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Rember when Adobe tried to stop people saying images had been “Photoshopped”?
Well, be careful what you wish for Adobe!
Now everyone just says an image is AI, and something being Photoshopped is a distant memory.
RIP Photoshopped Images.
On a similar note, I still do not understand why I have to plug a USB Flash Drive into my Mac twice for it to mount.
I take modern USB-C Flash Drive, plug it into my Mac. Nothing. Take it out, plug it in again, and it mounts just fine.
Same with SD Cards.
I have no idea why this is, and I'm not sure if it's always been this way, but I can't remember a time when I didn't have to do this.
Must be staged?
That’s the first one I saw too.
I’m not even convinced these are all real, or at least are staged:
https://ipcrawl.com/?page=6&cam=63f7feaf5042d223
That’s the invisible man hanging out at a tennis match…
The kids today will never know the horrors!
I used to have SCSI Terminators in my tech support bag. I still have some somewhere…
And the size and thickness of some of those SCSI cables!
SCSI my old friend!
Much of the black magic art of Mac support back in the 80s and 90s was getting SCSI chains sorted out!
Sorting out the device order, swapping out cables, that sort of thing.
I once spoke to a client who said they’d been happily running a single external SCSI drive hooked up to two Macs at the same time….
The entire point is to gain control over internet traffic.
I see many arguments claiming it's about mass surveillance and an invasion of privacy and so on.
We already have mass surveillance, so I don't really buy into those arguments.
I think it's worth considering that it is actually about control. Or more precisely, that it's about dissuading citizens from using social media in the first place.
The damage done to our western democracies from misinformation spread via social media has not gone unnoticed...
Where is that quote from?
I can’t see it in the article when reading on my phone?
Didn't we call this Retail Therapy in the '90s?
Indeed.
Here in Australia, the local and state governments push the use of their Apps as well.
These Apps provide access to identity documents, offical notifications, and messages for health, benefits and taxation purposes.
Then there is Banking and the issues around becoming a cashless digital society…
It’s become less about access to hardware devices, as useable devices can often be free when donated by a friend or relative, and more about continuity of access to your digital life.
The risk of losing access to your online identity or having it stolen are very real with often traumatic results for individuals.
Is the "$ Spent on AI since page load" broadly indicative of spend at all, or just a fun animation?
It seems you can use the Claude Code CLI harness without a Claude Pro subscription now, which I don't think you could a before?
I've been using Deepseek v4 with Cline in VS Code as a replacement for Github Copilot, and it's not been too bad.
Back in the old days we needed to make an Ethernet Crossover Cable to get this to work.
Modern ethernet supports Auto MDI-X, which manages that automagically for you.
If we're nitpicking, you don't what their usage?
Abrogate their usage.
Maybe with Tim and Jensen going on holiday together in China, the relationship might be healed somewhat.
Things have moved on since the days where GPUs in Macs were a priority.
But then the AI race has changed things. So who knows - maybe we will one day see official eGPU support from Apple and new drivers from nVidia. Wouldn't put on money on it though....
These Gen AI tools have proved to be incredibly sticky!
I genuinely don’t think when Chat GPT 3.5 launched, that anyone believed people would integrate the usage of them as quickly and solidly as they have.
So Im with you on this, people use Chat GPT, Claude and so on for anything and everything.
The fact that it’s happening shows that they always had the ability...
That may not be the case here, and certainly isn't the assumption we can make more generally.
We regularly see regressions in platform security.
If nothing else, as a web developer, accessibility is an interesting challenge and satisfying to do well!
I also just saw:
Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855565
Indeed!
I just found out via other news sources, and was surprised I hadn't seen it on HN already.
AFAIK the data does not need to be text.
We are all just evolving on vibes at this point ;-)
If your version is 5.0.0 or newer, concurrency is already active by default.
It's a clickbait headline, yet again:
Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion. He then asks Huang when he believes AGI will be real — asking if it’s, say, five, 10, 15, or 20 years away — and Huang responds, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
But Huang then seemed to slightly walk back his earlier claims, saying, “A lot of people use it for a couple of months and it kind of dies away. Now, the odds of 100,000 of those agents building Nvidia is zero percent.”
So a lot of podcast banter nonsense basically :-/
Since the beginning of human history
You have that backwards though! :-)
We'd get to know people in our community, often because they were born in to it, then we'd fit in to productive roles.
The way we do it these days is a recent, post industrial revolution, mode of society.
At AU$999 here in Australia, I'm not so sure they will.
Wired headphones and earbuds seem to be having a moment as well.
After that, I guess it'll be a rise of invite-only forums like we had in the early 2000s all over again.
Which would be totally fine with me TBH.
Rather amusingly, invite-only torrent sites might be the only semi-public authentically human hangouts left on the internet!
... all of them at this point? ;-)
Be interesting to see the numbers graphed over time.
Funny thing about AI layoffs is the cloud cover it provides to do it. Which I know is not a fresh insight. :-)
In HR speak, if you 'reduce headcount' because you over hired or needed to cut costs, then that's a bad signal to the markets.
If you do it because of AI efficiencies, you are an innovative industry leader and your stock goes up.
Atlassian stock up 2% on the news :-/
External SAS enclosures are not cheap.
Sadly this is what I discovered.
I'd hoped there would be cheap external drive bays to mount HDDs in and connect to the mini PC over SATA.
But alas there isnt really.
It makes more sense to just use a PC Case and mount the drives that way.