Matthias Buchetics

@mbuchetics
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iOS Developer at all about apps, Vienna, Austria.
Also making @FlipKitApp. Now available at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flipkit-flipbook-animations/id1507694594
GitHubhttps://github.com/mbuchetics
Appshttps://tinkado.at
Workhttps://allaboutapps.at
Protip: You can also make a phone call by holding it up to your ear and speaking into it directly at a low volume.

"Electric cars are still cars"

submitted by u/uhhthiswilldo
https://redd.it/1ed1kpl
#fuckcars

@overcastfm are shortcut actions currently broken? Can’t get play/pause to work at all.
Who thought „let’s have some major economic depression and a big pandemic and then we all start voting for fascists to see where this goes“ went so well last century that we should now start all centuries this way?!
The new zoom transition API in UIKit may just be my favorite thing this year — absolutely effortless to implement on any existing view controller presentation
The macOS app Bartender, which cleans up/hides menu bar items and which I have been using for years, stopped working reliably a few days ago. It turns out that the app has been bought and it's not entirely clear who the new owner is. Time to take a look at an alternative.
https://indieweb.social/@stevestreza/112561076695641427
Steve Streza (@[email protected])

It appears that the Mac app Bartender apparently changed ownership recently without anyone being told. You may want to disable updates for it for now. https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1d7zjv8/bartender_5_not_safe_anymore_warning_from/ Ice appears to be an open source alternative: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

Indieweb.Social

Windows Recall doesn't just screenshot things, it OCR's the shots, and then stores the OCR as plaintext in a local SQLlite database.

I mean what the FUCK??!

I've said it before and I'll say, again, & again, & again, that jamming "AI" into everything without considering the privacy and security implications is a) going to cause a major breach of at least two US laws, and b) just a really silly and terrible idea which is going to put a lot of people in danger, and this "recall" shit is among the worst of it i've seen.

Windows 11 has just become a complete capture system disguised as an OS. Every keystroke, work session, video call, and downtime window, logged, correlated, and extrapolated. And they're trying to sell it to you as being a SERVICE.

So let me be as clear as possible about this: Fuck That, Forever.

Roll it BACK, microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues

Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’

Microsoft’s new Recall feature in Windows 11 has generated privacy and security concerns. One security researcher says it’s a potential “disaster” for cybersecurity.

The Verge

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

I’m always surprised that Apple engraving is free. I mean, not even $10? On one hand, that’s really awesome of them!! On another, far more cynical hand, I wonder, why? Conspiracy theory, but, does it meaningfully reduce resale value? Hmm.

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