To be fair, it’s the most interesting story the verge has covered in about, well, as long as the verge has existed.
This is a big deal - it’s going to shape the entire tech industry for the foreseeable future. And it’s going to drag on in court and probably also congress for years and years.
Apple is the target of the lawsuit but the DoJ is also telling every other tech company what rules they need to operate under. The last decade of “just do whatever you want” is over.
I don’t think it’s an oversight at all. The rule is Google can’t do anything on the platform that the competition is blocked from doing.
If there is no store, then google has no advantage.
As for removing features from a product - that’s a different issue entirely and I expect compensation will be in order. Refunds for anyone who bought a Fitbit for example.
Trust me - we hate him more than you do. Which is probably half the reason he migrated to America about 50 years ago and almost immediately renounced his Australian citizenship. He's all yours.
Huh? I'm pretty sure it was Paramount Pictures - Crocodile Dundee was an American movie, set in America, which happened to have an Australian actor.
Australia's national hero the year that film came out was was Dick Smith. A rich businessman who used his fortune at the time to pay for high profile TV and newspaper ads that said "Smoking kills our kids".
By contrast - the star of Crocodile Dundee was also a star in TV ads encouraging people to smoke. He's no hero.
I thinking of using a VPS to do the actions because it would be running for a while before my debit card gets cancelled.
Your debit card could be cancelled very quickly. But most VPS providers allow you to pay in advance, so you could maintain something like $100 credit with the provider... which goes a long way if they charge $5 per month for example.
Tradies may make more by opening their own company
That's where glassdoor is misleading. The best tradies are not employees - they do contract work and you might, for example, charge a thousand bucks to fix a shop's broken window. And it might only be one hour of work.
Anecdotal, but my brother does tree maintenance. His minimum callout fee for a day's work is $2,000. And he often earns more than double that for one day's work. He does have relatively high costs, but his income is way better than what I earn writing code.
We're both at the stage in our career where it's time to stop being an employee and start running our own company and believe me, his company is more successful than mine. Early days still but my money's on him earning seven figures per year very soon.
He's so much more successful than that if my business fails, there's a good chance I will end up working for him. I'd be on minimum wage for several years while I learn the trade but I think it might be worth it long term and I can eventually pull my connections (the boss being my brother) and get promoted to being a manager with a cushy job driving a company car between job sites.
AFAIK under elevated temperatures, it degrades nicely. At typical soil temperatures it slowly degrades into methane which is a greenhouse gas - not great for the environment... but it's still a hell of a lot better than plastic.
As bad as methane is, at least it has a relatively short life before it becomes Co2 and ultimately is absorbed by trees/etc and re-enters the cycle of life. Plastic on the other hand is really nasty toxin that often ends up in the ocean and causes long term damage.
The TLDR is methane needs to be managed, we have to make sure we don't produce too much. While plastic should just be illegal. We should never produce any plastic, at all, for any reason. It's going to take a long time but that's where we have to go.
Yes, re-usable cups are better than a commercially compostable cup. Use re-usable cups if at all possible. But like it or not some people just aren't going to do that, and commercially compostable cups are a hell of a lot better than plastic. Even if they don't get composted, and you send them to regular landfill, they are still a million times better than plastic.
If I ask an LLM something like “is there a git project that does <something I’d describe in natural language but not keywords>” or is there a Windows program that does X, it may make up the answers
Obviously it depends on the LLM, but ChatGPT Plus doesn't hallucinate with your example. What it does is provide a list of git projects / windows programs, each with a short summary and a link to the official website.
And the summary doesn't come from the website — the summary is a short description of how it matches your requirements list.
I've also noticed Bing has started showing LLM summaries for search results. For example I've typed a question into Duck Duck Go (which uses Bing internally) and seen links to reddit where the answer is "a user answered your question stating X, and another user disagreed saying Y".
I'm encountering hallucinations far less often now than I used to - at least with OpenAI based products.
I'm sorry but the fediverse is full of instances that block other instances. Blocking an instance is not bad behaviour on the fediverse.
If you don't like Threads, don't use it (I'm not using it), and if you want to use an instance that blocks Threads... you're welcome to do that.
But what I don't get is the idea that threads is somehow trying to kill the fediverse. All of the evidence is to the contrary. Meta wants to exist in a federated world. That doesn't mean they will allow access to all content on their corner of the fediverse, nobody wants that. All instances block some other instances and threads has every right to make their own choice about who to block.
Apple provides up to six terabytes of cloud storage (for a monthly fee, obviously). And if you have a family account, individual members of the family can pay for even more storage (by default though, the entire family has a shared pool of storage).
But yeah — I'm pretty sure Apple ProRes RAW video can be hundreds of gigabytes per minute of footage. If you're choosing that then yeah, you're going to have to find another cloud provider. And it's going to be very expensive. Most people don't shoot video in ProRes RAW though.
My full photo library is huge — terabytes, and i have a bunch of large apps (especially games) on my phone that I never play - it automatically removes them but leaves the icon in the launcher. It'll simply re-download them if you do tap the game. And if the game is well designed, it won't be a single download - it'll be a minimal download for the game then within the game each level or area of the game will be downloaded separately as you play.
I have a 64GB phone, and the storage management makes sure I have 20GB or more of free plenty space for large video recordings, software updates, etc etc. If I had a 2TB iPhone, I'd probably have the same 20GB or so of free space since my photo library is that big.
I guess it would be nice to be able to look at a photo I took six years ago and not have to wait a tenth of a second for it to download. But I'm not willing to pay for that. Even if more storage cost 10 bucks, I wouldn't be willing to pay.
The legal aspect is crystal clear. It's blatantly illegal to ban entry based on gender with very few exceptions (such as toilets or domestic violence shelters). I expect the court will be angry that it even went to court at all.
The purpose of a judge is to settle disagreements. When both sides of a court case agree with the facts, then there is nothing for the judge to do, and it should not go to court at all. It should be settled out of court.
It's likely to be a really short case "did you have a policy to ban men?" "yes". "case closed; moving on to damages"... but the thing is, even though the meat of the case will be over almost instantly... there will still be weeks of work done in the lead up to the case, by both legal teams, but the court, by the judge, preparing the jury if it's a jury trial, etc (imagine how angry your boss would be if they had to give you paid time off work, delaying project schedules, over this case).
If you want to make a political statement, the court room is not the place to be doing that. At a minimum I'd expect the court to force one side to pay all of the legal fees of the other side, and on top of that the court might charge them with abuse of the court process which could result in punitive fines and also discipline against the lawyers involved (they could even be banned from practicing their craft). Judges don't have a sense of humour and they are not interested in political debates.
That wasn't what-aboutism, I was just using an analogy to make a point.