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Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:33AM (#50260030)
That impressed me the most. 1TB storage is minimum now too.
I think the point is making sure people know and actually see the cost of the research. If advocating for animal welfare leads to people being angry at you, be more open and transparent with exactly how animals are being tested at your research facilities. Be so open that PETA doesn't need to expose you cause there's nothing to expose.
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:31AM (#50244393)
I'm impressed by the fidelity of these images as I zoom in. Just incredible detail.
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:21AM (#50244192)
How would an OLED screen be an improvement over an ipad 8th generation? I'm debating on what to upgrade to but I mainly use my ipad for reading comics nowadays. Movies/TV are for the big screen.
Re:Archive of Our Own on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:24PM (#50172152)
I have to imagine that's not available to avoid training by commercial entities. https://www.transformativeworks.org/ai-and-data-scraping-on-...
My childhood would disagree with you as I remember Mighty Mouse, Jerry Mouse, Speedy Gonzalez, Fievel, Pinky
It's not a novel idea, but its provable that someone can take this same concept and do something truly groundbreaking. I wonder if there's value in the idea that you can join a supercomputer network of MAC/Nvidia GPUs as a way of getting off cloud and into "our cloud". As long as you offer compute, you have credit into the system to be able to support your own workloads that can't be done on just your hardware. Need to address concerns about privacy, abuse, etc, but Apple's idea here has some merit if applied right.
Re:Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:17PM (#49940805)
Amazing build and a reminder that adults need play just as much as kids do.
Re:Steam adds low-latency Pyrowave codec to Remote Play on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:28PM (#49883164)
Link to github: https://github.com/Themaister/pyrowave

Seems to work with Vulkan shaders. There's also a link to master's thesis for more details that I'll have to tear through later and possibly hope to understand.

The pace of conversation is a nice graph. Are you still ingesting articles? I see data going back to 2020.
Noticing how the M6 has finally doubled the M1's single core performance, nearly six years later. The M1 mini was my first foray into mac computing. I used it as my daily driver until I got the M1 Macbook Pro a year later. Been using that ever since. I think Apple's real problem is that they built machines that can last. I've had no interest in upgrading or buying something else, even though I want to just for pet projects but can't justify the extra cost.
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:52PM (#49717959)
The doom demo is also in the article, for anyone that doesn't want to go to X.com. :)
The Irregular post mortem comes down to lack of basic security controls

"Ultimately, most of the issues we’ve discovered were due to internet access controls."

That seems so incredibly basic and common sense that you would test and monitor for that type of outbound access. It is baffling that a security lab missed that.

https://www.irregular.com/research/addressing-recent-inciden...

The headline is not misleading, the article actually links to the incident with OpenAI and Irregular which is here: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-invol...
That's cause Irregular was not involved in that event, they were involved in a separate event OpenAI published here: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-invol...

In that article, OpenAI provides the context that this is a completely separate event from Hugging Face incident.

Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:28PM (#49685735)
How would they be self-hosted? Someone would have setup the model in that scenario, the same investigation and outrage should occur in that case.
Re:The Invention of the MMO on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:21PM (#49633623)
The interface reminded me of Community in Halt and Catch Fire. Sure enough...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)#Popular_c...

Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:02PM (#49619367)
I've never heard a normie use it. ;)
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:41PM (#49619233)
Literally what I was about to comment. This is meant to capture the normies, the busy parents managing school and work, the grandparents who want to make most of their retirement.

I am trying it now. It let me name my muse as Satan. I appreciate that it understands my humor, but I'm also not joking at the same time.

Re:New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd) on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:15AM (#49586750)
I would get something like this for my son who has a desire to learn assembly and build from scratch.
Re:Ok, but Does It Scale? on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:54PM (#49567945)
The date keeps changing on each release so every version bump becomes AGPL five years from the date its published. Its an interesting model, but necessary to be aware of the nuance in case you ever want to consume it.
Re:4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:04AM (#49548898)
>Is it legal? It is against TikTok's terms of service. It is sold for research and educational use.

Oh, ok. Otherwise, very detailed deconstruction to scrape their API. Lots of layers of registration and creating a request that looks like it is valid client.

Re:Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:53AM (#49548813)
The migration guide does say there are breaking changes, but the interpretation I have is "this won't have new features but allows us to develop new features".
The evolutionary mistake that allowed us to walk on our feet and use our hands enabled us to build tools, conquer our environment and tackle hard problems. A humanoid robot provides a good blueprint for creating a robot that can do anything.

A solar field robot can only do one thing. A humanoid robot with a software model that allows it to install solar fields and then switch to a new model is a much more compelling use case. Eventually you're going to run out of solar fields to install, then you need a solar field repair bot, a solar field cleaning bot, etc. General purpose robots that can switch models to perform different tasks is not a dead end, but definitely a very hard problem.

Caught off guard has been used a lot this year.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mi...

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/01/apple-was-caught-off-gu...

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/29/apple-on-airpods-pro-3-...

Recent work in this space has got me looking at using local models for daily use. I’m waiting for people to start dumping some of the previous generation minis on Facebook marketplace or eBay so I can pick one up. Of course there’s also other options. I’m still hammering out my requirements and what I want to do besides putz around.

This is incredibly cool. I tried a few songs and it was pretty accurate. Really useful.
Re:507 Mechanical Movements on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:42PM (#49473065)
I feel like this is a website that needs to be made available with one of those swiss army USB sticks for collecting useful knowledge in case of apocalypse. Very cool.
Re:Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:30PM (#49185137)
I see this quote a lot and can never find it in original sources for Aristotle. It seems to be a misattribution from the foreword of Religion and the Pursuit of Truth by Lowell L Bennion

https://archive.org/details/religionpursuito0000lowe/page/n5...

Re:Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:52PM (#49149241)
I loved the Peter Weir adaptation and was always hopeful there would be more, particularly with that ending leaving it open like that. I picked up the first book recently so that I could read through it on vacation. I do tend to agree with Jan Morris in that only people who knew the author have reason to care about his personal life. Of course there are limits, and given the author has been dead for 26 years and the events he is accused of happened 70+ years ago, O'Brian can no longer atone for his past misdeeds. I'm not certain if knowing that O'Brian was a horrible family man will change my enjoyment of the first book, but that remains to be seen. I may not even get through reading it due to other factors, anyway.

I was curious if his family ever wrote about him and his son Richard Russ did in below article. I think this gives a good insight into how his son felt about his father, and particularly how his mother felt until her death.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/28/fiction.film

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