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baldur, to random
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“Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History”

https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

> To confound matters, the Etsy stores selling these generated images also sell genuine prints by Morris, Monet, Klimt, and Matisse

markv,
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@baldur Keeping aside the copyright discussion and AI ethics for a moment, isn’t selling an AI-generated work and passing it off as genuine simply consumer deception and hence already illegal?

Even long before AI, if I would have made a fake Van Gogh print myself and passed it off as a real one, I’d be in jail, no?

jamesthomson, to random
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This is oddly satisfying in VR. One of these days I might make an actual game!

A man destroys a wall with a series of dice and other objects fired from his fingertips. This is clearly the killer app for the Vision Pro.

markv,
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@jamesthomson Dude, you've been a closeted game developer for at least the last 10 years. Time to be your true self!

We love you no matter what 💙

davemark, to ai
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Google is adding "an AI-generated summary at the top of many of their search results"

If Google AI pulls detailed answers directly into the search page, the less likely you are to visit other sites.

Better for Google. Worse for the external sites, yeah? Or am I missing something?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

markv,
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@davemark You are 100% correct. Google is changing itself from the indexer that will point people to the rest of the web into the big blender that will digest everything and vomit it back out at the users request. Not a good evolution imo 😕

twostraws, to random
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The most dangerous thing about ChatGPT is how utterly certain it is.

markv,
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@twostraws Yeah, that's a scarily confident and utterly wrong response. It's like a self-righteous boomer and an overconfident intern at the same time 😅

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone

markv,
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@stroughtonsmith I wonder if it's even a separate team inside Apple, or just a single team shipping under 2 separate product names?

markv,
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@drahardja @stroughtonsmith Isn't that where the whole problem starts, then?

A dedicated, focused hardware team knocking it out of the park, joined at the hip with an OS team treating this as a side hustle and naturally prioritising the backlog towards 90% of their customer base (iPhone users) and 9% of the remainder (casual iPad users), over the last 1% (pro iPad users)? Feels to me like putting iPadOS under its own product ownership would go a long way towards fixing all this.

davemark, to apple
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From M4 iPad Pro review by @joannastern

"iPadOS is far less capable than macOS"

"It's like having the power of a Ferrari, but driving it on a golf course"

Read the words, watch the video. My 2 cents, I wish I could run macOS on that M4 Apple Silicon, or get an iPadOS redo.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ipad-pro-vs-macbook-the-great-apple-laptop-tradeoff-3304323d?st=90tzwcjmrv8pb9n&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

markv,
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@davemark @joannastern My guess: the first isn't going to happen because it would essentially allow sideloading on iPad and risk undercutting the app store revenue model.

The second isn't going to happen because it would take tremendous resources and those are all dedicated to visionOS at this point.

My "hail mary" hope is that investments on visionOS might trickle down into iPadOS. After all, a Vision Pro and an iPad Pro are both pretty expensive pro-oriented devices 🤷‍♂️

craiggrannell, to random
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@markv @callionica Indeed. Occam’s razor suggests only two possibilities:

  • Human error (incorrect details typed in for the payment)

  • Routing error (at any point between their bank and mine)

But without the info, I’m kind of stuck. Hopefully someone will actually send me some. I’ve asked twice now.

markv,
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@craiggrannell @callionica Yep. Good luck - I know this stuff can be frustrating.

(btw I deleted my original reply when I realized I wasn't saying anything you didn't already know or that others hadn't already said, apologies for orphaning your reponse in the process 😅 )

markv,
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@craiggrannell Yeah I really like the atmosphere. It doesn't have the scale of old Twitter, but that's a good thing.

Btw, a company I worked for a while back had a fraud case where someone in AP had put a personal account nr of theirs on a supplier record they thought was no longer being used. They were siphoning off small sums.

When the actual supplier invoiced something again at some point, they complained they weren't receiving the money and that got the ball rolling. So keep at it 😅

stroughtonsmith, to random
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‘The iPad Feels Lost’, with some damning supercuts. Short and sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-u9ls-hNY

markv,
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@cdoncarroll @stroughtonsmith Agree. I think they genuinely (but misguidedly) believe that keeping the limits they’re putting on the iPadOS are what’s best for the overall iPad experience across consumer + professional users. Not because they want to protect MacBook sales.

Heck, if they could flip half of those MacBook users over to iPadOS and get more money from accessory sales that’d be more money for them 😂

markv,
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@craiggrannell @cdoncarroll @stroughtonsmith Looks like even Apple is pretty much saying exactly that, out loud:

gruber, (edited ) to random
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Thoughts on Apple no longer including stickers with new devices to reduce waste:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/no-more-stickers-with-new-ipads

markv,
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@gruber Is this part of their bigger trend towards "no more plastic packaging, only paper based"?

film_girl, to random
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The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/

markv,
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@film_girl @a40yostudent Plot twist: what if they put the virtualized macOS app behind a $9,99 per month subscription? 😈

craiggrannell, to random
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Interesting to see how furiously angry people are with the new Apple iPad Pro ad. So many have responded to it as an ad that’s destroying creativity and replacing it with digital. My take is that it’s about how Apple has crammed possibilities into an ‘impossibly thin’ device. But the execution of said ad leaves a lot to be desired.

Here’s hoping Ken Segall has something to say about it. (And I’m sure he must. Whether he’ll share it, mind.)

markv,
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@craiggrannell I’m sure Apple intended it as you saw it. I just don’t get how nobody in marketing saw see the other take coming 🤷‍♂️

kepano, to apple
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I think the ad would work much better if it was reversed. All the objects should be expanding out of the iPad rather than being crushed into it

made this edited version in five minutes (thanks iMovie!)

video/mp4

markv,
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@kepano That is SO much better 😂

AdamBishop, to apple
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Ufff, the advert, so tone deaf for our times.

Wrong on so many counts, celebrating the destruction of human creativity and artistry, and contrary to all the R-principles ... rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, recover, recycle, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, reclaim, retrofit, retro-cool, revival, reading the room ...

... all under the heavy, grey-steeled palm of an uncaring machine.

Hard pass

markv,
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@AdamBishop Agree. Apple has come a long way since "1984".

gruber, to random
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It has been a good day for Esc key fans.

markv,
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@gruber Would love to hear your take on Ternus's statement that with the new Magic Keyboard, "The entire experience feels just like using a MacBook". I may be reading too much into it, but that sort of sounds like some major changes may be coming on the iPadOS side at WWDC?

I just can't remember hearing them explicitly referring to an iPad + keyboard combo as "just like using a Mac" in any prior years.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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An Apple Pencil with a gyro, physical squeeze-click, and a haptic motor, sure would be useful for drawing in AR, huh

markv,
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@stroughtonsmith I want to be able to use TWO magic AR pencils at the same time. Like chopsticks. 😆

stroughtonsmith, to random
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iPad Pro with M4 can cancel your Final Cut Pro exports 4X faster than before when switching apps!

markv,
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@stroughtonsmith Fingers crossed for WWDC i suppose? 🤞

markgurman, to random
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Power On: New iPads are due to arrive on Tuesday, and Apple should go all-in on making them into true laptop replacements https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-05/apple-may-7-let-loose-ipad-event-apple-should-turn-ipad-into-laptop-replacement-lvtj00n9

markv,
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@markgurman Any word on RAM?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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iPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years

markv,
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@mttsmth @stroughtonsmith I think the ship on saying iPad was only ever intended for media consumption and “light” couch computing sailed when Apple decided to launch an “iPad Pro” and market it as a computer replacement for the next gen (“what’s a computer?”).

Apple themselves made promises that the product simply hasn’t lived up to. Retroactively saying it was never supposed to be a touch-first productivity device is, in my opinion, ignoring Apple’s own messaging about their product.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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(They need JIT, and Apple won't give them the entitlement)
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112304874800397616

markv,
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@stroughtonsmith Is this just an app store policy limit, something they would be able to publish through another app store? Or do they really need a system entitlement to be able to do this, no matter what store they are in?

film_girl, to random
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Apparently Apple Music for Mac has rabid fanbois (they are all men. All of them) and they are on Threads?! Of all the truly shitty products to stan, you want to defend Apple Music on the Mac?! I’ll defend Apple Music on iOS, even tho sync is a shit show, but on the desktop?! Man normies are weird.

markv, (edited )
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@film_girl Reminds me of this one 🙂

(https://xkcd.com/1095/)

stroughtonsmith, to random
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One of the big Qs from pundits before the DMA was ‘what are all these 'great' apps we're missing out on because of Apple's App Store restrictions, and do they even exist?’.

Mere days after a major App Store rules change, @delta (which has been denied for years), is the top app on the App Store.

For every Delta, there are a thousand great apps that were simply never started because they would never fly. Dreams that never left the whiteboard, market segments that were never given chance to exist

markv,
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@stroughtonsmith It's very generous of you to say that this may be unintentional 😅

They know exactly what they're doing

gruber, to random
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Electron.

markv,
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@gruber The main issue I have with Catalyst apps isn't so much the memory footprint, but that the UX for a lot of them is still pretty bad after a few years, and they often don't feel very at home on the Mac. Looking at you, Home 😡

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