“We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content."

Didn’t their platform directly contribute to starting a civil war? Or was that a diffrent alghoritm-based slopcial media?

Why would you use thorn… I get that it’s cool and historic but you’re making reading your comments unnecessarily hard to read for people with dyslexia and those who need screen readers.

Sure if it’s possible for you then it must be possible for everyone 😐. I’m sure that this will work for my ass. It’s not like I know from experience that I will forget anything of importance if I don’t write it down.

I keep a journal and a commonplace book (and a self hosted password manager) to remember anything of importance for no reason at all, silly me should have just remembered it. I just need to pull myself up by my bootstraps and stop being lazy duh.

Damn, I see that now. The heat wave is making me stupid, my brain isn’t made for 35C

That would work, if I had like ten or twenty of them to remember.

No amount of studying is gonna make me remember almost a hundred strings of 24 random characters, and what string goes to what account

I probably have around 100 accounts that I’d need to remember the passwords to, that’s not possible while keeping them actually decent and unique.

Yes, the hydrological cycle is global, of course none of the water just disappears. What you’re missing is that the usage is local, data servers use mains water most of the time.

Mains water must come from somewhere, the local area has limited processing capabilities, and heavy industrial consumption severely depletes local groundwater reserves faster than natural rainfall can ever replenish them, forcing nearby communities to bear both the ecological and financial costs of a utility network that was almost never designed to handle such strain.

That audit you found is linked in the article though, at the start of the second paragraph. This is still slop, but at least it has a source I guess.

I remember an article (read it somewhere around 10 days ago) where something was used to access Signal messages of a defendant in a case regarding an attack (shooting I think) on a ICE concentration camp. Might be this, but I’m not sure.

I would have guessed Meta, Zuckerberg paid the most to get the bill in California passed.

Good to see a corpo lose, but this is hardly a hit to them. 99$ million is pocket change for John Deere, they had around 5$ billion dollars in net profit last year. That’s not even 2% procent.

If I took the avarage yearly salary in my country, minus taxes and cost of living expenses, and took 2% of that I probably couldn’t even buy a book.

The 9800X3D is a desktop chip, so I don’t think it’s relevant here. We are talking about a complete mobile device after all, not parts.

In my country, for around 800$ equivalent, you can buy a used business laptop with long battery life and enoguh performance for web browsing, video playback, and office work. The cheapest macbook neo I found in my country is also around that price (820$), and the better configuration is about 900$.

For the lower price, I could get:

• a thinkpad t480 with multiple batteries (hot swappable) and 32GB SO-DIMM RAM
• a latitude 7420 with 11th gen intel with 32GB soldered RAM, a ultraportable like the neo
• a thinkpad t14 gen 2 with 11th gen intel or ryzen 5000 and 48GB RAM (one SO-DIMM slot, and one soldered module)
• or if the size format didn’t matter a thinkpad p52 with 64GB RAM and a 90Wh swappable battery If I went with the higher-spec price, I could get a thinkpad p53 with a quadro RTX 4000 and 32 GB RAM, 512 GB ssd, and a Pantone-calibrated display.

All of them have more ports the the neo, use standard SSDs, and don’t come from a company that is one of the most hostile to consumer rights and right to repair .

One of the few, I take it?

One of many. What I meant (and should have said, instead of being vague) is that I don’t expect this to be a real shift in policy, but rather a way to maintain profits when people have less disposable income, and I fully expect Apple to keep lobbing against right to repair, even when releasing ‘repairable’ devices.

No? Where did you get that from? There’s an ‘a’ there not ‘the’

I don’t get the hype from tech bros for the ‘neo’. It’s a laptop powered by a phone chip sold for the price of a laptop with a decent dGPU.

Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

I thought that installing macOS on a PC not manufactured by Apple has always been difficult by design (even before the shift to ARM), how is this not a walled garden strategy?

Not in the first comment, and I replayed to the second one only because they were acting like a stereotypical obnoxious redditor. As for LMM use, sure it could replace them, just give it a little more time and more money and a bit more money and some more money and also enough data server centres to suck dry entire lakes

“assumptions”? Maybe consider how “I’m so sick of coding” implies you’re doing coding? I’m so sick of driving, oh no somebody ‘assumed’ I’m a driver instead of a mechanic. Believe it or not, most people ‘assume’ something when you use sentences that imply it. CrAZy, riGhT? 😲

Finally I see there’s progress in LLMs, they can now output something that wasn’t entirely hallucinated, maybe there’s a chance that a powerdrain tinskin clankkka will be actually useful before it bluescreens. I hope not, the roboloving cogsuckers that make up the owner class might get their hopes (of paying workers nothing, like in the good ol’days) up and will keep the “AI” bubble going just that bit longer.

White grape? Here that’s apple juice. And not only for ‘juice 100%’ but also instead of sugar (to get around sugar-in-drinks taxes).

It’s in almost bloody everything. Last week I bought pre made tea, I get home and it’s fucking 20% apple juice and like 0.1% green tea extract, guess what it tasted like. fucking. apple. juice.

Fuck your putrid shit ass apples, you greedy bastards. hope you crash your car into an apple orchard if you like them so much.

Some of them also sound pointless, e.g the emoji keyboards. I know for a fact windows, macos and chromeos have inbuild emoji selectors. On linux KDE also has an selector, idk about gnome but even if it doesn’t have one there’s probably a shell exstention for that, there’s also an app called grin (or maybe smile? can’t be bothered to google rn). I literally can’t see a reason to use an web extension over those.