Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

I thought I’d post this, in case anyone else was having this problem…

TL;DR: If your Home invitations are not being received by people, it’s probably because your home and their account are using different versions of the HomeKit architecture. If they’re already on the new architecture, you’ll have to delete all homes in your account and then re-add them under the new architecture.

The problem: my partner and I just moved into a new house. After setting up the house with a bunch of HomeKit devices, I sent her an invitation to the house, which was never received. Repeated attempts, OS updates, and sending between different platforms yielded no results.

After a few calls with Apple, I finally got someone who understood the problem. In iOS 16.2, Apple released their “new HomeKit architecture.” In my case, I still had my old house in HomeKit, which was on the “old” architecture. So, when I added the new house, it was also added using the old architecture. After populating it with all of my devices, I deleted the old house and sent an invitation to my partner for the new house.

This is where the problems began.

When I deleted the old house, of which she was a member, it deleted the sole house in her HomeKit configuration, so her iCloud account was automatically updated to the new architecture. My account, however, was not, because I had the new house which was still using the old architecture. Unfortunately, an invitation sent from a device on the old architecture, to one on the new architecture is simply lost.

The key clue to all of this could be found on my iPhone, going to Home → Home Settings → Software Update (the one in the Home app; not the one in the Settings app). If my home had been updated to the new architecture, it would have reported, “This home and all accessories are up to date.” Instead, it said, “All accessories are up to date.” The difference is subtle, and arguably unclear, but the long and short of it is that the latter message indicated that I was still on the old architecture.

The fix was to delete the home (and any others) from my Home app. Upon creating the new home, the first device that I added was an Apple TV and a pair of HomePods, which would serve as the hubs for the newly-created home. After doing that, I went back to the Software Update page, and it reported that “This home and all accessories are up to date.” That was the indication that I needed, to continue to re-add all of my devices to the home, and send my partner an invitation, which she did receive.

For those of you with lots of devices in your home (I have over 50, including my HomeBridge devices), it can be cumbersome to re-add all of the devices, but the alternative was to wait for Apple to come up with a fix, which didn’t seem likely in the near future.

In any case, I hope this helps someone out there who was having this problem.

#macos #ios #ipados #home #homekit #newarchitecture

#USA #Supermarkets #DataProtection #Privacy: "When you hit the checkout line at your local supermarket and give the cashier your phone number or loyalty card, you are handing over a valuable treasure trove of data that may not be limited to the items in your shopping cart. Many grocers systematically infer information about you from your purchases and “enrich” the personal information you provide with additional data from third-party brokers, potentially including your race, ethnicity, age, finances, employment, and online activities. Some of them even track your precise movements in stores. They then analyze all this data about you and sell it to consumer brands eager to use it to precisely target you with advertising and otherwise improve their sales efforts.

Leveraging customer data this way has become a crucial growth area for top supermarket chain Kroger and other retailers over the past few years, offering much higher margins than milk and eggs. And Kroger may be about to get millions of households bigger."

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/02/16/forget-milk-and-eggs-supermarkets-are-having-a-fire-sale-on-data-about-you

One for the what-could-go-wrong files: "You have to deploy it to a million people before you discover some of the things that it can do"

@rachellerman @nitashatiku
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/16/microsoft-bing-ai-chatbot-sydney/

OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT's behavior to reduce biases, allow more user customization, and get more public input into decision-making about system defaults (OpenAI)

https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave/
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p37#a230216p37

Of course he does. #Elmo & Peter Thiel are principal investors in #OpenAI #ChatGPT

#BigTech
#Microsoft
#Bing
#AIEthics

Outlawing abortion, criminalizing gender-affirming care, banning books...

The GOP is not the party of limited government. It’s not the party of "freedom," either.

It's the party of social control.

Doctor appearing on CNN compares Sen. Fetterman's health problems with Rep. George Santos -- says they both shouldn't be in Congress. Seriously, he compared health issues with Santos' stream of lies! You should be ashamed CNN!

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/meta_zuckerberg_security_budget/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.1d4.us/TheRegister/status/1626303293352775680

#Debian-Based #Clonezilla Live 3.0.3 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Adds Support for Multiple LUKS Devices, Powered by #Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-0-3-disk-cloning-tool-adds-support-for-multiple-luks-devices-linux-6-1-lts

#OpenSource

In America, they say the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

But that just sounds like someone trying to sell two guns.

Senator Marco Rubio and Rep. Jim Banks have introduced legislation seeking to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marco-rubio-jim-banks-introduce-bill-ban-trans-military-1234681140/

First let’s ban Rubio and Banks from serving in our government.

Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform — @mmasnick

Clarence Thomas, Devin Nunes, Sarah Palin, and Ron DeSantis support laws that would enable politicians to harass critics with punitive lawsuits.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/16/stifling-free-speech-is-now-a-core-plank-of-republicans/

I wrote a while back about how generations of AI researchers viewing the Turing test as a holy grail led to our current predicament, in which chatbots hyper-optimized to mimic human interaction actually do fool people into thinking they're sentient. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/17/google-ai-lamda-turing-test/

The FCC is investigating whether ISPs exaggerated their coverage to authorities preparing to distribute billions in subsidies for broadband in underserved areas (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/fcc-is-investigating-broadband-providers-over-coverage-claims
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p34#a230216p34

Is this at least a violation of HIPPA? Or is Ron planning on taking on the medical care of all these students?

https://www.insider.com/ron-desantis-trans-college-students-medical-records-florida-medical-care-2023-2

As the New York Times once again defends the underprivileged, marginalized, and oppressed J.K. Rowling, it’s important to remember that a pretty big chunk of hand-wringing about cancel culture is in fact just status anxiety, as people used to having their opinions unchallenged and their prejudices celebrated are now facing criticism, and they hate it.

DoorDash announces a $750M stock buyback program and says Chief Financial Officer Prabir Adarkar will replace President Christopher Payne on March 1 (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/doordash-forecasts-profit-growth-as-customers-keep-ordering-takeout
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p33#a230216p33