The Windows 2000 era was really peak computing.
Yeah, but not for Microsoft.
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anonymousiam commented on Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad victorwynne.com/vision-fo... · Posted by u/curtblaha
> No way to turn off participation in the "Find My" BLE mesh network
There is a setting to disable participation in the "Find My network" under "Settings > [your name] > Find My > Find My iPhone/iPad > Find My network"
You're confusing opting out of the Find My functionality with opting out of their mesh network, which there is no way to do unless you turn off Bluetooth, which has other undesirable consequences.
anonymousiam commented on Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad victorwynne.com/vision-fo... · Posted by u/curtblaha
It still remains a crippled user experience in many ways:
- PDF reader: Preview would be a nice addition to the set of default app, but you have to choose between the very basic viewer tied to Files.app and various viewers with many schemes to get into your wallet.
- Files: I know a lot of apps rely on databases, but we still have to use files every now and then. The Files.app is very clunky for what I consider a solved problem.
- The weird stage manager: Even on a 13" screen, it's hard to manage more than two apps side by side. Why not introduce a simple workspace manager a la GNOME if they user want to save a particular set of windows.
- Profiles: Even browsers are adding them these days as they recognize that people have a faceted life. Instead we have custom notification settings. The ipad is not that personal of a device. It's closer to the Apple TV than my laptop in terms of privacy.
Additional crippled features:
- Requirement to use ONLY the Apple web renderer (WebKit)
- Why does my iPad Pro take minutes to refresh my email boxes and show new messages, when it's not doing anything else at all? Email on all my other devices is snappy.
- Little or no support for emulation of other platforms.
- No way to turn off participation in the "Find My" BLE mesh network. I'd rather have a choice about whether or not I want to use my battery/network to support their mesh network.
With Apple's announcement about incorporating AI into all their future products, I'm not certain that I will not be buying anything else from them.
anonymousiam commented on Imagen 4 is now generally available developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Are you talking about this google product, or another tool altogether?
They're probably talking about the original Imagen printing product line from the 1980's. I thought I might be the only one to remember them in this thread, so I did a search for printer and found the GP comment.
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anonymousiam commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
That's at least as good as a human, though. Getting to "better-than-human" in that situation would probably require lots of potentially-invasive integration to allow the software to make correct inferences about who the speakers are in order to spell their names correctly, or manually supplying context as another respondent mentioned.
When she told me her name, I didn't ask her to repeat it, and I got it right through the rest of the call. Whisper didn't, so how is this "at least s good as a human?"
anonymousiam commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
Whisper works on 30 second chunks. So yes it can do that and that’s also why it can hallucinate quite a bit.
Whisper is excellent, but not perfect.
I used Whisper last week to transcribe a phone call. In the transcript, the name of the person I was speaking with (Gem) was alternately transcribed as either "Jim" or "Jem", but never "Gem."
anonymousiam commented on Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations wikimediafoundation.org/n... · Posted by u/danso
Already rejected
UK Court Rejects Wikipedia Challenge to Online Censorship Law
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-online-safety-act-wikimedia-cou...
(It looks like the original article has also been updated to reflect this.)
I'm all for funding the development of alternative energy sources, but forcing their deployment before they're viable is a mistake.