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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that...

rottingleaf ,

I still can’t fully accept that 1GB is not normal, 2GB is not very good, and 4GB is not all you ever gonna need.

If only it got bloated for some good reasons.

rottingleaf ,

but a heavy prosecution of him would definitely have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers

As if the last decade plus of his life were not enough for that. Better than a life sentence, yeah.

rottingleaf ,

I’m confident ChatGPT is sufficient to replace Slutsky.

rottingleaf ,

At which point exactly? Seems a rather fat one, spanning over 20 years.

rottingleaf ,

Apparently the percentage of people actually understanding what they are doing in the management part of the industry is now too low to filter out even such bullshit.

rottingleaf ,

Well, maybe it’s good they’ll die finally.

rottingleaf ,

SG-1 vibes really.

rottingleaf ,

No. They are still capable of pressure typical for oligopoly (censoring out mentions of their competition, tactically buying out things which could help that competition and shutting them down, defamation, lobbying for laws directed against their competition).

Unless that happens too fast for them to realize.

rottingleaf ,

I don’t remember anything ever in history undermining faith in the free - from regulation, but not from jailing crooks, - market.

It’s not as if anything lefties claim to be that were free. And when one talks about what is needed to make it free, one can hear screeching of the “reeeeeee useful idiots for capitalism reeeeee you just want poor people to die reeeeee we should all vote for 8 hour work week and peace on Earth reeeeee what do you mean it’s not enough to vote reeeee” kind.

Even Ponzi schemes are usually about everyone being conscious it’s a scheme, but thinking they are very smart and will fool some other suckers, and those suckers think the same in turn. That is covered by the “jailing crooks” part.

And various cartels and trusts and such usually make government regulation their instrument. They benefit from it.

I mean, all this has been said and proven many times.

rottingleaf ,

Those who would do the sending are conscious of this and have a share in profits, I’m sure.

rottingleaf ,

russia has been the #1 source of firmware jailbreaks and torrents for industrial software for 20+ years. Their government is so awful that their people had to figure out how to work around the world hating them.

These two sentences are unconnected. It’s just that in the 90s and early 00s in Russia incomes were still not very high to buy software, copyright protection wasn’t really enforced, copyright violation being a thing was hard to explain to many people, and lots of things wouldn’t be officially sold. Say, localized versions of video games often wouldn’t exist.

In my childhood I remember that pirate disks were norm and official ones a curiosity, something very cool and unusual. Then official versions (including localized ones from 1C) started becoming more common, as would buying disks in book stores etc, and not in underground crossings or near subway entrances.

There were even companies which technically sold pirate disks, but they could have become official localizers or vendors or whatever. It probably didn’t even occur to them to try and become such.

rottingleaf ,

That won’t go unnoticed forever, I think.

rottingleaf ,

Well, in those memories you wouldn’t have to go to any market, you’d just see a few tables along the way in busy places on your way anywhere. Maybe even smaller shops (usually illegal construction alongside bigger buildings or even just in the middle of something supposed to be a square).

BTW, about illegal construction - frankly I’m nostalgic of all that. Because yeah, those cheap plastic things were illegal and were all demolished. Instead we now have supposedly legal heavy, tasteless, threatening “shopping centers” here and there, miraculously making the space feel more constrained than those old things would, all belonging to the right people, with nice shiny perfectly legal businesses inside.

It’s somehow relaxing to get someplace backwater sometimes and see towns looking that old way. Though the town I’m thinking about looked differently back then, and I liked it more, but what will you do.

A-and frankly there were plenty of situations where it was perfectly legal (as possible in the Russian 90s), but “the permit was issued by mistake, no compensation is in order, free the building for demolition by tomorrow” for a 20 years old building solves any problem.

rottingleaf ,

Not sure if that’s very correct. I’d say it’s not about skills, but about such actions still generally not being prosecuted in Russia.

Of course there’s also the issue of low-level reverse engineering skills, which may have been prestigious for longer in Russia due to level of life (old hardware being used longer, at some point with DOS), hacker movies cargo cult combined with Russians feeling the social need to present themselves smarter than they are (for example, all those award papers for stupid competitions in school where children who’ve had in their life an hour-long explanation of, for example, combinatorics or basic discrete math win, and those who haven’t lose or don’t get there).

rottingleaf ,

By the way, how is apple intelligence different from potato intelligence?

rottingleaf ,

Copyright should be nullified if there’s no longer first party sales.

Then everything created before now will compete with new copyrighted creations.

In a lobbied environment such a thing can’t exist.

Probably some elaborations about what exclusive rights can and can’t be should have been put into US constitution (because US is the main source of this particular problem, though, of course, it’ll be defended by interested parties in many other countries), but that was written a bit earlier than even electric telegraphy became a thing.

They really couldn’t imagine trying to destroy\outlaw earlier better creations so that the garbage wouldn’t have competition. Printing industry back then did, of course, have weight in making laws, but not such an unbalanced one, because the middle class of that time wouldn’t consume as easily as in ours (one could visually differentiate members of that by normal shoes and clothes), and books were physical objects.

rottingleaf ,

I think that’s the appropriate scope as well, I’m just sad that we’ve let the laws get away from us.

I don’t.

You are right in the sense that it all comes down to the society having such laws or not having them (as in rioting till something changes?).

But in the sense of forces nudging these laws in one or another direction, anything that causes a constant one-sided drift when left to usual laws should be moved to constitutional ones.

rottingleaf ,

There should also be limitations on the content of bills, so fewer omnibis bills and more smaller bills (one idea is to force legislators to swear under oath that they understand the bill). That should allow popular legislation to make it through easier.

That is the hardest problem to solve fundamentally IMHO. The package bills.

Which is why some people give up (or lose their mind) and become 'sovereign citizens" or ancaps.

rottingleaf ,

While everything living grows old and dies, and has its limits, we separate “<T> revolution” from “<T> normal development” for a reason.

I mean, what currently exists (with consumerism, incredibly wasteful production of electronic devices doing mostly useless work, less efficient production and organization being preferable when it allows someone to preserve power, Ponzi schemes of various kinds, ignorance and tribalism) is sometimes just a culture, not basic instincts (which have their downsides, but those are solvable). It’s not all cultures.

That culture has brought us revolutions unseen before. Then it stagnated and may die, but the humanity may survive and have more revolutions in the future.

rottingleaf ,

That’s just not true. WWI had a definitive winner in Europe, but not in the Middle-East. And Turks are still killing people unpunished. And Germany wasn’t a definitive loser, despite Entente countries making it really feel that role.

rottingleaf ,

Why does desktop hardware become more and more complex and fragile?

I want my BunkerNet with 90s Amiga level machines with technology practical enough to be produced (with reasonable investment) at least in every 1mln city (with literate population and necessary raw resources available).

Yes, I’ve even started with something above that, running Windows 98SE, games and all.

But just … how necessary it really is? Just (that is, 1.5 hrs ago, ADHD) returned home from a bicycle ride in a park, it’s fun with a normal bicycle, it’s fun with a Soviet bicycle which is barely that, it’s fun with a foldable bicycle with switchable reductors, it’s fun with roller skates, and it’s fun on foot.

Can we treat computers the same? They are means to an end. NEW ROUNDED CORNERS AND ADS IN EVERY ORIFICE TO BE ALWAYS CONNECTED TO OUR NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is not that end.

EDIT: ok, each 1mln city is asinine ; each 5-10mln people on the planet maybe?

rottingleaf ,

I had a laptop with it preinstalled, when I wasn’t a Linux user yet.

That video by late John McAffee was good. Even though he was a conspiracy theorist from the most clueless kind of libertarians - that kind who think they can go to a Latin American country with corrupt law enforcement and feel like alpha there. I mean, even if they can, one shouldn’t mix up tourism and immigration, as they say in Russian.

rottingleaf ,

especially considering eugene has no love for the kgb.

That may be a weird way to say he has lots of love for SVR (external intelligence service) or police K department, but not FSB.

Like that conversation in the “Sneakers” movie about FBI, CIA and NSA.

rottingleaf ,

The world is stupid, so this can be true. But it can also be a troll account. Just a more elegant and intelligent kind of fun, that everyone seems to have forgotten.

Like those ghost radio stations, transferring codes by groups of five.

rottingleaf ,

Yes, the purpose of some of them is not as clear (obviously not for everyone) and their signals reach far, which is why radio enthusiast tell stories about them.

And maybe some of them really do transmit gibberish and not encrypted text.

rottingleaf ,

Everything can be fun.

rottingleaf ,

Yes, but then eventually you’ll have to ban half the usual ads if applying the principle consistently, or it’ll be no good otherwise, cause they’ll manage to weasel out.

Social media are just what happens when a few gigantic non-transparent organizations get the usual Goebbels powers plus the ability to match people with content, people with people, people with groups as they see fit.

It’s both a legal and a technical problem. The legal part is about making this no-no. The technical part is by having truly decentralized asynchronous social media. Federation, like with ActivityPub, is insufficient, it has to be homogenous. I mean, I’d like it to use ActivityPub-connected servers as authentication providers and for contact directory, but not the rest.

EDIT: I think freenet.org , as in Locutus and not old Freenet we all love, is aimed at this exactly.

rottingleaf ,

Does it run NetBSD?

rottingleaf ,

Even less so now, after they insisted on showing the world just how incompetent their military is.

Which, for example, the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish militaries still haven’t.

Do you realize that a military that doesn’t do a certain kind of activity (like mass warfare) loses capability for it over time? That’s truer for the Russian military with all the corruption, but there’s a little problem, - it has had 2 years with lots of learning.

There were widespread myths about Israeli military professionalism, but in the last few months they’ve shown the reality to be worse than expected too.

and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.

Yeah, see, there’s an element of “what if we feed him <country name> and expect him to eventually choke on it”. International law and allied obligations seem to have become fuzzier concepts in the last decade or so.

Seems a really weird action to invade a Nordic country still. Their policy seems to be about bullying ex-Soviet states to remain authoritarian shitholes.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity (ludic.mataroa.blog)

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can’t manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn’t laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI...

rottingleaf ,

I’m libertarian, I’m against this. I’m also against blockchain scams.

My ideas on digital currencies and something like artificial intelligence are simply an extension of the usual ancap\panarchy ideas. It’s actually a very good test for any libertarian you meet - they’ll usually agree that a “meta-society” consisting of voluntary exterritorial jurisdictions (which can be anything from crack-smoking ancap tribes to solarpunk communes), with some overarching security system to protect those jurisdictions from being ignored by somebody well-armed, is good, then you just have to ask why the systems they like for currencies and this are clearly manifestations of a different ideology.

rottingleaf ,

Accountability to the government, you mean?

BBC news on anything Armenian just stink.

Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting (www.theguardian.com)

Fewer than three weeks before actor Alec Baldwin is due to go on trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutors have said that he “engaged in horseplay with the revolver”, including firing a blank round at a crew member on the set of Rust before the tragic accident occurred....

rottingleaf ,

This would help avoid this specific death, but not most others where the projectile wasn’t an actual bullet from a live round, but something stuck in the barrel, like the other person says.

This situation was unusual in the sense that an incompetent armorer had live rounds on set, and the gun was loaded with one.

What I mean is that the main part of the issue is exactly not this.

rottingleaf ,

I agree. Both equally guilty.

rottingleaf ,

but in new Mexico basically everyone holding a weapon is held accountable for the consequences of whatever they do while holding the weapon

Which is how it should be.

rottingleaf ,

First,

Did anybody ask about most others,

… doesn’t seem relevant, since saying something doesn’t require you personally asking about it at all, second,

what they’re saying is fake guns for movies should use a caliber for which no bullets exist, solving the main part of the issue, i.e. the fact that someone can load a normal bullet in a gun that is to be used as a prop.

… answers your question, and that quote is most of the original comment, I could even have quoted the whole of it.

rottingleaf ,

You’ve failed to read all of the comment I was answering to, which is not yours so it’s not clear what are you doing in this thread at all.

rottingleaf ,

Either you are high or a bot, stop talking please

rottingleaf ,

Most other cases where people were shot on set

rottingleaf ,

Brandon Lee? And someone else whom I can’t remember

rottingleaf ,

I don’t know that either.

rottingleaf ,

I’ve always been reluctant to rely on papers like any constitution as a base for my perceived rights.

Maybe as an argument, in the sense of “smart people have said that it should be and made some points in its favor”.

But in general it’s a horrid mistake to rely on a paper. Some people you haven’t given any consent will stamp a few saying that you are a slave and oops.

The reality is that there’s no way to consistently defend a right suppressed by legal arguments. If you can check the chain of laws giving you some right or taking it, you’ll always come to the point where it’s just “we all decide that’s law” and you were not part of that decision. And if you go the opposite way and just accept what’s made law, then you are dropping the idea of rights in its entirety, making decisions made by someone else a law for you.

My point is that this is unsolvable and one can’t replace good and evil with legal arguments. Laws will never be sufficiently good for that, even constitutional laws.

So I’m for right to arm oneself, but I don’t think there’s any magic allowing to universally prove that a thing is legally right or wrong.

Which is why, again, a journalism which isn’t outrageous is just public relations, a protest that doesn’t harm economy and break laws is just a demonstration, an a principle which can be overridden by a law or a threat of force is just virtue signalling.

rottingleaf ,

There are ways to make deserts, eh, more livable. Various kinds of mosses, correct usage of water for feeding plants (to reduce sandstorms), and solar farms there occupy territory both not in huge demand and use some of that excess energy.

That’s not what’s happening now, but the technologies have been tried successfully and work. I like shitting on Israel for their moral standing (the opposite to that, I mean), but their approaches to managing deserts do work, and they are not too wasteful with water.

rottingleaf ,

That may not happen at all.

rottingleaf ,

Evil doesn’t fight honestly. Bunkers are a relatively honest thing.

rottingleaf ,

It’s not even worth explaining because it’s so obvious that they do.

Do you think tone makes for an argument?

You’re honestly arguing that companies aren’t incentivised to do things like make profit? Or retain employees?

Companies don’t think and thus don’t have incentives.

You are brain-dead lmao

Just go away. Another confirmation that identifying with something Star Trek connected usually marks an idiot.

rottingleaf ,

I said you’re a fucking idiot.

And I didn’t say you are a fucking idiot, but this is a clear case of projection.

I remember you coming at me with similarly buttfuck dumb opinions on Unix.

So now I’m saying that you are a fucking idiot, ignorant and arrogant at that.

Now stop talking, please.

rottingleaf ,

What I don’t get is this constant cheating where they don’t have to.

Even where making a real thing with its advantages is cheaper or same, they’ll still make it dependent on something that breaks.

Well, it would be advantageous where no competition will do the real thing. But we have competition, right? Free markets, right? No cronyism, right? LOL

rottingleaf ,

How do you do “mechanical failure” with hercons? I’m all attention. They may not be as pleasant to use, but beat touchscreens still.

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