Best case is that the model used to generate this content was originally trained by data from Wikipedia so it “just” generates a worse, hallucinated “variant” of the original information. Goes to show how stupid this idea is.

Imagine this in a loop: AI trained by Wikipedia that then alters content on Wikipedia, which in turn gets picked up by the next model trained. It would just get worse and worse, similar to how converting the same video over and over again yields continuously worse results.

Even at early bird pricing (39,-€) I’d rather get a cable that has the specs I need.

This seems to do a little bit more than simply list the specs (show shorted pins and whatnot), but it doesn’t do any kind of load testing (tests like does sending 240 watts over the wire somehow interfere with the data transfer).

Most of the cables that I have lying around are USB 2.0 100 watts PD, as that’s what most devices come with that have a cable in the box. For other cables I know what they’re capable of because I read the spec sheet before purchasing them.

This might be useful to shops who sell refurbished phones that want to quickly check whether used USB-C cables are still good, but I don’t see why anyone would want this for personal use.

Firefox + Kagi

He used old batteries, but I actually had new Duracell batteries with this feature very recently, in 2022 or so (Germany).

Malware could also reinstall it to be fair, or just create screenshots on its own.

Still smells fishy that Explorer has it as a dependency, “disabled” or not.

Ah, TIL.

What’s “Google hardware”? Likely just NVIDIA hardware running in Google’s cloud?

I’m coping for RDNA4.

Pricing seems to be a lot cheaper than from “the big three” (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), but similar to competitors like Backblaze or Wasabi.

Most of their other services are super attractive in terms of price (and also quality in my experience), this seems more like an “hey we have S3 too”.

Then don’t buy a new iPhone/MacBook/iPad every year.

I personally prefer to buy a device that’s as up-to-date as possible whenever I buy it. I wouldn’t want to buy an expensive device that’s 2.5 years old when I buy it only for it to get replaced by its successor half a year down the line.

Crazy how quickly NVIDIA went up. I wonder if they’ll crash down just as fast should the AI hype either die off or shift to other manufacturers (Intel, AMD etc.) or in-house solutions (ex. Apple Intelligence).

Most of the cartridges this device can dump are so old that nobody will come after you for owning such dumps, whether they’re from your cartridge or not. It’ll also be hard to prove that the ROM isn’t from your own cartridge if it’s a clean ROM.

This is the way.

Exactly. If anything, signs like these drag the attention away from the actual issue.

Yeah, I won’t trust Google on that unless they actually deliver. Too many canned projects by that company.

The iPhone 6S got iOS 9 to iOS 15, so 7 years of mainline software support and as of now it’s still getting security updates - 9 years later (latest version as of now is 15.8.3 released end of July this year). The iPhone XS entered year 7 of mainline software support with iOS 18.

Sure, some phones only got 6 years of mainline software support, namely the iPhone 7 or iPhone X. They’re all still receiving security updates though.

Google just now promised to more or less match that starting with the Pixel 8 series, but they didn’t retroactively apply that policy to their previous devices. The Pixel 8 now has just shy of 6 years of mainline software support to go to fulfill Google’s promise and we’ll see how long they’ll release security updates after that.

Thanks for letting me know, I just updated to v5 yesterday.

Technically the Pro Max already starts at 256 GB (starting with the 15 series iirc). But they simply removed the 128 GB option from the price stack.

I used to use the Magic Mouse gen 1 and opening the battery compartment was as easy as pressing down on a plastic “lever”. I never harmed my fingernails in any way in the process.

Other than that, there are clearly many better mice. Having to lift the finger from the left mouse button for it to register a right click is stupid.

If the apps wouldn’t be slow React Native or whatever “multiplatform framework” crapware, then I’d actually say that well designed, native Swift UI (iOS) or Material (Android) apps can enhance the user experience for a lot of services that are otherwise offered via website. Native integrations with shortcuts, widgets, fully supporting accessibility features of the OS etc.

The problem is most apps are just low-effort web app conversions.

AI assisted Notepad is a thing?