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Can I use #VLC on my Mac to play videos to an #AirPlay target e.g. #AppleTV?
And no, I don’t want to use screen mirroring. I want native video playback like what QuickTime Player does.

When we first let our kittens outside, I bought AirTags so we could see where they were
Tags have been repurposed by my daughter to track her suitcases, leading to the “cats” being 6000 miles away

Vision Pro Developer Strap impressions:
- You can't connect it to a USB-to-Ethernet dongle.
- If you connect it directly to a Mac, it will use USB (USB 2 speed) for screen sharing...
- ...but based on some tests I did (using Vision Pro's view recording functionality), this doesn't seem to improve latency!
- Latency seems to be around 50ms over either USB or Wi-Fi. Hard to measure precisely because the view recording is only 30fps.
- Probably eliminates …

Apple maybe backing down on its PWA blocks:
• https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#ntfqa
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@… Now playing with bitmapfilter’s Photoshop-like channel ops to give a nice fade-to-black for evolving spirograph-like shapes. I love how it looks like blossoming flowers sometimes. These whole-screen updates really highlight how fast the 8-bit parallel displays are on these Lilygo boards.
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heise | Gadget Inspector: Finder Card Elite, 4D Screen Mirror, Aquastand und mehr
Hersteller und Händler bieten allerlei Zubehör für Apple-Produkte an. Mac & i wirft regelmäßig einen kritischen Blick auf Gadgets – von cool bis Kernschrott.

I can't stress enough how cool of a project is #reptyr
https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr
Forgot to run your slow program in a screen (or tmux?). Reptyr will move it wherever you want …

#BoycottBestBuy
https://federate.social/@ChristinaSiunOConnell/112180726991425190

FFS. 'For every £1 earned by men working in the arts, museums and libraries, women are paid 85p, figures show' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/women-are-all-over-the-big-screen-but-pay-gap-persists-in…

@… Now playing with bitmapfilter’s Photoshop-like channel ops to give a nice fade-to-black for evolving spirograph-like shapes. I love how it looks like blossoming flowers sometimes. These whole-screen updates really highlight how fast the 8-bit parallel displays are on these Lilygo boards.
Code: