You don't need to give it write access, in fact it's up to you what you give it access to.

It's just a toolkit.

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

There's absolutely no point in comparing different battery tests of the same phone. Comparing different phones with the same test, this makes sense.

Apple claims 27 hours video, this is a very different thing than using it actively. Others on YouTube have run it for 5 hours with YT streaming at 50% brightness and the battery dropping from 100% to 80% with that. That's just because video decoding is fully hardware-based these days and the SoC is nearly dormant then.

Whenever I hear someone talking about "x hours of battery life" without exactly qualifying what he does during this time I could scream.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

NYT's complaint is valid.

That NYT is willing to set the precedent that OpenAI chat logs can be subpoenad is incredibly dangerous. People have all kinds of private conversations with ChatGPT, and this will hurt all of us so that NYT can strike out at LLMs. The trade is not worth it. OpenAI is 100% correct to protect chat data.

they once had to buy a certain company called NeXT along with its CEO Steven Jobs to get a new OS after failing two times to develop one on their own.

But the real problem is that AI just NEEDS to run on cloud infrastructure since running it on the device is just inefficient, you'd need to stuff enough computing power and RAM into each of them to work any time even when it will be used only rarely. This means totally wasting money.

But privacy and data protection has become one of the main selling points for Apple in the last decade or so. They tried to bridge the gap with their "Privat Cloud Compute" approach, but this is so complex and hard to understand (and to implement) that nobody will really care, they will just see "all my data will be processed in the Cloud just as Google does it" and that's it.

I think this is the first time since a long while that Apple just has the wind of the future blowing right into their face. They find themselves painted into a corner just by circumstances.

Of course they could have led all of this anyway if they wouldn't just have bought Siri back then and then slept on it. So they're pretty much responsible for whatever happens to them now. Tim Cook isn't Steve Jobs. Never was.

The point I got really suspicious of Firefox was when I realized that they (and the for-profit and non-profit Mozilla companies) made an awful lot of money and somehow managed to get very little done with that.

I mean, yes. Web browsers (and email clients like Thunderbird) are complex, but soaking up literally billions of dollars a year should yield more if you'd pay developers with that. The last time I tried to follow the money I just ended up with being totally disgusted. Not that others are better, but Firefox isn't better either.

... that the industry supplying the military isn't at all interested in making simple, cheap drones that can be mass-produced for even cheaper. They're interested in making the most complex, expensive drones in small numbers they can still sell.

I mean, hobbyists and small companies have been throwing together lots of impressive and (necessarily) cheap designs for a long time. Lifting flight to extend range while still having hover and vertical take-off capabilities really is easy to do with electric multi-rotors.

Here's a design of an even piloted multi-rotor craft that turns from a (kinda) quadcopter into a (kinda) biplane without any tilting rotors or wings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's enormous potential coming just from having multiple electric motors you can finely control instead of either lifting flight with one or several forward thrust rotors or helicopters with one highly complex rotor.

This is SO obvious from all the fun toys you can buy now for very little money, but there's absolutely no incentive to turn this into a military advantage. Maybe just for the better...

Now they will be transparent too and I will hate them even more.

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.