Given they can run full MacOS on the system, it seems like a software exercise to have the phone detect and run an appropriate OS interface for the form factor.

That said, they'd need a different iPhone anyway, for the same reasons this laptop is so limited, you couldn't implement a compelling 'dock' via external connection with this hardware.

Indeed, as of 5G they stopped just saying 'faster and better', now each turn of the crank they feel like they need some 'narrative' to rationalize faster and better.

With 5G the buzzword du jour was 'Internet of Things', and accordingly 5G was going to be needed because everything would have a cellular radio, and 5G was only really needed because of that, *maybe* a whiff of AR/VR too.

6G *of course* the buzzword is AI...

Your problem is thinking of this as a technical situation, but it's business posturing instead.

Anthropic has pretty much monopolized the vibecode bros and has near exclusive credibility, with Github Copilot getting some attention thanks to Microsoft business relationships, VSCode, and Github clout, but largely only because they explicitly give access to Anthropic models, so you can use AI-augmented familiar workflows and UIs with Anthropic's models.

It also is turning out that vibecode folks are the ones first in line to throw money at the AI companies, so OpenAI's lack of credibility is a damn near fatal issue. So since Microsoft was able to weaponize Github to get some clout in the vibecode world, clearly OpenAI needs to make a whole new Github to give them a shot.

This court case hasn't gone that far, it said a wholly computer generated work is not subject to copyright, not that it disqualifies any work that contains it.

From what I'm seeing, I fully expect that a creative work that contains some AI in it will absolutely still be considered copyrightable, just that people can consider the AI generated portions of it to be public domain if it contains no elements from then in particular...

Weirder, if you took a human generated original character and had an AI generate animation frames... I suspect the derivation of the human content would still be subject to the copyright (otherwise, you could just launder copyright infringement through an LLM)

This specific case was a generation from allegedly nothing at all and entirely composed of procedural computer output with no claim of human inputs whatsoever.

True, but good luck proving someone *only* used AI in a creative work. You have only their word to go on and even if you have *obvious* LLM artifacts, they could always claim they did it on purpose, or that they added some human crafted elements to it.

That ship sailed with GPT-3, before 'ChatGPT' was even a concept. If you jumped in with ChatGPT, you started from that state from the onset.

Yeah, I think this nails it, that the issue is the people wanting to do stunts of saying a 'machine' holds the copyright.

I suppose the decision can play a factor if someone can prove a work is *wholly* generated despite a holder's claim that it is at least partially human created, but good luck doing that versus the 'author' claiming any generated output that matches now is an artifact of the models having ingested their content.

I think the catch is that you have to:
- Be able to prove that the subject is AI generated
- That you have to be able to extricate the AI output from any human curated elements

Here it was easy as the person said the work was wholly generated. Once you have it as merely part of a whole, it becomes difficult.

What's sad is that even though many local officials absolutely should know better by now, they at least act like they don't. I can forgive when hyperscalers started build out and the local governments had a certain square footage to employment ratio in their mind and folks didn't know better, but it's been published time and time again about rural municipalities saying the jobs don't actually appear in these facilities.

They can claim the very temporary construction business, but longer term they traded some viable real estate for a job-dead facility that is mostly valuable to people well away from the facility, with the local community getting essentially zero benefit for their trouble.

Space is pretty much the least viable option.

The burden of hosting 2 or 3 of current GPU servers in space would be solar and radiator profile the size of the ISS solar and radiator. So the plan to go to space suggests hundreds of thousands to millions of facilities the scale of the international space station being put up there.

Meanwhile, at least based on how things are around here, there are *plenty* of local city governments that will let the datacenter operators roll over the local community no matter what the community says. *Somehow* the datacenter operators have a bigger vote than the local populace. The politicians will extract some concessions and spin in to the people best they can, but ultimately there are far more profitable prospects in their life than securing re-election.

Well, per the summary, three separate AWS facilities were hit.

But...

Yeah, based on history, that's far from guaranteed. Particularly for places that see cloud hosting as a cost optimization, they tend to cheap out beyond all reason.

Also this, AWS has even recently had outages due to some of their infrastructure being non-redundant and pinned to a specific site.

Recent had a non-technical executive give me "ok, but I got an LLM to spit out a 'hello world' that manages to execute the simplest, most basic operation, so maybe it's ready to displace people now".

It's *really* rough how much software development has people who don't understand the work at *all* in charge... Giving a very reasonable and open assessment of LLM gets them to nod sagely, but it's clear they are thinking we are underselling LLM because they assume we are just covering for our jobs...

Don't know for sure about Apple, but it is *absoultely* a think to have USB-2 with USB-C. USB-C is a mandated connector but there are still cost reduced controllers that skip USB-3.

Skipping USB-3 allows you to ignore 8 of the USB-C pins.

Lightning never moved on from USB-2 levels, and I remember some article saying that was at least going to stay the same for their first generation of USB-C phones, that it was basically going to be the same controller, just wired up to USB-C instead of lightning. Don't recall where I read it, but I recall a rationale that they didn't feel like phone users transferred data over it.

Hey, just because your company does all it's work on Z80 assembler doesn't mean the rest of us can ignore x86...

But seriously, other than an academic exercise, I agree that virtually no one does assembly. Especially misguided if someone thinks their hand-written assembly likely consistently beats modern compilers for a lot of code.

Unclear how much the bubble is floating the market versus sinking others as it goes.

The 25% functional unemployment number is actually pretty low by the standards of the last 30 years. In the late 90s it was low 30s, getting to about 27% before 2008 hit pushing it back up to low 30s, and then it managed to touch 25% again as COVID spiked it, and yes, after COVID it went all the way down to 23% and so it's a *hair* higher than then, but 25% is actually, over the course of the last 30 years, a pretty typical value.

I'm willing to believe another rise in unemployment is coming, but it hasn't hit severely yet.