bagfatnick

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[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the question, it actually made me look for the api. Looks like I misremembered it, and there aren’t actually any exposed APIs for developers regarding attention. Internally it’s used by iOS for checking when you’re looking at the screen for faceID and keeping the screen lit when you’re reading.

There are APIs for developers that expose the position of the users head, but apparently it excludes eye information. Looks like it’s also pretty resource intensive, and mainly for AR applications.

The faceID / touchID api essentially only returns “authenticated”, “authenticating”, and “unautheticated”. The prompts / UI are stock iOS and cannot be altered, save showing a reason.

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

For what it’s worth, Apple has had an attention API ( for checking if the user is interacting / viewing ) since the debut of their facial tracking sensors on the iPhone X. Although, Apple makes its very clear it’s not to be used for ads and the such. If it helps I don’t know of any developers / Apple abusing that API.

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can confirm the extensions work well together.

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 1 points 10 months ago

It seems it may be because Orion on iOS has web extensions support. Which I think safari also does (partially) but uses a different framework for its on extensions. Check out Kagi’s page on Orion and web extensions.

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 2 points 10 months ago

For iOS safari, I can’t recommend vinegar enough. It replaces the YouTube player with the default html 5 player. So you get all the built in iOS features and ad blocking. There’s also the sponsor block app which works in conjunction with vinegar.

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a look at vinegar / baking soda as an extension for safari. It replaces the non-standard video players on websites like YouTube with a plain HTML5 player. Much smoother and you get all the iOS / macOS features like scrubbing and PiP. Plus it blocks ads as well!

For blocking YouTube ads, I cannot recommend Vinegar more. It’s a safari extension that replaces the default YouTube player with a standard HTML5 video tag. Which means all the functionality of iOS videos (PiP, backgrounding, scrubbing) and no ads.

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non- tech: I’m a psychiatrist, generally working with offenders in hospital and prisons. The clinical work is always interesting, and im usually thankful for openness at which people spill their life stories to me.

Tech: I’ve kinda thought myself software development since I started working as a doctor. There’s just too much inefficiencies in the way we work clinically day-to-day due to the sheer amount of defensive practice inherent in the health system. Started off with personal tools to “assist” the electronic systems in place. But since then I’ve launched and maintained a number of digital clinical tools in a few local hospital which I’m pretty proud of.

Eating bitterness (吃苦) is a phrase that really brings me back to my time growing up in east Asia. However it seems older generations believing their offspring are too weak / spoilt to handle what they themselves have gone through appears to be a pretty universal thing.

Have a look at the communities in the instance infosec.pub.

One of the other elected monarch in practice today is the Pope, who is elected by the cardinals in Vatican City.

If you have a grill, try making rabbit satay. One of my favourite rabbit dishes when I visit south east Asia.

 

Looks like the church is also trying to take a dip in the water on this hot day!

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