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LexGray commented on Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster folklore.org/Saving_Lives... · Posted by u/maayank

encom · a day ago

My sisters iPad just bricked itself during an update, and nothing I've tried has been able to revive it. And it's an unrepairable disposable piece of tech, so it's going into a landfill.

https://www.apple.com/environment/

LOL

LexGray · a day ago

Apple will take back all devices and recycle them. Please do not let her put it in a landfill.

LexGray commented on A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/reaperducer

nucleardog · 9 days ago

Not sure how much that would help overall.

Unless it's completely clear that it's not a gun, the reviewer is essentially always going to pull the alarm. The risk of a false alarm is going to be seen as minimal, while the risk of a false negative is catastrophic.

False alarm makes the news for now because it's novel, we all go "What the hell, guys?" and life goes on.

Nobody wants to end up sitting in front of a prosecutor, the media, etc explaining why they chose not to pull the alarm, when the AI _clearly_ identified the gun, and instead chose to let all those kids die.

LexGray · 9 days ago

Make the failure billable for failures in the contract as it is a significant downtime.

For every false alarm you need to pay the salaries that were wasted and the snacks and therapists for the kids.

Likewise for every missed gun hazard pay for teachers and therapists for kids.

If they aren’t confident enough to back a service that has such a mental impact on failure they should not be selling it.

LexGray commented on What the heck is going on at Apple? cnn.com/2025/12/06/tech/a... · Posted by u/methuselah_in

underbluewaters · 20 days ago

As a mac user since 2006 I see the problem as twofold.

  1. Siri has always been terrible. The rise of chatbots has made that fact even more obvious. It's such low hanging fruit to integrate some sort of llm chatbot. Why didn't they do it years ago?
  2. Their advertisements all mention Apple Intelligence. Costco today was advertising "Macs with Apple Intelligence" as a headline feature. I use MacOS and iOS everyday and I'm not even sure what they are referring to. It's probably fine if their AI strategy isn't clear yet, but stop letting marketing act like they've already shipped it. That they have been promoting this non-existent feature since 2024 is embarrassing.

LexGray · 19 days ago

Issue with LLM with Siri is bad press. There are articles every day about LLM pushing suicide, drugs, violence and the like. Stability and security are issues too if it was given any sort of system write access.

However much value it may add it is guaranteed to do greater long term reputational damage in the current state.

LexGray commented on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cyclecount

raw_anon_1111 · a month ago

This is completely illogical. There is no world that wireless charging or data transfer was going to be as good as wired. Was the iPhone all the sudden not going to work in the millions of cars that had wired CarPlay?

LexGray · a month ago

Illogical may not be the right word. We have already reached the point of passible.

WiFi speeds are decent for data.

Wireless charging is 2 hours to a full quick charge and efficiency gets better every generation.

As for wired CarPlay somebody would make dongles.

LexGray commented on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cyclecount

pjc50 · a month ago

Once something becomes so widely used that almost everyone has one, the public interest is involved. In the same way that cars are essential public infrastructure and have to comply with public safety standards, interoperable fuel nozzles, etc.

LexGray · a month ago

Public interest does not seem to be the driving factor.

Everyone owns kitchen appliances and even if there is network support it generally requires a specific app that is out of support very early in the device lifetime. Vehicles barely support operability with phones at all and there is no standard UI or phone side vehicle monitoring.

At least personally I would like enforced open device standards on home appliances and vehicles far before I care about something like AirDrop that has work arounds.

LexGray commented on AI scrapers request commented scripts cryptography.dog/blog/AI-... · Posted by u/ColinWright

jMyles · 2 months ago

Sexual consent is sacred. This metaphor is in truly bad taste.

When you return a response with a 200-series status code, you've granted consent. If you don't want to grant consent, change the logic of the server.

LexGray · 2 months ago

Perhaps bad taste, but bots could also be legitimately purposely violating the most private or traumatizing moments a vulnerable person has in any exploitative way it cares to. I am not sure using bad taste is enough of an excuse to not discuss the issue as many people do in fact use the internet for sexual things. If anything consent should be MORE important because it is easier to document and verify.

A vast hoard of personal information exists and most of it never had or will have proper consent, knowledge, or protection.

LexGray commented on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B 9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/ap... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

lopis · 2 months ago

> I’m kinda split on the whole Apple situation. I’m firmly in the camp of “monopoly bad”, but apparently people are fine with apple’s practices. It’s not like they have to buy an iPhone.

People don't necessarily choose the option that is better for them long term. The existence of monopolies stifles innovation, so users are worse off. For example, Apple's ecosystem works great if you go all in, but what would have happened if Apple had opened the garden to every one and embraced open standards?

LexGray · 2 months ago

That sounds like a fun thought experiment. What exactly would happen?

I think is why the EU and UK pushing so hard to open the gates is so they have the excuse to take control themselves and slam the gates back shut hard. I predict the outcome in even a ten year period is all apps will need governmental approval.

Opening the gates is not necessarily the best long term decision either.

You have to remember most governments are corrupt and it will devolve into a situation on who pays the best bribes over the current flat rate extortion.

LexGray commented on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B 9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/ap... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

AnthonyMouse · 2 months ago

> Imagine the response if the uk tried to break up apple

This right here is why they need to be broken up. Are we supposed to have a company more powerful than a country?

LexGray · 2 months ago

It is not just Apple. The UK is going after every company with their porn filtering laws. Imagine the response if people did not stand up to their tyranny and the Uk kept pushing their agendas further and further. This is why the UK needs to be broken up.

LexGray commented on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/alecmuffett

rbanffy · 2 months ago

> I don't know if you know this, but when you put a website online there isn't a big switch that says "TURN ON TO SERVE TO UK"

No, but it's a relatively trivial setting to block IP ranges, especially for a service the size of 4chan.

> You can try to geolocate the IP for every individual visitor, but that's a ridiculous burden for website operators and it also doesn't even work.

It's not a ridiculous burden (the ranges are easy to obtain - I did it before) and it's not expected to be 100% effective against a dedicated user because proxies exist.

LexGray · 2 months ago

It is a strange definition of relatively trivial to ask each and every person on the planet who has served content to be aware of all constantly changing local judicial content restrictions, to identify the location of their users, and to identify which specific bits of the content they are serving is problematic.

It is a massive global undertaking involving untold collective man hours developing, implementing, and updating. They may as well be adding an invisible 1/2 pent tax on every man woman and child like some sort of hidden global sovereign.

This is a war they lost long ago and they keep trying to take power to which they are not entitled. The correct answer is like the Boston tea party dumping their imperial assumptions into the ocean.

If they want to block content they should take the responsibility to do so themselves. Even just blocking advertisers who fund problem sites would probably take care of whatever problem they are trying to solve.