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tudor

@ tudor @lemmy.world

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  • Professor's got it right

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  • Just apple things

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  • When you select text, you get options like Cut/Copy/Paste, Look Up, etc. Text things.

    Apps can add their own actions next to these, such as the ChatGPT app adding the Ask ChatGPT action.

    The thing is, iOS does not allow custom actions to be used outside the app which added them. So the Ask ChatGPT action only appears in the ChatGPT app and nowhere else where one would benefit from a quick shortcut like that.

    The action is now mostly useless if it can’t serve the purpose of being a shortcut to ChatGPT from any text selection anywhere, because once you’re in the ChatGPT app, you could just ask - shortcut not needed.

  • Just apple things

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  • Technical explanation:

    iOS apps cannot add systemwide actions in context menus, like for text selection. At best, they can create a sharing extension to have their app shown in the share sheet (page where you select who you send something to) and potentially add an action for easier discovery.

    The only place they can add a systemwide actions is in their own app, hence why only the ChatGPT app has the Ask ChatGPT action.

  • Why can’t they think normally?

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  • Technical explanation:

    iOS apps cannot add systemwide actions in context menus, like for text selection. At best, they can create a sharing extension to have their app shown in the share sheet (page where you select who you send something to) and potentially add an action for easier discovery.

    The only place they can add a systemwide actions is in their own app, hence why only the ChatGPT app has the Ask ChatGPT action.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign

    www.theverge.com /news/678305/apple-ios-26-wwdc-2025

  • Apple’s Find My app didn’t work in S. Korea for 15 years – a user’s 19-month campaign changed that

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  • It’s unavailable in North Korea as well, I imagine

  • Nicușor Dan is the new president of Romania. Congratulations to everyone who voted!

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  • Where do y’all make these hyperrealistic AI images?

  • Nicușor Dan is the new president of Romania. Congratulations to everyone who voted!

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  • Show me your iOS/macOS bugs

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  • Firstly, I have to thank you for doing this - you’re awesome.

    Given your

    Can’t help with general UI/UX complaints

    I am unsure you can help, but I’ll drop it in here anyway.

    Device: iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 18.4 (released by the time of this comment)

    Issue: When screen recording, the Dynamic Island activity shows up in the recording - this is intended. However, if I do something in an app which full-screens the UI (as in the app hides the status bar - for example, I tapped a photo in the Photos app to hide everything but the photo, zooming in also works I think), the island activity disappears, but the black cutout remains in the video until a few seconds later, when it too abruptly and weirdly disappears with some weird flickers and other visual glitches. I can’t word it properly, so here’s a video (idk how to upload it so here’s the first way I found to do this - lmk of any other way to do this): https://streamable.com/ko8gsy

    My test case: I am playing music, and the dynamic island shows the now playing activity. I start screen recording in order to demonstrate the issue. I then go into an app which has the capability to hide the status bar (clock, wifi/cellular, battery and the dynamic island activities) - in my case, I choose to tap on a photo in the Photos app to hide all but the photo itself. I zoom into the photo before I do that so that the island isn’t on the black part of the UI (issue would be invisible). After tapping and when the status bar disappears, the activity does so too, but the cutout/“pill” remains until a few moments later, when it glitches out when it abruptly disappears too.

    Has been happening since the iOS 18 dev betas in the summer at the least.

    Sorry for the incredibly bad wording. Lmk if you need more info

  • How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?

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  • There is so much content going online, and so much traffic, plus heightened security measures, that make it very hard to identify dissidents on a large scale, at least with the tech we have, without using searches and seizure of one’s devices or other methods unrelated to the Internet itself.

    In other words, very hard to impossible.

  • Romania: Far-right candidate Georgescu barred from election

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  • Great example of the paradox of tolerance.

    It’s good that Romania is defending its democracy - Georgescu is a fraud as much as he is a clown, clearly unfit for office as he will not uphold the rule of law and will abuse his power.

    With that said, where do you draw the line when barring people from running? Some will see this as an attack of democracy itself, in which anyone is allowed to run for office and is elected by the people. Blocking adversaries from running isn’t exactly the definition of democracy.

    Unless the secret service declassifies its evidence that Georgescu is in any way affiliated or promoted by Russia, I see this going downward, with him and his ideology getting even more supporters due to this paradox of tolerance.

  • The myth of consensual peace

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  • Please bless us with some sources so that we can read more & discuss deeper.

  • The myth of consensual peace

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  • I learned this from a friend of mine: If a crowd of people tells you that you’re blind drunk, perhaps consider that you might actually be.

    Same principle. Happy to see someone pushing it out there.

  • Trump says Tim Cook called him to complain about the European Union

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  • Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism?

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  • Your username on a post about capitalism makes me giggle

  • I can't be the first to post this lmao

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  • “My people” you aren’t some king man

  • Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline

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  • As long as the car isn’t dependent on an Internet connection or the manufacturer’s server and the ports aren’t proprietary, I think you’re good. I expect a car to have these.

  • iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones

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  • I tried fooling it myself several times with the aim of getting satellite connectivity in my unsupported country, to no avail.

    Used a German SIM card (where this feature is supported), went in my basement where there’s no cell service so that it can’t read MNC or MCC from any networks nor can it read GPS precisely (the circle spanned almost all of Western Europe, that imprecise I mean), used a Raspberry Pi as a router with country code as DE, disabled Wi-Fi, used VPN, used the Xcode debugging tools to simulate iPhone location to Germany (this usually fools all apps into thinking I’m in Germany, including Apple’s own Find My), all to no avail. And there’s no way to feed countryd any custom data.

    It’s insane.

  • iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones

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  • As a developer, you don’t really get access to any of that.

    Mainly, you can’t access any history of calls and messages at all, nor can you automate sending one. All interactions with calling or texting has to be done with user interaction. Namely, calling requires the user to confirm the call, and sending a message requires the user to confirm, and they can also edit the message beforehand.

    I don’t think that’s bad, given that messages are some of the most private things on our devices, and personally, I never had to use any of these or required more access. But more choice is always appreciated.

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    iOS 18 Image Playground to label AI-generated images in metadata

    9to5mac.com /2024/06/14/apple-image-playground-ai-metadata/
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    Just going for a swim

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Let's make this a reality

    ideas.lego.com /projects/798c9236-c87f-40be-a740-3166f919c8b6
  • memes @lemmy.world
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    They messed up the order