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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

so the new feature in the next macos release 15.3 is "fuck you, apple intelligence is on by default now"

For users new or upgrading to macOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence will be enabled automatically during Mac onboarding. Users will have access to Apple Intelligence features after setting up their devices. To disable Apple Intelligence, users will need to navigate to the Apple Intelligence & Siri Settings pane and turn off the Apple Intelligence toggle. This will disable Apple Intelligence features on their device.

https://archive.ph/4pSIw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

oh boy: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/113868769104056845 iOS devices send the contents of Signal chats to Apple Intelligence by default

e: this fortunately doesn’t seem to be accurate; excuse my haste. here’s the word from the signal forums

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

Buckle up humans; because humanity's last exam just dropped: https://lastexam.ai/ (Hacker News discussion). May the odds be ever in your favor.

Edit: Per NyTimes, whom I hate, they were apparently trying to avoid an over-dramatic name. Amazing:

The test’s original name, “Humanity’s Last Stand,” was discarded for being overly dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

We publicly release these questions, while maintaining a private test set of held out questions to assess model overfitting.

... Oh so it's a training dataset, got you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

just mark C for every answer if you don't get it, that's what the State of California taught me in elementary school

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Xcancel is giving me issues so gimme a sec. That said: another killing. https://x.com/st_rev/status/1882852779582239053?s=46

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is there any rundown on this backstory for people who missed it happening live over the last few years that doesn't get sidetracked into theological disputes with the murder cult?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

d'ya think this post on awful.systems, the lemmy instance (which is known as awful.systems), is the location of this awful.systems thread? let me hear your thoughts, awful.systems

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

you get even more awful.systems on remote instances

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

trump just dumped half trillion dollars into openai-softbank-oracle thing https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/21/trump-stargate-ai-openai-oracle-softbank/77861568007/

you'd think it's a perfect bait for saudi sovereign wealth fund, and perhaps it is

for comparison, assuming current levels of spending, this will be something around 1/10 of defense spending in the same timeframe. which goes to, among other things, payrolls of millions of people and maintenance, procurement and development of rather pricey weapons like stealth planes (B-21 is $700M each) and nuclear-armed nuclear-powered submarines ($3.5B per Ohio-class, with $31M missiles, up to 24). this all to burn medium-sized country worth of energy to get more "impressive" c-suite fooling machine

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know a lot of people are looking for alternatives for programs as stuff is ennshitfying, rot economying, slurping up your data, going all in on llms etc https://european-alternatives.eu/ might help. Have not looked into it myself btw.

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