Axel Rauschmayer

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Axel Rauschmayer
🛡️ rauschma_at_fosstodon.org@momostr.pink
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Topics: #JavaScript #TypeScript #fedi22 Other interests: – Languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin – Sustainability, degrowth, permaculture, urbanism – Tiny houses – Education – Psychology, getting out of one’s head, heart-centered living – Minimalist spirituality: Advaita, Daoism, Buddhism, Christian mysticism, J. Krishnamurti, … I live in Munich. http://pronoun.is/he Non-tech: – :pixelfed: Photos: [@rauschma](https://pixelfed.de/rauschma ) – 💬 Languages: [@langtales](https://mastodon.social/@langtales )
Continuity Camera (=iPhone as camera for Mac)—I did some experiments and it only seems to work if I do this: 1. iPhone is unlocked. 2. iPhone falls asleep. 3. Some time passes. 4. CC is activated. I was not able to skip step 1 and 2 (= to start with a locked iPhone). I could reconnect after disconnecting by switching CC off and on in the settings.
One area where cell phones could still actually innovate is support for mesh networks: • Allow people to communicate locally whenever there is no cell phone reception (during outages, in remote areas, in overcrowded areas) • Bonus: support for peer-to-peer synchronization of data (files, contacts, notes, etc.)—e.g., between a laptop and a cellphone.
It’s interesting to see the evolution of YouTube’s dialog for adding videos to playlists (iPhone app): • First: checkboxes. • Second: bookmark items. They work like checkboxes but the dialog disappears immediately when you click. Thus: harder to move things to the beginning of a playlist (by removing & adding again) and harder to add a video to multiple playlists. • Third: dialog remains open when unchecking but still closes immediately when checking.
In some ways, AI brings a modus operandi to the digit world that we have long had in the physical word (food, clothes, furniture, appliances, etc.): Producing stuff cheaply, with a low quality and without thinking about the resulting pollution.
Disney+: Restarting my subscription hasn’t worked for over 48 hours. It’s not a big deal for me but I find it interesting that they haven’t detected and fixed the issue yet: I’m seeing an exception in the console (see screenshot below). And that exception should have been reported to the tech people(?) Or maybe some things can’t be fixed during the holidays? Also interesting: Disney+ uses NextJS. (Creating a new account probably works but I’d rather not do that.) image