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They never got that Adobe “fuck it” money, and Apple has lawyers for days.

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Yeah, I don’t know about that. Enterprise stuff they do with team, fig jam, and dev mode is pretty shady. They bate businesses with “free” features for a year, you can’t opt out of them, employees adopt them, then Figma starts charging once they’ve got their claws into you.

Figma’s enterprise tactics are some of the shadiest things I’ve ever seen from a vendor that I pay.

But, they have silly stickers in Fig Jam, so people like them.

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I don’t know about nobody. Did you see what “one horny user” wrote?

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As the article indicates, it’s catering to the crowd that wants a packed bar fully of people infatuated with whatever is trending in pop culture.

Lemmy’s user base of bean loving software engineers is not that crowd.

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It’s your one year anniversary. Happy bean day.

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And this is why the Humane Pin was always a dumb idea. Apple, Google, Samsung, etc just needed to license some LL and diffusion models, then slap camera on all the headphones they make. Boom - instant humane like experience that’s faster, lighter, better looking, has better battery, etc etc.

No futuristic projector UI, but that thing was pretty busted anyway.

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As I recall, the original goal was to build a product that allowed you to leave the phone behind so you could be more present in the world.

Problem is, processing and battery power clearly isn’t there yet, and it would require a separate sim for that.

A product that leveraged the phone would’ve been a better V1. It’s kind of the obvious conclusion everyone comes to when they play with this thing in the wild.

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Dem leadership decided we don't need to find a good candidate anymore.

People had Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar to pick from. Voters picked Biden.

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I kind of doubt most people were thinking about super delegates in the polling booth. That’s pretty a wonky and most people don’t pay attention to that.

IMHO, it was the super simple stuff that we see in elections all over the world. A candidate gets a leg up if they are well known or is a continuation of a recent administration that people liked.

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Yeah, this text messaging is very different the all over the world. Different phones, different carrier policies and different apps have resulted in different nations being invested in different platforms.

SMS, and things that piggy back on it, dominate north America. So this will mean more to those users than people in Europe, Asia, etc.

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Alternative SMS / RCS apps in iOS would be very nice to have.

That said, people who are buying iPhones are usually buying iPhones because they like Apple’s experiences. People that want more options for default apps tend to be going to Android.

At least with SMS / RCS, people can buy a different phone and explore different clients. When I talk to my friends and family in countries dominated by Line, WeChat, or WhatsApp, I’m kind of stuck dealing with those crappy user experiences. Those companies want to trap me in their user experiences and there are even fewer alternatives if I want to interact on their platforms.

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WHY ARE WE DOING ANY OF THIS???

So people share and promote their coverage, so NBC can sell ad spots.

If you’re commenting on the story, you’re boosting the story, and that’s exactly what NBC wants.

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Who is they and who is us?

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¿Por qué no los dos?

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It’s dumb, but I think the author was trying to say, “we have an emissions solution for the motor, and now it’s worth exploring where else we need to address emissions for motor vehicles.”

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It really just boils down to people arguing over which is better Judaism or Judaism Special Edition.

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Yeah, I’m still on the fence with what happened after the me-too stuff. Some women spoke out against him, but several independent investigations were not able to substantiate the claims. And after different organizations did their own investigations, they all came to the same conclusions, and let him keep his projects and jobs.

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I wonder if Howard is actually suffering from a diagnosable psychotic disorder. He appears to be delusional - and not as a figure of speech. Delusional in the clinical sense.

Hearing Howard’s words, juxtaposed to what was written to him, is pretty bonkers. He thinks he’s a genius that can reinvent math, and he gets super defensive at any polite and candid feedback of his bizarre work.

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I know diagnosing someone off random internet videos is a silly thing to do, but every time this dude pops up in the news, my brain jumps to “there is something significant in the DSM for this guy.”

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These are volunteers, that have day jobs, that have to spend their own time and money to deal with the legal ramifications of that. These aren’t people with legal teams and millions to blow on risk mitigation. These are hobbyists doing this after work, after helping the kids with homework, after cooking dinner for the family, etc.

Good news is that other instances exist. This is just what one group of volunteers is offering to the world.

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When instances get big, it gets really hard for volunteer admins to manage communities with controversial content. You end up having to deal with legal BS and lots of reports.

Admins and mods putting restrictions in place has more to do with keeping the community maintainable. Dealing with all of that stuff is tough when it’s after work and out of your own pocket.

I wish folks had a little bit more empathy for people volunteering their time and money to offer a free service. Lemmy.world’s head admin isn’t Zuck. He’s just a regular Joe Shmoe doing this in his free time.

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11.99 an hour sucks.

Better than just the tips though.

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Thank you for the reply, but penis joke.

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At this point, this guy is basically combined sperm bank and child support subsidy. You have kids with this guy if you don’t want a present biological father, and you think his money is worth dealing with his loony bullshit.

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A Lemmy classic. Commenting on the content without having looked at the content.

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She’s praising the team for recruiting based on skill, not color. A 1/5 of Germans believe the team isn’t white enough.

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All my eczema ointment homies know roids are amazing.

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IMHO, the big thing is the AI stuff. The propagation of LLMs and diffusion models were always going to be a big threat to certain companies, and that cat is out of the bag. MS and Google have already started integrating those things into their products, and it was really just a matter of time before Apple did the same. 

Trail selection also feels like something that is inevitable for Apple and Google. The trails have been in both companies maps for years, and both companies have smart watches with GPS and hiking workouts. I’m not shocked that you can now actually tap on a trail. This feels more like an obvious missing feature. 

And the other little stuff - a calculator on the iPad? Window snapping? Passwords moved the applications folder instead of the preference panel? Timed reminders finally showing in the calendar? The only shocking thing is that these features weren’t part of the 1.0 products.

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Exactly why big toilet always wants me to keep shitting.

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That’s how they get ya.

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That’s what big toilet wants you to believe.

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Yeah, I’m curious to see how this plays out Rosetta 2 was scary good.

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How are you generating stories with Apple Intelligence? When I ask Siri to “tell me story,” Siri pulls from a small library of canned stories. They’re the same on iOS 17 and 18. They’re not generative and I can’t say “tell me a story about dinosaurs who where top hats.”

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It wasn’t my intention to come across as aggressive. Not trying to pick a fight here.

I’m honestly just curious about how some gen AI features are showing for you. If you are able to access them, I would love to reproduce what you did so that I could fiddle with the AI as well. I’m seeing the same bedtime stories on my iOS 17 / 18 devices and my Ventura Mac.

When ask iOS 18 Siri to tell me a story, I get the same handful of stories over and over. Mouse college friends, a spider with the spindly legs, ground squirrels, etc. 🤷‍♂️

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