Em Adespoton

Outlook: redundant dysfunctionality

It’s a meta-app that consumes other maps, does navigation, and acts as a dashcam at the same time.

And I move more to using OpenStreets, Organic Maps and Sidekick Pro.

Shame that Apple’s going the same way as Google.

I thought the ADL had done a pretty good job of discrediting itself?

Nest and Eero/echo are two brands I wouldn’t trust even if jailbroken. They’ve both been shown to contain more hardware than originally announced after some third party tear downs.

Since by design cryptocurrencies aren’t backed by banks/nations and any transaction is permanent, they are by definition not safe.

At best, you can save out your wallet to an encrypted drive, then write it back to your phone when you need to use it. Make copies, so if one gets lost, you don’t lose the value itself.

https://beehaw.org/post/24684848

I think this may not be the best time for them to do that….

Isn’t that functionality built in to the OS? Set up parental controls, and you can do this with no extra apps needed. It’ll even generate reports.

Using Shortcuts, you can even map these profiles to different Focus modes.

So it sounds like they’re doing something in AI integration at the hardware level for audio?

Q makes me think of “cue” - could they be providing live translated descriptive text tech?

The official Apple release pages have some general details, and there’s a writeup on Ars Technica tha’s based off of Apple’s published info.

Not security updates; itagv2 and bug fixes for 18 and 26, and certificate updates for 12 and 15 to keep stuff that requires an Apple ID functioning post-2026…

Something I’ve been investigating is setting up a meshtastic node at home with the expansion board. This gives me a 15-20km range for basic signal, which is more than enough for most stuff I want to do, and I can connect to other nodes in the area when needed.

I’d still need to add a temporary eSIM when traveling sometimes, but that can be a temporary thing.

I’ve never had someone ask me for my phone number. They usually ask me to text them, at which point they have my (throw away) number.

Everyone is totally unaware when I’m de-carriered.

Most Google trackers currently capture the information provided by the website (at a minimum, domain and URL), your IP address and Google account ID if you’re logged in. There’s lots of leeway as to how much additional information the site provides, though.

I haven’t read the work yet — what do they break it down into, and what are the solvents and byproducts?

Their work on bond geometries looks promising, but only if all the products involved inthe process are an improvement on microplastics.

Alternative: install Proxmox on the hardware. Then install all the OSes you want to run on top of that.

After what happened in China when motorcycles were legalized, I think I’d want to wait a while before going anywhere that flying cars were being ised.

The encryption is so if someone breaks in and takes off with your hardware, they don’t get your data too.

Of course, my backup software encrypts anyway, so I don’t bother to do volume encryption.

I just got a cheap Beelink minipc and slapped external HDDs on it — comes with a decent SSD inside and a slot for SATAIII drive inside too.

I’m running Debian on it, but FreeNAS/TrueNAS Community would have worked as well.

My kids have phones with no SIM card; they can call 911 and they can use WiFi when in range; I have them set up with a VPN to home, so that’s the only connection any hotspot sees.