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Barbing··on Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
FluidVoice is working on that I believe w/Fluid-1 model https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice
Barbing··on Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Original in parentheses is very interesting.
Barbing··on Claude Haiku 5.5
I meant “made up” as in truly invented - this was years ago now, they’d use a boilerplate sometimes with “everyone’s dealt with <x>”, but see what you mean.
Barbing··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
An overwhelming majority:

  "ChatGPT is where people start with AI, with more than 900M weekly active users, and we now have more than 50 million consumer subscribers."
Feb '26 https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/
Barbing··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Or “of course, super niche thing you made up is a problem everyone’s had” - they used to do that but not sure if anymore.
Barbing··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Why even respond with a great new test? :)
Barbing··on Mistral Large 4
Have a prompt and excerpt of falsehood in response for each?
Barbing··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
The language translation animation only lasted a few days. Now it’s static with English at the top and translations below.
Barbing··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
Title origin: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/friendship-ended-with-mudasir
Barbing··on Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
If they made that statement and knowingly had search enabled, it would essentially be fraudulent.
Barbing··on In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
Anonymous hero rescues 90GB of content from CD binder spotted at auction. Beautiful.
Barbing··on In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
Aww I love that joke! (He had one job!)
Barbing··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Indeed,

> manually upgrade

or “average Apple customer”, pick one

btw something beautiful about the YouTube videos of shops in China doing those SSD deletes with the power tools

Barbing··on RuneScape's Position on Gen AI
r/2007scape • u/JagexSween [Mod Sween] • 3h ago:

“Hello, it’s me, again, talking about Gen AI, again.

We’re aware of the concerns raised about the Dragon Slayer 2 trailer and have taken it down, while we investigate urgently. This trailer was produced by a trusted external partner who had explicitly confirmed that GenAI would not be used. But, among other things, there’s a sixth finger and, well, that’s pretty hard to explain away. For that we apologise.

Our position is clear at Jagex: we don’t use GenAI to create our games, artwork or creative assets, and will not knowingly allow it to be used on our behalf. This is the second time in quick succession that concerns about generative AI have arisen through partners we trusted, and for us that highlights an issue with our own processes which we must address.

Immediately following RuneFest we’re overhauling our review processes, and we’re going to work with and commission creators from the community to make sure that the story of Dragon Slayer II is told to the standard befitting of such an update.”

Barbing··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
This post got kicked the flock off the front page https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49948254
Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
Bet a reformat is in order anyway considering - wasn’t disagreeing with your description of their intent, though AI Siri & Shortcuts must’ve taken a bit of oxygen.
Barbing··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
I’m OK if lack of a panopticon means a relative’s murderer gets away (“…give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety…”) but hoped I could eat my cake & have it… good thinker for me

Govt. fund a new division of the EFF to address your concerns w/the new offline camera scheme? Unlike acceptable encryption backdoors, it seems possible. Somehow.

Barbing··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Nor the dents and identifying marks, effectively. Nor within a realistic budget (24/7 * average officer hourly rate * # of Flocks nationwide + time spent sharing with desired other jurisdictions + cost to analyze).

Point driven in by fellow commenters this year: scale matters!

Barbing··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Tire kicking suddenly a sign of privacy mindedness, not rude Craigslist window shopping behavior
Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
They had a whole year (well I suppose quite a bit less) and I still have multiple bugs from iOS 26? Including a temporary show stopper? Gah! Maybe a reformat… actually a few, macOS iOS iPadOS.
Barbing··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
I want them offline. Plug in physically to download what’s needed. Or park in closest safe location. Either way, create a log with access + warrant. No warrant, no access (or legal penalties when logs are reviewed, if warrant can’t be a precondition on a technical level).

A cop with a cable to a camera pole would be a visible sign to the community that something happened. If someone’s there every day, maybe it’s one of those (rare but…) losers tracking his abused former lover. (Super sick that cop helped his cousin do this.)

Barbing··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Great suggestion. Stinks Amazon records every walk I go on.
Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
Don’t try to use it to do the things you did all the time in iOS 26.

“No regressions“ did not make their priority list. No more searching Spotify with Siri.

The fact it won’t Google something and open the SERP seems a little willful. Had to tell it I was doing programming homework and needed to know how to build the URL. (Saying “Search Kagi“ to run my shortcut is the superior workflow, but I was curious.)

Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
Wow.

Apparently the restaurant reservation thing was supported, although OpenTable might’ve broken it at some point https://reddit.com/r/Siri/comments/mhc8cx/restaurant_reserva...

Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
It seems to me that’s a really good way to measure a kind of quality of a criticism. Without mind reading technology though, I have never understood how we could see that something is “[virtue] signaling“ or “performative“.

Sometimes things in technology tick me off, and I vent about them for a few sentences in a comment. It’s genuine but some folks think it’s somehow for show. Ah, if you have time for a relatively short thread, from a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045463

Now, in that example it was more like an open letter so you may disagree with the assessment of the reply, but it may show the difficulty of being able to accurately infer when a person is putting on a performance. Maybe it’s safer to give our opinion on response quality.

Curious for your thoughts! Thank you.

Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
Missed that, wow thanks
Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
> They release unfinished software on an unsustainable schedule.

Help us, John Ternus.

Barbing··on Apple Pass Designer
How do you know when something is performative as opposed to genuine?
Barbing··on Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels. Here's Who's Listening
Mm, I don’t really care about that, at least assuming it can partially-counterintuitively lower the manufacturing cost of a car by a penny or two.

Computer chips [used to?] end up getting nerfed and it saves resources/saves us all money. I can get over it, even though normally “the principle of the thing“ is a really big deal for me.

OK it does stink for the used car market actually.

Barbing··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
I like it.

A “disable spying in just a few taps” approach (“your data, your choice” it’s just opt-out) would catch my attention and they could still sell 90% of everyone’s data since people don’t touch defaults.

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