Gregory's Server
If it takes 10,000 hours to achieve expertise in a skill, you can cut that down to 20,000 hours with the help of AI.
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TIL: You can cause a kernel panic by cleaning your keyboard with this one weird trick: Hitting the escape key several times at the login window. Region locking features makes it incredibly difficult for developers and QA folks who are in the US (e.g. Cupertino) to test things that are going to appear outside the US. Basically, everyone at Apple now has a foot gun. https://nileane.fr/@nileane/111982438871573334 One way to look at this whole situation: Apple Legal is making it harder/impossible for Apple Engineering to do a great job. It’s likely that folks who do development at Apple don’t like what's happening any more than we do. I know quite a few folks who work on WebKit & Safari and I can't imagine that they are on board with all this EU bullshit. I haven’t asked directly, because I know they can't answer directly.  Is it even worthy to consider the region locking a real obstacle? You can trivially make an Apple ID for any region (just put in a random address from there), and you can trivially change your IP address to any country (just use a VPN). They wouldn't use GPS for that, would they? Remember when I said you wouldn’t be able to test your web products on alternate browsers in Europe? Well guess what? You can’t see this Apple bug/feature outside of Europe either. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/08/ios-17-4-nerfs-web-apps-in-the-eu/
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Which, of course, will be a huge pain in the ass for Safari QA. Since it’s SIM locked, it won’t work in a Simulator and you need a special physical device. Bugs won’t get as much attention as a result. Another variation on reaping what you sow.  @chockenberry this is a lot of hay made by web zealots over what seems to be just a beta regression.  @chockenberry What do you think it would take to get this right in the eyes of law, users, and developers?
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 @chockenberry I can see where Siri’s coming from. No eclipse for me, thanks to Vancouver weather 🌧️😞 @chockenberry After Siri tells me “chance of rain today”, if I follow up by asking “What’s the expected time of rain today?” Siri usually responds by saying “There’s currently no rain” Imagine that! The Iconfactory is barely older than the iMac and it had more of an impact on how we personalize devices than you may realize. So we honored it the best way we know how…
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  @chockenberry I’m surprised Apple didn’t have the AR interactive invite this time, as they have had in several years past. I don't care about their AR stuff or any of the iOS devices, just give me that 5K XDR ProMotion monitor already. Compared to the MacBook screen, all other screens feel so crappy. You want to know how I really feel? https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/ P.S. That's the tame version.
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 @chockenberry Thanks for your 16 years. I was Tweetie user and contributed, but loved to tweet from your interface. @chockenberry A tech friend of mine shared a link to your post, it's appalling what's being done here, I'm so sorry. |
@chockenberry The number of replies that read that post the way they expected instead of what you actually wrote 😂
@chockenberry this has an epic double meaning:
- it'll take you longer because you're basically using faulty training wheels
- paying with other people's time (I think that's how a lot of them are trained)
@chockenberry And for 100X the money 🤑