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I did not say "mouse" anywhere, I think you might be mistaking your own comments as my own.

And, no. This is 100% Apple hardware and software. I am using Apple's trackpad, built into one of the most recent Apple laptops, using the latest Apple desktop OS.

I am describing only the behavior of the "text" button and not of text fields, yes.

You see this pattern a lot around Apple users where they insist there simply can't be bugs in Apple software. It's really counterproductive and it's part of the "crazymaking" element of interacting with Apple software and Apple's fanbase.

There should be nothing "wrong" I can do which makes text disappear which can't be undone, or where the click-and-drag targets are as tiny as can be.

The program is buggy. Apple releases bad software sometimes. That is simply all there is to it.

This person listed many tangible reasons hosting is not doable.

If you have no open parking spots and no public transit to your place, then you are not hosting people except those who are within a walkable route.

Yesterday, I tried to fill out a PDF on a MacOS laptop. It was very rough.

I've been a longtime Linux user, but one of the nice things about MacOS is that it comes out of the box with software for common file formats. I remember being a bit happy to skip the step where I search "best pdf editor linux".

This was true in 2022, when I started using MacOS. Around that time, people were complaining about a battery icon that was too skeumorphic or something, which is so trite in comparison to the avalanche of problems today.

But, geeze, it's rough to edit a PDF on MacOS today. The built-in PDF editor has a weird flow to add text (rather than clicking where you want to place the text, you click a button which summons a box with the text "Text" in an arbitrary position on your PDF). You have to click and drag the Text textbox to the position you want it to be in.

Every part of the UI is broken, though. You have to discover this by clicking (all icons, no text), you have to move the textbox by finding the 1px wide click-and-drag target (on a high-DPI display!), and sometimes, the text simply disappears and deletes itself, in a way no amount of cmd+Z (undo) can fix.

It's very frustrating and crazy-making, but the amount of time it took to fill out one page of a PDF precludes me from wanting to take the effort to document it in this way.

So, I very very much appreciate this author for sharing a few of the million papercuts of MacOS. It is really hard to imagine someone being proud of putting this product out.

No, this is not true for me.

As a side note, the Apple Watch changes have completely made Camera Remote unusable for me, a feature I loved.

I don't know why, but I usually can only get Camera Remote to work when I close all of the recent apps on my Apple Watch, even when my watch and phone were the newest ones Apple released. Probably a bug with memory management they're never going to fix. Now, that's not possible, even when I reboot my watch :(

Our experiences diverge surprisingly far. The new Siri was worse for everything I use it for before I turned it off.

The new Siri can not reliably return the weather (it seems it's prompting on the literal text of the town and asks for a clarification sometimes about whether I am in the United States or United Kingdom), and when I ask "what is the air quality index", the new Siri would sometimes return the definition of AQI. When it returns a value, new Siri would hallucinate an incorrect and fixed value. In the cases where it does work, it's very much slower than the classic "rainbow orb" Siri.

I'm not sure what configuration you have, but this does not send requests to Siri a-la the "cmd-cmd <type to siri>" flow.

Yep, exact same experience here. ZuckOff is paying to rank above NearbyGlasses.

I think these concerns are on topic, given the larger concern is about how bad actors can wield technology for profitable surveillance.

There is precedent among English speakers for "dub" or "dubya".

George W. Bush is something referred to as "dubya", for the "W" part. And modern slang "W" or "dubs" as shorthand for "win".

"Dubya" fits in the ABC song just as well as double-you, while "dubs" can fit as "dubs and X, Y and Z".

You might have better luck with NPR, they assure me that they read every email.

This sounds like speculation based on a few viral instances. Can you provide any sources? The moon problem you're describing was attributed to a 2023 Samsung, which was using neural upscaling. Can you provide a source describing this for this specific model (Huawei Pura 80 Ultra)?

Computational photography isn't just the smoke-and-mirrors of AI upscaling faking information. You really can get around the limitations of physics on a traditional lens with non-generative computational photography techniques, incorporating real information, like the time-series data over the length of an exposure, the data from other sensors like the accelerometer or lidar, or data from an array of lenses (as others have pointed out).

Even without those tricks, the Pura 80 Ultra specifically uses a much larger camera sensor than most phones.

This is a BBC article about the UK being at war. Not the USA.

That said, it argues that the various pre-war preparations fail to include "psychological preparedness". I think this is largely true for America as well, since war is something that the USA almost exclusively engages in offensively in distant countries, with only one small exception for one day on 9/11.

I want to stress this isn't something I measured. There are just these noticeable lags before the sigmoidal animation starts when, e.g. opening a folder.

It's on top of the latency inherent to the animations of sliding, wiggling, wobbling, jiggling, etc. that are throughout the interface. ~100ms on top of a ~600ms input-blocking sigmoid probably just looks like a 700ms sigmoid to people.

Just anecdotally, increasing the blur seems to have an associated performance cost, especially in Springboard ("the home screen".) It's probably only ~100ms for each interaction, so it probably won't impact latency-insensitive users.

As others have said, it helps with the legibility but Liquid Glass is still distracting and illegible. I share the wish that Apple eventually returns to a more sensible, legible UI.

Yep; this has been the case since the very first iPhone, it can't be disabled, and there is no feedback it happens other than the typos. It is very crazy making and mind boggling.

Yes, I am talking about working professionals who use LLMs. Before this thread, I would have considered it surprisingly and singularly naïve if someone told me they trusted OpenAI. I still believe the common and correct take is that these companies are largely training on customer data against their consent.

I don't think they are "blatantly" lying either, just normal bog-standard lying that we've all come to accept. It's a profitable and competitive tech company.

We have already seen this lying. The toggles are opt-out, not opt-in. When you sign up, you agree to binding arbitration, which is effective for preventing lawsuits in the US. The toggles are regularly turned back on without our consent on ChatGPT and Claude. OpenAI's "don't train on my content" setting isn't even in the ChatGPT interface.

As far as I know, they haven't suffered even a tiny controversy in public opinion over any of this at all.

There's nothing to whistleblow about when it's public knowledge.

How many of the people who checked those boxes have cryptographic proof they did it? How many of those people have opted out of the arbitration clause? How many of those people would be able to claim damages? Would the amount of people who satisfy all three questions be large enough to make it worth _not_ training on user data?

The impression I have (from interacting with people IRL using OpenAI and Anthropics offerings, and how they feel about the risks involved) is just the opposite. But we probably just have different life experiences.

I don't have any much exposure to the attitudes people have around them, and I haven't worked with them. So I can't really say

I thought this was commonly accepted to be the case that companies which sell access to LLMs are also storing and training on the inputs?

I don't mean this as rhetoric, I did not think many people (except possibly those operating under government contracts, and 'normies' who don't know about these things) were under the belief that their IP was kept secret when they use these services.

I organize mine into roughly three boxes by how common they are.

One for every-day cables (like USB C), one for the stranger cables (like USB-B 3), and one for the one-offs (like a Nintendo DS cable).

It's the easiest to actually keep organized and it's easy to find what I need.

Think about it as 25% who disagree to only 11. Less than half of the people who thought corruption is not widespread still think so. Further, the US is now the #1 ranked country in corruption.

I think it's more useful to think about the closed operations on the 0% to 100% range. A change of ~75% to 89% does not seem like much, but "only an 18% increase" is not a closed operation, so it's not so meaningful. You'll see this in machine learning, e.g. 70% accuracy to 75% accuracy is not as impressive as 98% to 99%, despite having a larger change.

Yep, this is the reason I chose a Kobo.

Yep. First time I saw this idea was Animal Crossing: Wild Word's "rolling log" effect in 2005, albeit in reverse. (So you get a top-down view and a horizon view at the same time). Second time I saw this specific idea was a Minecraft vertex shader in 2013 with the "Acid Shaders" vertex transform shaders.

Right? It's really concerning how much traction "ZOG" seems to be getting.

It's literally true that most of the US government is Zionist. But "Zionist-Occupied Government" is an antisemitic conspiracy theory used by white supremacists with specific and incorrect beliefs about how Zionism works in the US and how it formed into what we're all facing today.

At least flat-earthers get a useful locally-true approximation of the shape of the Earth from their conspiracy theory.

I'm an ML developer and researcher and I left X. A lot of us did and do believe neural networks can provide utility for humanity.

There's just a lot of money in drinking the AGI LLM VC WN koolaid. Not everyone has drank that koolaid.

As others have said, this is broken in some contexts too. I also get blocked by a popup on mobile.

I only get "See this post in the app" with "Use the app to view all comments and discover more posts." with only an "Open X" button in that dialogue.

There is no button to disable this. I can only see the text by using "Page Zoom" buttons on my phone, so it's really not worth it.

For one of the big use cases, you can look at the NCMEC's reports-by-ESP numbers.

For example, X has 816K and X AI has 135K reports. Reddit, despite having 200M (36%) more MAU, only has 65K reports. OpenAI, despite having about 8x MAU than X.ai, has 182K reports.

I think we should leave this kind of argument for schoolchildren denigrating one another and for the deranged people who will dole out verbal abuse to defend their favorite platforms and/or CEOs.

This is not one of "those situations".

There is no American social media with more than 10,000 users that is not heavily censored.