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steveriggins

@steveriggins@mastodon.social

iOS engineer at eBay. He/Him. Started my career in the 80s at The Voyager Company working on laserdisc and CD-ROM interfaced HyperCard stacks. Shipped QuickTime video at launch. Bad puns are the best. All posts are mine and do not represent my employer.

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danilo, to random
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now THAT is some nasty work
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112458147889228622

steveriggins,
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@danilo losing VESTED equity seems illegal to me

steveriggins, to random
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@marcoarment I am old and I just scan as document with Notes on the phone. Sometimes I get shadows (addressed by the iPad Pro 2024) but it’s fine. It’s fast, nothing to jam, no extra software, ends up OCR and searchable by spotlight anywhere, and I get to add metadata to the scanned item in the note, group scans in one note, tag, categorize.

Bonus: it gets better every time I update my device.

I love it.

P.S. I gave my ScanSnap away over 7 years ago

agiletortoise, to random
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So, if Apple outsources AI to Open AI, or Google, or whatever, do they sidestep having to count that energy consumption in their Apple 2030 initiative reports?

steveriggins,
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@agiletortoise I would think not. They count their mfg partners for example

GottaLaff, to random
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Hi Trump.

The Dow crossed 40000 for the first time. The index has more than doubled from its low hit during the early days of the pandemic

steveriggins,
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@GottaLaff @lisamelton The Dow has become bigly

_inside, to random
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It looks like iPadOS running on M4 has a “Secure Exclave” running an “ExclaveOS” 👀 Where’s the updated Apple platform security PDF? 😅

steveriggins,
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@_inside in the Secure Enclave

christianselig, to random
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noooooo

steveriggins,
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@christianselig all ya gotta do is pay?

steveriggins, to VisionPro
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I filed a feedback about my erratic eye tracking on my and got some useful information:

“Unfortunately, the artificial lenses that are implanted during a Cataract surgery can sometimes cause interference with Apple Vision Pro’s eye tracking. This can manifest in unstable, or erratic tracking and highlighting.”

Damn 😢

steveriggins, to random
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/10/24153867/marathon-bungie-shooter-steam-release-date-price

MAR-A-THON

craiggrannell, to random
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Lots of arguments still raging about that Apple ad. Some claiming things have changed. Apple is too big now. It would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids*.

But now imagine Apple swapped out its cool (for the day) iPod ads for one in which an amazing record and CD collection, along with vintage players, are destroyed by a soulless crusher, before an iPod is revealed. I don’t imagine people would have been cheering about that either.

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steveriggins,
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@craiggrannell I wonder how offended people would be without a place to express themselves.

molly0xfff, to random
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the team behind Critical Role just launched its own subscription membership service called "Beacon"

pretty cool to see a creative team trying out a new model to give them so much control over their own content/platform

steveriggins,
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@molly0xfff I do not consume their content but I do thank them for causing the word “precarity” to enter my vocabulary, which macOS spell check doesn't know is a word.

pixel, to random
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In today’s episode of Stupid Swift Tricks, I introduce you to Write Only Variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(joke)

steveriggins,
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@pixel isn’t this a Write Once Read Never? Heh

mathowie, to random
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Apple keynote first thoughts:

A big new iPad Pro with the new keyboard would be great but I checked and it’s $1848 which is $500+ more than a new 15” MacBook Air, and I didn’t see any mention of MagSafe charging being added to iPads.

If Apple made a home dock wireless charger/holder like the Google tablets have, I’d buy one for the kitchen counter as a family Apple Home controller/recipe lookup screen that is always charged and ready to play tv/movies when undocked.

steveriggins,
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@mathowie I keep hoping to use the pencil some day to learn better handwriting but I never make the time

steveriggins, to random
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Retest this please.

But seriously, business shift left to not having dedicated, unbiased testers is hurting everyone, sometimes literally.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112401037767211337

steveriggins, to random
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“He sleepily reads as he wakes up late again”

I guess it took me filing a feedback with exact details…: 😛⏰🔕

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/30/apple-working-on-fix-for-bug-causing-iphone-alarms-to-not-play-sounds/

steveriggins, to swift
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So yeah you can pin a package manager package to a reference, but that doesn’t pin any dependencies it has.

How are people locking down the entire SPM tree for security purposes?

danielpunkass, to random
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I really feel for everybody losing access to their Apple ID, and wish I knew if there was anything I could do to continue avoiding the same fate.

steveriggins,
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@danielpunkass what an unacceptable event

steveriggins, to random
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Thanks, @gruber

steveriggins, to random
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I taught a class on iOS/macOS Focus today. It lasted a little over an hour. Not a ton to… focus on.

Then I asked copilot to explain Focus and it hit every single point I did. It was kind of weird.

Then I asked it to rewrite the text in the voice of George Carlin. That was fantastic.

Focus is how you keep your friends from bugging you while pretending to actually be busy.

steveriggins,
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@matthewcassinelli yeah agreed. I was teach regular people who belong to our user group and are not power users at all. Most of my classes are simply informative so people are less skiddish about trying something out that they don’t understand.

agiletortoise, to random
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Tell me more about this apartment…

steveriggins,
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@agiletortoise I’ve had my eye on this place for awhile

layoutSubviews, to random
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It's shocking how much more usable Chrome is, now that they finally fixed erratic ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors.
I can't believe this took them 5 months to finally get around to fix.

steveriggins,
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@layoutSubviews don’t tell @siracusa it was 5 months 🤣

stroughtonsmith, to random
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omg I should buy a lottery ticket

steveriggins,
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@stroughtonsmith that’s a cool one. Are you planning on doing MoP time running?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

video/mp4

steveriggins,
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@stroughtonsmith “it could still potentially be misused for impersonating humans”

Hold on while I find Sherlock

steveriggins, to random
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If I buy a car and it’s a piece of crap, I will say so and tell everyone. I don’t need to try and salvage my fragile ego by grifting others into also buying a shitty car. I want to share what I learned so others can benefit.

Musk fans are cut from a different cloth. Something more akin to a diaper.

steveriggins, to random
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To be fair, updating Windows can be dicey
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112260160917008394

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