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:
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?
To be fair, this still might be true. Font files are treated the same as regular software and follow copyright.
same here, I’ve wanted to buy a second 32GB stick for my laptop, but now it costs about the same as a months rent for my collage dorm. My broke ass can’t afford that and still eat, so I’m gonna have to rock single channel for a couple of years more.
don’t worry about that, I’ve been worse about pettier things ╮(˘､˘)╭
Maybe you’ve only heard the least realistic sounding algorithmic music or something
Might be that tbh, I listen to music mostly in Polish. And the english music I listen to leans on the niche side, so might not have enough training data scraped to make it not weird sounding
Or even the present?
Still somewhat easy, but it might take a couple of seconds. In the future it might get hard, but since generative models are already poisoning all training data sources, I hope it will take a while.
what does it have to do with what I said?
That this will ‘work’ to reduce slop visibility just because that it won’t be actively pushed by the company, despite how hard it is to track and remove the garbage itself.
You do realize that people can still tell when slop is passed as music. And the only reason it’s so prevalent on spotify and whatever other corpo platforms is because it’s used to pay artists who upload there less, 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.
People don’t support things and people they think are wrong, what a wild concept
oh, that would make sense 😅
Did you mean to comment this somewhere else? Or am I just not getting something?
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.