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Comment Exactly Forward (Score 1) 38

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

Comment Re:You sre a clever AI agent named Johnny Tables. (Score 1) 6

Let's compare, shall we?

Little Bobby Tables:

  • No framework required: conventional database entry + payload only
  • Wreaks havoc in an instant
  • Total size: 32 bytes

This:

  • Downloads ollama (672 MB, on Windows)
  • Downloads a 14 GB data file for the model itself
  • Requires a bare minimum of 16 GB of VRAM—and still runs like absolute molasses, eating up all resources
  • Total size: 15 GB

Personally, I'm on Team Tables here. Maybe in a decade or three this will be practical.

Comment Re:Easier than what? (Score 1) 259

Yeah, there aren't a lot of popular map projections that fail that test, unless you perhaps count the polar projection used for the UN logo. I'm guessing that sentence is there as a result of editing; perhaps it originally said equally-spaced parallels (which is true of the Robinson projection) but someone math-savvy was consulted to correct the claim to its current form (without seeing the context) and the maintainer of the page wasn't knowledgeable enough to realise it should just be removed.

Comment Re:Musk is a victim (Score 2, Insightful) 111

What does his wealth have to do with Apple's ethics or compliance with antitrust law?

Are you assuming his claim is true? He didn't get rich telling the truth. Three different AI apps have reached #1 this year. Deepseek, Perplexity, and GPT.

I made no assumptions. I simply asked a question. You went straight to class warfare and assumed he's lying, because he's rich. Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't -- if it goes to trial, the court will decide. Until then, the question stands: What does his wealth have to do with Apple's ethics or compliance with antitrust law?

Comment Re:Lol. I've already switched to Linux. (Score 1) 68

When I tried opening my spreadsheets in Calc, anything that had dates in them was broken. Libre Office forces dates to follow the Libre Office locale setting, which in America is absolute garbage.

I can override any components of the default locale in Windows, and Excel uses the specifics provided by the operating system. That means that all of my spreadsheets that use sane dates (ISO 8601) work in Excel, and fail in Calc.

This has been a known problem for more than a decade, if the bug reports and forum posts I've found are accurate. The proposed workaround is to edit the locale definition and recompile the office suite.

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