Some of Apple's latest features aren't restricted to new hardware, like the new Live Translation feature for AirPods that relies on the H2 chip and Apple Intelligence on an iPhone. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
Some of Apple's latest features aren't restricted to new hardware, like the new Live Translation feature for AirPods that relies on the H2 chip and Apple Intelligence on an iPhone.
Hypertension detection, a headlining feature of Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3, is coming to some previous models, so there's no need to rush out and upgrade just yet. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
Hypertension detection, a headlining feature of Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3, is coming to some previous models, so there's no need to rush out and upgrade just yet.
I hate interviews where they ask me about every single api and concept of a framework. I can learn anything on the job, and even things I'm familiar with slip out of my brain if I'm not using them frequently.
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Deleting the Stocard importer from Catima because Stocard no longer exists feels so... anticlimatic.
I wish I could call it an "end of an era", but I can't. Everything is still the same. Big companies still mistreat us horribly and GDPR enforcement is still a joke. Literally nothing changed. It took *4 years* for my GDPR complaint on Stocard's partial exports to receive a decision which basically was... "Stocard can give incomplete data (because they have lawyers and you don't)".
Will we ever have freedom of moving our data as we please? The GDPR has such good ideas about it, but enforcement has been so lacking that I don't think it will ever safe us in practice.
I want GDPR enforcement so badly. These laws are good, well-designed, thought-through. Please enforce them. Please, EU, please :(
haha. I'm so bad. Got on Amazon to grab a Series 10 watch just 3 days before this Apple event. I was going from series 9 because my battery hit 83%. Nope. Once it hits the low 80s or 80 and below, you really feel it. So after 2 years it was time. I now have 7 Apple Watches in my collection in total, spanning from series 0 to Series 10. Not regretful at all of this. To be able to experience it as a timeline is very neat for me. Will skip this Series 11 though, because to me, a little battery and a new sensor that's only a trend sensing thing is just not worth it right now. Will wait for series 12. Series 10 is enough of an upgrade from series 9 with the beefier sounding speaker that it still felt worth it to me, and being able to play music through it. Series 11 won't see deep discounts (I got my series 10 almost 30% off) for a long time. So, my thoughts. Now you know. I'm an Apple watch snob and collector, and you can go fuck yourself if you feel that's a problem.
That reminds me: I've been meaning to make an IR of the Apple Watch Series 10 speaker just so I can virtually play any source through a fake Apple Watch inside a DAW. Because, yeah, I do junk like that sometimes.
@BorrisInABox I wonder how they can punch so much bass through it. I've been trying to figure it out, but I swear it sounds like a laptop speaker, more so than say a netbook speaker. Kind of incredible even in volume is at a bit lower when maxed compared to those higher-watt output ones. Still. I also noticed that when you play a radio stream, an equalizer built-in kicks in and softens treble a bit, which is interesting maybe to make it not sound horrible.
oh my gosh. you got it that low? Incredible, must have only given you like 8 to 10 hours of battery by that point. Problem for me is by low 80s you notice it cannot push beyond a day, so rather than waiting about 2 days to charge I need to each night and that's when I start to slowly creep up irritation with it as it dwindles. I think lowest watch here I have in my stash has around 72% battery, still can't beat that low S6 measurement you had though.
4 is stuck in my head. I just looked again and i am at 62. I've been wearing it for 5 hours, and am at 71% charge. I'll be at about 50%battery in 3-4 hours when I get done working and go do my hour long workout. WHich will put me in the mid-low 30s. So I'll have to charge it to track sleep. Its probably 12-13 hours if I use it straight through, 10 at the low end.
wait are they bringing that to the older S10 though? Figured it used a new HR sensor for it. Again, it's not even a "new" sensor at that point as much as revising the existing HR sensor to take these types of readings, less revolutionary. But I can completely get how someone who has this in their family, it's a silent killer too, they don't have good blood pressure or are already managing it, yes, they'd jump right away on it and that's fine.
I'm still unsure if I should go from 9 to 11, using the trade-in value when buying through Apple to save on the price. My battery lasts a day, and my watch is in great condition. I mostly like the idea of the thinner body and tougher glass. Not that I've scratched mine, but it's always nice to be able to be less careful with wearable items like this. I just can't decide if the upgrade is worth it.
@alexhall it's about the same proposition as series 9 to 10 was unfortunately unless the high blood pressure is super important in your health journey. For me it will be later because that risk just goes up as you age, but right now I'm willing to skip it.
Turns out the blood pressure monitoring is coming to Series 9 and 10, so there's that. No new chip makes me think Series 12 might be something special.
@alexhall oh gosh yeah. they really skimped on it then. Wow. I just saw Apple Insider's posts on this too. Wow. Yeah, series 12 will be it probably. Maybe finally that new magnetic-band attachment system that's supposedly coming, even if it breaks all older bands, and perhaps more sensors (if blood pressure came out as an actual sensor and you can measure it even like SPO2, I'd jump.) Kinda disappointed but we knew this was a more likely one to play out as.
I wouldn't mind blood glucose. I'm not diabetic, but I'm the kind of person who is extremely motivated by goals, numbers, streaks, that kind of thing. If my watch had a goal for me to keep my average blood glucose below a certain level, I'd find myself much less likely to consume sugar. It's worked for exercise for almost ten years. No way I'd have become a jogger without the watch. If it can help me eat less sugar, that'd be cool.
yeah, series 6 for me lasted about 2 years before it hit the low 70s capacity and I was like oof, must get series 9. So my line-up jumps from 6 to 9. technically: series 0, 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, and now 10. But I'll also note that all of them are aluminum. I've never treated myself to stainless steel forms of the watch.
Olha-me este boneco! AHAHAH. Isto é simplesmente sabujo. Onde é que este palhaço - porque já não há outro nome para lhe chamar - estava, quando o Chega meteu o Pacheco Amorim na Assembleia da República e mais, a Vice??
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> Michigan Judge Tosses Out Cases Against Fake Trump Electors
> The judge, a Democrat, concluded that fake electors recruited to support Donald J. Trump’s candidacy in 2020 did not understand that they were being asked to do something illegal.
okay but if this is the standard we're going to set I hope we can stick to it for all crimes where someone didn't know they were being asked to do something illegal
Hmm, since the basement is unfinished, I'm wondering how easy it would be to just pass ethernet cables from the basement to the 1st floor inside the walls and then just put Ethernet outlets without having to destroy the whole wall for it, since it will just come from the bottom, all I'd need is a hole from downstairs, and then an outlet like hole upstairs
Do it while you can or you'll regret it. Even smarter, do it in conduit so you can easily pull through new cable, fiber, etc later. Shouldn't cost you more than like $50
Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors” Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic's proposed settlement. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
I'm growing tired of people blaming accessibility guidelines, for stripping away the creativity from the web. Most websites are not accessible. Many designers don't know (yet I hope), or don't care about accessibility. Or care in a performative way. So, stop blaming accessibility for this. Thanks.
Getting excited. I just started a new repository on Github, a brand new project that I hope I'll get to show you soon. The initial target is Windows. I will eventually make it for Windows and Mac. I currently don't have a Mac so testing opportunities are limited. I prefer to test as I go.
Obviously, whatever I develop will be fully accessible.
Allright! I'll tell ya. It's going to be a fully-functional masto/bluesky/RSS client.
@matt I'm mostly using Rust with Winit. I'm having to use Win32 for some of it on the Windows side. I may have to do something similar for Mac OS. I couldn't get GTK to work with AccessKit here.
@matt You know, it helps if you read the documentation correctly. For reason that my brain can't fathom other than general fatigue, it interpreted that Slint didn't have full AccessKit support. I have to read the docs; but it appears to be a far more feasible option than just Winit with AccessKit. I may end up using Winit for some.
Week highlights: new releases of ShineStacker, @mixxx, and LSP plugins; new version of OurPaint by @chengdulittlea has pigment canvas and spectral blending, @inkscape is getting artwork recoloring, and @FreeCAD just got on-view gizmos for PartDesign commands such as Pad and Fillet
I said this when I first started getting into electronics and I’ll say it again:
software libraries need something akin to Datasheets. A technical document which lists facts about the operating parameters and intended uses, meant for a technically-minded person to evaluate “is this suitable for my use case?” and “what all would be involved in integrating this into my product?”
in my experience too much of this material for software reads like marketing fluff, making empty promises about ease or scale or whatever without any context under which those promises apply
we talk about software “engineering” and this sort of technical document strikes me as fundamental to that practice
I got a weird feeling hearing Takei. he can't help being 88, of course, but he obviously sounds much older than his character at this point. I was about to draw a parallel to his appearance in voyager's Flashback episode, but that itself was 28 years ago this month. And now I feel old.
Was rearranging my home office, and forgot to unplug the cable from the keyboard's own USB C port; of course, the keyboard fell on the floor right on the plug. Result: the USB C connector inside the receptacle got sheared clean off the PCB. Sadly, I don't have the tools (or the skills) to repair it, so I'll have to order a new Keychron.
You're supposed to get your kids engaged with others through trips, activities and outings.
I've rarely seen it done very successfully, if I'm honest. As a teacher those who'd been homecshooled were very obvious when they came into my classroom. My daughter has a couple of online friends who are homeschooled and socially, they are very different to the rest.
I'm sure it can work well in the right circumstances, but it's a bit like mainstream education for the blind. if one of the little things isn't quite in place properly the problems scale up quickly.
I was. Access technology skills to start with, computing and information technology during the pandemic, and a bit of Eng Lit when school needed cover.
It was a privilege to be able to support so many young people over a decade at the place. I don't miss the paperwork or the management, but there's something about teaching a skill or sharing knowledge that's very hard to replace now I've left.
Some of you might remember that we kicked off our Mastodon journey with a big giveaway. Last week, the winner finally came to Falkenstein for their prize: a behind-the-scenes tour of our data center park, a quick server assembly, and plenty of insights from the team. We captured a few moments to share with you here.
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in reply to Sylvia • • •Will we ever have freedom of moving our data as we please? The GDPR has such good ideas about it, but enforcement has been so lacking that I don't think it will ever safe us in practice.
I want GDPR enforcement so badly. These laws are good, well-designed, thought-through. Please enforce them. Please, EU, please :(