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iPhone Air 11 months ago

Agree, and as an ex-mini user, I wish this was the world we lived in.

I presume the problem is that iPhones are a lot more expensive to produce than tomato sauce, and it's a lot more difficult to get rid of the ones that people don't buy.

I presume they can use over-the-air updates to disable the feature when the device is activated?

My watch’s logs always have some OTA stuff.

TypeChat 3 years ago

this is going to create space for some hilarious and funky input attacks.

I believe that the issue is real, but this article suggests a mind-bogglingly unsafe solution.

The steps include downloading a remote script, then entering the password of a privileged user.

Goodness, it would be a shame if someone were to change the contents of that remote script.

Puter 4 years ago

Why should I develop apps for Puter? > We could get you an incredible number of users: Puter's is growing with no sign of slowing down. By building and publishing apps on Puter, you will instantly get access to our ever-growing user base.

This seems dishonest, or maybe I'm just missing the point of Puter. Who the heck is using this?

https://docs.puter.com/#/?id=why-should-i-develop-apps-for-p...

I recently started using Reflect[^1] and I rather like it, especially after trying the task management feature, which is now in beta.

My usage of Reflect has made me very curious about other apps that do similar things (e.g. Obsidian)

Has anyone here tried Obsidian _and_ Reflect?

[^1]: https://reflect.app/

This reminds me of react-three-fiber[1], which is built on top of Three.js.

react-three-fiber is a really nice way to build 3-d scenes on the web for those of us who aren't skilled in graphics and GPU programming.

Looks like Three.js supports WebGPU rendering now. Naively, I wonder how performance differs between UseGPU and R3F with Three's WebGPU renderer.

[1] https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

GraphQL came about as a way for mobile clients to call backend services. At Facebook, once a version (of the mobile app) was released, it was essentially out there forever. Some people would simply never upgrade until they absolutely had to. > The point of GraphQL is that you want to get away from thinking about versioning your API and cleanly upgrading because you probably can't. You can do versions but you don't have clean divisions. You'll mark a given field as "since v2.1". And fields that you have added can basically never be removed. The best you can do is make them return null or an error.

This nails it. For distributed apps where a client might never be updated, you can't really change your schema if you want to guarantee that your app works for everyone. You can build in a mechanism to prompt users to update to a later version, though, and that can be very effective.

it doesn't function without it. In order to paste something through Maccy, you need to give it this access.

Aside: even after getting this prompt, I don't see an option to choose Maccy in the System Preferences -> Accessibility menu, hmm...

PS: I'm a huge Flycut fan – clipboard management massively improves my life, and it's the best clipboard manager that I've found.

I tried pretty hard to make my iPad Pro a development machine by installing a great ssh/mosh client, then setting up an EC2 instance in the cloud with my favorite terminal tools.

It was always "almost good enough" but the effort required outweighed the benefits. Any time I needed a new tool, I had to try to figure out if the tool was going to be resource-hungry enough to bring down my EC2 instance. This stopped the whole show multiple times.

Killed by Google 4 years ago

It feels a bit dishonest to have AngularJS on there without mentioning that Angular superseded it.

They’ll never stop people from doing this unless they make it impossible to hijack audio, which doesn’t seem realistic, assuming we always have pure hardware interfaces for audio.

If these interfaces go away, the future of music won’t be nearly as much fun as it is now.