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Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:04PM (#50318415)
5k makes me think the next guy is gonna sell his exploit in the black market instead.
I have YouTube premium and it now shoves a "products" panel in my face that I have to swipe down before a video starts if the video references a product.

The enshittification knows no bounds.

Re:Contrastive Language Models on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:50AM (#49829881)
I love this answer and your fondness for "assisted" betting. Do you blog?
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:51PM (#49634936)
"Who wants bigger phones?"

Everyone who buys larger phones instead of the iPhone Mini. The market decided that.

Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:25PM (#49076253)
"To summarize my and Anthropic’s position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weights models as a category." Translation: If it's so strong that it threatens my business, ban it.

"We should instead focus on keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, " Translation: Let's kneecap competitors.

"stopping industrial-scale distillation" They stole the work of every book author, and now are trying to say their AI's output should be protected from competitors.

The idea is that it uses a lot less power than the GPU.
No, the symptom is being treated, not the underlying issue. And that's ok, but treating the underlying issue, when possible, is better, as the problem ceases to exist.
The M1 Max from 2021 has better memory bandwidth. The M3 Max can be specced to 128GB.

Nothing new here, apart from being able to use CUDA on a less power hungry system.

Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:16PM (#48421041)
Flagged. Article is as AI heavy as the commits that people are complaining about.
What might be the impact on battery life?
Hard to read article. The writing is curiously more robotic and repetitive than those written by AI.
The article is about Canada.
Re:Why macOS27 won't be supporting Intel anymore on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:55AM (#47833603)
Keep an Intel Mac around?
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:01AM (#47765781)
Popups were dealt in a way that could be useful here, they're only permitted when the user directly generates the interaction that creates the popup (not scripted). The back button could use the same algorithm back in history, only go back to screens that the user directly navigated.
Re:AirPods Max 2 on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @09:45AM (#47412591)
Thanks to the kind soul who upvoted this horrendously typed reply. Unfortunately I can't edit it anymore.
Re:AirPods Max 2 on Monday March 16, 2026 @03:51PM (#47403931)
Absolutely! I have both the AirPods Max and the Bose QC Ultra and even though my whole ecosystem is Apple, the QC Ultra is a lot more comfortable reliable on day to day usage. Comfort is due to weight, and reliability is the batter is predictably on the QC Ultra, but on the Max I never know if the battery went all down because I can't turn it off.

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