I don't know if it's plain volume or some more subtle characteristic of the noise; but I'd suspect that there's more to it than noise alone; given how rare(and often slightly disconcerting in practice) genuinely silent environments are and would have been in evolutionary history.

Even in totally undeveloped areas where you and your little teeny band of hunter-gatherer pals are the only thing going the wind is always up to something; some combination of birds and insects will be doing their thing depending on temperature, if there's a body of water of any size or moving water you'll hear some flow or wave action.

Could be pure intensity; a lot of modern noise is quite intense close to its source; could also be something about how it is interpreted and how readily it is or isn't discarded as background vs. forcing some amount of constant active attention.

If you're using your Google Account to sync your TOTP keys across devices using Google's Authenticator app, you need some way to sign in to Google for that.

It's more about the type of leasing. Something like a corporate or educational IT lease happens without these sorts of features because the customer has particular preferences about opex vs. capex or depreciation or whatever; but that do actually have money. Apple already does that(not sure if directly or through distributors like CDW and SHI, or both).

Building some sort of MDM system that allows you to lock people out of certain apps in order to encourage them to pay up something this week is a different flavor of leasing; normally used on customers who are at the "deciding which bills go un or underpaid this time" level. Apple has, historically, not dabbled in this area.

To an extent they probably do; and may even be correct to do so; but what would concern me is the shift to hard technical enforcement when, in practice, Apple already does a fairly massive volume of contract-based leasing and other payment over time mechanisms. Fleet hardware sales, the financial structure of all the "free" with 2 year contract iphones that go out, etc.

If you are building all sorts of locks in, including ones for hassling the user rather than just keeping stuff from falling off a truck and getting parted out, there's a strong reason to suspect that you are looking to tap, um very subprime, credit risks who you'd never lease something with just a contract; or that (since the 'App managed features' seems to be aimed at 3rd party financiers/resellers) that you are dipping your toes into the really nasty, high-touch, "block tiktok until they scrape up a payment for a portion of a debt that would be hard to collect normally' end of the market. Same as the really really, unpleasant used car places that install remote immobilizers because they know that there are times when your need for your car will seem more urgent than your other bills.

It's absolutely not the the case that there's no money there; some outfits are quite successful at soaking the poor; but it's hard not to provoke questions about either what margins you are thinking about accepting in the future or how saturated the market is among the customers you'd really prefer by preparing to dive in to that end.

The moon has a left wing bias to these folks, because if it's not a very narrow and unintelligent subset of American culture, then it's woke or left wing bias or something like that.

Why the fuck shouldn't you be able to sell a book for more than five years. Authors do that AND continue to write.

If you're looking at it as if they will be forced to make money somewhere else and you'll have more creative works because lazy writers will now be forced to write more and more to make enough money from writing? That most definitely will not work out. When do authors stop writing, for fuck sake man, you didn't think that through all the way did you.

Holy fuck people complain about sequelitis NOW, eeeeezzzuz... In no possible fucking way does your plan increase creative output. That's all you'd get is increasingly more derivative slop, more and faster.

If you want "as dumb as possible", the search keyword for that is "static site generator". Then you can redirect /wp-admin/ to Automattic's front page.

What are we going to use to handwave all the 'officer involved shootings' now that the claim that you feared for your life in the face of an imminent threat is no longer plausible? We can't really put these to work until we've decided on suitable legal cover!

People still develop new games for the Master System (which uses a Z80), the Genesis (which uses a Z80 as a sound coprocessor), and especially the Game Boy (whose Sharp SM83 CPU isn't exactly a Z80 but is similar). And they're selling these games both as ROM filess on itch.io and as cartridges.

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Yah I mean eventually I was going to ask a remote server about every little problem on my computer so it might as well just take a full copy without my knowledge, fuck it yolo, hahahaha. Why would just the chat transcript on my screen that is obviously sent to the server be the boundary, copy everything else too, same diff.

My point is we have lots of utilities that use remote servers to do work, and it's generally understood that the inputs sent to the server are now on someone else's computer. An AI model is no different than how "itranslate.exe --spanish lemonade stand.txt" might work. There's no excuse for copying everything else to some server along with the actual request, that's malware plain and simple. There may be a fine line between that and say you working on *.txt without thinking it through all the way, but that is a very solid fucking line.

JFC, it's even worse, it's like running itranslate.exe in interactive mode and then having it send all your files out because you asked how to say hello in Spanish. Imagine hearing dickheads on /. say well... the translation services are online so ... the fuck you say?!?!

I would say we can chew bubblegum and walk at the same time, but that is definitely not even a technical problem in need of a technical solution.

Dude... how do you compare reading a published book without paying for it to copying the contents of your computer to a server without your knowledge? The problem isn't if a model was trained on your tax records it's that it copied them all without any indication and they're all available to some random grok engineers if they weren't already thanks fucking DOGE.

One IS a copyright question whether you like it or not, the other is straight up malware. Due to the nature of how these things work we know anything in the chat session is on their server already just like anything you paste into a Google prompt is. The checkbox to help them train their model is a pinky promise and we all know it but we know what we're sharing and what we're not. Just because it's in a git repo doesn't mean it's public or ever will be.

The same author who's published books were read and used without his permission (the horror) just had his unpublished works and private notes copied and uploaded to grok because he was smart enough to track things in a git repo and used the tool for a creative brainstorming session. Whatever, same thing right, lol.

I'm glad to see that we have moved past the era of 'bugs' or 'defects' and are now anthropomorphizing undesired behavior as 'honest mistakes'. Truly progress is glorious.

No, not all models hallucinate in the way you mean to the same degree or frequency. Like the other person said, a more useful way of looking at it is that's all they ever really do. They converge on the truth by reaching a logical consistency with the facts. They don't know what the facts are but they can generate some from their training, like how we say something from memory without thinking about it. They can look up potential facts by reading things, same as you can. Or you can tell it. With external lookups, your input, and its own output as it's next input, it iterates and generates more output that is hopefully logically consistent because that's how it's been weighted to use our language. The same way we use our language to think, you don't need it but you get a lot of utility out of it that way, that's what powers the intelligence of a LLM, distilled human language logic.

So it's not something that ever gets solved, not in an LLM, not in us. We never really know anything, we just say shit that makes sense, and if it doesn't we say it again until it does. We have a more complete model, of the non-language world around us and that gives us an advantage, but that's all any mind is and can ever be, an incomplete model of reality.