Posts by Rich 2 1792 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
“Siri Recap, meanwhile, "summarizes conversations throughout your day and produces high-level Apple Intelligence-generated notes so you can stay present in the moment and catch up later."
So it’s not just 15 seconds? It’s constantly listening.
And why do all the tech companies think we all have the attention span of Donald Trump? FFS
If only that was a joke!
I have watched with interest how the Uranian’s have managed to design and develop novel systems like this in very short timescales and, I would wager, very low cost.
Compare that to the endless billions overspend and decades over-time that is typical of a similar UK MOD project. That’s those that aren’t scrapped half way through because they are declared too broken to continue
Why does the MS apps need to phone home to calculate a watermark? (*) That’s something that can be done extremely easily locally.
Ok, a locally produced one won’t be guaranteed to be unique but (a) it should be statistically unique enough and (b) does it matter anyway?
(*) yes, I know the answer is “because it’s Microslop and they like spying on you” but I thought I would ask anyway
The problem is that a description such as “cyber attack that has real-world system impact such as breaking water supplies or shutting down a power station or stopping a hospital functioning” is too many words
…so instead they use a single word in a context that makes no sense and nobody actually understands
I think it’s called “progress” but I’m not sure so don’t quote me on that
Even if such an exploit is not intentional, I don’t think this bodes well.
At best, over time it is going to make Linux a shit-show of crappy code. At worse, it’s going to royally mess something up that’s going to take an awful lot of work to undo
This doesn’t just go for the Linux kernel of coarse. There’s a whole heap of projects out there that are being slowly screwed over by allowing LLM slop into them. And it’s only going to get worse and the pace is going to pick up
“It does require that every connecting client be a very smart, high-functioning, compliant client,” such as one built on libghostty, Hashimoto said. But this approach sounds better than dispatching streams of raw ASCII hither and yon
So, replacing a (relatively) simple ASCII terminal client (like ssh) with something that is “very smart [and] high functioning” is a good (“sounds better”) thing?
Maybe it’s an editorial mistake - maybe the sentence is the wrong way round?
As others have said above, I’ll stick with tmux thanks
I think (ah - see what I did there?) this whole issue is being overthought
The fact that the software is called “AI” is totally irrelevant. It may as well be called “Bob”. It’s just software. And it was ultimately executed by human - either directly or indirectly
In cases like this, substitute “AI” for “some software” and then proceed the legal road from that perspective - just as if it was any other software that someone used to break into someone else’s computer/network/whatever
But the “one thread per connection” issue seems to be a “…by the way…” comment rather than a justification for rewriting it. And I’m sure fixing this issue could be done without a rewrite in a different language
And why rewrite sqlite?
I’m not really having a go at anyone - if someone wants to rewrite something then that’s up to them - I’ve done it myself. But rewriting something on top of the gloop of some common platform code that wasn’t there before and then “selling” it as the next shiny without any real benefit (and probably with its own bugs - would you trust YOUR data to it?) doesn’t make any sense to me. Seems to be a solution (in fact it’s not even that) to a non-existing problem
While I don’t doubt what you say, it does, of course, raise the question of why a business would put every bit of its critical infrastructure in one basket? A basket that it has no control over, no access to if the network fails, no access to if the provider fails (with or without a President throwing his toys out of his pram). Add to this keeping all the business’ critical data in (probably) another country on servers it has no control over and, basically, it’s just a matter of time before it all goes tits up.
And, of course, there are thousands and thousands of businesses doing EXACTLY the same thing. It’s completely nuts
“The Port Washington datacenter is being developed responsibly in partnership with the community, creating thousands of jobs, strengthening local businesses, and driving long-term economic growth across Wisconsin,"
Is there a single word in that statement that isn’t total bollocks?
As an aside, I love the phrase “negative free cash flow” as a euphemism for “losing money” :-)
It never ceases to amuse me that even after all these years, Microslop are still managing to produce an email client as shitty as Outlook. I mean - an email client!!! Something that a competent software person could knock-up in a weekend. And yet, after literally decades, Microslop still can’t do it. Staggering
You take a distributed system and centralise it and then the thing starts to crack and fall apart
Exactly the same thing happened when Microslop consumed Skype - it originally used a DHT but MS didn’t like the efficiency that brought with it so they centralised it. And then enshitifiied it before killing it completely
Microslop really have done more to damage and stifle software progress than any other business in the history of the computer
Vim gets a lot of stick but it’s really not that difficult. You can learn how to do basic editing, loading, saving, and exiting (!) in 5 minutes
Everything else is just sugar in the top (supercharged extra powerful sugar but nonetheless) and the thing is, you do not need to learn it all at once. Use the basic stuff and when you come across a “there’s got to be a better way to do this” situation then check out the docs or Google and add the new technique to your brain. This way, you learn Vim in an organic way as and when you need it
All very good but when the EU did the same thing with Apple, the fruity one was then accused of “malicious compliance” (I think “taking the piss” would be a better description but still)
I would hope the UK gov drafts its ruling with the EU’s experience in mind
Anyone know what happened with the EU ruling by the way? Are Apple still being dicks about it? And if so, what’s the EU doing to stomp on them?
GPL is a severe burden for non-GPL people; there are many open source projects out there that have had to re-invent the wheel because they can't just include an existing GPL module/function/utility into their codebase. It's a one-way street; Linux has benefited hugely from BSD, but the reverse is much more difficult, adding a lot of unnecessary (repeated) work for the BSD people.
And I'm really tired of hearing the "GPL stops Evil Business (tm) stealing your code" argument. There are many non-GPL open source projects out there that Evil Business has contributed a great deal to - Firefox (Mozilla), clang/LLVM (a massively important project, you can't get more "Evil" than Apple but they have contributed a huge amount to clang), to name just two. And if you think Evil Business are not taking GPL code, modifying it, and just not telling anyone, then you are delusional.
You may guess I am firmly in the "GPL is a pain in the arse" camp. And I say this from a "developer" point of view
So it’s going to cost 5 million to go back to a non-cloudy set up. That sounds quite good value. I wonder how much the cloudy version would have cost per annum - my guess is that it would hit the 5 million mark quite quickly. Which further leads me to question why anyone think it was a good idea in the first place
So, putting aside for a moment the question of the value of this, my money is on AMD now shouting about how AI is demonstrating how wonderful it is at solving problems ….errrr …. caused by AI
Of corse, the AI (I use the term loosely) in this will have no relation whatsoever to the LLM “AI” (even looser) that is the current money pit
Putting aside for a moment (just a moment though) the fact that this is Palantir, I challenge the statement
“…doesn’t think frontier AI labs prepping for IPOs really understand what their customers needs”
I think the AI pedlars know EXACTLY what the customers need. They just don’t give a shit (about anything - not just the customer)
