A year or two ago my iPhone started showing ads for Kentucky Friend Chicken on the home screen. I've never been to this store, installed anything related to it, or even visited their website.

Apparently this is triggered by walking near a venue of theirs. Apple doesn't classify this as an app, it's a "suggestion". The huge sign at the mall that says "drink coca cola" is also a suggestion, that doesn't make it any less of an ad.

The App Store has had third party ad for years too. And the settings app has first party ads too. iOS is full of ads, it's the exact crap that users expected to avoid with Apple.

Sounds like either App Clips or Siri Suggestions based on location.

Yeah, but app clips don’t show up out of the blue unannounced and Siri suggestions show up on Siri widgets or the spotlight/siri AI, which have to be purposefully invoked/put there.

It's sad such a great product gets wrecked like this, literally against its creator's wishes, then gaslights us too.

These photos are terrible. They have incredible quality, but they're still terrible.

The amount of post-processing in them makes them look fake, like somebody took a photo of the background, and then photoshopped the subject on top of it.

I can't fathom how they'd consider "Private" something that uploads all the sensitive information in readable form to a third party service.

In fact, If I were asked to explain the opposite of private, I might give this kind of design as an example.

It's more un-fathomable if you recall Mozilla were the people who *pioneered* local browser ML as a privacy feature. Back in 2022—when Chrome was doing language translation by uploading to Google servers, and Mozilla introduced the (actually innovative!) idea of baking small ML models into the browser,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33792447 ("Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud (addons.mozilla.org)")

And look: they were 100% cognizant, then, of how vital local processing is to privacy:

> "...called Project Bergamot. The ultimate goal of this consortium was to build a set of neural machine translation tools that would enable Mozilla to develop a website translation add-on that operates locally, i.e. the engines, language models and in-page translation algorithms would need to reside and be executed entirely in the user’s computer, so none of the data would be sent to the cloud, making it entirely private."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on... ("Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot")

Even more un-fathomable, Mozilla's CTO has been writing a substack with the underlying theme of "if the AI isn't running on your hardware, you don't own it" https://newsletter.ownersnotrenters.com/

They're still 100% cognizant! And yet.

You cannot ship on device inference with a real LLM still. Average people freak the hell out if it's even 10% slower than whatever google ships. At least thats the claim for how Firefox lost all their marketshare in the first place (Which was not the case. When everyone was claiming firefox was "slow", it simply was not, as long as you used an ad blocker. Normal people like my dad didn't switch to Chrome. It was installed through a sketchy mechanism and they never noticed)

Meanwhile, if you CAN run these models locally, using your own hardware for inference is supported. It's a setting option.

Google still blasts you to install Chrome at every opportunity if you use their services, and is heavily optimized for Chrome (e.g. Docs, YouTube). That's not really Firefox's fault.

This isn't portable though, it's a GNU-specific "smart" things. Elsewhere, this overwrites the target device file.

Redirection doesn't overwrite device files, so

  cat foo.img > /dev/sda

works and should be portable. No control over the buffer size, though.

And no printing of progress either.

How exactly is cp not portable?

Whatever behaviour you’re describing is not how POSIX mandates cp to work. In fact you can do this with busybox too.

cp will open("/dev/sda", O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC) and simply start writing to that file descriptor.

It might not be about banning minors and just an excuse to get government ID / biometric face scan.

A dice roll is non-deterministic.

Replacing a six-sided die for an eight-sided die also keeps rolls non-deterministic.

That doesn't mean it's fine to just replace the dice mid-game.

Sure, but they are replacing same generation model to another not just switching opus to gpt.

But it’s more like them swapping Opus 5 for Sonnet 5.5 or something. IMO OP’s right to argue against it.

The requirements for the third party app-stores are completely ridiculous and unreachable by 99% of the individuals and organisations out there. In practice, only vetted partners with huge resources can operate one.

You can get the same result by appending to your prompt "Avoid verbosity. Assume ADHD.".

My understanding is that's basically all this does.

Thousands of lines of text just to add one sentence to the prompt.

Some brands have TVs share Wi-Fi with each other, so even if you don't connect it to Wi-Fi, your neighbour's TV will silently share with yours.

Which? All I've seen over the years is people repeating the same rumor.

This is an assumption that since Amazon Sidewalk exists, smart TVs must have something similar. There's no proof, and I think if it were happening without being documented it would be a huge scandal.

https://hister.org/ sounds like something you'd appreciate.