herbturbo

I went ad-free on IG by no longer using it. FB ruined that product.

> Based on the rate of progress alone I would expect functional vision-only self-driving to be very close.

So close yet so far, which is ironically the problem vision based self-driving has. No concrete information just a guess based on the simplest surface data.

In 2016 Musk said you’d be able to drive from LA to NYC without touching the steering wheel once “within 2 years”. He’s been making untrue statements about Tesla FSD for a decade.

4. America is a giant land mass and Americans want 500 miles of range when most countries are ok with 200.

Yes FB was all about HTML 5 and didn’t adopt native mobile until around 2012.

He was just buying users of popular products in lieu of attracting new ones to his own.

Meta has subsequently ruined IG and seems busy working up new ways to ruin WhatsApp.

Yes tricking a bank into thinking you are one of their customers is not the same as assuming someone else’s identity.

He also made Silicon Valley.

Yes especially given that XP was the most useable version of Windows ever. They just threw it all away and expected people to relearn the basics of interacting with their PC.

The poacher

Yeah I used to drink in there about 25 years ago - and then go and have curry and chips at George & Niki’s over the road on Parkway.

“I voted Conservative”

If you’re a fan of Withnail then this watch-along with Bruce Robinson is worth your time.

https://youtu.be/d4rZDnRXIkg?si=lzEBJwrmYoFXWRjB

Bruce Robinson wrote most of Withnail in the Spread Eagle at the end of Albert St.

Real music comes from the soul.

It wasn’t scraped from the open web though was it?

Because you what you listened to was actively offered to you by its creator, and you paid for it, or you were supposed to.

You would also only hear the songs you had discovered or had been introduced to, at the speed they were meant to be listened to. The music would also often be part of a scene that might include different underlying philosophies or associated fashion.

Your new music would be the outcome of all of those individual musical experiences, coupled with your creative and technical ability.

None of that is true for AI. It has just harvested everything without anyone’s permission and now makes artless slop from it for anyone who wants it 24/7.

I personally don’t see why AI companies should be allowed to hold on to any of the “progress” that came from theft of intellectual property.

I think you’re spot on here. What has been lost at Apple is Steve Jobs’ product mindset.

So every other iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook Air, AirPods and the Watch were not useful because of one bendy phone and a bad keyboard? What great feat of design did Tim Cook bring us?

Yes this does remind me of the old spam wars of early 2000s. Back then collaborative block lists were useful to reject senders at IP level before using a Bayesian system on the message itself.

Even though these bots are using different IPs with each request, that IP may be reused for a different website, and donating those IPs to a central system could help identify entire subnets to block.

Another trick was “tar-pitting” suspect senders (browser agent for example) to slow their message down and delay their process.

Thank VCs who only exist to find a unicorn to keep their LPs investing so they can charge their 2 and 20.

You are wrong about cars. There are many automakers who absolutely care about safety, particularly in Germany, where even the slightest possibility of safety concerns can end an initiative.

Not everyone is following the China model.

This golfer looks familiar

https://stockcake.com/i/golf-swing-action_436349_576163

The fast pace comes from product deciding there should be 5 different types of “like” button and goofy AI “takeaways” functionality.

LinkedIn is a solved problem but you can’t have that any more.

The person on the plane in the WWDC vid had airpods in. I guess they pair.

Most articles I've seen have echoed this sentiment, often conflating VR and AR as they go off about Meta and such. I guess with regards to the average consumer they are right about it being overpriced for what it does, but that feels shortsighted.

My view is that this Vision Pro is aimed at exactly that - pros who are going to find and develop creative uses for it. Those people will spend the money just to experience next-gen technology. I know I will. If that produces a big ecosystem of new apps and products then Apple can continue developing the cheaper Vision Air or whatever and sell that to consumers.

It seems to me Apple has made a nice step forwards in making this technology something I'd want to use. That might put me in the minority, but I don't think a lot of people got the Mac right away either.

Last week I needed to write a bash script that (among other things) parsed the text inside two square brackets that may or may not be in a given string. I rarely write bash or use regex, so it would probably have taken me 1/2 hr to an hour of Google searches like "how to reference capture group in regex bash".

ChatGPT did it for me in about 3 minutes. I was intrigued so I asked it to write Swift code to RSA256 encrypt and then decrypt a string. It did that in about 30s. I told my colleagues and someone joked "ask it to do my HealthKit integration haha". I did, and it did. Not perfectly, but instructively.

Yeah there is a lot of noisy hype around this, but for me it's already shown itself capable of massively improving my productivity.

Interesting but in the Apple case you'd need a cast of your intended victims face or finger to even attempt this attack.

It's easy to use a mask (or occlusion) to prevent a system from detecting your real face, but spoofing a specific person's face is a much bigger task. Any decent modern face rec system is going to use liveness detection as part of its analysis.

Most of those metrics can be gathered by off the shelf analytics SDKs. Not hardware IDs though. If they are doing that on iOS they are certainly violating a number of rules.

The proxy server is disturbing if true. Only reason I could think of that being necessary would be to use customer devices to perform distributed transcoding of other people's videos. Can't imagine that being something Apple would allow.