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yborg··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Customers don't, but Apple does because it drives the hardware upgrade cycle.
yborg··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
No, the very top. Nadella has been driving this directly, he was going to get there first, shock & awe, etc. Maybe this would have worked if Microsoft cared about customer experience as much as it cares about customer lock-in.
yborg··on I said no and Apple said yes
>Concerned about what Apple AI is collecting so I'll dump it all into another corporate AI to find out what it is

We've finally achieved AI Inception here. And I'm sadly sure we're going to go deeper.

yborg··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
The first jailbreak for iOS was available within six months of the original iPhone release, I'm not sure why you think this particular exploit "shattered" a reputation that hadn't existed for 15+ years.
yborg··on Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
"Guess what everyone, our AI can go rogue, TOO!"

It's just getting really embarrassing for Google at this point.

yborg··on Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
More like following the Computer Associates model, a tale as old as time. Find a mature platform with a captive user population with a fat, lazy management team, buy them out, slash headcount, and open the taps. Someone in the thread mentioned Atlassian, that is a perfect target for this kind of strategy.
yborg··on iPhone Duo
>everyone is the same as me
yborg··on iPhone Duo
You could just get the Magsafe battery though.
yborg··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
This strain of nihilism about anti-bot efforts baffles me. Cloudflare built a gigantic business on stopping DDoS attacks. There will never be good faith self-restraint by AI bros, there is too much money at stake and no regulation, doing nothing means your only alternative is disconnect from the Internet. Anubis introduces enough friction that some percentage of the lunacy is throttled and possibly give your server a fighting chance.
yborg··on Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain
All you had to do was to identify this as AI authored since it was going to be obvious anyway. Still valuable to have someone post the write-up.
yborg··on Ending my elixir exploratory writing
That's not what he's saying. He was doing this writing to communicate with other human beings, and that since that seems seemingly has died off in his community there isn't much point in continuing that.

It's great that there are people that enjoy being a training bot for a corporate product, but some people still want to talk to other people. And if a system ever becomes an AGI, I am fairly sure it will no longer need any human input, so our days as training bots are likely numbered. Enjoy it while you can I guess.

yborg··on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
>I find the title forcing the conclusion a bit

The entire article is AI-generated.I wish such sources would include the prompting used as well as the model so a (human) reader can better evaluate the document.

yborg··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Wasn’t Huang the guy who said your $500K employee should burn at least half his salary on tokens? I don’t think Nvidia is focused on cost-effective general computing for anybody.
yborg··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Unless upstream introduces breaking changes I don't see why not. Google was killing this functionality for policy reasons, not because changes to the renderer required it or something. And LLM analysis is going to make maintaining forks easier going forward.
yborg··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google once again seems to have fallen into the pit of its own bureaucracy, even OpenAI looks competent by comparison.
yborg··on Fastmail offers EU data region
Your linked information doesn't indicate anywhere that Australia or any other foreign government is subject to US law. The latter states that negotiation with the EU on this topic was suspended in 2019.

Things have changed. With Chinese law in regards to data within Chinese jurisdiction a long-standing thing and an unfriendly American government potentially in power for an extended period, other countries are realizing the importance of data sovereignty.

yborg··on Online Friends Are Real Friends
The OP article talks about people met online who they subsequently met and hung out with in person. To me, this is now an meatspace friendship, so yeah, it's "real".

Pure online relationships where you have never met or seen the other person are in my experience an order of magnitude less "real". As you note, there's no 'skin in the game' and ghosting a relationship is zero effort and likely zero consequences, and when everyone knows this is the case the relationships are equally less consequential.

yborg··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
You'd have to look at their profit numbers. They have a huge captive base of customers, like Adobe it might take decades for things to get bad enough and alternatives to arise before their profitability is impacted. And the executives who benefit will have cashed out long before then.
yborg··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
By this logic the Chinese should have just given up and let the American AI companies have the market because they were so far behind. I'm sure Europe has the capability to distill other people's frontier models to catch up if they wish to do so.
yborg··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
On mine, it's both!
yborg··on Neutrino-1 8B
Largely outperformed by Ternary-Bonsai-8B by their own chart, doesn't seem clear what their special sauce is here.
yborg··on Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
Why not name the sellers?
yborg··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
I wonder when the use of 'culminate', v. "reach a climax or point of highest development" for "cease to be effective" became the standard in military-related writing when trying to sound smart. The original usage in the specific context of an army's advance or offensive coming to an end made some sense but it's now used as basically a wordy synonym for "stops" in any context.
yborg··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
The HN optimizing T-shirt compiler is the next stage here :D
yborg··on The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley
It has to make money. The Space Shuttle was a technical marvel as well and was massively subsidized by the US taxpayer.
yborg··on Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban
This will free manufacturers to build supersonic private jets for the superwealthy to cruise over flyover America. With normal steerage air travel becoming increasingly unaffordable for the average person, I can't see airlines buying supersonic airliners given fuel costs, they couldn't fill them for what they would have to charge.
yborg··on Agentic Mfw
It's AI. Telling a model to shitpost really isn't very interesting since that's pretty much half of everything on the internets and there was practically infinite training material.
yborg··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
This actually isn't that far-fetched, once Microsoft saw that the bundled competing suite went subscription, they were free to drop their "perpetual" support.

I would occasionally see the standalone MS for Mac on sale for ~$30 and considered getting a copy just in case I needed it for some compatibility reason, but I just knew there was a catch. So I just kept running Libre. Glad I didn't waste the money.

yborg··on Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard
Feel like there should be a K-drama about that deer lol.
yborg··on Google Declaring War on the Web
There won't be "websites" anymore, it will all just be Google. Other behemoths that generate original content (that aren't AI) like sports, news, entertainment will either be big enough to sign individual deals on pain of litigation or just force-scraped (as is happening now) by bots that are indistinguishable from human users.
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