- I trust Google ad monopoly to keep my data actually secure. They have a great track record of not sharing their datasets with anyone because this gives them an edge pushing ads down people throats. Google is honest about what they doing. Google also not going away anytime soon so they also not going to sell off their datasets to highest bidder.
And I don't trust Sam Altman and AI.com at all since their whole thing was built on lies. They could start regaining the trust by changing their company name.
- While "native" is always questionable it was possible long ago without actually ever having source code. E.g back in 2024 there was ARM port of StarCraft 1 for OpenPandora. Just "dumb" x86 decompilation and then building against Wine for ARM.
https://hackaday.com/2014/07/31/playing-starcraft-on-an-arm/
- I'd imagine if you're person who make a lot of photos / videos slow sync can be pretty annoying. Unfortunately I'm not one of them to tell, but just had to wait like a week for the first sync of my wife's iPhone to finish.
- For once iCloud have a terrible sync speed. Even 500GB of photos / videos take forever to sync like a week and I can't imagine what it will take for someone with multi-TB archives.
- I really like moderation on HN in general, but honestly this inconsistent policy of editorializing titles is bad. There were plenty of times where submitter editorialized titles (e.g GitHub code dumps of some project) were changed back to useless and vague (without context) original titles.
And now HN administration tend to editorialize in their own way.
- Also appeal to investors. Nobody would give tons of money to upstart which goal is to generate text porn, generated TikTok slop and make some needy teens suicide just to compete with Google Ads.
Selling big AGI dream that will literally make winner take it all is much more desirable.
- Main problem isn't sheer amount of code. Problem is that X11 have to somewhat stick to protocol so apps written in 1995 keep working on top of it.
- > I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it?
This 12 years old video explains it better than anything I ever seen:
- Source of "truth".
- Funny enough I just managed to find this exact post and comment on google 5 minutes ago when I started wondering whatever it's actually possible to use 1/4 of capacity in SLC mode.
Though what make me wonder is that some reviews of modern SSDs certainly mention that that pSCL is somewhat less than 25% of capacity, like 400GB pSLC cache for 2TB SSD:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/crucial-p310...
So you get more like 20% of SLC capacity at least on some SSDs
- To be honest you can buy 4TB SSD for $200 now, so I guess market would be larger if people were aware of how easy would it be to make such SSDs work in SLC mode exclusively.
- Then I'm wrong.
- Bot comment? Or wrong tab? Moderators?
- > The best you can do is use the SE to decrypt the key and then use the clear text key for encryption/decryption.
AFAIK this is what "secretive" was doing all the time.
- And even good / bad is sometimes subjective and brain can adjust to it depend on whatever you like the taste for instance. Tell you this as a big fan of durian. Since there a lot of chemicals responsible for smell brain override reaction to fruit once you love the taste.
- I'm honestly clueless about reasoning behind bigtech investment into AI. For me it's all just look like another seasonal fad like we had many of during last two decades. Everyone invests into AI because of FOMO.
I know the tech itself is real and people do use it. And it will certainly change the world. Yet I doubt even fraction of money burnt on it will ever be recuperated because race to the bottom.
But yeah - I'm just random tech guy who has not built a big successful company and honestly have very little clue how to make money this way.
- Yes. People do use them and they trust them, unfortunately.
Tech nerds know what ChatGPT is, they know llm limits somewhat and they know it's hallucinating. Normal people do not - for them is a magical all knowing oracle.
- Even before recent "AI improvements" for us tech nerds Google search was broken ad invaded something. But for average Joe up until recently it's was still okay because it served purpose of whatever normal people use search for: find some rumors about their favorite celebs, find some car parts information or just "buy X".
Problem for Google is that for a good chunk of normal non-techy people LLM chats looks like talking to genius super intelligence and they was not burned by it yet. So they trust it.
And now good chunk of non-tech people now go and ask ChatGPT instead of using google search. And they do it simply because it's less enshittified than Google search.
Or tbh you can just buy it with crypto card issued in Hong Kong / Singapore even if you buying it in the US.