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orloffm commented on Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on theregister.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/paulatreides

danaris · 3 days ago

What specific aspects of PWAs are still not supported on iOS these days?

I know that Apple made some huge advances in that within the past couple of years, but I...generally don't want PWAs myself, so I haven't paid very close attention. If you don't use Apple devices, and thus also don't pay very close attention, you might check and verify whether what you expect to be true still is.

orloffm · 2 days ago

I have a local transit map as a PWA, and iOS asks me for permission to use my location every time.

orloffm commented on McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/mindracer

joshstrange · 9 days ago

It's a bad ad and the AI just makes it worse. The song doesn't rhyme well, the lyrics doesn't make much sense (they feel very forced), the things they portray are mostly unrealistic/exaggerated, and the cherry on top is that McDonalds is somehow a respite from the chaos of Christmas. I've never once in my life thought of McD as somewhere comforting to go. It's just a bad ad period.

Also, no one wants a bad (probably also AI-generated) song about how terrible Christmas is. I'm not saying it's not terrible but no one wants a song about it.

orloffm · 9 days ago

It might be comforting in Europe sometimes. Some standalone McDonalds in Poland are very nice and comfortable.

orloffm commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

orloffm · 23 days ago

I've recently stayed at a new Holiday Inn Express near NYC. It had a proper bathroom, nothing to complain about. But there was no ventilation at all. There was this American-style air conditioner under the window and some small outlet in the bathroom, but I couldn't force the air conditioner to force-intake air. It's either super-noisy with compressor running or completely off. I absolutely don't understand how it is even possible that room has no ventilation.

orloffm commented on Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year 9to5mac.com/2025/11/23/ap... · Posted by u/jb1991

orloffm · 25 days ago

Yesterday I had my "death by a thousand strikes" moment with the children's iPad.

1. It was showing 4% of battery for a while, but then showed a pop-up that the battery level has dropped below 10% and suggested turning on the battery saver. 2. I entered iMessage via a notification, and it was unresponsive, I couldn't select the thread on the left. And there are in total 3 of them, not hundreds. Had to tap it multiple times. 3. Then I wanted to switch to the previous app, and the drag-the-line-up-slowly-to-show-apps menu was polluted with 8 copies of iMessage.

All of these should've been not only caught by some kind of internal testing, they should've not happened at all due to proper architecture of the system. iOS more and more feels as a collection of hacks that try to mimic the real thing.

orloffm commented on Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023) tosc.iacr.org/index.php/T... · Posted by u/pona-a

codedokode · 2 months ago

> vague connections to Russia

Vague only if you don't follow the news. Telegram has added "third-party verification" [1] around January 2025 which conveniently and accidentally coincided with time when Russian authorities made it mandatory to register social network channels having more than 10K subscribers (I was secretly hoping Telegram would instead hide the subscriber count). Such channels are required to add a government bot with high privileges for verification. Note that announce for 3P verification doesn't mention Russia at all and contains some unrealistic examples instead, like a fictional game "Great Theft Starship" channel verified by "Bug-free Agency". Who on Earth would need that.

But to be fair, the western companies are the same, once government hinted they need more control, the companies rushed to introduce face-based "age verification" which allows identification. I would rather use some other body part for this.

[1] https://telegram.org/verify#third-party-verification

orloffm · 2 months ago

That's because Russia/Ukraine/Belarus are heavily on Telegram, everything is there, all blogs, chats, memes, friends etc. since the US sites are almost-blocked and the Russian ones (VK, RuTube etc.) have been managed down to complete unusability. They couldn't afford losing the key blogs because of this law since Russia is heavily pushing Max messenger and there was a chance that it would be the only permitted thing.

orloffm commented on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 nngroup.com/articles/liqu... · Posted by u/uxjw

shantara · 2 months ago

I decided to postpone an iPhone upgrade for another year rather than be forced to use iOS 26 without a downgrade option. This is the only way to send a signal.

orloffm · 2 months ago

No, the way to send a signal is to buy it and return.

orloffm commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

orloffm · 4 months ago

So it doesn't allow to do anything with photos containing kids, right? Isn't it too much of a filter for such a thing? ChatGPT thankfully created Ghibli versions of everything I gave it.

orloffm commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena

everybodyknows · 5 months ago

Was told by a mechanic a few months back that continuously-variable transmissions are standard in gas cars now, but have reliability problems. Old-tech automatics can (could?) still be had from Toyota and Mazda.

orloffm · 5 months ago

Subarus have chain-based CVTs which are presumably better than usual belt-based ones.

orloffm commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena

tharkun__ · 5 months ago

The Corolla I was driving recently can definitely not be recommended. It was a rental.

Was a Hybrid, though that shouldn't affect this. It wouldn't save most of the settings I changed. Apparently you can either save it "to the key" (I googled how to do it, didn't work) or to your "profile" with a mobile app. I would never want to have to use my mobile to save car settings, even if I owned it, let alone a rental.

It has a feature that scans road signs and displays them on the dash. Awesome feature, which I've had in other cars before. Just in case you missed one and usually more accurate than Google maps for dynamic situations like construction zones. Unfortunately it loudly beeps and blinks at you if you happen to go over the limit or god forbid set the cruise control above the limit. This can be disabled individually but is part of the settings that don't save across car shutdowns.

Why is that an issue? Because setting the cruise control to 50 when in a 50km/h zone will have you driving 45 in reality as evidenced by speed measuring displays I drove by. At 100km/h you'll probably be going 90. I learned the 6 key presses on the steering wheel to disable this after starting the car real fast. Unfortunately it disables the entire feature (else it'd be a lot more key presses and I ain't doing that). If this wasn't a rental but a purchase I'd be in this guys boat and trying to return the car.

This is just one example. The other more dire one is the cruise control. I've mentioned it elsewhere before and this Corolla isn't the only one, but the automatic breaking in these cars nowadays is dangerous. The amount of time I was sitting in the car with my foot right above the accelerator in case I need to power through an automatic breaking situation was unreal.

So glad to have been back home after vacation, driving my Subaru (with an adaptive cruise control that does not have this issue).

orloffm · 5 months ago

Fun fact, you can buy a 500$ immobilizer thing at a Toyota dealership, and it has an option to persist that 6-key press setting.

orloffm commented on PWM flicker: Invisible light that's harming our health? caseorganic.medium.com/th... · Posted by u/SLHamlet

vitaflo · 6 months ago

Not well. But at least I had windows at work to counteract it and I could turn the lights off. I also was a contractor for 15 years which meant working from my home mostly.

Strangely tho there is something about PWM flicker, especially the kind that is deep cycle (basically 100% on then 100% off) that are super bad for me. I can look at an old CRT fine because it’s not completely on and off as it does it’s scanlines. But PWM is like flicking a light switch rapidly and it gives me the worst headaches.

orloffm · 6 months ago

Yes, exactly that, modulation depth. The screen goes completely dark, and our brains don't like it because: 1. It's stressful that something disappears abruptly. 2. It's stressful that it later appears a bit shifted in space.