waiwai933 (u/waiwai933)

waiwai933 commented on Apple introduces AppleCare One apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/ingve

nerdjon · a month ago

I looked at the numbers for this for my personal devices:

- My iPhone is currently covered by apple care with the upgrade program but it does not have loss or theft, which would be an additional $4.16 a month (normally $10 a month)

- My Mac: $3.49 a month (doesnt include loss or theft)

- My iPad: $4.99

- Apple Watch: $2.99

- 2 different airpods, $15 a year each. $30 a year total. Roughly $2.50 a month

This is not including any homepods or apple tv's since I just don't see the point.

Even ignoring the difference in price with the upgrade program the best I can get for 3 devices would be iPhone + iPad + Mac coming to $18.

The $5.99 for adding more devices is more than every device except for an iPhone outside of the upgrade program.

The only people I really see benefiting are those with Apple Vision Pro since that is $25 a month. What am I missing about their calculation for this saving money?

I got all of these numbers from this page: https://www.apple.com/applecare/

waiwai933 · a month ago

The pricing on that page is From pricing; more expensive models have more expensive premiums - see e.g. https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecar... says iPhone AppleCare+ costs between $7.99 and $13.99 on a monthly plan.

waiwai933 commented on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

HarHarVeryFunny · 3 months ago

> People can obtain digital addresses by registering with Japan Post's Yu ID membership service. Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addresses change.

OK, so your social security number is your "digital address", and the post office has a database of everyone's current address.

I'm not sure what problem this solves. Shaves seconds off the time it takes you to write an address? Better hope they've got error correction built in, since normal addresses are fairly "fault tolerant" in terms of still being deliverable.

If you move you still need to notify them, although perhaps in Japan big brother already knows you've moved.

waiwai933 · 3 months ago

But now you only need to notify the post office, rather than every company who sends you physical mail.

waiwai933 commented on Try Switching to Kagi daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/Ch00k

waiwai933 · 4 months ago

I did a free 30 day Kagi trial a month ago, and while I'm not sure I'm convinced the search results are better, they're definitely not worse. I've only fallen back to Google thrice, and in every case, Google didn't find anything useful either.

That said, the most astonishing thing was that I apparently do 100 searches a day, so 3k a month... I'm a bit sad that Kagi doesn't offer opt-in search history because I want to know what it is I'm searching for! (it's across three devices so looking at browser history is just above the threshold of how much effort I want to put in)

waiwai933 commented on Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi kagi.com/stats?stat=leade... · Posted by u/lucgommans

titaphraz · 5 months ago

Pintrest owns all the top 7 blocked results. Good, they've earned it.

I never understood why Google let them destroy Google Image search results.

waiwai933 · 5 months ago

I'm surprised - simply because I never get Pinterest results on Google. Now admittedly most of my searches aren't the kind where Pinterest is likely to have relevant results, but even then, surely I'd at least see them _sometimes_. But I literally can't remember the last time I saw a Pinterest search result.

Unless, as you suggest, they take over Google Images but not text search results? I could believe that I use Image search sufficiently rarely that I wouldn't have seen a Pinterest result.

waiwai933 commented on In S3 simplicity is table stakes allthingsdistributed.com/... · Posted by u/riv991

ipsento606 · 5 months ago

Lots of comments here talking about how great S3 is.

Anyone willing to give a cliff notes about what's good about it?

I've been running various sites and apps for a decade, but have never touched S3 because the bandwidth costs are 1, sometimes 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than other static hosting solutions.

waiwai933 · 5 months ago

S3 is great for being able to stick files somewhere and not have to think about any of the surrounding infrastructure on an ongoing basis [1]. You don't have to worry about keeping a RAID server, swapping out disks when one fails, etc.

For static hosting, it's fine, but as you say, it's not necessarily the cheapest, though you can bring the cost down by sticking a CDN (Cloudflare/CloudFront) in front of it. There are other use cases where it really shines though.

[1]: I say ongoing basis because you will need to figure out your security controls, etc. at the beginning so it's not totally no-thought.

waiwai933 commented on In S3 simplicity is table stakes allthingsdistributed.com/... · Posted by u/riv991

waiwai933 · 5 months ago

> I’ve seen other examples where customers guess at new APIs they hope that S3 will launch, and have scripts that run in the background probing them for years! When we launch new features that introduce new REST verbs, we typically have a dashboard to report the call frequency of requests to it, and it’s often the case that the team is surprised that the dashboard starts posting traffic as soon as it’s up, even before the feature launches, and they discover that it’s exactly these customer probes, guessing at a new feature.

This surprises me; has anyone done something similar and benefitted from it? It's the sort of thing where I feel like you'd maybe get a result 1% of the time if that, and then only years later when everyone has moved on from the problem they were facing at the time...

waiwai933 commented on It's not a crime if we do it with an app pluralistic.net/2025/01/2... · Posted by u/keepit

caseyy · 7 months ago

I think Uber too, and many competitors. They fundamentally employ people but don’t pay minimum wage.

waiwai933 · 7 months ago

Ah thanks, for some reason the description had made me think there was some dodgy HR/payroll startup rather than the gig economy generally.

waiwai933 commented on It's not a crime if we do it with an app pluralistic.net/2025/01/2... · Posted by u/keepit

waiwai933 · 7 months ago

> It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

Which one is this? (Taxi = Uber, Hotel room = Airbnb, Unregistered security = various crypto?)

waiwai933 commented on US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate' theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

tokai · 8 months ago

I know Library of Congress has a newspaper database. But does anyone know if newspapers are covered by mandatory deposit in the US? Many European countries archive all national newspapers, printed or digital, so they won't be lost for posterity if deleted by their publisher.

To me it seems unreasonable to require publishers to keep an immutable record. Shouldn't be forced by law to keep up your blog posts. National Libraries and legal deposit were literally made to solve this issue.

waiwai933 · 8 months ago

The US has a very weak legal deposit scheme compared to e.g. the UK. IIRC, legal deposit is only required where the author applies for copyright registration, so it’s extremely unlikely that a newspaper would be subject to the legal deposit scheme.

waiwai933 commented on Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time news.virginmediao2.co.uk/... · Posted by u/ortusdux

dmurray · 9 months ago

This is cool when some independent hacker / artist does it as "Lemmy".

When a big telecom does it, the second thing they do with it is to fuck up the spam detection so bad that every third phone call I make gets answered by "Daisy".

And just think about it - why would a telecom need this tech? They can already drop the spam calls and stop routing calls from the bad actor telecoms who enable the spammers. They don't do that because they prefer to collect a few cents a call from them rather than serve their customers better. It's everyone else who needs this.

waiwai933 · 9 months ago

They're not intercepting calls over their network from suspected bad actors; rather, they've created some phone numbers that always go to Daisy - see https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/11/virgin-media-o...