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Related – is anyone working on an open home assistant? Google, Apple, Amazon are all taking so long to bring latest advancements across to their products
There may be an awkward power vacuum as always with dictators setting up deliberately unclear lines of secession but chances are someone else with the most claim to 'legitimacy' would grab power. Just like how the royal bloodline dying out alone didn't mean there were no more kings.
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> Apple is not a market on their own from the perspective of smart phones and watches.

Apple actually acts as a gatekeeper to the smart watch market when used with their devices, because they provide core platform services as a gateway for these products to operate and communicate with end-users, but define rules and restrictions which don't apply for Apple smart watches themselves.

> Apple is its own market from the perspective of app developers.

Exactly. They create a market while giving themselves preferential treatment. They do the same with smart watches, therefore not ensuring a level playing field in that market.

> If Apple did something anticompetitive to keep Android options from being good, then you probably have a winnable legal case.

But isn't that's the case Pebble is making here?

There is actually a Wear OS iOS App from Google to connect Android Wear devices with iPhones, and beside the fact that it's not possible to connect any non-Apple Watch to the iPhone without manually installing a separate App, Google is not able to provide the same functionality as Apple Watch does even when incorporating such a companion app.
> I have no idea what article was trying to convey

An ad for their consultancy. It's a call to action, not a balanced analysis.
IMO for what they do they are kinda cheap. We evaluated some competitors that were worse and were asking 4x the price.
I think the point is that the Israeli government is akin to a terrorist organization
OP, this is certainly advice, but I would like you to consider whether you want to take advice from someone who uses the phrase "dangling from your nutsack in no time" unironically.
Well there was the time someone wanted to stop for a sandwich...
The point is that Apple does not actually care about you on the basis of principles. It only cares about you to the extent that it serves its own financial interests.

This is important because Apple could one day decide that caring about you no longer serves its interests. This has already happened with user experience, where even the Settings app now has built-in ads pushing Apple's services. It has also happened with security, where Apple uses its robust security infrastructure to prioritize media company DRM over users' interests.
I've been reading a lot of eMMC datasheets and I see terms like "static data refresh" advertised quite a bit.

You're quite right that we have no visibility into this process, but that feels like something to bring up with the SFF Committee, who keeps the S.M.A.R.T. standard.
> do the work of a team of 50 to 100

How can I take those guys seriously when they show that they have never worked on big projects before? A team of 50 developers work on $million projects, how can you simulate that with an LLM?
I’m baffled that the Nazi salutes failed to make the list of your “never would I ever”
Restricting something isn't the opposite of devoting resources to make something easy.

This is a false, and very strange, dichotomy.
I don’t think you understand what the security boundary of iMessage is.

People’s phones got compromised by NSO sending images to them via whatsapp that used an exploit in one of the image libraries to run a malware payload. The security boundary isn’t about whether you can see your own messages, it’s whether bad people can root your phone by getting untrusted code to run. That’s a very different proposition if iMessage is a single codebase that they fully own end to end versus it has a plugin ecosystem. Having such a plugin system widens the security boundary by adding a much larger codebase that would require trust.
The problem not being able to make the save/export decision from the same dialog. A lot of software lets you do "save as" and pick a different format AFTER you go down the File/Save path.

Having to cancel out of File/Save and go back to the File menu and choose File/Export, over and over and over in software that defies this convention, is incredibly irritating.
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The main difference is that with Firefox no one can use the API. Apple seems to be happy to implement APIs... but only their own products can use them.
I see. For you, "people on the ground" includes a grand child's comment. In my experience, "people on the ground" has implied "don't try to do anything on your own," which dissuades action and consequently promotes the status quo's persistence. When you say "dissemination network," I hear you saying a group of people is necessary. But a group is not necessary. A group is one possible way. But powerful people are influenced by far less than a group of people every day. See also: lobbyists. "Start a popular ideological movement" and "become a lobbyist" warrant very different life choices.
still requires upfront cost. If that’s priced out of reach for most people, it’s still a deterrent.
If they are an employee under legal agreements, than a firm retains copyright. Yet if the render node is another companies property, than it is highly advisable to talk with your IP lawyers to figure out the jurisdictional copyright rules in your country.

'Rendering an image is not "creating a work“ in the copyright sense.'

Perhaps your super awesome precedent case against BBC, Sony, and or Disney will end in your favor. It is not 0% chance, but pretty close from what the IP firms have advised.

'If the Blender scene has been modelled by someone else, then yes, that someone owns the copyright'

That is just not true in most places, and including assets/compositions from libraries you "found" does not assign copyrights to use said work. Even if some con artist on the Unity store sold you "rights", there is no guarantee it was theirs to assign.

Please consider talking with an IP lawyer in your jurisdiction, as your ludicrous notions of ownership could end up a liability. lol Best of luck =3
There was Mycroft AI. Not sure what ever became of that.
Elon Musk's Starlink internet service installed in White House
Not addressed in the article is why a satellite-based internet service makes sense for a building in a city that presumably has ready access to more conventional high-speed internet services.
NYT literally gives away some content for free and charges for the rest.

NYT doesn't charge per article; they charge for tiers of access.
Open Home Assistant has a voice module. I haven't personally tried it, though.

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/
Something I learned a while ago is that there's a particular brand of very vocal person online who has a bone to pick with Apple. Sometimes it's for a good reason, sometimes less so, but the point is that they come to discussions of any Apple topic with a conclusion ready in hand and then work backwards from that. In this case the conclusion is, "Apple is wicked, perfidious, and monopolistic."

Truthfully there isn't much you can say to people in that mindset.
Same here. Based in the EU, I was ready to buy one on day one, but when I saw the prices listed only in USD I had to stop right there. Just the shipping alone would be $25, plus the uncertainty of duty fees. I hope to see an EU store soon — with prices in EUR, low-cost shipping, and all fees already factored in.
This is pretty exciting. DuckDB is already proving to be a powerful tool in the industry.

Previously there was a strong trend of using simple S3-backed blob storage with Parquet and Athena for querying data lakes. It felt like things have gotten pretty complicated, but as integrations improve and Apache Iceberg gains maturity, I'm seeing a shift toward greater flexibility with less SaaS/tool sprawl in data lakes.
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Good work! Looks like one heck of a release!

FYI they now build WSL tarballs!

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/42_Beta-1.4/Conta...
As a customer I would like to be able to make that decision. I don't need apple to hold my hand. They could inform me in the app store or when I install the app. Here apple is making that decision for me.
> Other then being lazy, which is totally ok.

It's not OK. This collective laziness and convenience is our number one enemy. People don't want to be responsible, they want some corporation to manage everything so they don't have to think about stuff.

We need more people to take responsibility and use Linux and free software and hardware. Owning the computing system means being responsible for it, and we need to get people to accept that responsibility. The less of us there are, the more business and financial sense it makes for them to just straight up ignore us as some irrelevant vocal minority.

We should all own our computers, and there should be so many of us that they have to suck it up because not doing so means they take a big hit to their profits.
> The ONLY reason that you can't swap Ford/Dodge filters between engines with similar filtration requirements is because each company uses a different thread size and filter interface dimensions.

Which is maybe dumb, but it isn't a problem, because of this:

> They also make their specifications available to aftermarket filter manufacturers like Wix and Fram.

Which is the thing Apple isn't doing, and furthermore is doing the opposite and preventing full compatibility with third party watches even if they would reverse engineer the protocol used between the Apple Watch and iPhones. Which is what makes it an antitrust problem in that case but not the other.

Moreover, the argument you're making is that the automakers purposely cause their filters to be incompatible to limit competition. You're essentially arguing that it should be an antitrust violation in that case. Which is a weaker claim because competition in that space isn't being as clearly inhibited -- nobody is claiming that the incompatibility is impacting the quality of third party oil filters -- but if you made the case that it was then you would be condemning Ford rather than vindicating Apple.
No, it's like saying that you can only buy Toyota aftermarket accessories at a steep markup, and other accessories are locked out via cryptography.
I truly don’t understand how these types of comments keep appearing under any discussion of apple’s blatantly anti-competitive behavior with messages. This doesn’t even make sense on technical grounds; it would be trivial to require such message passing to be encrypted/signed securely if that’s your real concern. After all, the Apple Watch does exist and does have these capabilities, so it’s clearly possible to do it and maintain the “security boundaries” you’re so concerned with.
Then every single one of these comments inevitably turn towards spam messages which no longer even makes sense since iMessage has been filled with spam lately. I really don’t see how allowing smartwatch manufacturers to also interface with iMessage (in the same way Apple Watches do) will inevitably increase spam on the platform which can’t be detected/mitigated in other ways.
I’d love to see some technically rigorous explanation for why apple can’t support any third-party anything instead of hand wringing about “security” with no real explanation but I have a feeling I’ll be waiting a long time.
Can I upload my archive of tweets that I exported from Twitter immediately after it changed ownership and subsequently deleted my Twitter profile?
My personal stance on this is that while I’m open to making iOS, etc more flexible, it needs to be done in a way that cleanly avoids the whole “grandma accidentally installed a pile of browser toolbars yet again” problem. I’m confident I can manage added flexibility myself but there’s a very real need for a truly foolproof, social-engineering-resistant option to point friends and family without such aptitudes toward.
It's ironic that those turned off by the name are the ones who are aware of the connotations. I was unaware when I started using it and mostly I still am.

A bit like the window cleaner fired for whistling a dirty tune.
> If your boss was any good at his job, he did most of the reporting and communication to keep the skip level happy.

A big IF - and now the company has to hire more HR and more bosses to check on this boss. Create more bureaucracy around checking "if they are any good".

> did most of the reporting and communication to keep the skip level happy

And someone had to do reporting and communication to this boss in the first place. Thus, a boss requires someone/some people below them to spend time reporting to them, and themselves needs to spend time reporting above them to the skip.

From the big bosses perspective, this miniature boss's existence added more work to the company than required - thus, leading to the original post.

Just yanking layers to minimal required bosses is enough to reduce total work.
BS. they exist to accept some level of responsibility but it's impossible to make them anything except scapegoats in orgs of a certain scale. if you disagree, you are either misinformed or simply hate them and want an excuse to jail them.

do you know how many managing directors JPMC has? this is just one bank and we're talking about a very senior position, half-a-million-a-year base salary sort of seinor. they have around 1,600. it is impossible for one person to manually oversee even what's a pretty high-level position with many direct and indirect reports. impossible to manage this without trusting subordinates.

it sounds like you are motivated more by schadenfreude or malice towards these people because of "paychecks and golden parachutes". this isn't a good-faith position or a reasonable policy.
Thanks for the reply - and for the open AI work!

> We don't have the action sequence data nor the recipes (emulators) that could make it possible to replicate even on a very small scale what big labs are currently working on.

Sounds like an interesting opportunity for application-layer incumbents that want to enable OSS model advancement...
Just play SpongeBob extra loud elsewhere in the house.
Marketing and product placement. If you weren’t entertained by the Tesla sales event, you have another opportunity.
Even though it is a bit old today, I would recommend Ross Jeffries "How to lay girls guide." Just critically think, because a lot of the stuff is ethically questionable to/bad.

There is a whole community around ex losers that call themself pickup artists...
This: "But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquire"
Sure it is. Both Apple and Google, through various tactics, have ensured that it's virtually impossible for a third smartphone OS to be successful to anywhere near the level they have been.

Android is fine. It has some downsides vs. iOS, and some advantages. But that isn't the point. The point is that to make a new smartphone OS (or even one that's based on Android, but is independent of the Google ecosystem) that can do everything Android and iOS can do is an undertaking that few would even bother to take on. That's not due to technical challenges, it's due to market barriers that Apple and Google have erected. (IMO, the sorts of things that we as citizens in a healthy society should not allow corporations to do.)

And those that (sorta?) do try to make a competing OS, like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, etc., end up with far less-capable phones than a Google-blessed Android phone. (And when most/all of those capabilities are present, it's through brittle hacks and compromises that basically turn the phone into an imitation of the Google-blessed phone, with many of the downsides intact.)

Put another way, it's not Apple's or Google's responsibility to make things more competitive, but it is their responsibility to not make things anti competitive, and it is their fault when alternatives don't exist because of their anti-competitive behavior.
It's a bad show, for obvious reasons. Poor writing (thinly veiled political themes), bad characterizations (stupid weak characters), convoluted cruel plot, trying to be whimsical, all in the name of Fan Service. As a youtuber quipped, it's like the Flintstones + 12 years a slave. It's not for anyone and the script is mostly to blame.
I had an old Suunto from before they went to crap, by far my favourite function was vertical speed, and it relied only on the accelerometer (the watch had GPS, but turning it on killed battery life). I still tried a couple of newer models but they removed that function.
I only have one Alexa and it won't bother me to remove it or replace it with another HomePod. I only use it to check the weather and occasionally to listen to random facts while I get ready in the morning. The fact that it has a digital clock is a nice bonus that HomePods don't yet have, though.
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Yes, and it has the issue of having its own way of #ifdef, because not all platforms offer the same semantics.

It is no different than writing C code across UNIX, Windows, mainframe, microcomputers and embedded, consoles, and somehow work across all of them.
OP said “ cannot do A or B”. I demonstrated how to do B, proving the original statement to be a lie. The fact that you still cannot do A irrelevant. Hyperbole has no place in technical discourse.
I think trillion dollar companies should not exist. They are inherently destructive to humanity.
If you are syncing data from another PDS, there is no way to verify that posts have an accurate date, unless you have some central ledger which is antithetical to allowing self-hosting and being distributed.
so it won some battles but lost the war?
The original talk for that creed, a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
You stay motivated by remaining as close to the value you are delivering to your customers as possible, so you can feed energy from their use of the product.

This is almost impossible in a marketplace business, which is one of the infinite number of reasons that building a marketplace inevitably fails.
Typical HN blogspam. A blog post that makes vague but incredibly certain claims, generalizing about an entire industry, with no evidence outside a single person's limited experience. Yet there he is at the end of his post, asking people to hire him for consulting. But it's perfect for HN, because it gives people in the comments something to complain about, driving up engagement.

I will admit, though, the SaaS tech industry as a whole has a problem. The cargo cult of tech has convinced itself that SaaS is special. That it's never done. That it must be never finished, never stable, always changing, always breaking. Like it's some immutable law of nature.

This of course is a convenient lie. Before every business was an online service, software worked like every other product in the world. You built it to do a thing, you tested it thoroughly to ensure it didn't have defects, and then you coordinated one large release. No constant changes or late Friday deploys. No schema changes destroying columns. There was no on-call, because there was no 24/7 service. There were floppy disks and CDROMs, and people running software on their own computers, and a very small number of 24/7 enterprise systems shared by lots of users (mostly run by ISPs, and one or two large tech companies and industry bodies).

But you can deliver online software like it's desktop software. You can ensure your software is bug-free before you burn your master disk. But then you don't get to skip all those time-consuming tests. Then you don't get to ship your features faster than your competitor. Then you don't get to do A/B testing and micro-tweaks and experiments and feature flags and blue/green deploys. We want to do all the things, at any time, with no consequences. So on-call is still a thing, because people want to have their cake and eat it too.

The actual infrastructure on the backend shared by millions of users? Not actually hard to maintain. It's the same shit as 20 years ago, but much, much easier. Make sure the disks don't fill up. Auto-scale the VMs and containers. Design your apps to not exceed network bandwidth. There's really not much else to break. The only thing that breaks a system is changing it, or bugs from not enough testing. So do the testing, and the bare minimum of autoscaling in the cloud, and nothing should ever break in production.

But constantly mutating SaaS, without due diligence, is too addictive. Nobody's going to abandon the freedom of doing whatever the fuck they want, just to keep from waking people up in the middle of the night. The business people sure as fuck aren't going to abandon their "competitive advantage". And devs who don't care if their software works or not don't want to abandon untested deploys from their laptops. So on-call is here to stay.
There's a reason things like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" remain so popular. (Side note: the explanation is to become a more enjoyable person to have around. It's not a collection of life hacks for exploiting others.)

We've all worked with people who believe their code should speak for itself. Thing is, it doesn't. It never has. It never will. All collaboration work is a social process, and no matter how beautiful someone's output is, if they're an asshole no one wants to be in the room with, their magnum opus will rot in a neglected PR.

Charisma is not sufficient by itself. You've still gotta have chops, or at least a willingness to work to get them. But charisma+chops will take you much farther than skill alone.
This has never happened.
Yep. I learned to appreciate node-based systems in Shake. Just a great way to work.
But is uBlock Origin 100% supported on it, is the big question? What with Chrome fighting ad blockers, Chromium clone browsers, like Vivaldi, don't seem to be doing much on that aspect to reassure their user base.
Yeah we were warned.
they are responsible when a company makes a profit or a loss. that's a pretty fair trade-off. the core difference is you can't attribute a profit or loss solely to one person, not hardly ever. you can, however, attribute criminal activity to a certain number of people, because it's very tightly defined. you can't just calculate the EV of every action the same way.
It's a pretty classic canary trap/barium meal test, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test
The point of trademarks is to avoid ambiguity of origin. Pebble core 2 duo is definitely ambiguous.
Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to 'improve Wi-Fi'?
I miss my pebbles every day. Can't wait for december!!
Aren't hackers supposed to be a curious bunch? Is that really the only way you can imagine unions working? Can you not see the imbalance of power between a single individual and the corporation that employs them? Unions are fundamentally about balancing that power dynamic.
I'm not against language growth, but the reason this is happening is upsetting to me.
I think plans for a Dark Crystal sequel were stuck in development hell for decades and then Jim Henson died. It was actually announced in 2005 but never got made into a film. Think there was a comic series though.

Also, can't help pointing to this Robot Chicken gem: The Dark Cristal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RudzOqb-fRc
Then they by definition are finally taking the masks off and showing the world what they truly believe.
It doesn't need to be a plugin ecosystem - no third party code needs to run within the iMessage processes/sandboxes/containers. In fact, no third-party code needs to run at all on the phone - all that's needed is to expose an API over BLE that allows previously authorized external devices to query/send messages.
No. By default, “bill.pdf” will show as just “bill”. All “known” file extensions (i.e., those with a handler) are hidden.