- Apple has decayed into a bog-standard $$$-maximizing lawnmower. Any products, services, ads, or other performances are merely incidental to that goal.
- > a prompt-driven interface powered by a cloud AI provider of your choice
So if I don't have any such provider, am I safe from AI?
And what about local models?
- Would you want your epitaph to say that you worked on implementing dynamic scoping rules?
- C programmers know, "Undefined Behavior might format your hard drive", but it rarely ever happens. LLMs provide that for everyone, not just C programmers, and this time it actually happens. So, as promised, improvements on all fronts!
- And it makes the governments that have been allowing this more a part of organized crime than of anything else. It's unmitigated corruption.
- And `sudo`, if your user ID allows it!
- > for what you treat as junk
No, what Apple made into junk by remotely flipping a switch. On an older iOS, you cannot log into your Apple ID any more, which then means you cannot update the OS any more. So you cannot upgrade, but you also cannot use the old OS for anything that requires you to be logged into your Apple account (which is practically everything). But you still get nagged at every turn that you need to log in and upgrade!
- And yet here we are…
Convenience trumps security every time. With people who allegedly know better.
- Why does a site like this have to have one of the most horrible cookie banners today's internet can torture you with? That's an instaclose.
- A very interesting article hidden behind a cryptic headline. I almost didn't read it because the title makes no sense to me. That would have been my loss.
- > if it is not or or not even
Did you want to test the LLM's grammatical comprehension?
- A portable Linux computer that can also act as a phone and has Cyrillic letters on the keyboard? Fucking awesome.
- Law never had anything to do with reason, but this is one more law that mandates an unreachable goal. This will trigger an untold amount of brain-rotten despotism.
- Same here. But I also seem to remember claims that this isn't true…
- So you just take Meta at their word? How naive can you be?
- > artificial creativity
This artificial creativity will only go so far, because it's a simulated semblance of human creativity, as much as could be gathered from training data. If not continually refueled by new training data, it will run out sooner or later. And then it will get boring really quickly.
- > In July, the Trump administration walked back a February move to cut off U.S. oil giant Chevron from doing business in Venezuela.
"It's OK when it's our guy."
- An old adage says, there is no such thing as "bad PR".
- Weenies with no sense of humor. I found the ad hilarious, even though no ad on Earth could lure me to McDonald's.
Some platforms might buy this as an engagement booster.