Nicolás Alvarez

Fun fact: the feature where Apple Music shows translated lyrics is codenamed Despacito. I guess they really wanted to know what that song was about.

Iiinteresting, that does sound like on-device synth... maybe the computer-side synth is only on Shuffle 🤔

I *think* on pre-iPhone iPods, the speech synth ran on iTunes, and the speech audio files were loaded into the iPod.

Why would generating a summary offline, locally, on your phone, increase the chances of leaking info?

Maybe some day people will stop conflating trans traits and autism traits.

The summary is generated locally on your device. Data leaks are the least of my worries about this particular stupid and useless feature.

IIRC 0 is parsed as an octal literal, that's another fun one to find out about.

Use multiplication instead of adding.

I wonder how the cloud hyperscalers deal with that. Resist the temptation to use AWS EC2 to run the AWS EC2 API servers...

@lookitup.baby

iOS does the same!! Only happens if I press the X to close the full screen view, not if I swipe it away (since then it moves off screen rather than to the original image box).

Switching between Linux on PC keyboard, macOS on Apple keyboard, and Linux on Apple keyboard, is SUCH A PAIN for my muscle memory. Even copying text is inconsistent.

I hope y’all are enjoying directly funding this shit, you fucking lowlives.

Got more info on this?

An article titled "The Rise of the Techno-Pastoral" by Lisa Peralta. The image that accompanies it depicts a gameboy whose screen shows a pixelated green field and trees, and its lead reads "When criticizing the present, we keep dreaming of the technology of the past. Is this logic sound?"

I made a blog!

been thinking a lot about our relationship to technology and what I find unsettling about "tech detox" culture

go read it: noreturn.blog/p/the-rise-o...

not sure if Bluesky even had alt text in 2023!

@techconnectify.bsky.social

Try "from __future__ import braces" in Python.

They need to get more GPUs I guess 🙃

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The reason I avoid it is that I come back to the website months later, don't find the password in my password manager, wonder did I even make an account, did I use login with Google or with Apple or did I make an email/password account and forget to save it?

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

There's plenty of privacy violations in modern fuel-burning cars so that's not an EV downside anymore ✨

You underestimate how much time and money that takes.

"without sanitisation" hey grith what exactly would effective sanitisation look like?

I once saw advice that if your boss asks you to do something unethical you should pretend you think it's phishing or a compromised account, and forward it to infosec and legal.

I don't have the experience to know if it's good advice.

I like baiting Apple employees like that.

I know it's wrong and they can't correct me 😈

I know it's right and they can't tell me "how did you find that" because it would confirm it 😈

Fired into outer space or...?

It's powered by whatever your phone provides. On iPhone, it will be Apple's translation thing.

It's whatever your phone OS provides.