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Product Manager at Google. WebRTC, Duo, Meet, Workspace. @slac on twitter.
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slac··on Chrome sneakily downloads Google Meet code
Philipp Hanche, a major WebRTC contributor, has discovered that Chrome, in secret, downloads a new echo canceller when joining a Google Meet file, blocking others from using their technology.
slac··on Apple is no longer thinking different
The iphone was bleeding edge... Of you disregard Neonode. But that is the only that comes to mind. The other bleeding edge has been the overall ecosystem around its product.
slac··on Starship V3
Gotta pump that Grok IPO /s Seriously though, the whole SpaceXAI makes zero sense to me. SpaceX was a wonderful company and there was zero need to pollute it with Twitter and a service that creates sexual images of people without their consent.
slac··on Googler... ex-Googler
The EU is not a country. Labor laws vary massively between countries.
slac··on Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
Some background: Lots of stories in the media in Sweden recently about how murders are now ordered via chat apps. Today in fact, there was one about a Snapchat murder. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8qL3A1/uppgifter-missta...
slac··on End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem
Google Drive has allowed for client side encryption since 2022... This papers first paragraph is false.
slac··on Tesla Robotaxi
I strongly believe that once you have everything working it's much easier to start working on the costs.
slac··on Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging
Not great if you have dogs in the office unfortunately.
slac··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
To add to this: and they may have hired a FSB agent without knowing it.
slac··on Tesla Cybertruck's Stuck Accelerator Pedal Creates 6,800-Pound Land Missile
And there is no refund button for the deposit. I would have pressed it long ago.
slac··on Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next
Its quite the shakeup... How will you design your software now that computers can understand you?
slac··on Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
The market is being flooded by Chinese brands... all with deep pockets thanks to subsidies from the state. So many brands in Europe right now: xpeng, honqchi, MG, nio, byd, maximus,... the list goes on and on.
slac··on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio
Having been in Eric reviews, let me tell you he was very involved in what I was working on... And I learned a ton.
slac··on Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms Poor Charging Performance
This is a sample of one. Not many of these things out there.
slac··on Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement
Remember Ping?
slac··on Robbie Robertson has died
His mother was Cayuga and Mohawk. I fail to understand why he would be accused of cultural appropriation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson
slac··on Fire Mark Zuckerberg
But will the competitors allow for third party worlds connecting to their headset... This will be a walled garden.
slac··on The DeLorean Alpha
It is sad that the Ioniq 5 design was dropped in the 6 model. Loved that car's design so much!
slac··on Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
How on par to AlphaGo is it? I feel it is like saying Nascar racecar beat an Indycar, which is on par with a Formula One car.
slac··on App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore
Funny how customers disliked this person.
slac··on Frankfurt rail work damaged fibre, causes global Lufthansa check-in system fault
This is data sovereignty at work.
slac··on Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately
The audio was horrible... Something wrong with the microphones i think.
slac··on Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web
It's not called end to end, it is called client side encryption.
slac··on Google to lay off 10k “poor performers”
What happened with the founders relationship?
slac··on Starlink Aviation
It would likely run on vapor and drama. Seriously, the overpromise and under-deliver from most Elon endeavours is getting out of control.
slac··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
The regulation around adopting GSM as a standard for mobile networks was very positive for Europe. It can be good at times.
slac··on Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats
They both support the AOM.
slac··on An odd discovery on Spotify
Here is an article in the Swedish equivalent of the financial Times. https://www.di.se/digital/expert-streamingtjanster-anvands-f...
slac··on Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses
How does one know if it got installed?
slac··on Ask HN: Why does WWDC get 10x more views than Google I/O?
We live different lives. No one I know carries a usb drive. Way too dangerous.
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