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Great talk about the future of desktop user-interfaces.

“…Scott Jenson gives examples of how focusing on UX -- instead of UI -- frees us to think bigger. This is especially true for the desktop, where the user experience has so much potential to grow well beyond its current interaction models. The desktop UX is certainly not dead, and this talk suggests some future directions we could take.”

“Scott Jenson has been a leader in UX design and strategic planning for over 35 years. He was the first member of Apple’s Human Interface group in the late '80s, and has since held key roles at several major tech companies. He served as Director of Product Design for Symbian in London, managed Mobile UX design at Google, and was Creative Director at frog design in San Francisco. He returned to Google to do UX research for Android and is now a UX strategist in the open-source community for Mastodon and Home Assistant.”


Control your Mac via your Siri Remote or iPhone remove though voice or the remote's trackpad from the couch.

Can work offline using whisper-v3-large-turbo and qwen3-4b to interpret commands & transcriptions


Nice!

For those interested in comparing, https://www.summarize.tech/ also builds summaries from YouTube videos but includes an overview, then a summary of each 5 min segment


Holy wow, this is FAST. I wonder if both videos I used were cached. How do they do it so fast?


It looks cool, but there is no screenshot or video of the settings you can configure.

The videos show only the effects (scrolling, etc) and not how you can use your mouse or set it up to do it.


Yeah, my thoughts exactly. How does this work? What's it like to use this? Seems like one of the most important possible questions to answer, but the website says nothing.


I just installed it, here's what I can set: bindings for the middle mouse button (click/hold/double click/click and drag), for clicking mouse buttons 4 and 5, smooth scrolling on/off, scroll speed, and (the reason I installed it): you can invert the scrolling direction just for the mouse.


Yup! Came to say the same thing. Seems to fix a problem I have, but I have no clue how it does it, and that doesn't pass the threshold for me to install it


The Github repo[0] is listed. Could open an issue for describing how it works.

[0] https://github.com/noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix


Alas, this is my experience with a lot of product websites. There’s lots of content but rarely anything useful.


The main thing it fixes for me is that I can now use a regular Logitech mouse and scroll just like on Linux and Windows. Before it scrolled too slow (on pixel level) and even when scrolling fast it went slow (no matter the settings on Mac OS). If I let the Logi MX Anywhere 3 wheel roll freely it scrolled too fast. This tool fixed the annoying scrolling issues I had.

This seems to be the main feature it does.

The other is that you can reprogram what the middle button (the scroll wheel click) does.

Same with botton 4 and 5 (default back and forth between pages).


This makes me wish 1Password still allowed self-hosted and self-synced password vaults.


A no-cloud password manager: https://www.pwsafe.org/

With a whole host of alternate, compatible, implementations:

https://www.pwsafe.org/relatedprojects.shtml

Allowing for self-hosting (and in a few instances, some 'syncing').


What password manager does?


I believe Keypass uses local password vaults. I don't use it personally, but I have heard many people use a combination of KeePass and Syncthing to sync their passwords across multiple devices.

Example article: https://dev.to/rusty_sys_dev/switching-to-keepass-and-syncth...

I wouldn't recommend Keypass to my non-technical family and friends, but if you love the command line it might be what you are looking for


Bitwarden offers both a hosted and self-hosting option. Though their code is open source unlike LastPass and 1Password.


It works great but you'll need a reverse proxy with TLS + a domain if you want to use the android app.

Self signed certs don't play nicely with the app.


Setting up a reverse proxy + TLS is not that hard. Buying a domain + paying the 10€ per year license (If you go with the official server rather than vaultwarden) is still cheaper than paying for Lastpass / 1Password / Dashlane for the same time. As long as you are willing to maintain it that's pretty reasonable.

The only thing that makes me mad in bitwarden's official client is that you STILL can't remap your keys. I still have the old habbit of Ctrl+L from Keeweb to go to the search bar. On Bitwarden it locks your vault...


Consider using ZeroTier or any WireGuard based SDN instead, for remote access to self hosted services.


Keepass2 is a piece of cake. Apps on desktop and mobile, keys stored in dropbox or whatever.


“Two studies from 2013 suggested that consuming more calories early in the day and fewer calories in the evening helps people lose weight. Yet a major new study has found that while the relative size of breakfast and dinner influences self-reported appetite, it has no effect on metabolism and weight loss.”


I wish this article included music clips from the composers discussed.


Please do. This is alarming


One of the authors still finds Android apps—verified by Google Play Protect—that are still vulnerable:

https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1483436414025048068



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