infotainment

Of course they would want this -- as long as the OS reports that the user is over 18 via such a system, then Meta is legally off the hook for any COPPA violations.

Wow, this is literally the plot of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney video games. I'm sure it will go great with no downsides.

That, above all else, is likely why no one tried to topple them before they were able to develop nuclear weapons.

Elon himself is indeed questionable, but you really can't argue with his space-related achievements. Even other eccentric billionaires like Bezos haven't come close.

Unfortunate, but the inevitable consequence of granting the kinds of powers that DHS was given.

(AnkiDroid has always been run independently, which is good, considering the state of the iOS client, which has always been neglected.)

To me, it feels like a data description language that someone discovered could be tricked into performing computation.

If, every time you powered on the phone, you knew you were draining from its finite battery life? I would probably think twice before doing any kind of software updates at least!

Recently, EU pressure might mean that Apple will open that ability up to non-Apple watches as well.

Local based AI features are great and I wish they were used more often, instead of just offloading everything to cloud services with questionable privacy.

I do wish they’d gone for a classier serif though; Garamond was right there.

A weird disposable(!) voice recorder ring seems to go against pretty much all of the “open and repairable” image that the Pebble brand has been cultivating.

This product should probably have been “Core” branded and kept on a different website entirely. Its very existence seems kind of toxic to the Pebble brand, IMO.

- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library.

- Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"

- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu

- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

It seems pretty harmless really.

I understand some people feel that AI is overhyped and don't particularly like it, but this level of weird knee-jerk "anything AI is the devil incarnate" response is just as ridiculous, IMO.

From what they posted, it seems like they wanted more control over what Core was doing, deciding that the best way to do that was to try and hold the app store data hostage.

Now, with the Core app open sourced and multiple app store repos supported, Rebble's position will likely be greatly diminished from what it could have been if they had been satisfied with what they had. I guess in the end though, the outcome was a net win for everyone (fully open source apps), so it works out.

1. Someone who is totally nonverbal and effectively unable to function in society

2. Someone who is kind of socially awkward

...then maybe it's time to come up with a new labeling system. ("Autism" in the context of vaccines usually is implicitly referring exclusively to [1])

Keep in mind that this is their goal statement (straight from their FAQ):

> Our goal is to maintain and advance Pebble functionality, in the absence of Pebble Technology Corp.

Eric's new company, by effectively re-creating Pebble Technology Corp, is an existential threat to that mission: If there is someone else maintaining and advancing Pebble functionality, then what is the purpose of Rebble? It does seem unfortunate though -- I hope they can all work something out.

Thankfully, the next release (Lion) brought back the old layout algorithm.

> Problems like traffic waves and gridlock go away when all cars are driving themselves.

How would that make those problems go away? It could probably slightly alleviate them in marginal cases, but any given road has a finite throughput limitation, and once it is reached, it wouldn't matter even if every robo-driver were perfectly synchronized.