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by smoldesu 3y ago
How do smartphones address the privacy concerns? I'm still surprised people are buddy-buddy with commodity smartphone manufacturers. > What is stopping them from collecting and storing these samples for "training" models?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple as well. Everyone's failure to commit in this situation enabled a highly-integrated competitor to clean up shop. It's funny how much clearer OpenCL's value prop is in hindsight...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It looks like I was wrong. Same family of hardware/drivers, different OS. Same principle and concept, though; I think BSD's success in the console industry proves that open OSes can find use (albeit as components of closed systems
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by smoldesu 3y ago
No, I think the state will do a better job at preserving individual freedom than the free market will. Normally I wouldn't take that stance, but the alternative is Apple's lock-in mentality and Google's neverending advertisem
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The Nintendo Switch runs a locked-down version of Android that has sold over 100 million units of associated hardware.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Nothing worse than the status-quo, presumably: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22361762/iphone-russia-sta... Given that US/FIVE-EYES surveillance is a prerequisite for all American smartphones, I&
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by smoldesu 3y ago
YouTube's tax is not comparable to the Play Store or the App Store because other identical services exist. Pretty much anyone immediately familiar with Google or Apple's infrastructure would laugh that off - you cannot replace the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It doesn't, but competing with OpenAI does. Google likes their ducks in a row. Google Search and YouTube are prime examples; every interaction is subsidized with an advertisement. It's not hard to look at a series of screenshots f
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's always going to be a touchy subject, a lot of people will see attacks on Doctorow as a denouncement of his ideas. Most people probably agree with what he has to say, just in simpler terms with less sensationalist framing. His use
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Because decades ago, "figuring it out" entailed visiting a website and downloading a software installer. Why is Apple expecting everyone to forget about that and pay them the difference instead?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
There's plenty of software that straight-up doesn't ship on the App Store. One could even argue that the Mac fosters it's own class of unique software since the App Store tithe is optional. I don't think Pro Tools or Ste
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Making a competitive alternative to iMessage is a game of whack-a-mole that you will always lose, too. Apple would never give a third-party the same level of control they have to integrate with iOS. So, Beeper's approach here at least
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's probably my favorite part of HN, at this point. The reaction from people the other day when Google/Apple admit to cooperating with FIVE-EYES was priceless.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, you can't pass legislation to shut down the school shootings factory or invade climate change's homeland. However, Europe has shown us that tying your economy's profitability to a basis of digital standards can easily
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by smoldesu 3y ago
How is it fascinating? Apple exerts pressure on customers to buy their products, and then further pressures to keep them integrated with Apple's ecosystem. Here, a customer gave in to the first pressure and is disappointed by the artif
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I will say that to their market cap. Such an insane capitalization on digital sales can only be achieved by extinguishing the alternatives your platform can host. It's a regressive featureset that can (apparently) only be reversed thro
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The "actual people" using Linux on the desktop are not running .so files off the internet. I get what you're saying, but you know it's facetious to pretend that packaging is simple on Mac and Windows too.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
On a large enough timescale I don't think you can reasonably expect this on any of this big 3 OSes. From a less macro perspective, I think tools like Appimage and Flatpak will fill that role.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Stuff like Flatpak and Snap exists because the framework side kinda is built-out. Isolation technology had matured, newer desktops emphasized per-window security and needed APIs to portal in and out of each instance. The desktops needed a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited. > Pillage is prohibited. > Reprisals agains
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Comments like this make me grateful for the Geneva convention.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Hamas is one of hundreds of organized anti-Israel groups that exist in the Middle East. If we use every one of those as an excuse to treat civilians as collateral, then the murder of innocents never ends. Israel is the only country capable
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by smoldesu 3y ago
People aren't asking for a reciprocal death count from Israel, they want them to resist escalation.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I can't see the Twitter comments, if that's what you're referring to.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Like how Elon "trashed his rep" and then got on a plane to meet Netanyahu a week later? Don't be hyperbolic for the sake of politicking. PG has recovered from vastly dumber takes, and still finds people to give him money.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'm not in M&A, but code outsourcing has been extremely common for a while. It probably raises some eyebrows, but I'd bet even the suits know that most software companies don't write everything in-house. AI may be a dif
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by smoldesu 3y ago
OP changed the submission title after this first comment was written. It used to say MLX was "much faster" without any point of comparison. It has since been edited to what it is now.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Having access to donor parts from cheap used models?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Unless you also predict that Apple will release datacenter systems a-la Grace and Instict, I don't think they're even in the runnings. AMD is only competitive in the LLM market because they sell extremely cheap and fast compute
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by smoldesu 3y ago
"Much Faster" than what?

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