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by MBCook 23d ago
I read a post on Mastodon today about how Microsoft treated GPL things after Balmer was out and they were doing the “we love Linux” stuff. The point that matters here is the law doesn’t really matter if you can outspend your opponent by six
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by MBCook 23d ago
Apple has a long and contentious relationship with Qualcomm, and Qualcomm is big enough and important enough Apple couldn’t bully them into doing what they want. I think it makes a lot of sense for Apple to control their own destiny there.
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by MBCook 23d ago
I don’t see that as the biggest point. I really don’t have much interest in playing normal games in VR. I could see how a kid might want that on Quest when they don’t have their own TV. And it might be nice on a plane. But $1000 is a lot fo
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by MBCook 23d ago
> The DMA requires interoperability so it requires being able to swap out Siri - completely I fully agree. But Apple is not willing to do that, and I don’t blame them. I actually think they’re right on that one personally, even though it
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by MBCook 23d ago
No what I was trying to say is it’s not listening for anything it can sell ads against, it’s set to trigger on a specific word. The rest of the phone has no idea you’re talking until the processor recognizes the water word (possibly by mist
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by MBCook 23d ago
Has anyone made multi-story manufactured homes? Most homes in my area have two (3 with basement), traditional single story ranch doesn’t make good use of the limited land. So if multiple floors aren’t available they’re not an option for a g
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by MBCook 23d ago
It’s 100% about the quality of the ideas, isn’t it. I agree no ideas is just a path towards irrelevance.
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by MBCook 23d ago
Apple had enough experience relying on and being screwed by third parties that they have a built-in allergy to it. They do not like being boxed in and always want to be in control of their destiny. This would’ve been useful during their bak
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by MBCook 23d ago
That’s gone in 27. You can still ask ChatGPT by prefixing your request with “ask ChatGPT“ like you’ve been able to for the last two years or so. But it will never prompt you anymore, because Siri AI can handle that stuff now when it couldn’
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by MBCook 23d ago
Yes. Besides, if you swapped out the thing underneath, you would still get the UI and branding of Siri. I don’t think that would meet the requirements of the DMA. Would it?
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by MBCook 23d 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. The problem is not having Siri use different models beneath. That’s
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by MBCook 23d ago
There’s a reason everyone knows the various wake words. All the big companies know how suicidal that would be. They already get accused of it by people who don’t understand how targeted web advertising works. Some of the new AI start-ups do
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by MBCook 24d ago
That’s obviously the people who are really using it, but I assumed you had to pay Apple to get it. So either you made your own measurements or if you were doing Made For iPhone and they would give it to you as part of that program which sur
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by MBCook 24d ago
I was just thinking about the A thing the other day. A1 Plumbing, Acme Brick, AAA Home Servicing all the companies named over the years to try and be the first in the phone book. But phone books have been dead for a long time. And search re
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by MBCook 24d ago
I can’t help but think that’s because they don’t know any better and maybe because they’re getting better informed by the reporting than what they’re actually getting from management. Which would be terrible if true.
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by MBCook 24d ago
The rumor I saw when all this started implied it was. I think it said that Mullenweg always came back from burning man with lots of ideas. The implication to me was the ideas were terrible and the board was afraid of having to deal with it
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by MBCook 24d ago
I had no idea they published this to the general public.
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by MBCook 24d ago
How about I rephrase it. More than can be reviewed for the time and money they’re willing to spend . Even before AI, they absolutely could’ve done it.
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by MBCook 24d ago
You don’t think there’s a difference between “hackers try to attack everything“ and “Tesla decided that I personally need to be tested as one of their systems due to a lazy misconfiguration“ are different?
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by MBCook 25d ago
It isn’t. But it should be. I find online advertising crooked as hell. Google charges by the impression and knowingly allows huge percentages of fake impressions. How is that anything other than fraud? It’s not because it’s online advertisi
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by MBCook 25d ago
My comment was meant to be sarcasm. I see that didn’t come through.
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by MBCook 26d ago
Why would you expect the water company to check your water for poison?
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by MBCook 26d ago
Does contiguousness matter these days? Especially since all disk locations are lies anyway as SSD firmware has its own layer of indirection too?
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by MBCook 26d ago
Is there no way to criticize the government of Israel without it being taken as a request to get rid of the entire state and Jewish people’s right to exist? The objection here is to the particular faction in power. Not the existence of the
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by MBCook 26d ago
People can pretend whatever they want, but this affects technology heavily too. Everything you buy has to be shipped. That needs gas. Everything with plastic has oil in it. Economic downturns/depressions/panics affect investment a
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by MBCook 26d ago
Why wouldn’t they go up? Instability is instability. Oil is fungible. There’s no reason to think someone else won’t escalate this further disrupting supplies even more. That will push prices up. Even if they don’t, if oil can’t get through
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by MBCook 26d ago
One of the best solutions would have been doing what we can to get off oil. Luckily, we reversed that policy and have been using as much oil as possible. All hail the great barrel of goo.
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by MBCook 26d ago
Please stop trying to design the torment nexus.
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by MBCook 27d ago
New CEOs can do that to a company.
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by MBCook 27d ago
In this case it arguably helped. I do wonder how much longer that stalemate would have gone on without the blow up. I don’t think it’s a good policy in general. Mostly I think it would just end up in alienation and people not wanting to wor

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