rikudou

rikudou , 2 days ago to Technology in 3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks

1.46 billions of iOS users as of 2023. And 100 million MacOS users.

rikudou , 23 days ago to Technology in Andrej Karpathy endorses Apple Intelligence

What the hell is the fella smoking if he thinks Apple would ever let others use their on-device LLM? Like, the company that deems it too dangerous if apps could change a wallpaper?

rikudou , 23 days ago to Technology in Andrej Karpathy endorses Apple Intelligence

Hey, I love my kernel processes! Especially my LLM kernel processes.

rikudou , 27 days ago to Technology in Proton Pass Arrives on Mac and Linux

Until someone makes a frontend for syncthing that's significantly dumbed down, it's not elitist.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history

That's very different, they want you to either pay or not have access. This would be you still having access, but being paid for giving them data voluntarily.

That's perfectly legal and employed across many European business entities.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history

For my use case Revolut mostly replaced it.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history

They'll give you $2 or something like that if you give them consent. You would be surprised how well that works.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

And it feels wrong for this comic.

rikudou , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Windows 10 EOL PSA

Weird way to spell NixOS.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

But a decade from now, there will be AI trained on data that will no longer exist. And many websites that GPT trained on probably don't exist anymore.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in The Mac vs. PC war is back on?

Well, I was comparing to my experience with both Windows and MacOS or whatever is the thing called.

Windows PC gets slow and laggy after around half a year, it goes slowly so you don't notice at first, but around half a year later it's shitty. No matter the hardware. Sure, your $2k laptop won't be as slow as a random $300 laptop, but the ratio of new/half-a-year-later is more or less the same.

With Macs I have limited experience, but my partner's Mac was shitting itself all the time, weird issues with login screen being stuck and needing hard reboot, the thing generally being laggy when you try to do more than two things (neither of which necessarily needs to be a demanding task), Finder is pretty much an abomination that no one really knows how to use well and so on.

Sure, Linux is fucked up all the time as well, but my point is it's not worse than the other two systems, both are broken all the time as well. And the argument that you need terminal to work - have you actually fixed any problem on Windows? Unless a reboot of the system or of some service solves the problem, within 10 minutes you're either running PowerShell or you're deep in the registry.

Well, at least Windows seems to be a problem that's solving itself (albeit very slowly) with how shitty it's become.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in The Mac vs. PC war is back on?

Gaming is no longer a reason, really. 99% of the time it works out of the box.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in The Mac vs. PC war is back on?

Isn't it? I think it's quite there, unless you get unlucky with hardware.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath

I've been there, now it's been over two years where I'm pretty much Gmail free. It's hard but it's worth it.

rikudou , 1 month ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

And not as a Hong-Konger, if you don't want your family on a blacklist.