Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg @daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com

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/

For the new Pixel Pals iOS 17 update, I built a fully interactive mechanical keyboard widget and recorded a bunch of different key click sounds from my own keyboard to use with it, it’s a really fun fidget toy on your home screen 😚

Diff colors and sizes too

Version 09.22 of 2023 apparently introduced a graphics bug. Heavy banding in shadows, will try a restart.

I know people love to hate the genie effect in macOS, but I could do this all day long honestly

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

⭐️ 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 it’s not part of a window — floating, animating, and transforming in 3D — and what that means for windows, views and ornaments. TL;DR don't overthink it!

https://gist.github.com/steventroughtonsmith/a65ac64dfca6855fc8e3fb32c094d8ed

#samplecode

Loving the full text search of 4.2.0!

Opt-in if you are so inclined:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

Made a joke Photoshop image on Twitter showing an Intel sticker inside an iPhone 15 Pro.

A bunch of "investor" and business accounts picked it up and thought it was real.

Now they claim they are reporting me to the SEC for “manipualiting securities."

Passkeys are the first shot we’ve 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.

https://preservationofnormalcy.tumblr.com/post/723924391486013440/i-feel-confident-enough-to-post-these-now-a

#paranoia #psa #security

Apple has very quietly added another layer of privacy for Safari in iOS 17 that basically lets you avoid using Google when you are in private browsing. #apple #ios17 #safari #google #private

https://tchlp.com/3PN2RMQ

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

I have a cadence sensor on my bike and it didn’t “just work” with watchOS 10/ios 17, do I have to do anything?

One day I’ll write a book „how to build scalable system for the 95%“.

You’ll 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 I’ve seen lately could run off in memory SQLite and a replication to a CSV file.
Yet there’s 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.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification