Sin of empathy đˇď¸đ§đđŤâď¸ @trabern@mas.to Just to recap, the guy who canât shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won.
11:30 PM ⢠May 30, 2024 (UTC)
Paul Tassi writing for Forbes
What precisely happened is still being worked out, but this appears to be an issue with Sony PS5 streaming, where the DLC was made available briefly through that service.
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Daryl Baxter writing for iMore
This change isnât the type of update that was released through the App Store â instead, it looks to be a server-side update. This means that YouTube essentially sent an updated command to its Apple TV app so it could stop playing its screensavers automatically.
Good riddance!
From Daring Fireball:
No word in Spotifyâs Car Thing bricking FAQ about when theyâre dropping support for Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. Oh, thatâs right, they never supported any music services other than their own, despite having spent the last decade petitioning their home-turf European Commission to secure unfettered pay-no-commission access to platforms created by Apple and Google.
I agree with everything Gruber’s saying in this piece.
pmorinerie @pmorinerie@mastodon.xyz Repost with alt-text:
8:37 AM ⢠May 26, 2024 (UTC)
Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange 12:48 AM ⢠May 26, 2024 (UTC)
I have a shirt with this phrase on it, immediately made me think of ChatGPT and all the other AI chatbots right now.
Church of Jeff @jeffowski@mastodon.world #NoBillionaires
4:40 AM ⢠May 24, 2024 (UTC)
Liam @ GamingOnLinux đ§đŽ @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.
Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj
9:57 AM ⢠May 23, 2024 (UTC)
Peter Cohen @flargh@mastodon.social There's a "late capitalism is awful" point to be made about Scarlett Johansson being the actual spokesperson for Feeding America, a legit non-profit focused on food insecurity in the United States. Contrasting with OpenAI - a business that pivoted from being a non-profit to the absolute worst example of sociopathic Silicon Valley tech bro overreach.
I'm not clever enough and far too burned out these days to put the pieces together into a coherent narrative beyond, "Burn it all."
JP @daedalus@eigenmagic.net The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.
8:50 PM ⢠May 21, 2024 (UTC)
HighlandLawyer @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @tob @pluralistic
3:46 PM ⢠May 21, 2024 (UTC)
Tom Warren writing for The Verge
Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked in secret with all of its top laptop partners to ready a selection of Arm-powered Windows machines that will hit the market this summer. Known as Copilot Plus PCs, theyâre meant to kick-start a generation of powerful, battery-efficient Windows laptops and lay the groundwork for an AI-powered future.
These sound like they might be competitive with Apple’s M series chips. It’ll be interesting to see the reviews once they’re out.
Mark Hachman writing for PC World
Put simply: If youâve seen it, so has Recall â it takes periodic screenshots of your desktop every few seconds, which it uses to hunt down details. […] But the images it saves can be interpreted via AI. So if you saved a document, that document image can be âreadâ via AI, and it will extract the text.
There’s an app for MacOS called Rewind that does something similar to this. It’s a third party app though, whereas Recall is from the OS vendor meaning it may have certain advantages or capabilities a third party wouldn’t.
nixCraft đ§ @nixCraft@mastodon.social I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!
11:36 AM ⢠May 20, 2024 (UTC)
AaronDavid @AaronDavid@beige.party 8:48 PM ⢠May 19, 2024 (UTC)
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Iâm so glad public libraries already exist. Could you I magine trying to sell the idea of libraries to politicians in 2024?
âYou want to build a large public complex on prime real estate that gives away free books & education & community eventsâpaid for by our tax dollars? Are you crazy??â
2:56 AM ⢠May 19, 2024 (UTC)
For the first time I used Safariâs âListen to pageâ feature to listen to an article while I cleaned up the kitchen. It was pretty great!
I expect to see a bunch of âthe iPhone is powerful enoughâ takes in September when the new iPhone is launched.
Great write up from Ed Zitron on how and why Google’s search has gotten worse.
The thread is a dark window into the world of growth-focused tech, where Thakur listed the multiple points of disconnection between the ads and search teams, discussing how the search team wasnât able to finely optimize engagement on Google without âhacking engagement,â a term that means effectively tricking users into spending more time on a site, and that doing so would lead them to âabandon work on efficient journeys.â In one email, Fox adds that there was a âpretty big disconnect between what finance and ads wantâ and what search was doing.
Remember before the Vision Pro was released there were rumours about using Siri to develop apps for VisionOS. Given how well generative AI can be at programming and all the chatter about Appleâs AI efforts this year, I wonder if weâll see something around that at this yearâs #WWDC.
Iâve been wondering why everyone seems so interested in what Apple is going to do with regards to AI, or why thereâs so much reporting about how Apple needs to âcatch upâ to others in the industry. Are Apple users unable to do AI things on their iPhones? No, because the majority of AI right now is a cloud service, accessed through apps or websites just as usable on an iPhone as on Googleâs Android or Microsoftâs Windows. So why all pressure for Apple to âcatch upâ?