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Steve Moser https://thetapedrive.com twitter: @stevemoser
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smoser··on Echo Button Trivia
The Verge article: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/27/16374906/a...
smoser··on ARKit
Or Edge.
smoser··on Apple Releases MacOS 10.12.4 with Night Shift
If it works like iOS it changes the tint based on the contents of the screen so it could require some extra processing power to dynamically change the tint level.
smoser··on ‘Cartapping’ Decreases Privacy for Connected Vehicles
"Cartapping has been happening for years — in a 2014 warrant, New York police officials were able to pull SiriusXM Satellite location information. The police asked SiriusXM to install a tracker in the vehicle’s car, which was up for an alleged illegal gambling enterprise, for a period of 10 days. But how exactly could they tap into the vehicle? Well, it was quite easy. SiriusXM reported that they turned on the stolen vehicle recovery feature, which was a subset of its Connected Vehicle Services."

IANAL but using a 'stolen vehicle recovery feature' for a warrant doesn't sound like something that should be legal.

smoser··on How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
TB2->FW + TB3->TB2 in theory. http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD464LL/A/apple-thunderbol...
smoser··on Realistic alternatives to Apple computers
The problem is that I can't buy anything from Apple that connects directly to it that isn't a dongle.
smoser··on What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?
I can think of one instance. After Apple released the 3rd gen iPod Shuffle (gumstick) with no buttons they said at the release of the 4th gen iPod Shuffle event: "But users clearly like the buttons". So then the next gen had buttons just like the 2nd gen.
smoser··on [dead]
Sundar Pichai's Quora was hacked as well. http://tcrn.ch/28Wgulf
smoser··on Report: Apple building its own servers to prevent snooping
“[23:06] <ATPtipster> we've gotten Cisco equipment, Supermicro servers, and Seagate hard drives that have been tampered with [by the NSA]”
smoser··on Integrating a VT220 into my life
What about markdown files and relative links? Works on Github and MacDown.

https://github.com/blog/1395-relative-links-in-markup-files

smoser··on Upload files to your repositories
Why not ditch the Gollum wiki and just use the main git repo with relative links? It also renders markdown files. https://github.com/blog/1395-relative-links-in-markup-files
smoser··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
I have a hard time taking anyone's opinion seriously about Xcode when they spell it with a capital 'c'. ;)
smoser··on The ambivalent marriage takes a toll on health
Haha, coming across 'palm pilot' gave me pause and made me scroll up to double check the publish date.
smoser··on Just doesn’t feel good
You can always download previously purchased apps from your purchased list unless it was removed due to a legal reason.
smoser··on What Is the One Fact Humanity Needs to Know?
This list from Wikipedia claims otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_Nobel_laurea...
smoser··on More Money for Better Open-Source Software
I feel this sentiment as well. However as I understand it since there isn't an existing license that covers this need the author's approach is current best practice. Practicality over ideology.
smoser··on Stack Exchange Engineering: How We Built Our Blog
The marketing team can use http://prose.io without learning Markdown.

Using using an external comment provider promotes some popular users to comment such as Grimlock whom otherwise wouldn't.

smoser··on We switched from an icon font to SVG
I don't know if this is related to blog post but the 'Sign in' button just showed 'Si' until I hovered over it. I'm using the latest Safari.
smoser··on Microsoft Office Mobile arrives for iOS
Being a 'free' download looks like a good compromise for Microsoft and bad for users. Apple wasn't going to make a pricing exception for Microsoft (30% to Apple). So Microsoft just shifts the 'purchase' to the web.
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