That's the part that perplexes me. I can't say I have followed the Vision Pro that closely recently, but at least in the early days, it was very locked down. There are large parts of the system (sensors) that I understand are still not accessible to 3rd party apps. I remember reading several VR developers who were trying to port software from the Quest to AVP and simply couldn't.

To me it would have made sense to open it up entirely. Porn, video games, emulators, whatever!

Are you unsure what "agentic" means? Generically, agency means, more or less, being able to do things. An agentic AI program (ChatGPT in agentic mode, OpenClaw, Claude code) can take actions without being controlled by humans. This is also sometimes called an autonomous agent, but "agentic" has become the dominant term over last year or two.

If you were to try something like Claude code, for example, you would see that it can run shell commands, grep through a source tree, edit files, run git commands, compile, execute, review output, edit code, compile again, etc.

Your post is confused as it assumes that LLMs looking for security vulnerabilities are -- in your words -- "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough. (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail."

That is false. The LLM models in an agentic system are doing more than just looking for "defective code patterns."

LLMs can perform source code level analysis, but they can also, in agentic mode, run fuzzing tools, scan for open ports, write a custom program to attempt to fuzz or exploit an open port, review the output, modify the code to try again, compile, repeat, and so forth. Multiple instances of agentic AIs can do this for many hours and more.

As I've said multiple times before Gweihir, I really don't know if you're trolling or not. You've seemed at least somewhat informed before, so I'm really surprised you didn't know what agentic means, or what has been possible with these tools. ChatGPT agent mode has been out for about a year, and Claude code for a bit longer.

VisionOS 26.4 added support for foveated streaming. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple and Steam have been working together on this.

Then again, Apple's treatment of the Vision Pro perplexes me, so who knows what Apple is doing there...

Nice to know that Greg Kroah-Hartman doesn't know what's talking about--you should let him know that you've cracked that nut, since he is actively working on understanding the situation.

That is not an accurate statement. The current round of discussions are centered around projects that in large part are agentic. Source code analysis is only one of the detection methods that is being used.

Disregarding the furthest extreme radicals on any side of a philosophical debate may generally be a good thing! Though, to be fair, sometimes it is the radical extremists that drive things forawrd. Kind of like the Overton Window..

Look, it's not complicated. Disregard everything that Sam Altman says. Disregard both the furthest extremes of the "AGI is here and sentient" / "LLMs are Godlike!" and the "LLMs are trash that are not useful and aren't going to improve and are a passing fad" (gweihir). All of the above are not insightful.

Everything has changed. ChatGPT-3 was released in 2022. Everything HAS changed since then, and LLM technology and models have improved dramatically in the last 4 years. Why would you not expect statements like "that used to be true, but not anymore" to be problematic? Humans couldn't fly, until they we could. We couldn't visit the moon, until we could. Changing your baseline assumptions is part of human progress.

That's not what TFA said. It said "a family of three." That would, on the average, be 2 adults and a child. Two incomes, one dependent. Maybe that's what you're saying, but "supporting 3 people" makes it seem like you're talking about dependents.

Hah! It's so beautiful...

Not doubting this, but are there really 3.1 dialogs? I can think of multiple control panels and other screens that haven't seen much change since NT4, but my memories of 3.1 dialogs are getting hazy at this point!

Yes! I get the feeling there are more than a few people on Slashdot (and elsewhere) that just don't get this. Over the last few years I've had multiple Gen Z coworkers for whom installing the desktop version of MS Office is _literally_ the first software they have installed outside of a mobile app store.

I have a distant family connection to Santa Fe and have visited a number of times. Lovely place.

What always strikes me is the history of the city and region. Founded in 1610, it's one of the earliest European cities in the Americas.

When reading the history of American Indian sites, so many of them prospered at times for decades (or more) and then declined with ecological shifts, i.e., droughts. The greater regional area had a population in the thousands or tens of thousands at most, and that fluctuated widely. The population of Santa Fe was as low as 5,000 people at the start of the 20th century. It was a small place! But, that's probably, realistically, a lot closer to the actual carrying capacity of the land.

Desert. Too many people. Not enough water.

Something has to give!

China has been a great success story in many, many ways, but they have now passed the point of "easy gains." Central planning, as with all things, works--until it doesn't. In retrospect, it seems like they held onto the one-child policy for too long.

China's population is massive and has historically been massive (relative to the rest of the world). When the Founders were signing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia (population circa 30,000) and the 13 British colonies had a population between 1.5 and 2 million, China's population was probably over 300 million. Anything that happens in China is massive!

China should be commended for their efforts to grow the middle class, though I feel the evidence is not entirely there yet. China's population percentage that's middle class is still dramatically smaller than the EU, US, Japan, etc. Potentially even Russia. (The Soviet Union is another great success story for pulling an absolutely massive people out of literal serfdom and into the middle class.)

Today, China's total fertility rate is reported as one of the lowest in the entire world--0.93 in 2025. And that's if you believe the reported numbers. East Asia is being hit very, very hard by crashing reproductive rates. It's happening all over the world, but China, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, etc., have just crashed.

Stagnating can mean many things (population growth, cultural growth, scientific growth) and I'm talking specifically population as the rest is downstream of that.

I wonder how this is different from....child actors and actresses? Child beauty pageants? Etc. Plenty of parents financially benefit in some way from their kids. Could, or should, Macaulay Culkin be able to get Home Alone taken down? I don't know.

I'm all in favor of allowing now-adults to clean the slate. I think your philosophy is a good one, and it's one I try to follow.

A guy I know has a troubled kid. He posted so many intimate details of that kid's life from birth through age about 15--everything from daily happenings, getting in trouble at school, what special needs camps the kid was attending, how upset he and his wife as parents were, what kind of events triggered the kid to have meltdowns, etc. He was also a paid blogger for GeekDad and way overshared there too. I was always appalled, but it took the kid basically telling the dad to fuck off and stop broadcasting all the details of the kid's life before anything changed.

Some (most?) people just cannot handle social media.

I'm also a happy Apple One subscriber. I will have to check it out again. Thanks!

Apple Maps was truly bad for many years. I switched from Google Maps maybe about 5 years ago. I try out Waze and Google Maps again every now and then, but at this point I generally prefer Apple Maps. I rarely find any large routing differences. In my neighborhood, Apple Maps is actually more correct. I've submitted a correction to Google Maps probably a dozen times (over more than a decade) for a road listing that is just totally wrong, and it's never changed. I submitted it to Apple and it was fixed within about 3-4 months.