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Well, they pay $25B+ per year to be the default search engine on various platforms, so that seems unlikely in the near term. ( https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/27/google-paid-26-bi…

No, cars are still very space inefficient which is a big problem in the densest cities in the world. A train carrying a thousand passengers past every three minutes is much better …

Well, last point isn’t quite true. Alaska Airlines is primarily iOS. So, iPads scan your boarding pass and are used for printing luggage tags outside security, Flight attendants us…

I mean Ticketmaster’s current best practice seems to be NFC tickets stored in a mobile wallet which do work offline

Wireless mouse issue isn’t Mac-specific. Bluetooth wake-from-sleep is a thing on both Linux and windows depending on the device. Fingerprint issue has been super annoying though. O…

Not sure this is true — then every device by definition gets a high score, singe the display or batter is simply “not able to be serviced” on devices with poor repairability.

250lb bike? Wtf are you talking about. The heaviest e-bikes are like 50lb. Bikes are so safe that they require none of these extra steps that cars require, because cars are much mo…

That’s one part, but the other massive part is noise from freeways and the baseline white noise from faster roads, where most of the noise comes from tires. EVs are not better (and…

Definitely noticeable on Netflix, but I also have some specific issues with Amazon Prime, where certain scenes have these weird, thin horizontal artifacts.

And Deno! Which also has compilation tools and is written partly in Rust.

It’s a fair point. At the same time, I think it’s pretty important to cover VCS at some point in college. My CS degree included a couple classes with projects where we did project …

Maybe it will be lucrative for them, but I disagree that it requires them to wipe away their privacy stance for a few reasons: 1. Privacy makes them a lot of money right now; it's …

> But it seems the goal now is just "Make it an LLM," instead of focusing on recognizing the task that the user wants to do, and connecting it to APIs that can do those tasks. I al…

Passwords.app is coming to windows (iCloud is on Windows already)

I don’t think that’s completely fair. It basically puts Apple in the same bucket as Google or OpenAI. Google obviously tracks everything you do for ads, recommendations, AI, you na…

I thought from the Apple keynote that Siri is getting a big update to be based on Apple Intelligence, not that this context stuff was getting hacked into the existing Siri model. T…

Yeah, that's a great point. At the same time, it only takes a couple YouTubers/researchers to do some testing for us to know the answer

Apple also talked about their private compute cloud, which allows larger models and workflows to integrate with local AI models. It sounds like they will figure out which features …

> I just hope it will be clear how to keep my external brain (phone) from being scanned by OpenAI. It's very clear, the keynote demonstrates that Siri passing a prompt to chatGPT i…

> All other AI features within the OS are powered by Apple's Private Compute Cloud Clarification: All other AI features within the OS are powered by on device models which can reac…

Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings. Switch "Live Photo" to on. Then disable live photos when taking a picture.

The parent is partially right, the keynote mentioned that OpenAI agreed to not track Apple user requests.

I think most of what you're talking about is going through Apple Intelligence, not chatGPT. That "Apple Intelligence" stuff is supposed to be more local and personal to you, accoun…

Yes, also covered explicitly in the keynote that Apple user's requests to openAI are not tracked. (Plus you have the explicit opt-in to even access chatGPT via siri in the first pl…

I think the headlines are REALLY muddying things. From watching the Keynote, most of Apple Intelligence is their own stuff, mostly on-device. Siri explicitly asks you if you want t…