I am unconcerned about default search settings - that can be changed to DDG.

I am far more concerned about things where there is no option at all to disable. Windows 11 doesn't allow turning off telemetry, for example, only turning it down. Actually, Microsoft in general is far more of a threat than Google/Alphabet is to privacy. All of Windows 11 is spyware. They bought Github and trained their LLMs on GPLed code and use it to produce derivative works without having the resultant code be GPLed. They bundle their products together, taking advantage of their monopoly status in the OS area to push dominance in other areas. Why does Windows 11 need a key shortcut to launch LinkedIn? Oh, Microsoft does. Why is it near impossible to remove OneDrive? Why does Office increasingly push all of your documents into the cloud, where they can violate your privacy? We know the answers to these questions, but I guess the DoJ is happier now with 2024 Microsoft than they were with 90s Microsoft, even though what they are doing is much worse, now that Microsoft is doing what they were supposed to do all along - bribe politicians with campaign donations.

Itâ(TM)s also better for anything where you want results from your country. If I search for (for example) âoesoldering ironsâ I get a bunch of reviews (fair enough but probably all AI generated nonsense), and then results for lowes, Amazon.com, and McMaster Carr.

All of those would be fine results if I were in the US, but Iâ(TM)m not, and DDG knows it. These are its results for someone in the UK.

That wonâ(TM)t help if itâ(TM)s stuck in their throat. In fact itâ(TM)ll likely make the problem worse - instead of a hole in their throat, now you have a hole in their throat filled with acid, and bacteria.

You realise that thereâ(TM)s a natural human developmental stage where literally everything the kid gets its hands on gets stuffed in their mouth?

Thereâ(TM)s no teaching them not to do it at that age, itâ(TM)s just something that they do. And no, you canâ(TM)t watch them literally every second of the day, itâ(TM)s simply not possible.

Weâ(TM)ve given it thousands of generations, evolution hasnâ(TM)t taken care of it, because thereâ(TM)s far too many random threats that donâ(TM)t occur often enough to exert evolutionary pressures.

Did you know, that itâ(TM)s literally not possible for a human to watch another one for literally every waking moment. There are other things that need to happen, like going to the toilet, or cooking food for both you and the child youâ(TM)re caring for, or â¦.

Blaming parents for not looking at their children every literal second is insanity.

Moores law says nothing about the speed you can run the transistors at. Only how many you can fit onto a given area for a unit price.

...that China has abandoned capitalism. The "owners" could at least collect money for the company with a sale. Funny that China should be so upset that the US is doing to China what China did to Jack Ma.

I mean, generic AI hardware is good at accelerating by far the majority of a transformer. Itâ(TM)s still all just a bunch of matrix multiplies, just⦠a *bunch* of them. That said, it surprises me that Apple havenâ(TM)t thrown more into making their neural engine more powerful.

No mod points today, so instead I'll just tell you that you owe me a new keyboard because this one now has coffee all over it :)

No - thatâ(TM)s the universe expanding at a constant rate. If you stretch a sheet evenly all over, and then observe from a particular point on that sheet, youâ(TM)ll see the relative expansion being faster the further things are from you. Whatâ(TM)s being proposed here is that the cosmological constant can vary both in terms of time and space.

Iâ(TM)m pretty sure at this point being extremely old tech is the point. If they stuck sure modern microprocessor in there that could do actual real computation in a meaningful way itâ(TM)d be hard to get exam boards to accept students having them during exams.

That said, the price is ludicrous and clearly only based on schools requiring exactly that model.

That proves the exact opposite. That's how we know, without any doubt, Apple has complete access to the backups: they handed them over to the FBI without complaint.

However, they were stale, as the phone hadn't been backed up for a while, and the FBI wanted them to unlock the phone so that they could get the more recent data. That's where Apple refused to help the FBI.

In the end, the FBI didn't need Apple's help, they were able to root the phone due to one of the many zero days in iOS.

Which is why it will be complete shit.

People seem to forget this is pretty much the entire reason behind Apple's "privacy!" marketing. Their phones don't protect your privacy: by default, everything is backed up to iCloud along with the key to decrypt it. They hand that over to any law enforcement agency that asks. Pretty much every official Apple app is opt-out when it comes to privacy, the default is that it sends all your data to Apple.

But when people point out that iOS voice recognition is terrible, or that Siri is constantly getting worse, or that these new AI models are useless, their excuse will be that they couldn't train them or use as large a model to "protect user privacy."

Never mind that they're already spying by default.

The idea that you need 1000x the mass of propellant to get home is false. The 1000x multiplier is true on earth, but not on Mars with minimal atmosphere and much less gravity. You need about 3 times less delta v to reach orbit from Mars than you do from Earth. That means you need 20 times less propellant, and thatâ(TM)s before taking account of atmospheric drag.