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by dwaite 4mo ago
This is not the cause though - other third-party browsers on iOS can do ad-blocking, and also can use system-installed extensions. They could also launch an alternative browser engine for iOS and iPadOS in the EU.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
That was with a lot of technical innovation against a static competitor. Firefox isn't in nearly as good of a position when it comes to either technology or resources now. It would be possible for a surge in contributors to bring it ba
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by dwaite 4mo ago
This wasn't a hardware issue
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by dwaite 4mo ago
What fundamentally makes a box which has a web browser, allows for third party app installs, and can drive them by connecting to a 4k monitor in addition to a keyboard and mouse different than a PC - other than the vendor setting policy suc
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> it doesn't qualify without the temporary waiver The nature of temporary waivers makes this untrue per the post you cited - The Open Group only grants them for 12 months, and the post is over a year old. IMO, the only significant c
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by dwaite 4mo ago
It does not look nearly as good when you compare paying customers.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> Apple themselves have said there is usage limits, with a subscription upgrade for more usage. Specifically for image generation. They haven't indicated you have limits for Siri interactions.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Part of the pitch of AI companies is that they mediate and provide a new surface for ads, for taking an affiliate cut of sales, etc. But it isn't like this hasn't been the long-running strategy for Google as well - provide more re
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> Force you to use email or SMS as a "second factor" to unlock changing password even if you know the old password Apple has detectors for codes sent via email or SMS, if your email account is one that is configured with the OS
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by dwaite 4mo ago
At least on 26, the passwords app saves a history with previous passwords.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Apple splits processing between an on-device and cloud-hosted model. As time goes on, devices will be more capable of doing more processing locally, and it would be expected that the cloud-hosted model gets more sophisticated. Your 15 Pro M
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by dwaite 4mo ago
The design is that there is always a local model capable of forming a remote query with just the subset of local data on your phone needed to answer that query. They may have decided that local processing was a MVP feature either for faster
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> Apple allowing third party access doesn't automatically mean user data gets hoovered up by OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. It just means users now get the choice, if they want to make that choice. Apple is also restricted in the sort of c
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by dwaite 4mo ago
My limited understanding is that it would be a local model that exists only to determine a limited set of local information necessary to answer the user's request. This request and information would then be shared with the third party.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> This feels like it could be solved with a list of permissions that the user has to turn on when using 3rd party AI. The device won't be able to ask for significantly more permissions than Apple asks for their own model for regulat
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> My naive assumption is that they're going to do what everyone is doing: make tooling that lets you swap in any model. They are a ways away from that for Siri, as they can't guarantee third party tooling meets their security a
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by dwaite 4mo ago
We don't really know, we just saw a leak when the deal fell through. I suspect Apple wouldn't reach out to just one AI company at a time.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> Is it really all that difference from Apple defaulting to Google's search engine? Not really, because the business model isn't there (at least not in this iteration. 1. The models are Apple models, co-developed with Google. T
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by dwaite 4mo ago
A large portion of Apple's screens come from Samsung. Once a company is large enough, growing your business through supporting a competitor of another group at the company could be seen as a win-win.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Only Google was willing to do what Apple wanted for a reasonable price. They licensed Gemini and Google infrastructure not just for use, but to accelerate the creation of the three independent Apple Foundation Models announced today: - AFM
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by dwaite 4mo ago
The cookie popup also more often than not doesn't satisfy GDPR, since the option to remove consent disappears with the popup. These dark patterns emerged because the GDPR was used selectively as a club rather than properly enforced. Th
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> Or that they wouldn't let you set default maps app outside of the EU They were mandated to create a scheme in isolation on a deadline, without having input either from navigation apps or from consumers, and without any requirement
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> It’s not clear how it is significantly different from allowing apps access to your contacts, calendar, photos, and so on Those are allowed via contextual consent prompts, several of which are for specific contacts, specific photos you
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> The code is still fully open source, but the project that produces the code isn't. I think your thought was cut off. What is the project no longer?
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by dwaite 4mo ago
"The Cathedral and Bazaar" is orthogonal to open source. Its argument is that open source is most valuable when paired with the bazaar model, not that the cathedral model cannot be considered open. The open source definition was c
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> I think they're moving in the WebKit/Safari direction: open for you to look at, but not really an open source project. Webkit absolutely takes third party submissions. https://webkit.org/contributing-code&#x2F
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Your prior message could be taken that this was an elitist move, and not a move that is being taken by many different projects for survival with limited review capacity. LLMs in general change the balance of how much effort generating conte
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by dwaite 4mo ago
The open source definition does not mention community at all - it is a set of licensing requirements that certain rights to modify code must be maintained, not that upstream will accept your change or (for that matter) that you need to pack
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Not really - it changes how the lines are drawn between components, rather than removing any of them. The EXT4 filesystem driver as an example contains most of the same code whether it is part of the kernel process or is a user process. A v
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Trying to bridge this a bit since I'm closer to a layperson in this area. Symmetric encryption does not need a quantum computer alternative, nor do we need a post quantum hashing algorithm. We may need larger keys and larger outputs fr

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