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Can gauge it for myself. You do you.

I certainly will not be equating Apple to Google or Microsoft.

For now.

Sure. But I am allowed to compare now to yesteryear, and on my own scale the differences are humungous.

You have my attention!

But in this day and age, I need to understand more about intentions, and what sustains projects like this.

For the moment I've settled on Safari simply because Apple makes its billions elsewhere, even if I am increasingly disappointed with how they are playing along with politics right now.

DHH seems to be driven by bitterness at Apple charging for inclusion in their walled garden. Fair enough, his choice. Interesting he includes his paid email service bundled in Omarchy.

Lots of truth there. But it's certainly worked wonders for the top tier of Indian society, being able to farm out labour. Akshata Murty certainly has had a fair slice of the cake, for example.

How the world has changed.

Ah, maybe! I am lost reading this page with all the terminology

Complete newbie here - some questions, if I may!

This stuff can run on a local machine without internet access, correct?

And it can pretty much match Nano Banana? https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/blob/...

Also -- what are the specs for a machine to run it (even if slowly!)

Nowhere in the title does it compare to other tools? Just that's it's damn good.

(novice question)

64gb is pure RAM? I thought Apple Silicon was efficient at paging SSD as memory storage - how important is RAM if you've got a fast SSD?

Overall I think this is as positive - protecting the system from being hit heavily 24/7 and with multiple agents from some users might make the system more sustainable for a wider population of users.

This one thing that bugs me is the visibility of how far through your usage you are. Being told when you're close to the end means I cannot plan. I'm not expecting an exact %, but a few notices at intervals (eg: halfway through) would help a lot. Not providing this kinda makes me worry they don't want us to measure. (I don't want to closely measure, but I do want to have a sense of where I am at)

True. Open graph images imply the expectation of it being used by third parties, and as others have said - they chose a little guy to bully but would never do this to X.

One of the worst things to happen my lifetime is equating social responsibility to evil communism. (yeah, it's recurring throughout history, but today especially)

Sounds like this person knows what good governance is, even if he is throwing up his hands.

So they've spent 8 years unearthing it, I assume? It's pretty obvious to see from those photos, but 8 years ago it was buried?

Grok can't tell a computer game from a real military action, and Elon has no interest in adding disclaimers to that over-confidence. His main interest seems to be tweaking the algorithm to his preferred anti-woke stances.

But sure, let it tally your Tesla share evaluations.

I think out social media is very actively influenced by certain regimes. They are rotting us from within.

Yeah. I believe Moscow props them up and has platformed them, but not because of any secret intelligence - it's the opposite: they are installing this exact chaos.

It's murky. NASA outsources a lot of money to SpaceX because Musk could burn through risk and money at levels NASA would get cancelled for.

At what point is SpaceX's benefiting from tax money and NASA technology become a reason to fold into a national asset.

China didn't achieve its Great Leap Forward by pandering to wealthy celebrities who cosplay as geniuses.

I wish I could set Safari to use this as the search

Not sure why they limit the choice

No idea why this is trending? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plexamp is pretty OK, btw

is there a link to the competition results page?

I don't trust them at all. The amount of traffic to various domains is incredible coming out of their desktop apps.

But mostly, when they first started the subscription model I wasn't furious about it - until I realised I was stuck on a yearly plan, and I'm usually pretty good at detecting when I'm being tricked into that. A part of me doubts I was ever asked correctly.

I feel like he's addressed it well in the article.

It's a good article, but let's not pretend it's about protecting meme privacy.

I feel many of us in the IT world have stood along side this descent in real time, because technology has been an enabler (far from being an equaliser). We were mostly mute because of money and traction.

Well after Tucker fluffed Putin, kinda makes me wonder if they put the right person in solitary.

The confuddling thing to me is how did we have years of decay and no ability to head it off.

If we are at a point where the FBI is being dismantled, where was the FBI this whole time during the build up?

Even if you believed the FBI was some evil deep state entity - it turns out it was completely benign one because it couldn't even defend itself from an approaching enemy thousands of yards away.

At some point in every project you may need to assess if the leadership is becoming detrimental to the goals. For a project to succeed, there must be willingness to openly review leadership.

Is there a way to block YT ads just with entries in /etc/hosts?

I've looked but never seem to find a way..