My apologies if you're a former co-worker, old friend or distant relative finding out that I'm #transgender from this toot and you think I should have told you sooner.
But I know a LOT of people and it's simply not practical for me to have that many intimate conversations first.
So I'm telling you all now about the joy I feel. 💖
@jferg@simplenomad@pluralistic Just want you all to know that I received many compliments on my hoodie at a conference (click to see the glorious part)
@Rasta Oh, you mean something like the Philips TV Tuner 7300? I still have a few 1081 and 1084 monitors. I never had a TV tuner, though. But I know the Philips tuner because a friend used to have one.
I envy you for your memory. I have a sort of acoustic memory. I can remember a tune I heard, but for the most part, if you ask me for a name (either band or song title) I will probably fail.
Still, my collection consist of 575 albums right now which amounts to 28.1 days of continuous playing. 🤣
@keno3003 Sorry euer #Passkeys-Werbevideo klingt nach Lobbying für Großkonzerne.
Passkeys hat mit dem Wegfallens des Schutz des Secrets im Vergleich zu #FIDO2 eine deutlich geringere Vertrauenswürdigkeit. Passkeys wäre nur dann sicherer, wenn man den Betreibern wie #Apple, #Google, #Microsoft absolut vertraut, dass die mein Secret ordentlich handhaben. Aktuellstes Beispiel ist Microsoft mit dem Verteilen von Generalschlüsseln zur #Cloud. 😔
Normale 2FA ist somit sicherer als Passkeys. #TOTP
@publicvoit@frank@keno3003 Äh, passkeys sind FIDO2 tokens in Software... inwiefern muss ich da "BigTech" vertrauen?! Niemand sagt dass die in der Cloud gespeichert werden müssen, oder gar unverschlüsselt...
In der Hinsicht sind Passkeys absolut identisch zu Passwörtern: Wenn du sie synchronisierst hast du die gleichen "Probleme". Kann man aber problemlos E2E verschlüsselt machen. Wenn du sie nicht synchronisierst... dann halt nicht.
Und: Im Gegenteil zu Passwörtern wird der Platform wo du dich einloggst nie der Passkey übermittelt, sondern eben nur eine Challenge gelöst – wie bei Hardware-Tokens. Du hast also alles was Passwörter können, nur noch viel mehr: Phishing-Schutz, garantierte "hohe Qualität", keine sensiblen Daten serverseitig und mehr Komfort.
Wenn du zusätzlich die über eine Keychain synchronisierst, hast du – genauso wie bei synchronisierenden Passwortmanagern – natürlich da eine etwa größere Angriffsfläche. Das muss man bedenken, hat aber absolut NIX mit Passkeys zu tun 🙈
If #Apple continues on this path I’m going to have to switch back to Android. The idea that they deserve a fee from developers for people simply running programs on their operating system is unhinged. The App Store fee is justified because it’s a distribution channel. But whatever this is, is nonsense.
First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.
The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.
Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move to that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.
“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”
Oh and for folks wondering why #Apple is insisting that people work in #Austin#Texas: I can’t speak for their actual motivation, of course, but this much is true:
In 2018, Apple received $25M in grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund, as well as a $16M property tax abatement from Williamson County for building their new campus, contingent on Apple bringing in 4,000 new workers to Williamson County over 12 years.
I’m sure those financial considerations come into play.
Reminder that Apple uses a technology literally invented in 1984 to brainwash their users into thinking anyone using a non-Apple device is poor.
This lie is rampant and reinforced by the billionaire CEO of Apple, the richest company to ever exist.
Apple intentionally makes their devices bad at communicating with other devices because it means kids without Apple devices might get bullied into giving Apple more money. Apple knows this, and plays into it.
Meanwhile, outside of the Apple bubble, $2k Samsung phones more powerful than most computers with 10× periscope optical zoom lenses and 7" folding screens can send 4K HDR video to a $50 Nokia burner phone, and it works fine on both sides. The burner phone can give that video a 👍 and see when the other person is typing. And their whole conversation is end-to-end encrypted, even if they create a new group with a third person who has a midrange Google phone.
Today I had an iPhone user send me a video and the format was just hilariously broken, like I haven’t seen from an Android user in a decade. Actively worse than even a normal MMS video!
Apple still pillboxes vertical video inside a 320×240 pixel file, and sends that. This is not even a limitation of MMS or Android—it is Apple intentionally sabotaging your video when you send it.
#RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
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@janxdevil@pluralistic Well, yeah. Many years ago, the burglar alarm on our car went off when we leaving a shopping center. The problem? Our car didn't have a burglar alarm. But it wouldn't let us drive it away. AAA came, and said "all these cars have a burglar alarm, it's just disabled by a jumper that they remove if you pay for it. And it's fairly common for that jumper to fail, enabling the alarm on a car that doesn't have one."
@pluralistic no other "ad-hoc" law has ever laid such a solid foundation for the fictional creation of a monopolistic market so heavily concentrated in such a small group of corporations. The #DMCA is, without a doubt, the most extreme legal expression of an anti competitive market ever passed.
Understanding that the #DMCA is the most harmful piece of legislation ever passed against consumers and free and competitive market as a whole is paramount.
Tomorrow, Apple will shut down My Photo Stream, after 12 years of service.
I wrote the code that ran the service on iOS devices back in 2010, and it has been faithfully syncing hundreds of millions of photos between iPhones and iPads and their respective macOS Photo libraries for more than a decade. It survived the introduction to iCloud’s Shared Photo Streams (I also wrote its client software), the shutdown of Aperture, and the introduction of iCloud Photo Library. And today, we finally bid it goodbye.
It’s been a good 12 years. 1000 photos, hosted for 30 days, for free, so you can save them on your Mac—those were the days, eh?
@drahardja "1000 photos, hosted for 30 days, for free, so you can save them on your Mac." One day to go, and I FINALLY understand what this service was and how I could have been using it all these years
@ppn Again, I think you oversimplify but we’ll see. Anyway the only thing you can do is... not buying that brand. And taste another kind of 💩 😆 I’m too old and cynical to be surprised by their move (greed is obviously part of it) but I do see why they do it, technically speaking.
@Cafeine I have principles issue with how Apple is doing part pairing but my personal feedback wouldn’t be as hostile in practice if Apple had same quality of service as before and hadn’t considerably jacked up repair cost since glass-sandwich phones era. Surprisingly I managed to get Airpods Pro replaced for free no questions asked 2 years ago (rattling again) but that was definitely an exception in years of terrible experience at the stores (Pencil story happened right after 🙃)
I think I’m one of the (few?) humans who could use the new Apple iFacePlate right now. I’ve got this project where I’m intensely editing a large complex doc, frequently accessing several other large complex docs (& browser) for materials. I have a big outboard screen, but still a painful amount of window shuffling. The ability to simultaneously display and read more BIG windows than any physical screen could manage would make my life way easier.
@timbray "display a flat screen in VR" has always felt like a very silly use of 3d goggles but as the displays get sharp enough, it's actually not a super awful way to do those "Minority Report" user interfaces we all drooled over years back ;)