Readit Newsashenke commented on Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust phoronix.com/news/Asahi-L... · Posted by u/LorenDB
I installed Linux Mint on a 2014 macbook pro for my wife and its still going strong.
Yes and the discussion here is about how that's not something that might be possible in the future, based on M1 and M2 support still being partial and M3 really experimental
ashenke commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
I have been unable to recreate any of the failure examples they gave. I don't have co-pilot, but at least Gemini 2.5 pro, ChatGPT5-Thinking, and Perplexity have all give the correct answers as outlined.[1]
They don't say what models they were actually using though, so it could be nano models that they asked. They also don't outline the structure of the tests. It seems rigor here was pretty low. Which frankly comes off a bit like...misrepresentation.
Edit: They do some outlining in the appendix of the study. They used GPT-4o, 2.5 flash, default free copilot, and default free perplexity.
So they used light weight and/or old models.
[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/news-integrity-i...
They're talking about assistants, not models, so try using the gemini or perplexity app?
The last time Apple introduced a product with a moving part was the Airpods line. I think we'll see a foldable iPhone about the same time we see a touchscreen Mac.
That's funny, a lot of rumors are pointing to a foldable iPhone AND a touchscreen Mac
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/latest-round-of-cred...
ashenke commented on Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management github.com/immich-app/imm... · Posted by u/rzk
Absolutely love immich. Prior to the release of the new "Beta timeline", it was difficult to recommend without reservation, because there were a lot of performance issues on Android, and syncing was just non-functional on my wife's iPhone. However, since enabling the beta timeline, the app is basically perfect now. I've been running it for months without issue, and having a first-class CLI means I've been able to do things like automatically create albums from my Signal backup. Big thanks to the immich team!
Thank you for this, I updated some time ago but never really switched. Night and day difference !
The other thing I'm waiting for is search results ordered by date instead of relevance. When I'm searching for a picture in particular I know was taken 3 years ago, and search keywords to find it, it's impossible to find this specific photo because the ordering seem random
everyone's saying it "drove upside down" - kinda missing the point - this car IDLED upside down.
It went forward a little, but yes not really driving. But the upside down part is just a demo of the vacuum thingie technology, not the main point
> "He explained that I was looking at a plan for a restored ecosystem. It was also a perfectly adapted money machine. There was a large area where the ancient elephants could graze, and this would be funded, in part, by carbon-offset payments from governments and corporations. The carbon value of a single elephant is about two million dollars, he told me. (An elephant increases biodiversity, in part, by spreading seeds in its dung and by crushing dense vegetation on forest floors, giving slow-growing trees the space to survive.) He added that the interesting educational opportunities and “sexiness factor” of Colossal’s creations would make its carbon credits “trade at a premium.”"
So it's a startup, valued at 10 billion?! How exactly do they plan to make money?
Seriously, could anything be more 21st-century? Resurrecting extinct animal species (ones that supposedly went extinct naturally, mind you, not because of humans – what's the point then?) just to reintroduce them into parks and sell carbon credits.
Paywalled so I have to ask, why the dire wolf? Why not an animal that humans drove to extinction like the dodo bird? Is it because dire wolves sound cool and were in video games?
From the article, it looks like they have multiple teams working on multipe animals at the same time. But the dodo team is going slower than the mammoth and the wolf :
> Keyte added that her team was still a long way from bringing back the dodo. For one thing, the methods for growing and manipulating the embryonic precursors of avian sperm and eggs in a lab setting have been developed for only two birds: the chicken and, recently, the goose. Keyte said, “It’s been almost twenty years since culture conditions for the chicken were established, and those culture conditions have not worked for other bird species, even ones that are really closely related, like quail.” She added that, despite the dearth of related research, her team was getting better at growing the sperm-and-egg precursors in birds: “We’ve gotten to the point where we feel like we can start doing some migration assays”—a technique for studying how the cells in an early embryo begin to differentiate. Once the researchers got the basic method for growing bird cells down, they could use the technology not just to develop a dodo but also to help replenish populations of endangered birds. The team had already identified some species that could use the help.
I think a competent 5yro could make a better pelican on a bicycle than that. Which to me feels like the hallmark of AI.
I mean, hell, I have drawings from when I was eight of leaves and they are botanically-accurate enough to still be used for plant identification, which itself is a very difficult task that people study decades for. I don't see why this is interesting or noteworthy, call me a neo-luddite if you must.
The complexity is that it's not a drawing : It's SVG.
So it's code that must, in the end, display a pelican, so it's one step further.