sys_64738's comments

On: Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening

[sys_64738]

It's the people who try to stay below the radar who will get most attention.

On: macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

[sys_64738]

SL had plenty of UI updates.

On: The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

[sys_64738]

Apple "Intelligence" being behind is now being sold as a value add by the Apple fanbois.

[marcosdumay → sys_64738]

I dunno about people that buy their products. But being behind on AI is absolutely a positive for their stocks.

[bitpush → marcosdumay]

I dont think Apple is sleeping on AI, they are trying really hard. Look at their recent announcements - AI features everywhere.

[marcosdumay → bitpush]

They are doing a very sensible approach of not trying to be the top AI researchers around, and either hiring or using commodity stuff on their products trying to find an application.

That's what basically all big techs should have done. And Oracle too.

Again, I have no idea if they found any good use for it on their applications, but they are the only one integrating it right.

[Rohansi → sys_64738]

You can't be behind if you don't allow competition.

[expedition32 → sys_64738]

I buy cheap Android phones because they don't do AI.

On: I said no and Apple said yes

[sys_64738]

They should provide a kill switch to kill the AI slop. People. Don't. Want. It. Listen to customers.

On: I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI

[sys_64738]

yada yada yada

On: Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record

[sys_64738]

Robots are human, too. Ah, wait. Never mind.

On: Comcast Is Turning Its Routers into Motion Detectors

[sys_64738]

I have my own router. Does that mean Comcast will call the cops for a welfare check every few days?

On: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

[sys_64738]

I noticed that UBO Lite doesn't cause the ad boxes to vanish like UBO does. You see this on the likes of the weather.com webpage.

[culi → sys_64738]

Exactly. The Lite version is basically "hiding" ads rather than blocking. The MV2 version stops the requests themselves from being made which save your bandwidth and battery. The light version lacks those benefits

[Andrex → culi]

Advertisers get to pretend their ads are being seen.

Websites get paid.

Users don't see ads.

Sounds like a win-win-win?

[culi → Andrex]

Users are still being tracked and your websites are still slower to load. More of your bandwidth and CPU is being used.

If you want a sophisticated version of what you think this is, see Ad Nauseum. It's uBlock Origin except they create a fake "profile" for you and selectively click ads under the hood to throw advertisers off

[kevin_thibedeau → sys_64738]

That's manifest V3 working as intended.

On: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

[sys_64738]

This is real hacker news! Well done :)

On: Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

[sys_64738]

Arthur 1.2 I believe.