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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

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Re: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

#212

Okay, the AI stuff is cool, but that "Containerization framework" mention is kinda huge, right? I mean, native Linux container support on Mac could be a game-changer for my whole workflow, maybe even making Docker less of a headache.

FWIW, here are the repos for the CLI tool [1] and backend [2]. Looks like it is indeed VM-based container support (as opposed to WSLv1-style syscall translation or whatever):

  Containerization provides APIs to:
  [...]
  - Create an optimized Linux kernel for fast boot times.
  - Spawn lightweight virtual machines.
  - Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines.
[1] https://github.com/apple/container [2] https://github.com/apple/containerization

Re: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

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I sure hope they provide an accessibility option to turn down translucency to improve contrast or this UI is a non-starter for me. Without using it, this new UI looks like it may favor design over usability. Why don’t they do something more novel and let user tweak interface to their liking?

Re: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

#219

I sure hope they provide an accessibility option to turn down translucency to improve contrast or this UI is a non-starter for me. Without using it, this new UI looks like it may favor design over usability. Why don’t they do something more novel and let user tweak interface to their liking?

>favor design over usability

That's... kinda what Apple is famous for.

Re: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

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> New Design with Liquid Glass Looks like software UI design – just like fashion, film, architecture and many other fields I'm sure – has now officially entered the "nothing new under the sun" / "let's recycle ideas from xx years ago" stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_%28user_interface%29 To be clear, this is just an observation, not a judgment of that change or the quality of the design by itself. I was gett…

To me it looks more like Windows Vista's "Aero" than OS X's "Aqua".

And I couldnt be happier to see it back. I have not been a fan of the flattening of UI design over the last 15 years.
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