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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

cybersandwich ,

This comment chain made me chuckle. It's such an "internet comment section" ..trope? I don't know the right word.

cybersandwich ,

Then break the fucking window if it's an actual emergency.

cybersandwich ,

I know.

My response was to the previous comment.

In a non Tesla, if someone is locked in a car, what happens? There isn't some secret "let me in" button. You just break a window. This is a dumb story.

cybersandwich ,

...that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business

cybersandwich ,

“I guess I would have to say yes in the spirit of forgiveness, reluctantly. But if I had to be a smartass, I’d say her apology holds about as much water as my canvas bag.”

Lol

cybersandwich ,

Buncha wet blankets on Lemmy. JFC.

I know there is a ton of hype around AI, but at least there is actually something there (unlike crypto).

This is the most exciting thing to happen with computing in a while and if you read Lemmy you'd think everything is bleak and hopeless.

There is so much opportunity to change the way we interact with computers and innovate.

cybersandwich ,

Where are these docs? No one ever links to them or says where you can find them

cybersandwich ,

I had the same experience. Ecosia and ddg just didn't give great results.

Kagi is the one that replaced Google for me. It's pretty incredible.

Yes it's paid. Yes it's worth it. No, not everyone is emotionally ready to pay for search.

cybersandwich ,

It's pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they'll kill it soon!

cybersandwich ,

Lemmy is gonna lemmy.

There isn't any evidence that they used her voice for the "Sky" voice model. Actually, there is evidence that they paid a voice actress to model that specific actress's voice.

That actress sounds similar to Scarlett, but it isn't Scarlett's voice. Is that illegal? No. Is it grounds for a suit? maybe. Will Scarlett win? Maybe.

Let's put it another way. If you wanted to record an audio book, but you wanted the voice actor to have certain qualities that you think would help your book sell. You think Scarlett has all of those qualities, so you ask her if she would record it for you. She declines.

Well shit, that sucks. But wait! She's not the only person with those vocal qualities. I am sure you can find someone else with very similar qualities. So you hire another voice actress that has all of those--which coincidentally and very understandable sounds a lot like Scarlett. But it isn't Scarlett.

Everyone wants to say "big corp bad!" here, but if they truly didn't use Scarlett's voice and didn't do any sort of manipulation to make it sound more like Scarlett, then why CANT they do it. I get that Scarlett is upset, but she's basically mad that someone sounds like her--and decided to work for OpenAI.

If I wanted James Earl Jones to read my eulogy, but he isn't available or is unwilling. Why couldn't I get someone to sound like him to read it? Why should he be able to sue me for using a voice actor that sounds similar to him?

Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...

cybersandwich ,

Yea, a lot of companies and even govt agencies have policies against recording meetings except for special circumstances. Edit: to clarify they have policies against employees initiating recordings (let alone automatically recording anything by default)

Once you have it, it's a record. Now you have to keep it and treat it like one.

cybersandwich ,

No way. I just switched to a Mac at work And I love the lack of integration with OneDrive, 365, etc. office on Mac is better because it hasn't been made worse yet like the windows versions.

cybersandwich ,

I can't tell if ops joke is "intentionally confusing buffers with registers" and everyone is playing along or if people aren't making the distinction between the two in this thread.

Which is ironic and humorous...potentially by accident.

cybersandwich ,

Unless it's the newest of new Nvidia GTX cards, it's generally a wash.

You tradeoff issues from one to the other.

I had a 3070ti that I "upgraded" to a 6900xt and I kind of regretted it. I fell for the AMD is king on Linux hype.

Nvidia is way better than people let on and AMD isn't nearly as great as people let on.

That's my two cents.

cybersandwich ,

I use vimwiki and wrote a bash script that pulls all of the Todo items from across my wiki and puts them in a single file with TODO and IN PROGRESS sections.

I have a keybind that pulls up the list and runs the script to refresh it.

It's not linked to any calendar though. I keep my to-do list and calendar separate.

I use Gmail and have that calendar for my personal stuff. At work I am forced to use outlook.

cybersandwich ,

Kagi

Paying for search aligns incentives better than free search.

It's also the best results from a search engine I've had in a decade.

cybersandwich ,

This feels like a troll account for some reason. Stirring the pot pretty disingenuously across the board.

The railroad workers got what they wanted because the admin followed up. So he averted a rail strike and got them their concessions.

The east Palestine disaster isn't this admins fault. It's anl negligent rail companies fault combined with deregulation from previous Congresses and the previous administration. Not to mention both previous Congress and admin sat on an infrastructure spending packages that could have addressed antiquated rail infrastructure. Ironically, Biden managed to pass the biggest infrastructure package in American history (with a divided Congress). With clean energy and resiliency built it. And if I recall correctly FEMA and Co are still monitoring and supporting the clean up.

Your fossil fuel is thing is BS because of course its growing--we've done nothing, our CONGRESS has done nothing to curtail it. The previous admin opened the flood gates on regulations as well. Don't lay that at the feet of this admin. That's absolute horse shit. The aforementioned infrastructure bill included the most investment in green energy ever.

And the anti trans shit is Bidens fault how? He signed the respect marriage act, he reversed the ban for trans service members, and strengthen some of the protections against discrimination re housing and healthcare.

You want lord emperor Biden to go send mobs after statehouses and local governments?? That's not how Any of this works and you know it.

cybersandwich ,

That last part isn't a fact. We don't have a ruling and we don't know how they will vote.

(God knows how this court will vote but don't spread misinformation)

cybersandwich ,

I think that's actually been proven at this point hasn't it?

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