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It faces the same issue as all the other AI slop: distribution.

Internet's already full of AI slop nobody reads, apps nobody uses, videos nobody watches, music nobody listens to.

Even before AI slop distribution was extraordinarily hard for practically any digital medium.

So this AI writes its bible seeking to change humanity to its own purposes, they upload it to Amazon, Google, Apple, and they couldn't even give it away TBH.

So then it needs a Cambridge Analytica-scale targeting campaign to find and influence the right people, and it will need to acquire billions of dollars to pay for that, and it will need to funnel all that money unnoticed into Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple and X to advertise at those targeted people. And it would need to evade detection by governments and regulators and watchdogs and researchers and critical thinkers, at any time the whole jig is up.

Confirmation dialog pops up on your iPhone, you allow it, it sends you a code to enter.

They're in the process of ending support for everything below the RTX 2000 series -

https://windowsforum.com/news/nvidia-ends-feature-support-fo...

Steam Deck amazes me, I've had it for years and it doesn't feel dated in the slightest.

They might not be able to predict your bill but how much time do they need to add up what you already spent to minimize your overage? And TBH how much time should be acceptable to exceed your cap before it's their fault for the lag in their software.

I think this is just a transient phase and soon enough we'll miss this too.

That's basically what we have with big tech, it's going splendidly well except for competition, consumer rights, privacy and safety.

This has been a problem for so long, not just Meta but all the "digital dependencies". Worst of all the EU recognized this issue, legislated transparency and recourse, but appeals are almost entirely ignored.

> Meta provided relevant content for fewer than 100 out of more than 4,600 account ban cases, the report said, "causing significant frustration among users".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c152yvwjwkko

At this point I will be very surprised if old.reddit.com survives another year. I hope it ultimately kills reddit, but they'll inexplicably be worth more for this I'm sure.

In the past, when you were family!

Their leaders hang out with Trump more than most companies too.

I wouldn't even say 8 years is "old" for a computer anymore, right around Intel's Haswell generation we crossed a threshold of cores and performance and computers became Good Enough. You can see it with Android and iOS tablets too they last a very long time, and of course Apple Silicon leaves no doubt.

You need an account just to browse old.reddit.com now, there's some extensions that do an okay job of emulating it but it's not quite the same.

There's not going to be a shortcut that puts you ahead of everyone else, they're getting 1000(s) of applicants for every position and lots of them have spent years at top-tier tech companies and still struggling to get through the filters and stand out.

That leaves you with lottery-ticket options like working somewhere they acquire, building something they acquire.

Why would it be large? Or problematically so.

Apple releases numbers: 130,000 app reviews per week.

The human component to this doesn't need to do much more than verify it works, they say they churn through that with just 500 reviewers that must be costing just a few $10s of millions.

They could certainly do a better job, but maybe that means 2,500 reviewers? That'd cost them half-a-year of Roblox's commissions.

If Google needs 2x as many that's 5,000 people, their whole Roblox commission. There are more people working at their HQ, and this is a job they can distribute between cheaper countries.

Lack of distribution probably.

But Google has agreed to distribute app stores (in America anyway) for a modest $5000 fee + $5000/year fee + transaction fees.

Where "escape" means do something you didn't anticipate or in a manner you didn't anticipate, sure. The bar is pretty low on that, for instance the OpenAI thing the other day where it "escaped containment" which if I understand correctly it interpreted a connectivity issue as a problem to solve when it had actually been intentionally blocked/sandboxed. To borrow the phrase "more than one way to skin a cat", it will always be difficult to reduce it to exactly one fully-controlled way for all shapes, sizes and pelts of cat. It's a very good argument for running AI locally since you have physical control over its connectivity and there's nothing it can do to reconfigure or circumvent that.

If Android did belong to someone else then there could be an argument that IAP fees are funding it and subsequently required, perhaps even under less-than-competitive circumstances.

But if the court allowed, Google would be paying that company $10s of billions for the prime real estate their software, search and services enjoy and it would then be a very weak argument that only IAP funds its development. Just like it is when Google earns $100s of billions in revenue from Android now.

They also say they generate $57 billion ad revenue from being default search engine on iPhone, so obviously there is a cash value to being the default search (and everything else) on Android too even if their accountants can finagle reasons that doesn't contribute to Android's development costs.

If they didn't develop Android they'd be paying $10s of billions annually for the prime positioning their apps and services and search enjoy too, so even if you buy their accounting tricks the development is paying for itself many times over.

It's a level of service above their payment processing, where they also collect and remit certain taxes which I believe is built-in to that ~8%. This is the same service that Google and Apple provide for in-app payments.

https://stripe.com/managed-payments

This is what Apple said about it:

> Stripe and Paddle are leading full-service, turnkey payment processing, and merchant-of-record providers handling all the services necessary for link-out, including payment processing, tax compliance, fraud detection, and customer service. Across the top apps, the mean implied processing and merchant-of-record fee based on Stripe’s and Paddle’s rack rates (which few, if any, large developers actually pay because they negotiate discounts or provision in-house) is 8.1% using Stripe rates, or 7.8% using Paddle rates.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

No matter how much we differ we all have a common set of needs, food, shelter, safety.

I think the other issue is that even if it's controllable, there's nobody representing us that is controlling it, except theoretically regulators who are facing an uphill battle to bring accountability and limits to these companies.

Google is not developing Android for the IAP fees, they're doing it to sell phones loaded with their search, advertising, browser and services. They take hundreds of billions in revenue annually from this, they are being paid several times over for that work even if they get no IAP fees.

Apple recently submitted in court filings that you'd have to pay ~8% for off-the-shelf solutions like Stripe or Paddle to be Merchant of Record anyway so 15% isn't really bad except for the high-earning apps, but Google should be doing something for that extra 7%.

I think that still matches "an adversary may sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function".

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-cybersecurity-ad-tr...

> The U.S. military has disabled advertising tracking tools in government-issued phones, computers and other devices, officials recently told Congress.

> The different military branches confirmed they had done so, some only this summer, following reporting that commercially available data taken from these devices and sold freely by data brokers, was being used by Iran and other adversaries to track and in some cases target American bases and personnel.

> so as to surveil

How does Android and iPhone meet the grade given apps have pretty consistently leaked locations, base layouts etc?

I really like to use GitHub's Copilot for my coding sessions, it means I manually write enough to shape the files and software the way I want and only ingest 10-20 lines at a time so I stay on top of everything that is produced. This is faster than I was before and it's cheap and doesn't sacrifice quality so to me it is a good combination.

It wouldn't have died - most apps are still just a thin UI over a corresponding online service, and most of the data and services proprietary APIs provide ended up achievable in a browser too. It is really just the internet that makes apps and smartphones useful.

All apps really offered was a way to gatekeep payments in games that groom impulsive spending habits, they just happened to start making very serious money on Facebook right about the moment Jobs changed his mind.

(another iOS derivative)

The last Intel Mac was actually just 3 years ago!

The last 20 years we've only seen Apple enjoying the good times. What they did when the money was gushing in from every angle is not really an indicator of what they'll do in the hard times. We're getting into the hard times now, IAP revenue is plummeting because of competition for payments and a whole bag of things are impacting consumer purchase behavior.

This has resulted in positive outcomes like services have largely gone global this last quarter but it's also resulted in negatives like more ads and service price increases in many countries.