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I used to work for an IoT connectivity provider (think SIM cards, eUICC etc); I know that some of the manufacturers of various devices have been investigating adding cellular and soldered eUICC (ostensibly for diagnostics, warranty etc).

So it's not even that it won't be long; I'm sure they already have designs and are just waiting for eUICC support to catch up.

It's sad - I have an old Nokia branded scale and it's honestly still working great. The app itself got bloated and has performance issues - and became less useful.

I built my own server for home last year, all consumer hardware (AMD Ryzen, 96GiB RAM, NVME SSD, HDDs etc). Total cost was ~£3,000 at the time - £6000 up front cost for a business seems reasonable; and you could get away with less.

However, the main cost would be colocation - it's risen quite a bit.

I got Claude to set up 5.1 Surround Streaming from my Linux Desktop to my Steam Deck using Moonlight. It needed some help (or really human ears) to make sure things were coming from the right speakers - but it was pretty much a one-shot.

I think a lot of people are missing some of the advantages of skills - they're to give an agent/harness the knowledge of how to do something or more context without it always being part of the prompt.

This could be to try and expand the capabilities of the model but in it can be used to store personal preference/workflow/organisational knowledge/improved efficiency etc. The harness could work through and build some of this on its own - but it's much more efficient if it has a document it can just look up. I use them for the database structure and it's quirks, how to use branded document templates, external document tone, system workflows, compliance requirements etc.

I wouldn't want these to load every time but being able to call them is really useful.

If its not automatic it's incredibly shaky ground in the EU. I'm sure Apple, Amazon and Google got more than a slap on the wrist just for storing a few seconds after the wake word before.

Not a lawyer but it wouldn't be under the DMA - these rights predate the DMA by a while.

The EU actually has a very good, privacy protecting way of doing this based on zero knowledge proofs.

Unfortunately they completely botched it by having the proof-of-concept app rely on Apple & Googles integrity APIs - which a bunch of countries copied.

It's pretty awful, generally best avoided unless you have a specific reason for doing so (e.g. encrypting the full SQLite DB per customer). It also introduces you to some pretty bad risks (what if there is a bug in a migration which only affects certain tenants?).

That being said it can be done and it's pretty normal for mobile apps, desktop apps etc. You just have to make sure the migrations are run when the tenant connects/unlocks/runs the app - and make sure that you minimise the risk of it going wrong!

So done a much deeper analysis - there is an loader injected at the Wordpress side which triggers a read of a payload from a smart contract on the Ethereum chain. It stores this in localStorage, registers a ServiceWorker etc so it is persistent.

It then spins up the ClickFix attack - limited to one time per day. I haven't dug into the payload given by the ClickFix attack yet.

For people that have visited while it exists:

1. On Chrome go to chrome://serviceworker-internals search for crookedtimber and unregister the ServiceWorker

2. On Firefox go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, search for crookedtimber and unregister the ServiceWorker.

If you want to be even safer - just clear all local data for CrookedTimber.

Doing a bit of digging too - it also filters only to users running MacOS or Windows and skips everything else which is why it will be invisible to the devices I tried it on.

I'm not getting it at all! I'm guessing something about my environment has caused it to cloak itself.

Do you have any browser extensions enabled?

I've seen similar before where it wasn't the page itself that injected it - rather it was injected by a compromised/sold extension that has permissions on all pages.

More unhinged - but a lot of people preferred it that way. To be really clear it's still pretty unhinged and even a decade ago it was much more unhinged.

I was so confused by the title - I thought jets were fairly efficient at ~40%-50% of theoretical maximum and turbofans can't be that far behind. It would maybe make sense for a single prop aircraft.

30% improvement makes much more sense.

I think it needs some more explanation - Fable is 0.42 from itself apparently so Kimi K3 is basically indistinguishable?

It was a pretty bad time - ARM wasn't really encroaching on any of their markets in the way they are now & AMD was struggling. Intel basically just left the engineering to rot & the business people to try and gouge consumers with things like the Intel Upgrade Service, low power CPUs that were essentially just normal cores but less rather than optimized, inflated prices etc.

It also allowed AMD to completely blindside them with Zen - so we're in a situation where AMD now dominates consumer desktop and arguably a lot of enterprise/DC instead of it balancing towards a more competitive centre.

In some EU countries - it could be seen as retaliation if you sue for something and then Google closes your accounts, some EU countries have strong protections here.

More importantly for Google though it's under extra scrutiny under the DSA at the EU wide level - so it doesn't have a clear right to not do business, it has to do terminations correctly with clear reasons set out in terms, there are mandatory notice periods etc.

User fatigue is UX concept and can be measured.

I'd be surprised if squircles reduced user fatigue though - I think a good adjacent example is Googles new icons with the colours that all look similar. Users were complaining immediately that they had to look harder to find the correct app.

Another thing we use everyday - fonts - have differentiated visual spacing and shapes make them easier/quicker to read. So it would make sense for this to apply to icons that serve a similar purpose on a smaller scale.

I would argue that there is somewhat a research edge - there's no reason to think Chinese labs aren't incredibly capable in research though, look at all the recent papers from them on things like efficiency.

I mean yes - I think you are also confusing the axes of the political compass somewhat. Freedom of Speech, civil liberties etc are the Y-Axis - here Xi leans authoritarian.

China actually has some pretty radical left economics policies - like pushing money/resources etc towards state owned entities.

Not really - it's not a PC.

I would argue that all 4 of these that you have mentioned can be handled with relatively small models very well.

The real question is what situations are the flagship, larger models useful in and will that produce enough demand.

So as far as I can tell, they can't do this as it's based on equivalent full-charge cycles - so that's nice at least.

> I don't trust sleep mode to not keep running and overheat, so I wait.

People have been expressing their dissatisfaction at Windows Updates strategy for so long - Modern Standby was so badly implemented it basically cooked laptops in bags and while leaving users wondering what was happening. I had to reflow a laptop because of it.

> Macbooks with 1TB drives are getting cheaper every day.

Also high-speed external storage is very accessible now - so having large built in storage for your DAW isn't really necessary. The 1 USB 3 port on the MacBook Neo is more than fast enough for this.

> Music production on Linux isn't really practical.

I would somewhat disagree with this. Linux has much better low-latency, multi application audio support than Windows & Mac now (via JACK) and some pretty incredible native DAWs like Bitwig - so the moat certainly isn't as large as it used to be. I would say it's practical if your workflow doesn't require features of Mac/Windows or tools specific to those platforms.

As impractical as it would be for normal users - even Ableton works pretty well under WINE.

> Competition is great. But this is about the Mac Neo( and left over M4 Macs crashing in price ). Desktop Linux is still a challenge.

I think between this and they've maybe had a bit of a scare from Valve and SteamOS - because that's historically been one of their other big moats. They kicked off a similar initiative to make Windows nicer for gamers back in December.

I agree that desktop Linux is still a challenge - it's better than it used to be and you can get away without a terminal now if you're just doing basic Internet/Office tasks. In a lot of places the UX can get pretty gnarly.

I've been using it through OpenCode Go and it does seem decent in my limited experience. I haven't done anything which I could directly compare to Opus yet though.

I did give it one task which was more complex and I was quite impressed by. I had a local setup with Tiltdev, K3S and a pnpm monorepo which was failing to run the web application dev server; GLM correctly figured out that it was a container image build cache issue after inspecting the containers etc and corrected the Tiltfile and build setup.

So you don't even need Android or iOS for this feature and it's been a thing on certain headsets for a while; both my Sony headphones and buds do this.

It also has an integration with the phone which can add GPS awareness but it works fine without it in my experience.

I feel like a lot of this is just Googles tooling - if you're using Antigravity/Gemini CLI and then use Claude Code it feels like a huge difference. I can say from experience though (using Cline + OpenCode) that they are really close.

The harness is just much better on the Anthropic side.

Mostly similar - sometimes better, sometimes worse. It's not 2005 anymore.

I believe a whole host of VPN providers have no real need to comply with this amendment if it passes the Commons.

The providers are structured in a way that makes forcing compliance difficult and have built their whole business model around this. NordVPN is registered in Panama for example and Mullvad lets you send cash in the mail and doesn't store any user details (even a hashed email).

It'll be interesting to see how & who reacts if it does pass.