TheKarateKid

Or.. you can not have your bots crawl other people’s property without permission.

About a decade ago, the industry shifted from slow, carefully evaluated infrequent updates (except for security) to frequent, almost daily updates that are mandatory. I'd say this was pioneered by the Chromium team and proved to be beneficial. The rest of the industry followed.

Now we're in a position where most projects update so quickly, that you don't really have a choice. If you need to update one component, there's a good chance it will require that many more as dependencies in your project will require an update to be compatible.

The industry as a whole sacrificed stability and some aspects of security for faster advancements and features. Overall I'd say the net benefit is positive, but its times like these that remind us that perhaps we need to slow things down just a little and do a bit of a course correction to bring things into a better balance.

> I find this whole debate over what is essentially the background color of chat messages to be rather silly.

Are you aware that it's actually so serious that Apple officially uses it in their marketing? They quite literally say "iMessages are blue. So you're not." and most notably: "SMS texters will be green with envy."

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While I completely agree, I think we've seen enough to realize that something as powerful as what OpenAI is developing shouldn't be freely released to the public. Not as a product, nor as source code.

Dangerous and powerful things like weapons and chemicals are restricted in both physical and informational form for safety reasons. AI needs to be treated similarly.

Your mentality of expecting everything to be free is why there are no alternatives, and also why Google Reader shut down. Building and maintaining these services isn't free, so when people don't want to pay for it there's no incentive to actually make or maintain such service.

I was aware of the white background results, hence my other example query. Both yielded the same result.

7/25 = 0.28 = 28%. That's awful accuracy. Google would be out of business if their general search accuracy had a similar success rate.

Interesting how "black american family" yields results where not a single person in the result is anything but Black. I suppose Google doesn't think that blended families are possible for this query. Where's that 28% precision rate this time?

In addition to my comment about Google Image Search, regular Web Search results are equally biased and censored. There was once a race-related topic trending on X/Twitter that I wanted to read more about to figure out why it was trending. It was a trend started and continuing to be discussed by Black Twitter, so it's not like some Neo-Nazis managed to start trending something terrible.

Upon searching Google with the Hashtag and topic, the only results returned not only had no relevancy to the topic, but it returned results discussing racial bias and the importance of diversity. All I wanted to do was learn what people on Twitter were discussing, but I couldn't search anything being discussed.

This is censorship.

It has been known for a few years now that Google Image Search has been just as inaccurately biased with clear hard-coded intervention (unless it's using a similarly flawed AI model?) to the point where it is flat out censorship.

For example, go search for "white American family" right now. Out of 25 images, only 3 properly match my search. The rest are either photos of diverse families, or families entirely with POC. Narrowing my search query to "white skinned American family" produces equally incorrect results.

What is inherently disturbing about this is that there are so many non-racist reasons someone may need to search for something like that. Equally disturbing is that somehow, non-diverse results with POC are somehow deemed "okay" or "appropriate" enough to not be subject to the same censorship. So much for equality.

Draft mode usually entails both lower quality for speed and less ink/toner usage. But you don't need to sacrifice both.

Try going into the Admin settings of the printer - usually via the admin web interface of the device - and look for Print Quality/Density settings. You can set the printer to use even less toner/ink than Draft without having to sacrifice legible quality. So you'll be able to print in good quality while using less ink. And you can set it to use even less ink than Draft mode usually does.

I should probably clarify that I meant "known" by average consumers you'd see in a retail shopping mall, most of which at that point in their life have never owned or possibly even used a PC.

Reminds me of when the PCs on display at Sears, CompUSA, etc. would have their demo software running which didn't let you do the one thing you should do when buying a PC.. actually use it. So I used to CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill the demo software with the task manager. For the more stubborn demo software that would instantly relaunch, I'd then open msconfig, uncheck the demo software from running on startup, and reboot.

I remember the amazement and joy of other people nearby watching, who would then ask me to do it on their PC so they too could click around and play Minesweeper or Pinball :-)

Sounds so amateur now, but it's hard to remember that CTRL+ALT+DEL in the mid-90's was -- dare I say it? -- sort of a power tool that only more experienced users knew about.

> The ironic part of all of this is that while the EU may be forcing Apple into supporting RCS to fix the situation, Google has resisted every effort to extend RCS to their own Voice platform.

Google Voice has been in maintenance mode for years. It's unlikely that Google resisted adding RCS, but rather there's been no effort to actually do it.

The worst was when Google was turning a blind eye to advertisers putting entire TV episodes and music videos in ads. It was infuriating to have something playing in the other room only to realize what should've been a 2 minute ad break somehow has been going on for 10 minutes.

> They're just trying to catch up with Google in any and every way they possibly can

Except when it comes to AI, Google is the one playing catch-up to Microsoft/OpenAI.

You do realize that most of the service workers in major cities can't even afford to live in the neighborhoods that they work in right? They often have to commute from other cities or parts of the city which aren't at all close.

Perhaps this will make things go to how they should be, which means that you work locally because that's where the demand for your services is.

Let's not forget 4. Politicians

You have several from major cities (NYC, SF, etc.) saying on the record that they are going to speak to CEO's and push for RTO so that downtowns, local businesses, and neighborhoods can go back to "normal."

eBay controls the consumer reseller market. (FB Marketplace, etc. are designed for local, not national, sales)

Interesting. Where can I read more about this?

Well don't forget that was Apple's original intention with Lightning, including getting a commission on every cable sold. Remember when iOS would give a warning about "unsupported accessories" every time you plugged the phone into a non-Apple/MFi cable or charger?

The backlash from the public as well as pushback from accessory manufacturers had Apple quietly remove the warning and drop their plans.

Well at the time, there was something to celebrate for a new cable. Existing cables had huge connectors (30 pin) and in the case of USB micro had a life of maybe 1-2 years max from the pins and/or teeth wearing out.

The problem is that USB-C has nothing useful to offer over Lightning. Apple could've updated Lightning to support faster data if they wanted, and even then most people rarely use their cables for data anymore because of iCloud and AirDrop.

So this time around, it really is nothing to get excited over. I will even say it's a downgrade, because I have yet to experience a USB-C port that feels as strong and satisfying to plug in/out as Lightning.

Interesting. I always assumed that the immediate dial tone after origin disconnected in movies & TV was for dramatic effect to let watchers know that the person hung up the phone.

The Internet is becoming spammy and bad because of Google's rules for ranking. The fact that Google favors newer content and longer pages with filler text is why people are making the content lower quality.

Are the employees at Google working on Search aware of how bad search results have become in the past year or two? Literally almost everyone I know, inside and outside of tech, has noticed a significant downgrade in quality from Google search results. And a lot of it is due to artificially inflated SEO techniques.

You can never apply the "____ is more than enough" theory to technology. Remember when DSL felt as fast as driving a Ferrari?

> I think Evernote’s problem is that it should have just stayed a 1-2 person company. They ramped up costs, then pushed up prices, and customers mehhed out.

This is the problem with most VC funded startups. You have millions invested into an app that really is a glorified CRUD service that somehow ends up with a team of 500 engineers, and 3000 more employees. When it comes time to actually make a profit, these companies struggle because the value proposition simply isn't there for what they're offering.

Take GrubHub and DoorDash for example. Is a delivery app that is basically a glorified basic ordering system really worth 30% of the transaction? No. But someone has to pay back the billions spent on useless corporate bloat and thousands of employees.

It doesn't matter if the intent doesn't seem malicious. And if they had nothing to hide, why weren't they upfront about the data collection? Remember when we thought having all those Facebook "Like" buttons on every website was harmless until we learned the level of which everybody was being tracked without consent?

This is China's typical playbook. Purposely collect data in seemingly harmless ways, or intentionally leave wide open security flaws that they can exploit in the future. And when they get caught it's an "oops sorry, we'll fix it right away".

The worst part is that there is no consequence for this behavior. Google, the EU, and/or FTC should be lodging fines.

It doesn't matter if the intent doesn't seem malicious. And if they had nothing to hide, why weren't they upfront about the data collection? Remember when we thought having all those Facebook "Like" buttons on every website was harmless until we learned the level of which everybody was being tracked without consent?

This is China's typical playbook. Purposely collect data in seemingly harmless ways, or intentionally leave wide open security flaws that they can exploit in the future. And when they get caught it's an "oops sorry, we'll fix it right away".

The worst part is that there is no consequence for this behavior. Google, the EU, and/or FTC should be lodging fines.

FCP and Logic are highly optimized for Apple's CPU and GPUs. They fully utilize all cores and operate in a way that won't bring the general OS to a grinding halt if you're encoding in the background. Additionally, Apple updates these to provide all the latest video and audio encoding available on their devices.

Doing all of this requires significant engineering and licensing (Dolby) that comes at a cost.

Apple needs to at least adjust their iCloud storage tiers to match their phones. The jump from 200GB to 2TB is ridiculous and feels like extortion. The 50GB -> 200GB is also ridiculous because it can't even support a full backup of their base 64GB iPhone.

Microsoft tried moving away from legacy Windows with UWP. The long term plan was probably for UWP to replace core Windows with that.

Windows will be around for at least a few more decades until everything is a web app. But leadership under Nadella knows the clock is ticking and that's why they've moved their focus to making Office 365 (Office/OneDrive/Teams) and Azure their bread and butter.