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  • Feds wise up and ban WhatsApp, might shift to Apple Messages

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    Let’s not forget that Signal’s security has had doubt cast on it, too:

    The U.S. Government uses Signal, but doing so, if certain U.S. Government agencies can readily decode messages it will at least stay in-house.
    ronnwatto_cobra

  • Apple has effectively abandoned HomeKit Secure Routers

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    This is why I recommend to my clients more advanced, professional routers, like the ones from Netgate, running pfSense software. Combined with VLANs and separate Wi-Fi access points that allow the configuration of multiple SSIDs, I set up my clients’ main LAN, a guest network and an IoT network. Unfortunately, I am not sure, whether having full access from the main LAN to the IoT subnet and none in the reverse direction is sufficient firewalling. I would like to see Apple provide concrete guidance.

    Isolating IoT from the rest of your home network is a best practice and should be standard in this day and age. Apple, let’s be open about it, so that any router manufacturer can implement these best practices without requiring certification.
    egold44command_ftmaywatto_cobra

  • Apple pauses iOS 18, macOS 15 work to stomp bugs now

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    There are several bugs I have been dealing with, which I hope get fixed every time there is a new release. But then they aren’t. I can’t imagine that a week of concentrating on bug fixes can really be enough.

    Contacts: Adding contacts from the right pane to one of the lists in the left pane ceases to work after the app has been open for a day or so.
    Contacts: Clicking and dragging across the name of a contact in the right pane only works, if I start clicking in the lower half (maybe lower third) of the name.
    Contacts: Adding contact details in the Messages app will lead to that new contact showing up in the Contacts app only after 30 s or so. I do have a lot of contacts (> 5,000), but still…

    Calendar: Can’t add coordinates to an appointment’s location, anymore. It’s been years…

    Mail: Clicking on the down-caret to the immediate right of an address in the To: field of a message being edited requires the selection of “Edit Selection” twice, before I can actually edit the address. This has been a problem for years, now, too.
    FileMakerFellerOferAlex1Ndarkvaderwatto_cobra

  • A lament for the Touch Bar

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    I am one of those touch typists. It was usually quite a slowdown to look down on my keyboard and to try to figure out what UI elements were presented. I thought it was very beautiful but useless. Haven’t missed it at all since upgrading my 2017 MacBook Pro with a 2021 MacBook Pro.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonwatto_cobraFileMakerFeller

  • AirTag and Find My helps traveler bust Brussels theft ring

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    macgui said:
    I really want Apple to make a wallet version, not so much for recovering a stolen wallet but to help me find mine should I misplace or drop it.
    There are at least of those, from third parties, which actually work with the Find My ecosystem. They are the Pebblebee Card, the Eufy Security’s SmartTrack Card and the Chipolo Card Spot.
    ronnFileMakerFellerwatto_cobraBannedForFreeSpeech