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by gigel82 2y ago
Because it's factually true, and everyone that works in this industry (and academia) knows it. They won't admit it publicly because they'd like to continue to get funded (just like the folks working on fusion). When you can o
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by gigel82 2y ago
You can ditch the Hue Bridge entirely and just get a Zigbee dongle for Home Assistant: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/migrating-from-a-phili... Especially since Philips is going the same route as all the other e
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by gigel82 2y ago
All these statements about the "booming economy" are triggering for a lot of people because this "economy" they're talking about is just an abstract notion that has absolutely nothing to do with people's financ
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by gigel82 2y ago
If they have no qualms doing this to their own employees, I imagine customer privacy is little more than PR at this point (but the more data pointing out their hypocrisy to customers the better).
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by gigel82 2y ago
Not OP but the syntax is off-puting for me, it's simply difficult to read. I can parse and read all C/C++/TypeScript/Java/C# code with ease, it all makes sense and reads like poetry. Rust's syntax is just ugly,
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by gigel82 2y ago
Visual programming like Scratch is safer than Rust so it's negligent if we don't all use Scratch next. Also, everyone should pee sitting down by law because some are known to pee to on their pants otherwise. /s
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by gigel82 2y ago
Surprising how this seemingly intelligent person repeats dozens of time how "Microsoft" is stealing their money when it's obvious to almost everyone that's just a scammer that got a hold of their credit card.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Of course people value things besides salary, but if there was no salary or the salary would not be enough to live off, none of those things matter in any way. So first and foremost (unless you're a billionaire's son) is salary, f
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by gigel82 2y ago
If you can't live off of $40,000 a year, you are not taking that job. I'm not saying there aren't people already independently wealthy and "working" for fun but those are an infinitesimal exception.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Stop it, no one "values things besides salary", and you know it.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Nice, finally some AI functionality I could actually use.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Why cloud? Rewriting some text is definitely something a local LLM can do; they have NPUs on the Copilot PCs so why not use that? So far the only feature I've seen them talking about for the NPUs on the Copilot PCs is image generation
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by gigel82 2y ago
I'm glad that more and more people start to see through the thick Apple BS (in these comments). I don't expect them to back down from this but I hope there is enough pushback that they'll be forced to add a big opt-out for al
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by gigel82 2y ago
Was this verified independently? Because people can submit all sorts of results for Geekbench scores. Look at all these top scorers (most of which are obviously fake or overclocked chips): https://browser.geekbench.com/v6&#x
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by gigel82 2y ago
Hate that all you want, but you know it's true if you've been in the industry for more than a couple of years. It's a mistake to cater to the lowest common denominator. We'll all be coding in Scratch in a decade if we ke
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by gigel82 2y ago
C++ is only "memory-unsafe" if you are hiring bottom of the barrel talent. Likely the same kind of folks for which we had to change car manuals from including schematics and repair instructions to including warnings about not drin
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by gigel82 2y ago
Then shouldn't they allow us to self-host the entire stack? That would surely put me at ease; if I can self-host my own "Apple private cloud" on my own hardware and firewall the heck out of it (inspect all its traffic), that&
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by gigel82 2y ago
I'm looking for a middle ground. I need to use and trust hardware from vendors like Apple but I use as few of their services as possible (and verify that with firewalls and traffic inspection). My concern here is with Apple Intelligenc
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by gigel82 2y ago
I agree, this makes no sense. Can the "Russian High Court" block access to all pages mentioning the invasion of Ukraine and Wikipedia will just comply worldwide?
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by gigel82 2y ago
Publicly inspectable how? Are you saying their entire server stack will be open source and have reproducible builds?
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by gigel82 2y ago
Got it, that all makes sense. My concern is not someone maliciously attempting to infect the software / hardware. My concern is that Apple themselves will include code in their officially signed builds that extracts customer data. All
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by gigel82 2y ago
Some of us just assume Apple itself is a bad actor planning to use and sell customer data for profit; makes all of this smoke and mirrors like GP said. There is absolutely no technical solution where Apple can prove our data isn't exfi
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by gigel82 2y ago
One of the replies in this thread sent me to transparency.dev which describes transparency logs as something different. But reading Apple's description doesn't change my opinion on this. It is a supply-chain / MITM protection
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by gigel82 2y ago
"ceremony" is a good choice of word; it's all ceremonial and nonsense; as long as they control the hardware and the software there is absolutely no way for someone to verify this claim. Apple has lied to shareholders before,
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by gigel82 2y ago
Ok, but they write and fully control the closed-source software that appends to the log. How can anyone verify that all the code paths append to the log? I'm pretty sure they can just not append to the log from their ExfiltrateDataForA
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by gigel82 2y ago
That makes no sense at all. They control the servers and services entirely; they can choose to emit whatever logs they want into the "transparent logs" and then emit whatever else they don't want into non-transparent logs. Ev
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by gigel82 2y ago
No amount of remote attestation and "transparency logs" and other bombastic statements like this would make up for the fact that they are fully in control of the servers and the software. There is absolutely no way for a customer
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by gigel82 2y ago
I get it, they don't want competition for selling that data; so how much to just buy it from Apple directly?
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by gigel82 2y ago
We take trips to Europe every couple of years, usually around a big city with lots of tourist attractions (like Paris / London / etc.); there's a lot of planning involved, sometimes including purchasing tickets using various
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by gigel82 2y ago
"Hidden APIs" is clickbait; VS Code is open source. Unless they're saying the published VS Code binaries are somehow altered to offer the APIs that are not otherwise available in the open source repository (which is not the c

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