It's pretty sad that Apple's app review doesn't include checking to make sure an app isn't impersonating an existing popular app. Especially for crypto/financial apps!
I suspect that part of the problem is that Apple does monitor for at least trivial app duplicates, but only between apps submitted to the app store. Ledger only offers theirs via direct download, so to Apple, I supposed it just doesn't exist...
No idea if app notarization or however their latest "security through super diligent app review" snake oil is called could have caught this or if it doesn't receive enough data about the app to perform such checks.
I've used Linux on desktops/laptops intermittently since the year 2000, but I've been using mostly MacOS in recent years. With Apple not inspiring confidence lately, I wanted to try using Linux as a daily OS again. So I installed Fedora on a laptop last month. After installation I noticed that the colors on my OLED display were very oversaturated. After some frustrating attempts to get ICC profiles working, I was dismayed to read this:
Sounds like Wayland color management is... almost done? But the lack of a complete implementation didn't stop my distro from making Wayland the default. So now I'm left having to choose between using the cool new Wayland compositors and having accurate colors in my photo editing apps :(
The procession of screenshots showing the Pages toolbar changing over the years is incriminating. For years the UI has been sliding in the direction of being simpler and (arguably) prettier, at the cost of being harder to understand and use. But all of the designs through Big Sur seem to at least be usable, even if they were making compromises to UX for the sake of clean-looking design.
And then you get to Tahoe and both the UX and visual design completely fall apart. The separation between chrome and content is literally blurred, and the visual hierarchy is unclear. (Are the buttons on the right part attached to the top toolbar or the sidebar? There's no way to tell!) It doesn't look clean, it's just a mess.
The Adobe DNG standard for raw camera images is based on TIFF as well. DNG is used in lots of places, including the raw capture support built into all modern iOS and Android smartphones.
I’ve been using both TIFF and DNG this very week in my work (https://filmlabapp.com), so I was happy to read this post and learn about Steve Carlsen aka Mr. TIFF, whose work we’re still building on 39 years later.
Not the .IA files from old Sinar digital backs! Those are based on DOOM PWADs (lol). But otherwise mostly yes this is true for nearly every other format as far as I am aware.
Ha! The article made me imagine a scene like this one in Sneakers, where over the course of dinner someone tricks their target into saying the complete set of training phrases for one of these iPhone voices. But then I realized that if the goal was to impersonate someone's voice, they'd probably just use a different voice model that was more flexible about its training data.
I read this article and was surprised it was written yesterday because I could have sworn I read it a few months ago. Turns out I was remembering a post by a different author making the same arguments, discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32807969
Discussions of photographic materials usually use density instead of opacity. Density is a logarithmic value equal to -log10(transmission), where transmission is the amount of light passed through (or reflected) on a scale of 0 to 1.
So to give some examples, a material with 100% transmission would have a density of 0, a material with 10% transmission would have a density of 1.0, and a material with 1% transmission would have a density of 2.0.
Density values have some advantages, including:
- They can be combined with simple addition
- Compared to transmission or opacity values, they correspond more closely to human visual perception
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I find Apple's suggestion to use Siri to control the volume on the AirPods Pro [0] to be worse than some of the ideas on that page. The idea of having a spoken conversation in public in which I must request a volume change via a branded AI (and then repeat that request multiple times if necessary to reach my desired volume) just feels humiliating.
It's like how redbull reps tell the barkeep to only pour half the can In the drink and give you the can to hold and carry around. It makes you into a billboard for the product talking to Siri in public.
I actually really like that feature - it works with any _strongly-worded_ “stop” command: Alexa detects user annoyance and swiftly stops whatever it’s doing with the minimum of back-and-forth.
The best part is that whereas with most commands, if Alexa has any doubt about what you said or you weren’t clear it always asks you to clarify or disambiguate, even various stop/pause/volume-down/mute commands - but when spoken with an angry tone or with an f-bomb or two then she defaults to stopping without question, even if she didn’t hear you clearly.
Counterevidence: some of them (perhaps all) have a hardware switch to mute the microphone, a requirement allegedly set by the CEO.
Parallel evidence: the Ring acquisition has aggressively integrated itself with police forces.
Partial evidence: some of the devices are known to retain data even after being reset to factory settings (I presume it's a bug).
It has to be listening all the time for its activation command and we have no idea what it's doing with the data that comes in and is determined not to be the activation command.
Ha, I've been doing the same thing with google assistant. Try it politely once, and then if it doesn't work or understand change to "shut the fuck up" and it somehow always gets it.
But you still ended up buying them? I didn't know it's not possible, glad I went with Jabra Elite Active instead. Cannot imagine trying to muck around with that crap while out running.
Apple's ear buds are the only ones that fit comfortably in my ears so it's sorta my only choice. (The pros do not, which is unfortunate.)
I don't typically run with headphones in so that's not an issue, but even if I did, it's pretty easy to hit the volume button on my phone unless it's in a backpack or something.
Does seem odd they couldn't have squeezed another switch in there, or let you lower volume with the switch in one ear and raise it with the switch in the other ear.
Yea, I actually thought that’s how they worked when I first got them, I remember seeing a demo where that was done, but it was probably either concept art or a different product.
iPhone has squeeze your pocket to change the volume adjustments.
Apple Watch has volume control just using a crown.
AirPods Pro too small to handle a moment or twist.
AirPods Max trials on-head crown and whole better than other product physical controls, quality fine physical gradient control on even a large mounted device is tricky.
I'm always a bit embarrassed when I'm in public and a buddy calls me over to look at something on a MacBook. Like - "No it wasn't me who fell for Apple marketing."
It would be interesting to get the stats on fumbles during kickoff/punt returns (when a neutral kicking ball is in use, not a team-supplied offensive ball), and on plays involving interceptions or fumble recoveries (where they would be using the other team's ball). If they rank highly in fumble prevention in those situations, it would suggest that this is a result of coaching, not using a particular ball.
Kickoff and punt return fumbles can be the result of other factors - players traveling at high speed over a long distance hitting a returner looking skyward is a unique football situation that only occurs on returns.
Interceptions and recoveries would be by defensive players, who would spend much less time focusing on ball handling since they rarely carry the ball.
