Barbing

Tire kicking suddenly a sign of privacy mindedness, not rude Craigslist window shopping behavior

They had a whole year (well I suppose quite a bit less) and I still have multiple bugs from iOS 26? Including a temporary show stopper? Gah! Maybe a reformat… actually a few, macOS iOS iPadOS.

I want them offline. Plug in physically to download what’s needed. Or park in closest safe location. Either way, create a log with access + warrant. No warrant, no access (or legal penalties when logs are reviewed, if warrant can’t be a precondition on a technical level).

A cop with a cable to a camera pole would be a visible sign to the community that something happened. If someone’s there every day, maybe it’s one of those (rare but…) losers tracking his abused former lover. (Super sick that cop helped his cousin do this.)

Great suggestion. Stinks Amazon records every walk I go on.

Don’t try to use it to do the things you did all the time in iOS 26.

“No regressions“ did not make their priority list. No more searching Spotify with Siri.

The fact it won’t Google something and open the SERP seems a little willful. Had to tell it I was doing programming homework and needed to know how to build the URL. (Saying “Search Kagi“ to run my shortcut is the superior workflow, but I was curious.)

Wow.

Apparently the restaurant reservation thing was supported, although OpenTable might’ve broken it at some point https://reddit.com/r/Siri/comments/mhc8cx/restaurant_reserva...

It seems to me that’s a really good way to measure a kind of quality of a criticism. Without mind reading technology though, I have never understood how we could see that something is “[virtue] signaling“ or “performative“.

Sometimes things in technology tick me off, and I vent about them for a few sentences in a comment. It’s genuine but some folks think it’s somehow for show. Ah, if you have time for a relatively short thread, from a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045463

Now, in that example it was more like an open letter so you may disagree with the assessment of the reply, but it may show the difficulty of being able to accurately infer when a person is putting on a performance. Maybe it’s safer to give our opinion on response quality.

Curious for your thoughts! Thank you.

Missed that, wow thanks

> They release unfinished software on an unsustainable schedule.

Help us, John Ternus.

How do you know when something is performative as opposed to genuine?

Mm, I don’t really care about that, at least assuming it can partially-counterintuitively lower the manufacturing cost of a car by a penny or two.

Computer chips [used to?] end up getting nerfed and it saves resources/saves us all money. I can get over it, even though normally “the principle of the thing“ is a really big deal for me.

OK it does stink for the used car market actually.

I like it.

A “disable spying in just a few taps” approach (“your data, your choice” it’s just opt-out) would catch my attention and they could still sell 90% of everyone’s data since people don’t touch defaults.

> Is my insurance going raise my rates because my vehicle won't provide telemetry for them to buy?

Thanks, I hate it.

That link markdown doesn’t work here (common issue, I think it should parse/convert it anyway). Description of what y’all do? Who are ya?

TIL they did for the iPhone 15 Pro:

  Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/apple-commits-to-5-y...

Was “automatic“ a part of the promise? Now there’s some e.g. fixed income seniors sold on the inexpensive, hassle-free gear who have to deal with a lack of a “direct migration path“ in their later years?

> They can't commit to anything

Site updated fast https://killedbygoogle.com

Internally, someone definitely pushed back against that (“it’s only two extra years!”). Would’ve loved to hear what they were told.

Now that I say that, breaking the promise by two years might’ve been a compromise. Maybe management wanted five.

> enjoy the lack of facebook (for now until someone builds it)

lol, well done

Maybe just the wrong ballpark (like 1-10%).

> It's been a few months since I last recall this though

Anthropic cut a deal with SpaceXAI in May - $1.25b/mo. Before that, they employed months of dishonest nerfy strategies, to an extreme.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex

> Each work usually needs revisions

Are you sure? Based on their marketing video, usually you just have to tell it to swap one of the later slides or photos to put it first. :)

Oh, also you have to tell it those times you want to prioritize your children on your calendar.

> swap them for the new ones for free

This was almost my thought for mitigating USA stamp fraud. Exchange Forever stamps for $currentValue stamps, but show your ID so you’ll be subject to extra scrutiny if you try to trade in a million of them. (QR code’s better and more fair.)

TIL there’s a nice Linux clone of the Mac UI https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/files/2023/09/header.png

There should be hope for some fields, right? Naively, I can imagine giving an airgapped model an offline copy of the web and once it cures a form of cancer, printing out the details for a researcher to verify.

Tax (not cheating!,) optimization?

(Retract the cheating dig if not applicable. Make it in the first place b/c I’m bummed when folks who make their money thanks to a country’s infra, laws, etc. don’t pay their fair share, at least in those cases when there’s so much you can even give back half and have immense riches.)

>Since we live in wacky world, Suno which was trained off stolen IP counts Warner Music as one its partners.

Deep fear, backed into a corner. Same with Disney partnering with OpenAI for Sora.

Would be an intriguing calculus thinking they can hurt Western publishers enough to offset the enrichment of generations of thinkers and scientists. I usually chalk up both book and article archive sites as being citizen run.

Thankful to have always been surrounded by top-notch physical libraries, now with digital lending options. I know some are happy when the mobile book van comes through town.

Thank you! (Also, haven’t seen this kind of gift link that has the little login requirement, suppose they’re looking to strike a better balance.)