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Passkeys and Tech Duopoly

Passkeys are vendor lock in and tries to turn a few big tech companies into critical infrastructure. I started to write this post in October 2022 when there was a huge push about the coming…

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History Repeats: Apple M1 Thoughts

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By Henriok - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96026688 In case you haven't heard in the last five minutes, Apple released their new macbooks based on Apple's own cpu, the M1. Here's a fine writeup as any.

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Investigating HomeKit Power Strips

I started looking at various HomeKit-compatible power strips. There appear to be two on the market: And one more announced, Eve Power Strip, https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/30/eve-announces-new-light-strip-power-strip/ A few things caught my attention: I bought the Koogeek, because…

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Random Apple Archives

[gallery ids="25816,25817,25818,25819,25820,25821,25822" type="rectangular" link="file" orderby="rand"] A random assortment of Apple things from my archives. My experience with Apple starts with the Apple IIe and IIgs. I had to learn to code in logo and BASIC…

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Concierge Migration Service

Today in random business idea #480971: a concierge migration service. The idea is to migrate between cloud service providers, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Amazon. Not all of them offer the same services, but there's enough…

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