sailorpaul
About
- Username
- sailorpaul
- Joined
- Visits
- 40
- Last Active
- Roles
- member
- Points
- 130
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 323
Reactions
-
Virginia launches first COVID-19 exposure notification app in US using Google-Apple API
Our medical practice will recommend today that a couple of large local CALIFORNIA employers have staff install this Virginia app ASAP.
Best parts:
1. It works in any location.2. The API shares reported notifications “across countries” as a result of EU feedback. Here in the USA that implies (not guarantees) cross-state functionality when/if other states catch up.
Note the “works in any location” part of this design. All you need is a meaningful pool of users such as:
1,500 employees at California company A
or14,000 employees on the campus of California company B -
HomeKit Smart doorbell with Face ID expected by 2026
Heat, heat, heat… if this doorbell can’t handle a south facing door location it will end up being a major black eye for Apple. I have TWO south facing doors in SoCal that are blasted by the sun. Dark gray doorbell cases often exceed 140 degrees (really, did nobody take thermal engineering ???)
I have been thru SIX doorbells that failed, One of the Aqara died this week. Plenty of power: 24V 40VA transformer. Great WiFi. Even tried painting eone case white. Sigh -
U.S. Senate, Google ban Zoom days after its launch of 'security council'
dysamoria said:Can anyone explain to me how this previously utterly-unknown-to-me Zoom suddenly became the video conference product of choice before the current round of realizations about how shitty it is?That is also a key source of their problems -
Virginia launches first COVID-19 exposure notification app in US using Google-Apple API
Arrrgh. @heavypound is correct. I appolgize and retract my early morning statement that we would try this in California for employee clusters -- self-reporting is not supported. This app requires a six digit pin from VPH (virgina public health) upon confirmation of a positive test result.1. That is what I get for reading fast before dawn, before coffee and not attempting to submit a "positive" as a test.2. THE GOOD: news coverage says that interoperability between countries (which also implies US states) is now automatically built into the API after feedback from EU countries.3. THE BAD: we are doing things state-by-state. -
What to expect from the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max
-
Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over high fake user count
-
Leaker shares final Apple 'AirTags' design in leaked pairing animation video
Rayz2016 said:OutdoorAppDeveloper said:Xed said:OutdoorAppDeveloper said:That design can't be right. One side has to be flat to mount the tag to a surface.I hope there is more to the AirTag than simply being a Tile competitor. There are now Bluetooth tags that have built in GPS receivers and talk to each other in a mesh network....
..... to send their locations and that's not being used by ground vehicles at airport, but these aren't small, inexpensive, or using BT.
https://www.faa.gov/airports/resources/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/document.current/documentnumber/150_5220-26
https://www.digitalmatter.com/applications/bluetooth-asset-tracking/My cat isn’t going to wear that.Mrs Ray2016 is not going to use that as a key fob.
/s -
'AirTags' appear to include privacy features to stop unwanted tracking
“I wonder if they will include some sort of time-out feature. If the Air Tag doesn’t sync up with the owner’s phone after a while, maybe it stops transmitting real time information?This is to help you find your own items (keys, wallet, iPad...) and you are not likely to need to track them for days. I can even imagine you could disable the time-out feature if you report your device missing or stolen...”Our interest is keeping subsequent appointments during the day apprised of arrival times, and locating medical equipment that might be lost/left behind.Dream preliminary discussions with staff, they felt that was a better plan than sharing their iPhone location. -
Troubleshoot mac OS Mojave - missing fax functionality in Preview
Brother tech support just replied with a message that faxing is no longer supported on Brother MFC printers with the CUPS driver !!!
That makes these systems way less multi-function than they were before Mojave. It also stopped the upgrading of all the computers here - now I’m going to have to roll these two Macs back. Ugh.
This is a significant problem. Hospitals, emergency rooms, specialists imaging centers and labs do NOT have email addresses that can be used to send patient’s chart notes. (That whole HIPPA confidential thing.)
Brother’s response:
”...understand that you are unable to use the PC-Fax feature after having upgraded your Macintosh operating system to Mojave 10.14. After reviewing the changes in the upgrade, I was able to confirm that the Send Fax feature of the CUPS driver is no longer supported. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.That being said, please keep in mind that the printer and scanner drivers for Mojave are scheduled to be released later this month. We recommend checking on our Downloads page here for their release.”