mort96

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by mort96 5d ago
Is Apple Intelligence's local models better than free ChatGPT?
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by mort96 5d ago
And people really trust the bot to do that stuff for them? They risk letting down their kid by not being there to pick them up just to save half a minute of finding the right email? That sounds crazy to me, creating a reminder isn't ex
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by mort96 5d ago
What does your users want your app to do with a language model?
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by mort96 5d ago
On their laptop? No, not really. I guess the selling point is that your computer now suggests file names for you?
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by mort96 5d ago
Absolutely 100%. Now I'm very biased against this "AI" stuff in general, but even fans of "AI" can't want this, right? I mean I know some people who are heavy "AI" users and they all either have a set
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by mort96 10d ago
But there are plenty of successful projects which would probably have been taken down if it wasn't for clean room RE. I mean just look at the clean room IBM BIOS clones from "IBM compatibles" in the early days of the person
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by mort96 11d ago
Wait I don't get this. If I understand correctly, traditional IPv6 flow is: * A host configures its own IP address via SLAAC * The host sends a packet to its gateway with some destination address * The gateway forwards th
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by mort96 11d ago
TBH Tahoe feels like an especially buggy .0 still. I'm updating as soon as my laptop shows it as available in the hopes that it'll feel closer to a .1 than what Tahoe is.
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by mort96 11d ago
This is what made me move away from Ubuntu. Use LTS and encounter issues with outdated packages? "Well duh, you're supposed to upgrade to interim releases if you need remotely up to date software". Use interim releases and en
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by mort96 13d ago
I made no argument about guilt. I made an argument about the semantics of the word "let".
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by mort96 13d ago
Yea, my understanding is that the split between / and /usr used to be more or less: the drive they used for / ran out of space, so they mounted another drive as /usr. As a consequence, / became where you put stuff t
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by mort96 13d ago
Ah. That makes sense. It's so annoying how deeply UNIX packaging philosophy assumes that installation directories are something you hard-code at build time.
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by mort96 13d ago
Wait what? Why prefix length limits? Linux paths can be 4096 bytes long, I can't imagine y'all are hitting that?
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by mort96 13d ago
.. what exactly depends on who started the escalator? My comment was in support of the argument that the word "let" does not imply agency on the part of the object in a sentence. Does the semantics of the word "let" depe
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by mort96 13d ago
Or, "let the escalator keep going instead of pressing the emergency stop".
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by mort96 14d ago
Why do people keep saying this? No, CPUs are not autocomplete.
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by mort96 15d ago
Yeah so there's no input to activate recording, it always records what you're saying so that at any point in time, it can go back 15 seconds. When you double press the crown, it can't go back in time to start recording 15 s
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by mort96 16d ago
How is Live Rewind able to show a transcript of a conversation which happened before it was activated? That makes no sense, it needs to record stuff continuously in order to at any time tell you what was said 15 seconds ago
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by mort96 16d ago
I agree! And this is always recording. It remembers what people said and can produce a transcript of it; that's a record. The "hey siri" feature doesn't keep a record of what everyone said (except when it triggers incorr
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by mort96 16d ago
No, but I'm not sure what the point of this kind of feature would be if it isn't always listening. Do you usually plan out in advance when you're going to miss what someone said so that you can enable recording just for tha
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by mort96 16d ago
In the video, the waitress said something, then the guy looked up on his watch what she said. Where's the part where he enables anything? Clearly it was already listening, otherwise it wouldn't have caught what she said.
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by mort96 17d ago
Well no, they made the Ultra for very rich people who do long hikes or similar. For most of us, a smart watch isn't so important that the increase in price is worth it, even if we're annoyed by the battery life of the non-Ultra
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by mort96 17d ago
If I learned that someone I've been speaking to for a while was recording the conversation using the audio recorder app on their phone, I'd find that extremely creepy.
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by mort96 17d ago
It's so creepy. So their watch is now always recording audio, and the rumors say that their next generation of AirPods Pro will gain cameras. I don't want an always-listening watch. I don't want earbuds with cameras. I don&#x
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by mort96 17d ago
It "makes sense" that plainly telling the chat bot to make one button blue makes the whole site blue? It "makes sense" that correcting it and repeating 3 times that no, only the one button should be blue, should make t
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by mort96 18d ago
I would also have been annoyed with that if I had to use GrapheneOS, security is a terrible argument to deny people access to their own hardware. But then I'm not a GrapheneOS user, just like I wouldn't have been a Fedora user on
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by mort96 18d ago
And if a streaming app stops working due to a compatibility issue, I might consider updating if it's a streaming app I use a lot. If I can update the app independent of the OS, great; if not, it might mean an OS update.
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by mort96 18d ago
The best solution is obviously sanctioned rooting so that vulnerabilities can be freely shared with manufacturers and fixed. But that's not going to happen.
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by mort96 18d ago
To me as a user, responsible disclosure takes away my right to do what I want with my hardware.
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by mort96 18d ago
No. My computer is a tool I actively use. The TV is an almost entirely passive consumption device. Was performance not good enough when it was new? If it wasn't, will the new software versions truly buck the trend we've seen in so

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