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by Gareth321 11d ago
Know what? They don't know that they can not listen to people? I don't believe that at all.
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by Gareth321 12d ago
> Apple proposed a solution to the EU after reportedly extensive talks and asked the EU if it would satisfy them. The EU said “build it then we’ll tell you”, which is crazy. This is what Apple claims and I don’t think you should believe
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by Gareth321 12d ago
This appears to be the current feature prototype intended for the EU and potentially China. Apple has chosen not to release the new Siri AI in the EU because our Digital Markets Act requires them to allow interoperability. I.e. that users b
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by Gareth321 12d ago
Possibly, but certainly the EU.
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by Gareth321 12d ago
I think this is their obvious strategy. What's not so obvious is that they'll succeed. Their share of consumer LLM users is around 27%. Their share of search engine users is above 91%. If current growth trajectory holds (which is
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by Gareth321 12d ago
It is, as you imply, poetic justice.
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by Gareth321 12d ago
25% market share after a few years is insane. If this growth continues, Google’s entire business model is under existential threat.
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by Gareth321 12d ago
While true, Google is particularly vulnerable to AI disrupting the traditional internet ad model. They have to figure out how to make AI profitable or Google will suffer catastrophic revenue, profit, and stock price declines in short orde
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by Gareth321 14d ago
The current social zeitgeist is that one is permanently responsible for everything they ever said, even has a child. All nuance is gone. People are looking for a reason to make someone the enemy, and if you're the enemy, violence is ac
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by Gareth321 16d ago
I'm close to blocking it at the router. That might break the habit.
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by Gareth321 16d ago
I'm having a real existential crisis over the internet and technology. On the one hand, LLMs are allowing me to build and explore and learn more than I have ever been able to do before. I'm a kid in a candy store. On the other han
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by Gareth321 16d ago
> I don't believe it. Photography was invented by non-Big Tech, and was widely popular and useful before Big Tech adopted it. Cameras were invented before big tech. Big tech took cameras and made them better and more ubiquitous. Mic
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by Gareth321 16d ago
I've been following Tesla communities and a common response to using FSD is that it makes people nicer drivers. Thousands of people admitting that they can be angry drivers. That they get frustrated in traffic and can take risks or b
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by Gareth321 16d ago
> I don't know where the negative comments are coming from. Maybe players who played early. It's the sandbox concept. Some people load into Minecraft and think, "AWESOME! I'M GOING TO BUILD A MALL!" Some people l
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by Gareth321 16d ago
I'm very close to selling my S10. I barely use it. All the features are sort of nice to have. The only one I really care about is heart rate monitoring during exercise and the AirPods Pro 3 do that.
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by Gareth321 16d ago
I just assume everything in public is audio/video recorded. In most places that's perfectly legal (with some exceptions). I don't think people should expect privacy in public. We faced the same panic about photographs when mo
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by Gareth321 17d ago
Honestly, I think most people just don't care as much about privacy as you and I. I have many friends who are perfectly aware of all of the security and privacy concerns re Facebook, and continue to use it because they just don't
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by Gareth321 17d ago
> I may be biased and somewhat off topic, but I see these incidents as some of the most significant of the past century. I genuinely don't understand why these companies aren't taking a smarter approach to them. Humans tend to
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by Gareth321 17d ago
> But now every consumer in the world can just ask a question or say “check all these prices and sites for a thing I want” and go do something else, right out of the box for free, and have thousands of page loads and site interactions fi
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by Gareth321 17d ago
Billions of people use Facebook regularly. It's a tiny minority of us who would not use a useful product because of privacy concerns. I think you are wrong. It's not they who are a "special kind of stupid." It is us who
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by Gareth321 18d ago
No, intelligence. We already have unlimited information (not to be confused with omniscience). The application thereof is the gate right now between today and planet-scale destructive weaponry. At some point it becomes an academic distincti
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by Gareth321 18d ago
I'll use a very specific example to explain my point, because I don't disagree with what you write: psychopaths. Psychopaths are 20x more prevalent among homicide offenders. Removing them from society would significantly reduce th
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by Gareth321 18d ago
While true, I'm not sure this is much better. There are many genetic traits which are correlated with increased criminality, risk taking, obesity, heart disease, unemployment, etc. IQ in particular is the most well correlated metric we
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by Gareth321 18d ago
It's not as bad as I thought/misremembered. $23/year here in Denmark, and $140/lifetime.
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by Gareth321 18d ago
> I don't see how dumb entity can align smart entity. And we are dumb ones. Super intelligence will play aligned until it is not, and then it'll strike. I am also worried about this. One ray of sunshine here is that it's n
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by Gareth321 18d ago
I second your Usenet recommendation. I also have the $3 deal which just rolls over each year.
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by Gareth321 18d ago
They're already banning certain questions and workflows in the frontier models, but you can usually work around it with well structured queries. The ablated ("cracked") local LLMs will do whatever you want.
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by Gareth321 18d ago
Crazy expensive though. It's basically a Plex subscription, just for the player.
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by Gareth321 18d ago
> As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my arr stack and it has helped tremendously. LLMs have been AMAZING for home server maintenance and improvements. I have completed SO many of my "some day&quo
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by Gareth321 18d ago
While true, the news here is the size of the unified RAM. Nvidia only exceeded 256GB RAM in the 2025 B300 - 288GB. The B300 alone (without the baseboard/PSU/chassis/wiring/CPUs/system RAM/etc) is at least 700

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