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This is advertising 2024 style and very dangerous…

For me it’s not about it being News Corp thats the biggest problem here.

It’s that OpenAI simply, openly promotes one corporation / sources of content over others in their results / training. Maybe they gave them most likely a pile of money to make that happen. Or that they didn’t do it for any other bias than they liked their content. I don’t know.

Regardless, the fact a company with such power over text actively says they’ll promote certain content over others means that whatever trust can be placed in these LLMs now needs to be “officially” measured against sponsored results.

This is all great and everything but when will enterprise customers like me see it? I’ve still my M1 Max on back order since February because “Apple is experiencing supply issues and prioritises consumer and education ahead of enterprise”

The M2 Max will be with us when my Mac finally ships…

Gonna get some hate of course but where’s SAP here? SaaS, private cloud in Rot, BW, Germany, and stringent data privacy as it’s a German company. Executes entirely under GDPR, ticks every of the boxes.

Europe’s biggest software company, never mentioned…

SAP Inscribe took this idea further a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kICnfrqOizw

>> And it's now being employed as a "whatabout" distortion by those sympathetic to (or uncritical of) the Belarusian action.

You've made a huge assumption there, and characterisation, and that's exactly the problem. I and many others are not sympathetic or uncritical of the action at all. I'm just critical of not having debate about the differences between this and other actions and removing the debate.

I'd say, yes, it was a civilian airliner. It affects more people. However to do it to a private jet too shows precedent to abandon international norms. Nobody being arrested is merely because Snowdon wasn't aboard. If he was, he'd have been arrested. And the diversion of any plane to an airspace where the arrest of someone on board can take place by a foreign power, is ultimately what is the issue here isn't it? And there are enough obvious parallels that at least we have the discussion, not just remove the discussion forthwith.

It's now flagged. A comment saying that the forced landing of the President of Bolvia's plane in Austria, due to the US belief that Snowdon was on board, could be somehow relevant to the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Belarus of someone the government believes is damaging them.

Free speech in action...

Not hard, but can read CNN here: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/02/world/americas/bolivia-pr...

The irony of using CNN as a cite though... :)

Ahh disagree! When your Mac goes wrong / displays aren’t working or connecting, it’s the only easy way to know the thing has actually rebooted. No lights, HDD clicking noise, nothing like in the olden days.

And also reduced our basic freedom, our economies, and placed millions into poverty.

Covid isn’t a good example of a sustainable balancing of the environment over human activity.

Considering their argument of charging 30% is of course not a lock-in tax but to provide a quality service for both customers and developers, this is particularly harmful to that argument.

But life will go on as it does, and 30% will continue to be banked...

You know what’s impressed me software wise has been Microsoft on Mac.

For home office I pretty much use their software constantly: Office 365, Teams, SharePoint, VSCode, and it’s not just rock solid, but pretty enjoyable as it is rock solidly integrated together.

Would never have thought I’d say MSFT having rock solid anything, nevermind on a Mac, but credit where it’s due.

I see this is sponsored by SAP. Is it integrated with their existing RPA offerings?

Surprised why so many people are surprised. Digital services and platforms are booming in this current climate. We have no choice but to be consuming content.

App downloads (30% thank you very much), Apple TV+ ($10 a month thank you very much), Apple Music...the list goes on. That list, apart from TV+ specials, is just revenue on the backs of other work. Others taking advantage of lockdown to product more content. Which makes these companies more and more without lifting a finger. And the Apple TV specials are short change. Just drive growth.

Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, remote tools like Mural and Zoom, all these digital platforms offering consumer and business services are king right now. Ad supported services are booming, the Facebooks, Googles, because we’re consuming more ads.

It’s the cash cow of the 2010s and 2020s. Corona is only accelerating that.

You just completely prove my point.

First there’s the “almost 100%” of scientists agree argument again. Sorry, that’s not a valid argument for saying something is true!

Second. Models aren’t proof. They’re models. Yes we can measure gas quantities and determine correlations. But we haven’t scientifically proven it. We’re dealing with chaotic systems. Until we can, we need to remain skeptical and open to other ideas. That’s my point. Not that it isn’t happening.

Third. Then you bring politics into it. Oh the 1% are funded by Big Oil. Oh and the 99% aren’t funded by politically motivated players either? See point (1), scientific fact isn’t determined by who agrees with it or not. Until it’s proven, it may be unproven.

And fourth. Flat earth, again, the relationship to climate deniers...you don’t need scientists to agree the world isn’t flat. It’s proven. Scientifically. See the difference?

Thanks for eloquently providing examples to exactly what I was saying

What a way to show a lack of respect and kudos to a group doing good for everyone. Your copy hurts many things JohnWheeler...

Science isn’t consensus! Proof isn’t determined by “very nearly 100% of scientists agree”. Just ask Copernicus.

We don’t vote on scientific proof. Yes evidence leads us to believe climate change is happening, but why and predicting it’s trajectory and effect should be met with scientific standards not scaremongering and “CLIMATE DENIER” hyperbole.

If the pursuit of scientific rigour and fact has taught us anything over our history it’s that skepticism and challenging the status quo is necessary and should be welcomed. In today’s climate debate it it’s nothing but derided.

Science and proof is not based on consensus. It’s not a vote. A best bet. Until then we should of course act towards the most probable act and cause but remain healthy in our skepticism of the effect of global warming and our faith in computer modeling of inherently chaotic systems.

When you have your OS set to dark mode and a site blinds you with it’s whiteness...you see the total UX fail. UX is about the U. If they’ve specified I want things black on contrast, then support it. Because they expect it. Post shows how feasible it is...and users, the U, will respect you for it and keep coming back.

Otherwise your first impression is simply blinding and not in a positive way

Mercedes is a brand actually owned by Daimler AG...Daimler being the dude who had a daughter called Mercedes...

In Germany both are known. Daimler the business, Mercedes the car...

Kinda Apple and iPhone...then Mac (aka Mercedes Benz Trucks?!)

The No Agenda podcast from Adam Curry and John C Dvorak have seemingly successfully worked this model. No adverts, but donation only. Of course many listen to free, but creating producers out of those who donate and giving them credits and shout outs has built an interesting community.

What doesn’t work is to cut your prime value out just to those who pay. Then you can’t build momentum and the large fan base.

Made me laugh about “Dad configured a boot entry”...I remember the hours with my Dad trying to stuff whatever device drivers into that 640K via Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. Got the CD-ROM running but damn if sound now doesn’t work. Those were the days trying to get Tie Fighter in my case to work.

Worse part was my Dad in his wisdom bought a family PC without a Pentium, but a Cyrix P166. Had zero floating point processing. Ran like a damn dog on any 3D game.

Any Brits out there might remember Time Computers. On every back page of any newspaper ever selling PoS computers with whatever subpar hardware they could cram into a big beige box ;-)

Sorry but just compare to an Auchan in France, or a normal Waitrose in the UK. Edeka is the closest but e.g. my Rewe doesn’t do Cilantro but Edeka does. Rewe does fresh chilled soup, Edeka doesn’t.

And market food is ridiculously over priced. A zucchini flower costs 2 EUR. anything rare or slightly pimp costs a fortune in Germany. And normally isn’t fresh.

And yes, sausages and cheese are great and the best in Germany. But not every night. And I don’t want to “from scratch” cook everything.

Oh and if I forgot some tomatoes and realized on a Sunday? Tough. Nothing is open.

A friend of mine worked in retail and said of Germany...they tried to introduce “exotic” potato types rather than just “for mash”, “for fries”. No one would pay 1 EUR more for a nuttier tasting potato. That’s the German market. Gut und Günstig.

Sucks.

The problem is often cultural food (ie non German) quickly changes to the German palate. There was an incredible Indian restaurant opening here recently. We visited a few months later and it was half as good. Asked the owner: “yeah well, Germans like it not hot, salty, and fatty”. Same with Italian: it’s quantity over quality.

And the supermarkets are woeful. It’s hard even to get an “exotic” herb like cilantro often.

After living years in Germany I’d say, the Germans don’t love food for foods sake, unlike say the French, where it’s a passion.

Brit living in Germany here. I just bought a new home, and it came with Fiber to the Home. Great I thought! Then I tried to get connected...

I have zero choice of ISP: I had to first go to a small company who maintain my line, who then pointed me at another company for the contract.

Though rated at 1gbit, I can only get max 500mbit from my ISP, and then that costs a whooping 90 EUR a month, without any phone or TV service.

In the end I took 300mbit at just under 70 EUR a month. Happy enough here, Netflix is great in HDR, but the costs and choice are ridiculous even when you have full fiber in Germany...

I’ll no doubt be downvoted for this opinion...

But forget Trump: he is a colossal mistake and I think if anything proves my point further.

I really have an issue when science is “voted by majority” like the “97% of scientists agree that man made climate change is real”.

And “deniers” are shouted down.

Hasn’t history shown us from Copernicus onward that proof is proof and until then we engage in healthy debate and don’t demonise the minority?

This lack of debate and shout down MAKES me suspicious and skeptical.

Since when is science a vote? A majority rules? It’s always based on proof.

Until then I say of course we say it looks likely / evidence points towards man made climate change...but add in a healthy dose of “what else could it be?” Climate changes: let’s work on a scientific proof free from politics and emotion

Because otherwise we let morons like trump hijack this subtle point by saying: pfft, it’s bull. Let’s make more money and keep the status quo re: emissions.

Which then acts as a catalyst to undermine the act of physical reasoning which is to work towards an unequivocally proven model of the way nature works.

Just like Copernicus: he offered proof. Let’s work towards the same and advance climate science and our understanding of the Universe instead of voting in the IPCC...

Put on your tin foil hats, but think about it:

- BTC terrified the established finance community and governments as it upended the way currency traditionally operated. I.e. Controlled by the government and traditional finance community.

- it also stoked interest in the established financial community and governments. As always "hey we can make money with this ourselves" / "hey we can control this ourselves"

- infiltrate the community, promote a fork with far more institutional controls and structure

- naysayers and those not up for the new agenda: discredit and destroy that community. Deploy resources to make that happen, after all they have limitless resources.

Seems a pretty typical playbook...

Running is terrible for the lower back. Every time you stride you send shock waves up your legs that decompress in the lower spine.

I switched to elliptical training. As you don't lift your feet, impact free.

Swimming is also fantastic for the back of course.

Evidence: had a microdiscetomy 4 years ago, lots of rehab, and now pain free. Every doctor said don't run!

For all it's bloat and crappiness one thing that SAP provides is end to end process management. Want to process the bill with your banking provider and have that included in your tax returns automatically and plan the freeing of a bed with the emergency control room? Well SAP will do that (at a price and with consultancy). That's why SAP is what it is.

It works, but at a cost

Down vote all you want, but let's be honest. We here are nerds. We know the fundamentals of how the Internet works.

And cost occurs somewhere. This ain't all for free. There are electricity bills to pay, bandwidth with 3rd parties to pay for, and blades to physically source.

Video on demand is damn resource intensive. This isn't about delivering bytes which UTF-16 decoded speak about about a government. This isn't about delivering bytes which primarily educate. this is about Netflix n' Chill. It's about watching Modern Family on the commute home, and consumers loving it.

A lot of the cost for this love, especially in mobile, is paid for by the ISPs. They have to physically deliver this traffic to your device via nodes for $19.99 a month. And damn them if a loading spinner appears. "My Internets rubbish...I'm gonna switch to Acme Internet...they have free Netflix streaming."

So let's not lose focus: all software we write is for the end consumer...we need to create great, appreciated experiences for our users, otherwise they just unsubscribe.

T-Mobile is doing just that. This isn't a philisophical debate. It's about providing end users what they want. And they want Netflix on their mobile without costing them more. And lambasting T-Mobile for doing such is missing the entire constitution of the Internet.

Let them eat cake!

I said this in another comment, but I think the interesting aspect here is that this will be a gateway-to-computing device, just like the BBC Micro was of its time.

Sure, its not comparable in terms of richness or depth of a machine to the Micro, but then all schools have PCs now. Its just they're used for Office and learning how to be safe online. Not for coding.

Let's hope kids then start asking their teachers how to do more than blink some lights, and ask their teachers to learn how to build websites, apps etc. Then it'll be a success.