This may end in a sputter.

Maybe they're migrating to Azure.

Am I the only one who doesn't want these things to have anything even vaguely resembling a personality?

It's a magnificent article, it's well worth it.

I haven't seen anyone faking surprise, or even genuinely surprised, what are you referring to?

>"we don't need to read it" [here]

many people here don't read the articles, and that's not going to change. (on today's internet, jumping from the site you want to be on to a site with unknown UX patterns is fraught)

but people here do read the comments, so having important details from the articles in comments here improves the quality of comments here, at least if you value staying on topic.

I think mostly the point is that it inadvertently implies that the message adds something new. A note that the same thing was posted on LinkedIn would help the ones tho did read the linked content know right away it's the same. I managed to just move on, but I did had a knee-jerk moment of "what if I'm missing something?" - I suppose for some people it's more difficult.

Why would somebody click a link to GitHub and then not read the text that very obviously pertains to the title of the submission they clicked on?

Also saying that GitHub has unknown UX patterns made me lol.

Trying to find what context was on LinkedIn but not in the posted link. Spoiler alert, there was none.

AirPods and iMessage, agreed, never had a problem. The Home app though remains Apple's unloved ginger stepchild - every major OS release I'm hopeful that they've done something about it, but they never do. I'm starting to think Apple's internal view of Home / HomeKit is that they wish they'd never built it in the first place.

This is tough. Most home devices are built to be absolute bottom of the barrel. Notice that almost every HomeKit device says it only uses 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi?

Apple tried to do certification for a while in 2018ish, but nobody could get through it, so I think they stopped.

Apple is starting to build their own home devices and I expect them to eat the market and cause improvement via competition.

HomeKit certification is still a thing if that's what you're referring to. You're very much right about the bottom of the barrel nature of home automation devices though. Most of mine are about as good as you can get though (Philips Hue etc.) and the Home app is still appalling. Even if all the devices I have attached worked properly and did what they're told when the automations run, there's still some absolutely basic functionality that people have been waiting years for, like being able to switch cameras from stream only to stream and record via an automation - think "when I go to bed, I want the alarm on and the cameras recording".

I didn't realize they were still doing certification! And yeah... the app is bad.

Matter (and thread) is supposed to fix this, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I hope they do. I use only the basics of HomeKit, a couple switches and CCTV. I'd like to expand and use it for more stuff. So it's important Home is stable.

This is exactly what I was setting it up to do this morning. My research came down to this and WAL-G for the same reasons, and I picked pgBackRest over WAL-G because the documentation was clearer.

I can beat you on the timing - I'd never used pgBackRest before, but started setting it up on a project about 2 hours ago, by the time I'd finished the README had been updated.

The tapping phones thing really limits the utility of this, and I suspect gives away something about the age of the author - as one gets older, friends move away from the place where you originally made friends, often all over the world. Given I'm not allowed to connect with most of my friends via friendster, there doesn't seem to be much point in creating an account.