watchOS 10.2 "safari" bug question (please answer)
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seems like is just a matter of time for the techbros to perfect these tools
Techbros don't understand art and they are never going to figure it out. These tools will be perfected by artists who choose to embrace them.
Anyone who doesn't embrace it... yeah those people are in trouble. AI can already do this:
Nobody is going to pay wardrobe, make up, set design, special effects (oh, and not to mention a child. Man are they a headache to work with on a photo set) to create something like that now hat it's possible to do it quickly and cheaply.
The tech isn't there yet, but it will be soon. In particular when AI is combined with software like RenderMan which is the current state of the art in photorealistic computer generated graphics. Tom Cruise didn't fly a jet in Top Gun Mavericks - they rendered all of that in RenderMan.
No need to worry about viruses
I've encountered viruses on Linux servers. It's definitely something to worry about.
Even if viruses do infect a Linux system, they would have little to no damage. By default, Linux systems run with restricted user permissions and access, which can still be even more hardened using SELinux and AppArmor to the point that each application can be isolated from one another. Making the infection spread impossible.
True - those do help. By the way this is something MacOS does better at. For example the / filesystem is mounted read only. You literally can't write to it at all (software updates get around this by creating a new snapshot of the disk, writing to that, and then rebooting telling the firmware to use the newly created snapshot... which it will only do after firmware level integrity checks against malware). Software, by default, has almost no access to the write to even parts of the disk that the user has access to. It also can't access the internet or printers or bluetooth or cameras or any of that. Access to these things works much like a firewall - there's a white list of things the software can get to. And even then, there are some things that still can't be reached (for example your camera can only be accessed if the user grants permission).
Safer files
Eh. I don't think Linux is any better than other operating systems at that.
Compared to other operating systems, Linux is not resource-hungry. Meaning it used less RAM and CPU usage
I disagree. MacOS is more efficient... a Mac with 8GB of RAM and a slow CPU is generally going to be better at every day tasks. Ever heard that Macs have incredible battery life? That's because they're efficient. I'm pretty sure the CPU in my laptop is technically capable of draining the battery in about 45 minutes, but in real world use I get about 18 hours of battery life out of it - because the software works really really hard to keep CPU idle. On slower hardware that translates to excellent performance.
Sure - install the right software on a Linux system, it won't need much in the way of resources... but on MacOS you can run modern state of the art software efficiently - a lot of that comes down to low level features like GCD and ARC. Both of which can be used on Linux (they're open source) but in practice you won't find any software that actually uses them. On MacOS pretty much everything uses them.
Free to use; Flexibility
100% agree. That's where Linux really shines (I think you should have lead with those) and these are the two reasons I run either Linux and MacOS for 99% of my computing life. I even have Linux VMs running on my Macs most of the time. Use the best tool for the job (I even have a couple Windows PCs, though those are rarely used).
Anyone with access to root cert can decrypt the data
Not directly no, but it could be combined with other attacks to potentially decrypt your data. Maybe.
The root certificates are used for the primary proof that the server you're talking to is the server it claims to be. It's not the only protection so just this alone wouldn't generally be enough to decrypt anything. Also if your traffic does go to the correct server... then having the root certificate doesn't allow them to decrypt it.
It's a complex system and difficult to explain all of it, you really just need to learn how every step of the process works and also how each one can be compromised, to fully understand any of this.
As I understand, OpenAI’s structure is similar to Mozilla’s, so a non-profit steers a for-profit.
Right, that's my understanding too.
But there’s the massive difference that OpenAI’s for-profit takes on outside investors. That is where Microsoft has invested.
Does that matter at all? Microsoft is a for-profit business, investing in a for-profit company and hoping to make a profit. Seems pretty straight forward to me.
As such, control over the for-profit really isn’t in the hands of the non-profit, because obviously, they have to satisfy whoever gives them money.
They have to satisfy whatever terms where in the contract signed when Microsoft invested. From what I can tell, Microsoft basically just has IP rights to the software any patents. They don't have any control.
In particular, it also means that unlike in Mozilla’s structure, where the for-profit is ‘neutered’ in that it can’t pay out profits to anyone, this really isn’t the case for OpenAI.
That's not true at all. Mozilla pays about a quarter billion dollars a year to their employees for example. They absolutely can and do user their money to pay other people.
There are strict regulations on how a non-profit can spend their money, but they absolutely are allowed (and expected) to spend all of the money they have. Generally, a non-profit is required to clearly define some purpose that benefits the community somehow (it could be helping kids with cancer, or helping elderly people get to their doctor's appointments, or building a better Internet (Mozilla), or trying to create AGI that benefits all of humanity (OpenAI)). Whatever your purpose is, as long as the money is spent on that it's fine.
However, the for-profit arm of OpenAI isn't a non-profit. So it doesn't have that same limitation.
Again, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if OpenAI is legally in the clear here... but I will say that I don't see any major problems. I also don't think it would really be the end of the world if the EU declares they're a for-profit enterprise. In fact I'm not sure it would change anything at all. There's nothing wrong with running a private company. You just might have to pay a bit more tax... but since OpenAI doesn't actually make any money... they don't have to pay any tax anyway.
It's also entirely possible for them to be recognised as a non-profit in some countries but not in others. Different countries, different rules. Not a big deal.
SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.
I'd say the "holy grail" is to move away from lithium entirely and instead move towards capacitors or hydrogen fuel cells. Both are far more promising, however right now they're quite expensive and heavy.
In the case of capacitors, essentially you have two pieces of metal very close together. The closer they are together without touching the more energy you can store (the size of the metal pieces also matters - larger being better). Capacitors are old well understood technology, and in a laboratory setting you can make ones that are far better than a lithium battery. Getting that out of a lab and into mass production is more difficult and the best we have right now are quite heavy for the amount of power they store. Still, they do exist, and they work very well. A lot of electric trains, for example, will charge a capacitor when the train slows down for a station, take on a bit more charge while stopped at the station, then use most of the energy to accelerate up to speed. They might also get a bit more charge from overhead wires while travelling down the tracks.
In theory, a capacitor can charge or discharge instantly. In practice providing that much charge isn't really practical, so it's easier to charge them a little more slowly... but still way way faster than a lithium ion battery which wouldn't even be able to do regenerative braking on something as heavy as a train - that's just far too much power coming in.
Hydrogen is actually technically very light. Just 1kg (about 2lbs) is about the equivalent of the battery in a lot of EVs. However the equipment to convert that energy into motion at the wheels tends to be quite heavy and expensive. Costs are coming down however, and the Japanese manufacturers (Toyota/etc) seem to think it's the right way to go. Time will tell if they're right... but it seems like right now the biggest problem with those is just that there's nowhere to buy hydrogen - compared to an EV which you can charge pretty much anywhere. Even in your own home. There are also prototype hydrogen aircraft. Something lithium will never be able to do.
My prediction is capacitors and hydrogen will both eventually displace lithium batteries. It's more a question of when than if... I wouldn't hold your breath though.
I still don't see how jobs are at risk. Worst case scenario, Musk is forced to resign. Why would it all the other contractors?
They're not a majority stakeholder. They invested $13b and a lot of that wasn't cash, it was just credits to use Azure.
That's more money than anyone else has invested so far, but it's only about 2 weeks revenue for Microsoft and not even close to enough to fund OpenAI.
Wether or not they're a non profit? I dunno. OpenAI's structure is pretty unusual.
Um, what? No. We know the board were behind the CEO firing, and MS was part of cleaning up the mess the board created.
Coming from an i9? An M1 with 8GB of RAM would be significantly faster for most things.
Look - the reality is it's not going to be clear cut. How much faster it is will depend on the individual task you're working on. There are massive differences and not just in terms of architecture. For example the i9 tends to burst at high speed then throttle to a much lower speed. Apple silicon tends to start off sipping power and ramps up to high speed only after you've given it a sustained workload.
That makes them really hard to compare on a benchmark. Apple Silicon tends to really shine on tasks that take 15 minutes to complete (those often take hours on Intel). The Intel chip tends to shine on tasks that take just a few seconds (and a lot of the popular benchmarks test those, with deliberate breaks to let the CPU cool down).
On a Windows machine you'll have faster, more expensive RAM devoted to graphics (DDR 6) and still-very-fast (but not as fast) RAM devoted to memory (DDR 5). Apple's Unified memory is all the fast expensive type which means the graphics will be borrowing your main memory (though it's the slightly slower and less power-hungry kind sort designed for laptops).
Apple uses HBM memory, which is very fast, though exactly how fast depends on the model:
- An M3 Max will have HBM3 running at 3.2 Terabytes per second
- The fastest i9 Apple ever sold (sounds like you have that) used 2666Mhz DDR4 running at 90 Gigabytes per second
- That's 35x faster.
But an even bigger difference is in the caches. For example your i9 probably has 16MB of L3 cache (newer i9s have more, but you're not using a recent model right now). The early Apple Silicon chips had zero L3 cache. Instead they had massive amounts of L2 cache. More L2 than you have for L3. And L2 cache is a lot faster than L3. It's also obviously orders of magnitude faster than 2666Mhz DDR4 (which is what your i9 will use for a lot of operations that are in the L2 cache on a newer Mac). The M3 models still have more L2 cache than your i9 has L3, but on top of that they also have a bunch of L3 cache (again, more than you have now).
And when you're comparing DDR4 to L2 cache you'll see real world performance for common operations, such as low level memory management in the swift language, being thousands of times faster. Sometimes ten thousand times or more.
And of course there are some things that are slower. Once it all comes out in a wash though, I think you'll be really happy with whatever you get. Why not just try one?
It was a few minutes after takeoff so they were still over a populated area. Hardly surprising that it was found... also if it landed on grass I'm not surprised it's undamaged.
Essentially if you combine hydrogen with oxygen, you get water. This chemical reaction happens naturally when the two are exposed to each other and produces heaps of energy which can easily be controlled and used for anything else.
One way to produce hydrogen is to take water, and heaps of energy, and "split" the water into hydrogen and oxygen. You can just release the oxygen into the air (since you'd be making too much to sell it).
The cost largely comes down to where you get your energy from. As solar gets more and more widely deployed, some countries now have more energy during the day than they can use - the price of power in those countries is not just close to zero sometimes it's negative. The grid will literally pay you to use the electricity during peak production. Since it's cheaper to provide power than shut down infrastructure that will be needed again in a few hours.
At that point, all you need to produce hydrogen is water. The power is free. And it doesn't need to be pristine water either - ocean water is fine.
Hydrogen itself is perfectly clean - it produces water or steam. The debate over wether or not it's "clean" is all about the energy used to produce it and that is changing as our electricity grid moves to zero emission power sources. One of them being hydrogen — which is a great way to fill in gaps when solar and wind aren't producing power.
It's FUD. There's literally more than a dozen different ways to produce hydrogen.
Yes, right now, the cheapest options are some of the "dirtier" ones, however the cost to produce zero emission hydrogen is coming down rapidly and fossil fuel produced hydrogen is going up in price.
The two are expected to cross over in the next few years and green hydrogen, typically using solar power to split seawater, will be the cheapest way to produce hydrogen and nobody in their right mind would get it from any of the more expensive sources.
Right now there is nobody in the world doing large scale zero emission hydrogen production. However a bunch of massive hydrogen production plants are being built right now and clean hydrogen is expected to become widely available starting next year. Several of the plants opening in the next couple of years will produce hundreds of tons of hydrogen per day. With zero emissions.
Keep in mind this is a trial of a fuel-cell powered data center. They're just testing the technology to see how well it works, and if it works well, by the time they actually start deploying it widely they will be using hydrogen that has zero carbon emissions.
OK but what monopoly do they have? I can't even think of one, let alone two.
Windows, for example, is about 29% of web traffic, putting them in second place behind Android... and Apple is also bigger than Windows if you don't split the fruit companies operating system up based on wether or not it has a touch screen (seems like a silly distinction to me).
There are clearly three players with about a third of the market each in the OS space. What's the other one? Microsoft Office? Isn't that like 20% of the market?
I think it's the exact opposite.
Microsoft was arguably the most powerful company in the world when they were hit with the antitrust lawsuit which absolutely crushed the company. It was never going to destroy Microsoft, but it knocked them way down and things were looking pretty grim.
They cleaned up their act, have been making great decisions for the last 20 years and are now a far bigger and better company than they ever were in the old days. I think that's proof that being "parasitic, anti-competitive and anti-consumer" was a bad strategy.
I think it's more than just outsourcing. You can do outsourcing right...
I've read a report ages ago that they outsourced it to companies half way around the world with a terrible timezone overlap, which made it impossible for people at Boeing to collaborate effectively, so corners were cut to meet deadlines.
The fact they cut corners to meet deadlines is particularly concerning. They should have just accepted a delay.
I've switched to the Arc web browser, where tabs behave more like bookmarks (and they replace bookmarks as well). It's been a game changer for me - my favourite feature is the ability to close a window and it doesn't remove any of your tabs. Just open a new browser window and they're back. My tabs are also more organised than ever.
Large Language Models, specifically ChatGPT+, are now part of my daily life and I'm not just talking tech. For example I use it in the kitchen every time I cook a meal I haven't made a thousand times before and I've been cooking better than ever. Unlike a recipe website, you can tell it you don't have (or don't like) a particular ingredient and chat about alternatives, then it will update the cooking instructions. Love it.
I've given up on streaming music services, and gone back to occasionally buying a new DRM free albums. This has been part of a general cost cutting theme to my year - especially monthly bills.
Consider a typical afternoon commute for a parent - you go from work to your kids school to some after school activity (different destination every day) to a few grocery stores then back to the after school activity and then finally home. If you have three kids... now you're going to three afternoon activities. And maybe two schools as well.
Sounds like it'd take about 5 hours with public transit, especially since for some of those you'd literally be getting off the bus stop, then 5 minutes later be back at the bus stop waiting for the next bus. Kids aren't allowed to wait at bus stops these days... whoever is looking after the kid will only release them when the parent comes in to pick them up. Often the parent even has to type their password into a system that checks if they are approved to pick up the kid (most kidnappings crimes are committed by family, often a parent, and staff aren't expected to keep on top of that... so they use databases).
I love public transit. But major cultural changes would be required for it to be my main form of commute.
And with a plugin model Prius... you won't use the ICE power unit at all on a typical commute (25 mile battery range on the current models).
Yeah just sounds like a bug you're going to have to wait for Apple to fix.