I wish I didn’t feel like Apple was one of the very few, sometimes only, major tech companies trying to build with privacy in mind. Yes, I get there are arguably places it may or can erode that design. They’re besides the point for now.
And granted, I generally like Apple’s products. But in some ways I also feel like I’m stuck here; I truly wish more of its peers valued our privacy.
When I was in high school and I was just starting to get super into #Apple, I was very very broke. These stickers were like a badge of honor when I eventually got my first Mac when I started college.
15 years later, I’m not sure I could tell you what happened to a single sticker we’ve gotten since.
But not using on-device ML doesn't fit the Apple brand. Having dedicated data-centres just for the AI stuff would also go against there net-zero goal. Great if the building is powered by renewables, but I would rather use the resources for something different.
@stefanzweifel If it's not locally I don't want it. At least make the Stuff that runs on the server optional.
But as face detection and other stuff in photos also runs on device while you charge your iPhone, it would be unlikely that Apple wants to use servers for this.
Especially when you look at the headlines for Microsoft. What was it? 30% increase in energy consumption because of AI? That's nuts. Definitely nothing Apple wants to have on their side. If the iPhone runs it locally it's distributed between all iPhones.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of a collaboration between Apple and OpenAI. But as long as OpenAI doesn't gets my phones data, I think I'm fine.
Der Ausverkauf beginnt, wer möchte gerne eine, aber Achtung keine EU-Garantie. Da kommen bei mir so einige Fragezeichen auf wenn ich das in einem Schweizer Mitarbeiter Shop vergünstigt kaufen könnte.
The sale is starting, who would like one, but beware, no EU guarantee. This raises a few question marks for me if I could buy it at a discount in a Swiss staff store. #Apple#VisionPro
My little #RealityKit / #visionOS debugging tool is getting closer to release. Still a few things to be done, but I'm quite happy w/ it already. Completely written in #SwiftUI.
Well this is interesting… I was trying to add a dictation button to the search field in Rizzference, and I found this… "activates dictation when someone LOOKS at the entry field"
Isn't this one of the new accessibility features announced a while ago? Or perhaps some visionOS thing? :thinkergunsunglasses:
(btw this is .searchDictationBehavior(.inline(activation: TextInputDictationActivation)))
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Gotta hand it to #Apple#findMy. Lost my AirPods in a giant ball pit and was able to locate exactly where to dig it look for them. Was shockingly accurate.
@RonsCompVids What system was this motherboard from -- I remember setting up a lab that had a couple macs with PC/cards Windows 3.11 in the middle 90's but the CPU/RAM were on a separate card (and I vaguely remember getting them to print to the local-talk printer in windows mode being a pain.)
"Just like Apple, Meta is behaving as though the #DMA permits it to carry on its worst behavior, with minor cosmetic tweaks around the margins. Just like #Apple, #Meta is daring the #EU to enforce its democratically enacted laws, implicitly promising to pit its billions against #Europe’s institutions to preserve its right to spy on us."
@davemark Now I know how old a t-shirt I have is. When they opened that store, they gave out t-shirts at an Apple beer bust at Infiniye Loop. The shirts were in plastic tubes. Mine is still in that tube.