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fennecbutt

864 karma · joined July 17, 2016

I am the marmite and the marmite is me.
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fennecbutt··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
It should be fairly obvious.
fennecbutt··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
No, we're creating value for the shareholders.
fennecbutt··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
So you agree then that Samsung paying Apple $539m for the rounded corners dispute was wrong? And that rounded corners "aren't worth that much money".
fennecbutt··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
Apple's "taptic engine" is just a linear actuator aka solenoid and it has been done before.

Apple's "liquid retina display" is just LG/Sharp/Etc IPS LCD - aka what they should be called, just like everyone does. None of this "magical Apple words" to make it sound like their own tech.

fennecbutt··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
Apple good. Other ba-aa-aa-d.
fennecbutt··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
For the same reason that "rounded corners" was patentable I guess. Now all things being equal of course Apple should pay as Samsung has in the past.
fennecbutt··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
Well, I'm the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. :3
fennecbutt··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
With no contrast that's a little disingenuous. https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2025-full-year-euro...
fennecbutt··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
15-20 minute charging station run*

Depending on charger power. The new Renault 5 comes in at 52kwh, 100kw charging, that's just over half an hour for a true zero to hero charge, unrealistic because they pretty much never run to 0.

And many support 150kw and over now. Some hyundais and others do 350!

So still, a nonissue. If someone pointed out that you can transport extra fuel in a jerry can then that's valid. If you're crossing Nairobi desert or something.

fennecbutt··on What even is an OS now?
I mean, everything should eh sandboxed imo. Even OS included software.

Problem with sandboxes is that it doesn't solve the "user who doesn't know or care" problem.

If you have to give access to particular files to an app, your average user will just give access to all. Someone installing tiktok doesn't look at the permissions...

The best thing would be for apps to operate on their own copy of a file regardless. But that doesn't stop bad apps from leaking importsnt files. Unless files can be signed as being for x thing requiring y special permissions as granted by the originator and not the user.

The crowd on here we can't to be able to truly own our devices. But I think for the safety of the average person they should be locked down by default, same as dev mode on android devices where you accept liability for doing silly things.

fennecbutt··on What even is an OS now?
I disagree. Basic etc still required effort.

In my opinion, an OS that hosts a local agent can produce things for you on the fly in response to a particular task in addition to the baseline set of features.

Too often have I ran into "you can't do that" in operating systems, especially Macos where you either have to buy a paid app to implement what they should have already, or what you want is niche enough that you have to build it yourself.

Plus and agent can operate across your hardware including the cloud. I could ask something like "graphics cards are expensive and always out of stock so when some pop up can you notify me and show me the price etc" and then receive a rich alert on whatever device I happen to be using at the time it happens, once agents are aware of where we are and what we're doing (yes, it will be pretty dystopian with current governments and the drooling animals who vote for tribalism).

Or being able to be like "I want my photo gallery to show animated thumbnails when I've taken a series of photos of the same subject. Oh, little bit slower like one every second thanks" boom done.

And much UI will becomes defunct in the first place, UI only exists because of many annoying discrete steps we have to do to get something done. If I can just ask an agent to do the thing I want then I don't care about that.

It's like how I only need to make a PowerPoint now and then and every time I open it I've completely forgotten where all of the stupid fucking buttons are in the stupid fucking ribbon bullshit they made.

fennecbutt··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
3.5kw*12=42kwh. That's like half the capacity of a fairly decent range EV.

How many people are really driving 240~ miles per day? Practically nobody...that's like 3.5 hours at motorway speeds.

Inb4 the typical response of "every American commutes 99999 miles per day!!!"

Charging at 1kw at home would be perfectly fine for average use cases.

fennecbutt··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
It is cute that because they were trained on human output that their exclamations are quite like human output.
fennecbutt··on Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
Lmao no. First press games are a scammer company based in Germany. I reported them to the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband...nothing.

I reported them to the UKICC and got a reply after like 7 months asking for more information (I'd given them plenty) and that they were very busy and it would probably take another year to look at it. I told them not to bother.

fennecbutt··on Burnham must be clear: no slavery reparations will be paid
I agree that it shouldn't be paid. What connection do people today really have to those things back then? Sure, it could be claimed that it allowed certain groups to get ahead of others but it would be difficult to prove that; there have always been poor white families too.

And what about reparations for the rest of us? Where's my cash for being a gay man whose kind were historically killed, tortured, imprisoned, repressed, denied job and other opportunities? You know, WWII reparations also excluded the pink triangles. Hell we couldn't even get married in Western countries for the longest time and some of the most vocal opposition groups were other minorities.

So I think this whole thing is a load of shit, personally. I wouldn't hold someone born in 1990s accountable for how gays were treated in 1800s, only in modern times.

fennecbutt··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
That's a very closed definition of grieving. So by your definition a future perfectly simulated human brain cannot grieve because no chemicals are involved?

Lmao.

fennecbutt··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
You don't even need quantum imo.

On a personal meatbag level emotions are magical and something ineffable.

From a scientific stance, chemical make brain go happy or sad and there's nothing special or magical about that. Every emotion we feel is because it was evolutionarily valuable for us to do so.

fennecbutt··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
Well most likely consensual noncon given the amount of vetting present in that chart. It's surprisingly common in women, or just a desire for general "gentle roughness".

And idk why it's really worth mentioning anyway, as a gay furry I suppose vanilla normie straights are STILL hung up on what people do with their sex lives. As long as it's legal and consensual who gaf? Y'all, apparently.

fennecbutt··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
Ah, you've been downvoted by the holier than thou "nyeeeh!" crowd.

You are correct though, especially fast food places using air brushed and photoshopped food photos are the inedible food object has been carefully set up.

And no amount of petty votes will change the above.

fennecbutt··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Think of it like a paper. You wouldn't ask why a paper was so long.

Also you can now ask AI to summarise it for you and even probe with questions pertaining to your specific interests.

fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Okay, now use preview editor to add text...with an outline colour. ;)
fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Are you serious. As a left handed person apparently I'm like a witch or something and can't use Apple's folding phone anyway.

You call that perfect?

And by your logic where do you draw the line. Apple do not have control over TSMC's internal processes. Or Samsung who make the display for them. So your statements reek of culty faff than objective truths.

fennecbutt··on How my e-reader lost its stripes
The author never intended their article as a review. So why not look up "xteink x3 review"?

You're on HN ffs...

fennecbutt··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Lmao, pop music.
fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
"Designed" is a stretch here, lmao.
fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Why, the users will blame anyone but Apple, of course.
fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
So basically do what they have always done for decades?

Apple Intelligence was an outlier in how they historically operate. I mean they literally just put out a folding phone after waiting what, a decade, for others to perfect it first.

fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Yes, it's very Gibson.

That's what I was hoping for with Taalas, ultimately ending up with a microsd-ish card that's hot swappable intelligence.

fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Tbf that's where many of the phones stolen by muggers in western countries ultimately end up.
fennecbutt··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Well, plus a generally technologically illiterate customerbase who believe the time Apple did something was the first time it's ever been done.
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