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Aka 6million units. During the same period when the Pixel sold 10 million.

So every ipad , watch, mac sku that sells < 5% of the overall product line is immediately taken out back to the wood shed?

I guess, but when my iPhone is no longer supported, I’m migrating my entire family on to something else. 3 watches, 3 ipads and 2 phones…so its not always about the % sold.

I mean I think if this is done well, lots of companies would pay for access to that data. Think like Enterprise subscriptions.

Its similar to other data services I see around my F500 company.

Could this be utilized to improve the actual UI itself? As a somewhat naive LLM user, I have often found that when coding up projects, when you get into the area of the UI (in projects with a web-front end), the LLM immediately reaches for curl...which feels like a very inefficient way of debugging or changing a UI....

Because if you believe all of the hype around AI, one of the top 5 AI companies should be able to use the AI to move the needle pretty significantly here. They have lots of money, resources and talent.

The fact that the result is a hockey puck you carry around and talk to should tell you what you need to know about the revolutionary nature of AI.

(Dont get me wrong, it is revolutionary, but more in an Augment our existing world than create a new world for us type way).

Its being pounded into their head almost daily (and from all directions) that AI is the future and the more AI the better. Their boss, the industry, other managers, heck probably even their children.

So any big AI initiative they are apart of had succeeded before it even starts!

Or its a phone alternative for younger kids that keeps an actual phone out of their hands, allows for worry free communication while they roam the streets and is backed by arguably the most privacy focused of the big tech companies…

(disclosure: my 8 and 10 year old have them, works great for everyone involved)

Just so you know, hardware hackers have been doing this for 20+ years. Hacking satellite TV (google smart card glitching) was done the same way.

Its more that its really hard to do security when the attacker has unlimited physical access.

Its the only device in our household that I have utterly failed at securing or blocking content from our children on.

My son has found about 25 different ways to access YouTube across our Android, Android TV, Apple and Roku devices. I have found ways in almost all of them to "nicely" block youtube for him (while keeping it for me or keeping the device functional).

Roku is the only one that just doesn't give a crap. Screw Roku.

What happens when Ford updates the ToS on my vehicle (via an OTA update) and I cannot see the backup camera until I "accept"?

(Insert about 1000 other examples of very awkward ToS updates)

I think this is a very strong and simple argument to use with regulators, politicians etc.

When I put my credit card into Apples ecosystem they take a 0.15% cut of the transaction and appear to be very happy with the results. When I put my application into the ecosystem they take 30%..

You can then break down why this is, but boy is that an interesting contrast.

I wanted to try Googles Image generation models, to compliment my Claude API sub.

Holy Crap, I got about 45 minutes into setting up billing and just gave up and un-did everything.

Hint: If you want to put a spending Limit on your google cloud account, its not trivial.

I will say that Stability AI is similar to Claude, they will just let you buy credits and hit an API.

I would prefer to take it broader and codify it in law that:

1. The terms and conditions of a product, service, etc. "primarily" aimed at a consumer have simple, human readable terms. Like a food label or similar to the broadband label.

2. The terms are presented and acknowledged PRIOR to purchasing (not after opening the package, driving off the lot, putting the DVD into the player). The company needs to find a way to deliver the T&C's before purchase. If you need me to agree to 50 pages things before I can use your product, I didn't really purchase it, I am receiving a license to use it....

3. If these terms and conditions will be changed retroactively (for existing customers) that must be optional, opt-in and not required to continue to use the product.

I think this would stop a lot of the shenanigans companies pull on end users, that they DON'T pull in B2B environments.

...or ensure you have backups of data in a non-AWS location?

Z-wave also uses 900mhz in the US, which penetrates walls better and has less competition with 2.4 (Zigbee). So while its closed, it usually more performant than Zigbee (in my experience...)

Yes this is indeed a problem. You can get around this by piping the Z-Wave or Zigbee information into a MQTT server and basically run them as separate networks, with Home Assistant and MQTT tying it all together. But you will need some type of Zigbee to Ethernet adapter (Sonoff makes one, Raspberry Pi, etc.) or Z-wave to ethernet adapter (again Raspberry Pi). It's definitely clunky. But doable.

I am running multiple Zigbee networks near each other (in a house and in a detached garage) with Home Assistant, MQTT server and a Sonoff Zigbee bridge, with Tasmota.

On paper (aka the laws of the United State) FISA applies to things that physically reside in the US.

"The FISA Court’s only jurisdiction is “to hear applications for and grant orders approving electronic surveillance anywhere within the United States.” 50 U.S.C. § 1803 (a) (1)."

There is absolutely an opportunity cost for all of the stuff you own. I won't publish my entire thinking on this, but after seeing my parents collect, hoard and store things for years and years, I place a high value on not having something (I tell myself that I am letting the store hold it for me.)

I still have too much stuff and its a fraction of what my parents had.

(Perhaps this is more of an American thing?)

Texas is not, according to the article they are making it harder every year.

But this was doing the opposite...it was effectively making the test harder every year. If one wanted to game the No Child Left Behind Act, shouldn't you endeavor to make the test easier every year?

Companies have software to manage this for you. We utilize https://www.cyberark.com/products/machine-identity-security/

I utilize pfSense to hijack all outgoing port 53 connections and just re-route them to the local DNS server.

From there, I allow AdGuard DNS out over port 953.

I then use pfBlockerNG with a few block-lists to block DoH and known DNS over 443 servers.

Overall works fairly well, I've had an issue or two when a device cant talk to 1.1.1.1 directly....

International users that have Advanced Protection enabled would in theory be safe from all of the 3-letter agencies (like safe from those agencies getting the data from Apple...not safe generally).

Realistically we are talking about FISA here, so in theory if the FBI gets a FISA court order to gather "All of the Apple account data" for a non-us person, Apple would either hand over the encrypted data OR just omit that....

Based on the stance Apple is taking here, its reasonable to assume they would do the same in the US (disable the feature if USG asked for a backdoor or attempted to compel them to decrypt)

Yes, a large percentage of of the consulting / services business that you would know the name of are organized like this. For services / consulting it makes a lot of sense.

I mean he has a point. Things are incredibly complex now adays, I don't think most people have time to "understand the system."

I would be much more interested in rules that don't start with that... Like "Rules for debugging when you don't have the capacity to fully understand every part of the system."

Bisecting is a great example here. If you are Bisecting, by definition you don't fully understand the system (or you would know which change caused the problem!)

Not really, the more textures you can put into memory the faster they can do their thing.

PC gamers would say that a modern mid-range card (1440p card) should really have 16GB of vram. So a 5060 or even a 5070 with less than that amount is kind of silly.

FYI, this POSIWID concept has been heavily thought about, researched, reasoned, etc. within the cybernetics (or whatever you want to call it) community.

I am not going to do it justice, but the bottom line is that systems get complex very very fast (n! factorial complexity). Cyberniticians (or Stafford Beer at least) reason that we should just treat these systems as black boxes (and examine their inputs / outputs) as any attempt to explain or rationalize the inner working of the system itself (as you are trying to do) will never go well (again because of the complexity).

The Reddit /accounts were talking about this earlier this week and I think most of them had a pretty reasonable take.

1. If one uses an asset as collateral for a loan (be it stock or whatever else), for tax purposes treat that asset as sold, then immediately repurchased at the same price.

2. From there all of the usual tax laws can apply.

So in theory this should get at the core of the actual problem, while avoiding at lot of the messiness of taxing un-realized gains.

It's not perfect, but I think it helps align incentives well. Whoever is lending the money probably wants to know the value of the collateral. Lender and borrower are now both incentivized to come up with the real value at the time of the loan.

I would say it's not that "young workers aren't interested in being machinists" it's more of "Society has not incentivized young workers enough to want to become machinists."

It's probably a combination of things (high schools telling every student they need to go to college, wages too low to attract new talent, other things?), but there is a low chance in my mind that 16-25 year olds are not interested in working with their hands.

The DIY / Hobbyist community has never been larger or more available. High school robotics is bigger than ever, 3D-printing and related things are very popular....

Aye, this has worked very well for me. Keepass file stored on google drive. Can open on PC, iOS, Android, etc.

Just to let you know this kind of pricing information is available and given out during F500 SaaS deals.

Our microsoft reseller was using pricing and contract info on a deal he closed last week to assure us he would and could get us a similar deal.

Gartner will literally cutthtoat re-negotiate any large contract you have, using pricing data they have gathered from their members.

Call them up tomorrow, tell them your current cost for Splunk, they will tell you exactly how much you can save.

So this type of thing is not illegal and not even frowned upon for the big players.