MacBook Air, and I didn’t see any mention of MagSafe charging being added to iPads.

If Apple made a home dock wireless charger/holder like the Google tablets have, I’d buy one for the kitchen counter as a family Apple Home controller/recipe lookup screen that is always charged and ready to play tv/movies when undocked.

steveriggins,
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@mathowie I keep hoping to use the pencil some day to learn better handwriting but I never make the time

steveriggins, to random
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Retest this please.

But seriously, business shift left to not having dedicated, unbiased testers is hurting everyone, sometimes literally.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112401037767211337

steveriggins, to random
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“He sleepily reads as he wakes up late again”

I guess it took me filing a feedback with exact details…: 😛⏰🔕

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/30/apple-working-on-fix-for-bug-causing-iphone-alarms-to-not-play-sounds/

steveriggins, to swift
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So yeah you can pin a package manager package to a reference, but that doesn’t pin any dependencies it has.

How are people locking down the entire SPM tree for security purposes?

danielpunkass, to random
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I really feel for everybody losing access to their Apple ID, and wish I knew if there was anything I could do to continue avoiding the same fate.

steveriggins,
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@danielpunkass what an unacceptable event

steveriggins, to random
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Thanks, @gruber

steveriggins, to random
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I taught a class on iOS/macOS Focus today. It lasted a little over an hour. Not a ton to… focus on.

Then I asked copilot to explain Focus and it hit every single point I did. It was kind of weird.

Then I asked it to rewrite the text in the voice of George Carlin. That was fantastic.

Focus is how you keep your friends from bugging you while pretending to actually be busy.

steveriggins,
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@matthewcassinelli yeah agreed. I was teach regular people who belong to our user group and are not power users at all. Most of my classes are simply informative so people are less skiddish about trying something out that they don’t understand.

agiletortoise, to random
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Tell me more about this apartment…

steveriggins,
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@agiletortoise I’ve had my eye on this place for awhile

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It's shocking how much more usable Chrome is, now that they finally fixed erratic ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors.
I can't believe this took them 5 months to finally get around to fix.

steveriggins,
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@layoutSubviews don’t tell @siracusa it was 5 months 🤣

stroughtonsmith, to random
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omg I should buy a lottery ticket

steveriggins,
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@stroughtonsmith that’s a cool one. Are you planning on doing MoP time running?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

video/mp4

steveriggins,
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@stroughtonsmith “it could still potentially be misused for impersonating humans”

Hold on while I find Sherlock

steveriggins, to random
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If I buy a car and it’s a piece of crap, I will say so and tell everyone. I don’t need to try and salvage my fragile ego by grifting others into also buying a shitty car. I want to share what I learned so others can benefit.

Musk fans are cut from a different cloth. Something more akin to a diaper.

steveriggins, to random
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To be fair, updating Windows can be dicey
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112260160917008394

RepShontelBrown, to random
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I’m deeply concerned by Iran’s multi-layered attack on Israel and am praying for our ally and Americans in the region. President Biden and the U.S. remain unwavering in our commitment to Israel’s defense and security. I strongly urge Speaker Johnson to bring the security supplemental aid package to the House floor immediately.

steveriggins,
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@RepShontelBrown now do Palestine

steveriggins, to random
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@siracusa @caseyliss @marcoarment are you aware of this may 1 ITMS-91053 missing API declaration requirement Apple has? We have to declare why we are using a category of APIs but they didn’t tell us which specific apis so it a a haystack hunt of finding symbols in frameworks with no obvious reason why the linker linked them, as well as updating SDKs to get signed, manifested versions, along with whatever side effects of a SDK bump.

Seems like a good topic for how Apple works.

steveriggins,
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@siracusa Apple has marked some APIs as used for fingerprinting and wants developers to supply reason codes for each category. They include user defaults, file time stamps, and boot time APIs. But they don’t tell us which apis were found in which binaries, leaving developers up to guessing. Apps will need these declarations by may 1 or be rejected.

steveriggins,
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@siracusa Ah, I wasn’t sure if the angle was that they want the info (fine) but they give zero clues about how to satisfy the requirements. I have some symbols showing up in frameworks via nm that I simply cannot figure out where they are being imported from. Apple could have made this a one hour task by supplying specific APIs in specific frameworks, but they tossed it over the wall and said “good luck!” It falls into line with other bad practices by dev relations (ok I am old)

steveriggins, to random
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Interesting thread on spatial personas.

What I want is a augmented reality cone of silence that others can see me hitting my head on the thing, hear what I am saying (because it doesn’t actually work) but the chief and I are oblivious
https://mastodon.social/@charliemchapman/112237663153105128

charliemchapman, to random
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Just tried out a 4 person FaceTime with the new Spatial Personas and I think I can say, this device finally has a solution for a problem that I haven't figured out how to solve (more conveniently) with my other devices:

Multi-threaded conversations

steveriggins,
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@charliemchapman if I reset people, on my end, how does the Spatial Audio work? Do they move in all three environments? Can we suddenly hear the others better?

gedeonm, to TheAmazingRace
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Another great episode of . Really enjoying S35! Also, Slovenia is a BEAUTIFUL country. 🥰

steveriggins,
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@gedeonm exhaustion brings out the best and worst in people.

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