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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
It was a thing for a while in the early 2000s, mostly as a preppy status symbol. It was pretty much iconic SV founder uniform for a short time.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
The supreme court doubly proved that again recently ruling that the police have no specific duty to protect individuals or even respond for that matter.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> You're obliged to maximize their earnings. You're not though, legally anyway. Courts will generally not second-guess a board's business decisions so long as the board acted in "good faith" even if that decision
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Interestingly enough, Apple at one point had that attitude even under Cook. > “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI,” Cook said. “If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, yo
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> I am no lawyer and I do not understand what is proprietary to Apple here, it just does not sound that big a deal to me. The special technique is the IP. In hardware manufacturing, the process is the IP and can be considered a trade sec
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
It's probably not as much of a joke as we want to believe, given the current administration in power and the potential 5% stake in OpenAi via Kushner's firm, and how SamA can just pull the "national security...Chinese labs so
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Could be any of the usual big names I'd suspect? Box, something from Atlassian, or maybe some home rolled thing on top of S3 or GCP?
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
From the filing: The stolen files, NAMED: >DisplayNotes.key — "several hundred pages" on Apple's custom display power development program >Architecture analyses. Fabrication decisions. Testing results >Engineering da
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
You aren't supposed to have a full conversation with Siri, it's an assistant not a chatbot. Tell it to do a task, and it does the task. In those leaked system prompts/instructions Apple pretty explicitly wants to avoid conver
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Ah, probably why he thinks its such a great idea to have ChatGPT make a podcast about your children to listen to instead of, you know, talking to them.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
The difference is there's no laws around your home decor, but there is a clear legal framework around trade secrets. Apple's allegation is that a vulnerability was exploited to access some of the data as well which, if true, carri
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
OpenAI has been talking about making hardware for a while now, and most likely they are going to attempt a smartphone.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
No. Unlocked door != legal entry. "Breaking" in B&E doesn't require any physical damage. Pushing open an unlocked door or entering a place without authorization counts. If I leave my home to go to the store, and leave the
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Huh? Apple is literally working through legal channels, the article is pulled from the court filings which are public record. OpenAI is the one making blog posts.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Yeah Apple does have a history of doing these things. There was Palm, where Jobs told them if they didn't stop recruiting Apple employees he would destroy Palm with patent lawsuits. Jobs was also one of the main architects behind the n
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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI(techcrunch.com)
389 points by thewebguyd 2mo ago|285 comments
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Their products/services are ubiquitous not because they are good but because they got where they are today by abusing monopoly power and shady tactics. On the business side, with M365, they use lock-in tactics and extremely aggressive
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Such an event would have to be pretty catastrophic at this point to slow down the inertia. Perhaps the tech debt will just pile up until someone's product implodes, or there's a massive safety issue that causes loss of life, or so
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
The idea that IT should lock down editor configs treats software development like a factory line where workers should be interchangeable parts. Maybe it is, but I disagree. Software is a craft, and a developer's environment is an exten
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> because doctors’ offices seem to have random numbers they call you from This is a huge issue with scam/security awareness education. Too many legitimate orgs use the exact behaviors we tell people to avoid. Same thing with email,
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Because discourse around AI has devolved into eschatological thinking. The stakes are potentially high where the ceiling might be superintelligence and the floor total economic collapse, humans will just default to apocalyptic thinking. All
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> any solution which involves active parent participation is going to get shunned by a vocal subset Then we certainly shouldn't be passing laws mandating age verification. If parents want to abdicate their responsibility over their
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Docusign could put a stop to a good chunk of these but they choose not to. They know attackers are abusing their free trial service to send these out using docusign's own domains. Just gate the trial behind a sign-up/sales call.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> it’s just that editing and organizing are so tightly coupled that it’s difficult to use something that just ignores one. This is especially true for professional workflows. I do wedding photography as a side hustle, I shoot anywhere be
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> Many or most of those 95% who are just using Windows for PC games and using a web browser would be well served by either trying out or having a tech-savvy neighbor help them try out a Linux distro like Bazzite. This is true until you c
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Somewhat. There's still a ~20% ish performance impact for DX12 titles on Nvidia, but on any newer/recent card it basically just brute forces it and ends up being fine unless you are an FPS chaser and have an issue with getting, sa
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> do you actually need the Pro machine and you could instead go with a MacBook Air that you keep for far longer since your doing basic tasks This is probably the case for a lot of people, but Apple is smart with their lineup and there ar
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Except in this case, you can still choose to own it at the end of the lease. The total lease price (if you buy it at the end) is the exact same as the retail price, there's no interest and no extra fees.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Yeah everyone's naysaying this but it seems like a no brainer? There's no interest, no fees. The total lease price (if you buy out at the end) is the same as the retail price. There's no downside to it at all. If you are some
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Yeah, especially considering most people already do this in some fashion but through their carriers (at least in the US) w/ carrier financing + those extra $10/month "upgrade anytime" programs and they end up paying more

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