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Darwins_Toffeeson I made my phone slow on purpose

The one thing that's kept me from this path is tickets to events. Getting into a concert or MLB game without a smartphone is nearly impossible these days.

Darwins_Toffeeson Apple unveils new accessibility features

"Vehicle Motion Cues come to visionOS, which can help reduce motion sickness for people who use Apple Vision Pro as a passenger in a moving vehicle. Vision Pro will also support face gestures for performing taps and system actions, plus a new way to select elements with one’s eyes while using Dwell Control."

Maybe just don't wear them in a car?

Darwins_Toffeeson OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

Imagine telling parents that the new teacher they hired to teach their children just makes shit up like 30% of the time.

Darwins_Toffeeson OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

You know why most kids don't do this already, because they don't know what they don't know. Telling a 2nd grader to go learn anything they want is not going to have the result you apparently think it will.

Darwins_Toffeeson AI's economics don't make sense

- Reproduce academic papers - Put coding projects online for me so I can share them with friends - Determine which books in a set are missing from the school library and find where they’re cheapest online - Figure out which soccer club the team I see practicing at the local rec center belongs to and how to register my son - Design a bunch of robot-themed handwriting activities for a kindergartner who needs to practice making his uppercase and lowercase letters distinct

I'm sorry but telling me that this is what AI can do is a sad state of affairs. Like this is google level stuff.

Darwins_Toffeeson Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

Can depend on the field too. I work in drug discovery and if the FDA was to request data that requires my computer they would have access to everything I had on it...Including my texts if I happened to log in to my personal apple account since it's a Mac.