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Switzerland effectively runs via committee
so many TLDs that seem to be exploiting similarity to existing ones?
.cmo/.con are particularly egregious
The part I hate the most is they got rid of the dictionary/thesaurus/etymology thing and replaced it with AI overview. Now "define <word>" or "<word> synonyms" gives you an AI overview with consistently worse output than the nice, consistent and deterministic dictionary output.
I think OpenAI was surprised to find their agents had access to the unrestricted internet :P
same here! I got into Scratch at the age of 7 and without it (and the Scratch community), I wouldn’t have any career (or even a plan for one). I also worked as an intern on the Scratch team at the Scratch Foundation.
I also know that one of the important developers for the Asahi Linux drivers also started on Scratch. I think there’s a lot of real software engineers who started on Scratch (and the Scratch community, which is often overlooked)
These 'integrations' everywhere just mean we get more APIs that can be accessed programmatically, which I think is good for users, even if you don't plan to use to use AI. It's like the optimistic web 2.0 APIs everywhere days
Couldn’t you just prefix your search with KDE? Search engines aren’t
that bad. I like the Apple approach where apps are just named what they do.
(Minus Safari. I wonder why they went with Safari.)
I know agents have lowered the cost to make a website to be a few cents for tokens and a couple dollars for a domain name, but isn’t all this a little excessive for a few line long markdown file!? Why not just display the ‘skill’ itself with a few lines commenting on what it does/how it helps?
This is something I’ve seen before. Someone is registering domain names related to open source projects and then ‘creating’ slop websites about the projects. Not sure what the play is, or whether this falls into that category, but it’s really weird and takes control away from open source maintainers in a scary way. Maybe it’s extortion or maybe it’s an malware thing. I highly doubt it’s out of the goodness of someone’s heart.
Open source maintainers shouldn’t have to register their projects as trademarks/proactively register domains to avoid this, but that seems like the only strategy?
The new Framework Pro laptop is supposed to be pretty good. Anyone have any experience with it yet?
I’m in Japan right now on a holiday and I was blown away by how easy it was to get set up with Suica through Apple Wallet / Apple Pay. In fact, I did the initial set up back home in Toronto just by tapping a few buttons in the native Apple Wallet app. Took probably 30 seconds.
It is so convenient to use Express Transit Cards on iOS… I also just found out that there’s something similar for Presto cards in Toronto so I’m going to have to set that up too.
In Japan right now. I didn’t even have to install anything, just went to Apple Wallet, add card, selected Suica, and then could create and load up a card. Plus it gets set up as an express transit card so I can tap my locked phone to pay for transit or snacks (even when it’s dead). Super pleasant experience.
Also, the website seems to be largely ‘vibe coded’, at least given by the written copy and the style. If you ask Claude to use 1990s/2000s web design and HTML it’ll do something like this.
If you use HDR videos, you can get bright white even on soon browsers that don’t support HDR images
Mildly related: I have found that the best text editor I've ever used is neovim with Claude code writing the config which I don't look at. I'm not a huge fan of 'vibe coding' or whatever, but being able to configure my editor in English is amazing.
eg.
"Make <leader>L run `lint/all` on the codebase"
"Make yanks use the system clipboard so I can y or p to the clipboard"
"Make it so <leader>yd yanks the current file name"
"Make it so <leader>yD yanks the current file name and path, eg. a/b/file.txt:30"
Plus with nvim 0.12, there's a native package manager, so I can just ask the agent to add a vim.pack.add() for whatever plugin I want.
eg. "Add telescope using vim.pack, and set up <leader>fg to to grep in the cwd"
not the OP, but I assume: Apps don't need to go through Apple and Apple doesn't get to take a cut?
The part about getting authorized to test the emergency calling capabilities is cool! I should've expected that would be a thing but I didn't ever consider it.
What are the serious holes?
With Tom Scott in particular, there’s a number of his videos that are kinda eerie to watch now with today’s LLM context
eg. https://youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE
I also agree that a big issue here is crappy software.
The discussion revolving AI+cyber always revolves around the assumption that all software is crappy, and to a certain degree that may be true, but we could also take our jobs seriously and write good software, and much of the risk would evaporate. The described Artifactory bugs should have been caught with testing.
If the biggest impact of LLMs on the industry is a pressure to create good software, I’ll be thrilled.
to be fair, the model used for Chat Jimmy is not very smart, but the world where it is smart is very interesting.
It’s going to be really crazy when the bottle neck for agents is the speed of the tool calls rather than the speed of inference. Imagine an agent interacting with the terminal near instantly…
not that it really helps to know now, but .gle is a TLD operated by Google. the only domains on a .gle domain will be Google (in theory). Plus, a single letter domain (on any TLD), like c.gle would be expensive to burn on a phishing scam.
But no one should need to know this. I don't know what's so wrong about just using google.com, or even .google for anything user facing...
I understand the idea that they want an official TLD that doesn't necessarily have their trademark in it, so you know it's a link to a Google service but potentially user content, but why have c.gle links to official/urgent messaging??
(at least they don't use 1drv.com in emails like Microsoft.. seriously...)
tech companies are responsible for the products they ship, aren’t they? a company shouldn’t release something that could only be used for Bad Things
What is an AI image generator inside Google Earth useful for if not generating believable but fake images that look like they’re from Google Earth?