YouTube is the virus

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Not so easy with paper.

I had suggested a metal plate, not paper.

USB drives don’t mix well with water

Than an etched metal plate?

You wouldn’t use a car to race in the Kentucky Derby

It’s FRAM, which has been around for ages. The problem is its prohibitive cost— hence the 8k.

What’s the practical benefit of that? If the point is long-term storage, rewriting isn’t a priority (or possibly even a need). And this isn’t designed for capacity.

An actual book stores more data than that and for longer. At that point, why not just etch the data onto a metal plate or something? 8K is only a few pages of text at 12pt. It could easily fit onto two sides of a small-ish metal plate, etched in 8pt or so, and it would last, potentially, for millennia.

Source-available ≠ open source

Yeah, well, they couldn’t “shut it down” before E2E encryption, either, so, obviously, the problem isn’t necessarily the encryption, but that the cops suck at their jobs.

“We couldn’t really catch them before, but now we can’t real their text messages! Merde!”

Stop blaming encryption, and do a better job.

When Musk does anything it’s controversial and concerning.

From that company you love to hate:

Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device

Believe it or not, Apple has been, historically, one of the largest and consistent contributors to a number of open source projects for decades. Yes, Apple does a lot of… problematic stuff and deserves a lot of the criticism it receives, but, to their credit, they do support the FOSS community in many ways, and always have, especially by open-sourcing many of their own technologies, albeit often quietly.

There’s WebKit, HTML, OpenGL (to which they were to primary contributors for almost a decade in the mid 00s-10s). They also are pretty much the only ones who decide new emojis and always have been since the other 5 or 6 UNICODE emoji board members don’t care to contribute.

Edit:

a list of current FOSS projects at Apple

Apple at GitHub:

https://github.com/apple

More repos of older projects:

https://www.macosforge.org/

This is something Apple has done very well: Rosetta 2 is highly performant. Broadly speaking, there’s very little performance hit when running x64 apps on Apple Silicon. Of course, there hasn’t been x32 support on macOS for years, so I can’t speak to that.

I dunno… I saw another press release that said it only beat the M3 in multi-core by about 8%, which is hardly “blown out of the water”, especially for a 9-month-old processor, and Qualcomm didn’t release single-core benchmarks, probably because they didn’t outperform the M3 at all. And Apple will be announcing the M4 line soon, expected to release Q3 or Q4 2024 for M4/M4 Pro, with Max and Ultra in Q1/2 2025.

But it is, by all measure, a very good competitor to Apple’s M-series chips which have, until now, been unavailable to anyone but them, which is crappy.

Another benefit to this is that the USB port goes into a restricted mode that only allows for charging, and you can still use your cameras to record while it’s in this mode.

I have been for years. It was a massive improvement when I deleted my Facebook account.

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Even those who do well in testing of wrote knowledge can perform poorly in practical exercises. That’s why medical doctors have to train and qualify through several years of supervised residency before being allowed to practice even basic medicine.

GPT-4 can’t do even that.