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varispeed··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
They are selling whatever you want to buy.

I've seen shops in London that don't even bother having any products on display. Just many blokes and a till.

varispeed··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
All devices have such backdoors.
varispeed··on Mac at any scale
"willing" renters, because corporations are buying up the supply.
varispeed··on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
I'll wait for Apple Supremeintelligence in macOS 29
varispeed··on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
I upgraded and this system is a dumpster fire. Lags, random crashes, performance issues, random CPU spikes...
varispeed··on Mac at any scale
So they buy up the machines, likely create supply issues (add waiting time etc.), then rent them out at premium?

People are outraged landlords doing that with housing.

Yet someone such rent seeking behaviour is acceptable?

Get fucked.

varispeed··on GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum
Probably AI came up with the naming scheme ;-P Maybe they used Gemini for that or copilot.
varispeed··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
That incentive works both ways. For instance employee sneaking in a security hole and then selling it to a mate so they can collect the bounty.
varispeed··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
Should be given $5-10million under NDA. No headlines.
varispeed··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
Indeed, it's like "here peasant, have this fortune of $5,000, may it change your life". Pathetic.
varispeed··on Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
Isn't that the same with e.g. human brain? Computer program can compute billions of equations, whilst human will struggle with just one.
varispeed··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Imgur is not available in the UK due to censorship.
varispeed··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Here they offer no finance for over £5k. Crap.
varispeed··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I bought a laptop for a relative and didn't realise it doesn't have touchscreen. They complained for a day and I often saw them try to touch the screen and then being disappointed it doesn't work. Week later they never mentioned it again and use the laptop just fine.

When I was buying them a second one and asked about touchscreen, they said they don't care anymore for it, so second laptop also was without touchscreen.

varispeed··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I like how I can see its screen quality on my screen.
varispeed··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
It's not justifying an upgrade. Shame there are no finance options for M5 Max 128GB.
varispeed··on Genie 4
What is this for? I cannot understand these models. They are very much polluting the internet with nonsense and use capacity that people and businesses need for actual work.

If these are the cause of why I have to pay 2-4x I used to for a computer, then Google should go fuck themselves.

varispeed··on SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
Because these are normal instructions.

If you do multiplication using mul instead of loop and add, is it acceleration too?

varispeed··on SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
Why is it still called SIMD-accelerated, if these are now just normal instructions. You just have to take a little bit more effort into restructuring your algorithms to make use of them.
varispeed··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Well, if we didn't have corrupt regulators, Google would have been fined out of existence ages ago.

That said it will be interesting way of exploitation. If you want to find people who have certain email content, you can serve them ads manipulating them into taking an action. Like buying a scam product / malware.

varispeed··on Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
They could implement Grapple Store and then clone most popular apps.
varispeed··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
They guess the next token based on probability which is derived from training data.
varispeed··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Many exploits are used by security services, so this gives time to wrap any investigations or surveillance or find another method of accessing target servers.
varispeed··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
If AI "uncovered" it, that means it was already in the training data and likely exploited in the wild.
varispeed··on PHP 8.2.35
Why they can't publish an expoit so people can run it against their own servers to check the impact?
varispeed··on The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck
I think people in the West have little experience living under totalitarian regime.

Typical ways of overcoming censorship is creating own lingo, so that it goes past censors or distribution of physical leaflets, underground press and organising resistance offline.

varispeed··on Voxtral 3
Thank you!
varispeed··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
That reminds me of hotmail's 50GB limit that cannot be changed. This created so much pain for some non-technical people I know (missed important emails, then having to spend days deliberating what to delete etc)
varispeed··on Voxtral 3
How can I download the model to try or am I misunderstanding something?
varispeed··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Probably simplest solution is to keep current behaviour and get a second iPad for notes.
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