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by alwillis 1y ago
It's pretty common to refer to models by the month and year they were released. For example, the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash is known as "google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025" [1]. [1]: https://openrouter.ai&#
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by alwillis 1y ago
> You correctly cite that iOS penetration was low at the time, but mobile Safari grew over the next few years to become the dominant web browser, and that was sufficient. First, there's no way Flash would still be alive today; Apple
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by alwillis 1y ago
> Safari is lagging on HTML5 features for decade far behind Firefox. Really? Safari was first to ship :has() in March 2022; Firefox couldn't ship until December 2023. I listed a bunch of web platform features Safari shipped before C
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by alwillis 1y ago
> It really is crazy how much was lost when Apple killed Flash. Steve Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash" [1] in 2010; Flash was discontinued by Adobe in 2017. If Apple supposedly "killed" Flash, they sure took their t
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iOS 26.1 hints at iPhone adding support for third-party smartwatches(9to5mac.com)
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Skyscapes 2025 – ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year(rmg.co.uk)
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Scammers are faking cell towers now; Americans don't spot scams(9to5mac.com)
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Testing Claude's Native Integration with Reminders and Calendar on iOS/iPadOS(macstories.net)
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by alwillis 1y ago
> The sentence "self hosting fonts is as easy as making the static font files available and then adding a few lines of CSS" is a complete lie and you could tell they have never gone through the process themselves and were just
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WebKit Features in Safari 26.0(webkit.org)
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by alwillis 1y ago
> It can probably be argued that Apple is a acting like a monopolist in one or a few areas though? I don't think that's a credible argument. Apple, at best, has about 55% smartphone marketshare in the United States--and signifi
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by alwillis 1y ago
Both Mail and Calendar use web views for starters.
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by alwillis 1y ago
> Private/secret APIs in Windows were a prominent part of the US and EU antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft in the 90s/00s. It mattered because Microsoft had 95% of the operating system market at the time and was using its mon
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Apple breaks records in China with high iPhone 17 preorders(appleinsider.com)
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by alwillis 1y ago
> don't see why not, then the era of viable local LLM inferencing is upon us. I don't think local LLMs will ever be a thing except for very specific use cases. I disagree. There's a lot of interest in local LLMs in the LLM
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by alwillis 1y ago
Sure but the one he's referring to is rumored to cost $599-$699.
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by alwillis 1y ago
> I don't get why Apple doesn't do consistent colors The materials used is a factor: the last few iPhones were built with aluminum (iPhone 16), titanium (iPhone 16 Pro) and stainless steel (iPhone 13 Pro). Not all colors work w
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by alwillis 1y ago
I bought a blue iPhone 16 last year at this time; I've never used a case. More people are going case-less these days.
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Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure(theverge.com)
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Anthropic uses dark patterns to gain user consent for AI data use in Claude(the-decoder.com)
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by alwillis 1y ago
No, this isn't a bunch of markdown files, has been in the works since at least May and has been dogfooded inside Apple [1]: "Apple Partners With Anthropic for Claude-Powered AI Coding Platform" [1]: https://www.mac
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by alwillis 1y ago
Yes, but the Foundation Model framework can seamlessly use Apple's much larger models via Private Cloud Compute or switch to ChatGPT. When macOS 26 is officially announced on September 9, I expect Apple to announce support for Anthropi
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by alwillis 1y ago
I just installed it—definitely not a toy. Compared to stock Claude Code, this version of Claude knows a lot more about SwiftUI and related technologies. The following is output from Claude in Xcode on an empty project. Claude Code gives a
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by alwillis 1y ago
As part of the system font stack, we no longer need -apple-system or BlinkMacSystemFont to select the default font on Apple devices. You want to use system-ui to select the platform's UI font, which is San Francisco on Apple devices. A
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Apple Watch's blood oxygen restoration may get killed by ITC(appleinsider.com)
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Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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Apple preps native Claude integration on Xcode(9to5mac.com)
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by alwillis 1y ago
Thanks. Author mentioned TiddlyWiki as inspiration. But the whole point of TiddlyWiki was that it doesn't need a server right? I did a deep dive on TiddlyWiki recently. No, it doesn't need a server; an entire site can be self-co
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by alwillis 1y ago
https://context7.com/
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Claude models can now end conversations with abusive users(the-decoder.com)
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