That "smart lighting" from Philips is about to spy on you in new ways you can't control -- naturally the company is claiming it's to protect you. This is Trump-level lying.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/
Iโve been playing more Mass Effect 1 yesterday. The story definitely picks up and is gripping now. The environments are very repetitive and samey, which makes it hard to not get lost sometimes. And I no longer want to romance everyone because one of the romanceable characters is obviously racist towards the aliens and .. ick! Still a bummer you can only romance the hetero combinations.
I think people are struggling with the idea that the app window itself can be transparent, when arbitrary content in it has a glass background of its own. Volumetric apps too are really just (UIKit) window scenes like any other, except they have a static scale, default to offering more z space, and have window controls that show from any side
โญ๏ธ I've seen quite a bit of confusion over how Apple's visionOS apps structure non-window-based UI, where it's really not that complicated at all.
This is a trivial example that illustrates how you might create UI that looks like itโs not part of a window โ floating, animating, and transforming in 3D โ and what that means for windows, views and ornaments. TL;DR don't overthink it!
https://gist.github.com/steventroughtonsmith/a65ac64dfca6855fc8e3fb32c094d8ed
Loving the full text search of 4.2.0!
Opt-in if you are so inclined:
Passkeys are the first shot weโve realistically had as an industry at replacing passwords as the default credential on the web and in apps.
I am *ecstatic* about the momentum that they have.
Recently:
1. google.com, icloud.com, and apple.com shipped support for signing in with passkeys
2. And Nintendo!
3. iOS 17 shipped first-class support for third-party passkey managers plugging their data into all flows
And in November, maybe, Firefox support? Including iCloud Keychain?! This is happening!
Security is not just physical.
Safe minds lead to a safe society.
These posters brought to you from the Office for the Preservation of Normalcy.
Gosh! So sad! Absolutely no one could have predicted this!
NFT Crash: 95% of the Market Is Now Worthless, Study Finds https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/nft-market-crypto-digital-assets-investors-messari-mainnet-currency-tokens-2023-9
One day Iโll write a book โhow to build scalable system for the 95%โ.
Youโll be able to summarize it with
- pick any mainstream language
- deploy on one server
- deploy Postgres on another server
- double the number of server for redundancy
So many systems Iโve seen lately could run off in memory SQLite and a replication to a CSV file.
Yet thereโs a relational database, a document database, a key value store and four services deployed on k8s for all 100MB data and 2000 customers.
Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.
IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.
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