Our house is completely dumb. I don‘t see a reason to automate what little can be done manually.
Readit Newsmyspy commented on Confessions about my smart home frenck.dev/confessions-ab... · Posted by u/pabs3
myspy commented on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/latexr
This mindset is how we got those awful cookie banners.
Even more dialogs that most users will blindly tap "Allow" to will not fix the problem.
Society has collectively decided (spiritually) that it is ok signing over data access rights to third parties. Adding friction to this punishes 98% of people in service of the 2% who aren't going to use these services anyway.
Sure, a more educated populous might tip the scales. But it's not reality, and the best UX reflects reality.
I always click disallow.
And if you design software that uses tracking and what not. Go fuck yourself.
myspy commented on The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future news.sky.com/story/the-el... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
Angela Merkel's legacy has not been good..
What right wing news source is that? They paint a pretty one sided picture here. Some truths but not all. Germany was on its way to be energy independent with wind but that was blocked by Merkel and right leaning governments since 2010. Without that intervention we could be big in wind and having a lot of people work in that sector. Instead they turned back to gas and coal.
The dependence on cars and the incompetence to get excellent on software are a huge problem here in Germany. But the educated part of the people here saw that coming.
The will to change is what is dragging us down in Germany.
myspy commented on Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis reuters.com/technology/no... · Posted by u/xnhbx
So what is the learning here, why did it fail? From the timeline it looks like it spread out too much and didn‘t create a great product first.
myspy commented on Cargo Airships Are Happening elidourado.com/p/airship-... · Posted by u/elidourado
This. Anybody remember cargolifter?
I still remember seeing the big hall in a Galileo broadcast https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter-Luftschiffhalle
myspy commented on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer techcrunch.com/2024/10/04... · Posted by u/gniting
I'm skeptical, honestly. Within the first few months of the acquisition, it seemed pretty clear to my tech-friend group that Twitter was on its way out and was going to fail. But it's been 2 years, and many of those same people still use Twitter quite a lot. Maybe it'll still fail, of course... it'll just take longer than anyone expected.
I was never a big fan of it, and never used it much, so I can't judge any loss of quality over the past 2 years. And since they now require a login most of the time, and I don't feel like logging in, I don't bother clicking through links to Twitter that people post.
I don't get why whole developer circles didn't leave the platform yet. You can't ask people something via DMs without paying for the blue checkmark and it's totally unhelpful, plus it sends the message you care not enough about the right wing messaging that is send by the platform now. Or these people are just ok with that, I don't know.
myspy commented on iPhone 16 is much easier to repair engadget.com/mobile/smart... · Posted by u/vincentchau
Well, they just introduced the “Repair Assistant” which allows you to pair new parts after a repair. They talk about it in this article, had you read it.
But, yeah, about fucking time, I agree on that.
It's good that we go in a direction where we have accessibility to the devices components and the high end technology. I can't assess how easy it is for the layman to repair an iPhone, but the inertia is there to make a device longer usable.
myspy commented on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable matthewball.co/all/roblox... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Visa and Mastercard provide entire global payment platforms, yet only (generally?) take a small fee per transaction.
Apple seems to do a lot less, but wants ~1/3 of every transaction.
Only 3% of the 30% go to payment processing. Hence why they still want 27% when developers choose their own payment system.
The 27% are seen similar to Sony and Nintendo as fees to be on a platform which has wide reach but also gives tools and does stuff to enable app distribution.
Is that too much? I don‘t know but it‘s what all appear to do. The platform politics didn‘t evolve as fast as the tech though. So what about apps like Patreon, Netflix, Spotify, that was never on the table in 2008.
myspy commented on Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To" hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog... · Posted by u/bo0tzz
Apart from outsourcing credit card data, what else could be different when that data is more secured than the more important personal data?
myspy commented on · Posted by u/transportheap
I abandoned it too after hearing what a mess of a company and personal is behind it.