Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

Post by pests » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:08 AM UTC

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I was musing before sleep days ago about how maybe the internet still is just a fad. We’ve had a few decades of it, yeah, but maybe in the future people will look at it as boring tech just like I viewed VCRs or phones when I was growing up. Maybe we’re still addicted to the novelty of it, but in the future it fades into the background of life. I’ve read stories about how people were amazed at calling each other and w…

A few years ago I would've said you were incredibly cynical, but nowadays with so much AI slop around social media and just tonnes of bad content I tend to agree with you. Now the Cyberpunk pen and paper RPG seems prophetic if turn your head sideways a bit https://chatgpt.com/share/684762cc-9024-800e-9460-d5da3236cd...

Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:12 AM UTC

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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://githu…

WSLv1 never supported a native docker (AFAIK, perhaps I'm wrong?) That said, I'd think apple would actually be much better positioned to try the WSL1 approach. I'd assume apple OS is a lot closer to linux than windows is.

Post by vouaobrasil » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:22 AM UTC

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I find it offensive to have any generative AI code on my computer. Settings → Apple Intelligence and Siri → toggle Apple Intelligence off. It's not enabled by default. But in case you accidentally turned it on, turning it off gets you a bunch of disk space back as the AI stuff is removed from the OS. Some people are just looking for a reason to be offended.

The theatrics of being *forced* to use completely optional, opt-in features has been a staple of discussions regarding Apple for years. Every year, macOS and iPadOS look superficially more and more similar, but they remain distinct in their interfaces, features, etc. But the past 15 years have been "we'll be *forced* to only use Apple-vetted software, just like the App Store!" And yeah, the Gatekeeper mechanism got l…

Post by privacyking » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:28 AM UTC

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> You're either fully locked in, or fully on your own. I'm not sure what you mean by that. You can trivially root a Pixel factory image. And if you're talking about how they will punish you for that by removing certain features: Apple does that too (but to a lesser extent). https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/RecordingIndicatorUtili...

On Android devices with AVB (so basically everything nowadays), once the bootloader is unlocked, so many things already either lock you out or degrade your service in various ways. For example, Netflix will downgrade you to 480p, Google Pay will stop working, many apps will just straight up disappear from the Play Store because SafetyNet will stop passing (especially on newer devices with hardware attestation), banki…

Post by cosmic_cheese » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:33 AM UTC

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The new windowing feature basically cannibalizes MacBook Air.

A Macbook Air is cheaper than an iPad Pro with a keyboard though. Not to mention you still can't run apps from outside the app store, and most of these new features we're hoping work as well as they do on MacOS, but given that background tasks had to be an API, I doubt they will.