Not sure if this has always been the case, or if I’m only noticing with iOS 18 allowing me to pin a primary hub, but my primary hub constantly falls back to my HomePod mini from Apple TV 4K WiFi. Whenever this happens, all my lights go unresponsive. Absolutely infuriating. So I’m sure the issue is WiFi. I have really solid WiFi speed/ping and relatively good range, but I live in a pretty WiFi congested apartment. So my guess is WiFi noise is knocking my primary hub out occasionally. But the odd thing is I never notice my WiFi dropping in other contexts. But then again, maybe it’s not WiFi, because sometimes pressing a switch seems to trigger the primary hub dropping. I’m so fed up, decide to buy an Apple TV 4K Ethernet edition to pin as my primary hub. My thought process is WiFi won’t drop, and built in thread radio means it won’t rely on external border routers (HomePod mini). But I can’t believe the Apple Home experience is this bad. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t this bad pre iOS 18. I’ve never had more home hub failovers.
moseschrute 1w ago • 100%
I’m also a software engineer, but much earlier in my career and mostly having worked at small startups. But I hope some of the tech giants fall and make way for smaller players and innovation. But maybe that’s too optimistic.
moseschrute 1w ago • 100%
This is insane. Idk what google is thinking.
moseschrute 1w ago • 100%
I’m pretty sure they discovered in the google monopoly case that google realized a couple years ago that a worse search experience would not negatively impact their bottom line. So makes sense
moseschrute 1w ago • 100%
I don’t think it summarizes single texts. Maybe really long ones? But “stacks” of texts, it will summarize.
moseschrute 1w ago • 100%
It’s summarized an any “stack” of notifications. So a bunch of messages from the same group chat, or a single app sending you a bunch of notifications, etc.
I’ve only been trying it for like 48 hours, but so far I’m impressed considering this is a local LLM running on my phone.
moseschrute 2w ago • 100%
It’s been a year or so since I’ve gone down this rabbit hole, but what I remember, the more you block ads and tracker, the more unique your browser becomes, and the more fingerprintable it is.
Tor’s approach is to make every instance if the tor browser look as identical as possible to websites. But Tor is pretty niche. If Apple did the same with Safari, you would be an identical device in a match larger pool of devices.
I think Apple has taken some measures, but not as well as Tot has.
moseschrute 2w ago • 100%
Btw it’s possible to fingerprint people with JavaScript disabled. I found this article explaining and demonstrating if you’re curious.
moseschrute 2w ago • 100%
This is cool! Had no idea this existed
moseschrute 2w ago • 100%
Some guy got arrested pretty aggressively near me a couple weeks ago for not cooperating with a beach badge search. Lucky we have cops to protect us from people using the beaches for free 🤠
moseschrute 2w ago • 100%
Making the jump from Reddit! Happy to see people here that understand the correct height for a tv