Actually a bunch of other countries are considering the same thing. Including the USA.
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An eSIM still requires an account with a carrier, which is optional when you setup a new phone.
Yeah I'm curious too. There doesn't seem like there is a good way.
Serious answer... the GPS (and location tracking in general) on an iPhone is disabled by default and you're asked to opt-in when you set up a new device. You don't have to enable location features and you can change your mind later — on a case by case basis as well. So you an have GPS in maps and weather reports, but not allow the general system services to access your location.
Depends on the reason they chose to have selective enforcement.
A good analogy is kicking someone out of a bar. If you do it because they're a dickhead... perfectly fine. But if it's because they're black... not OK.
They didn't mess up. The government interest rates were 0% when they borrowed money to grow their workforce by about 800 people. The interest rate has risen to 5.5% - an interest rate hike that hasn't been seen since the "stagflation" crisis fifty years ago and one that couldn't really be forseen unless you could have predicted the wars in Russia and Israel.
It's unfortunate for the 170 people being fired, but what's the alternative? Keep going until they're bankrupt and then all 1000 people are out of a job?
The government absolutely knew this would happen when they decided to raise interest rates. They are acting on advice that things would be even worse if they didn't rise interest rates. Other countries around the world are doing the same thing, with the same unfortunate results.
Except for the part where they need to be encapsulated in a fully air tight glass container, since they degrade relatively quickly when exposed to regular air.
federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready
Um. Sure - isn't that what they're saying?
Threads has clearly been launched to capitalise on Elon Musk's crazy behaviour - they would have waited normally but there's a big opportunity to grow right now.
seems like is just a matter of time for the techbros to perfect these tools
Techbros don't understand art and they are never going to figure it out. These tools will be perfected by artists who choose to embrace them.
Anyone who doesn't embrace it... yeah those people are in trouble. AI can already do this:
Nobody is going to pay wardrobe, make up, set design, special effects (oh, and not to mention a child. Man are they a headache to work with on a photo set) to create something like that now hat it's possible to do it quickly and cheaply.
The tech isn't there yet, but it will be soon. In particular when AI is combined with software like RenderMan which is the current state of the art in photorealistic computer generated graphics. Tom Cruise didn't fly a jet in Top Gun Mavericks - they rendered all of that in RenderMan.
No need to worry about viruses
I've encountered viruses on Linux servers. It's definitely something to worry about.
Even if viruses do infect a Linux system, they would have little to no damage. By default, Linux systems run with restricted user permissions and access, which can still be even more hardened using SELinux and AppArmor to the point that each application can be isolated from one another. Making the infection spread impossible.
True - those do help. By the way this is something MacOS does better at. For example the / filesystem is mounted read only. You literally can't write to it at all (software updates get around this by creating a new snapshot of the disk, writing to that, and then rebooting telling the firmware to use the newly created snapshot... which it will only do after firmware level integrity checks against malware). Software, by default, has almost no access to the write to even parts of the disk that the user has access to. It also can't access the internet or printers or bluetooth or cameras or any of that. Access to these things works much like a firewall - there's a white list of things the software can get to. And even then, there are some things that still can't be reached (for example your camera can only be accessed if the user grants permission).
Safer files
Eh. I don't think Linux is any better than other operating systems at that.
Compared to other operating systems, Linux is not resource-hungry. Meaning it used less RAM and CPU usage
I disagree. MacOS is more efficient... a Mac with 8GB of RAM and a slow CPU is generally going to be better at every day tasks. Ever heard that Macs have incredible battery life? That's because they're efficient. I'm pretty sure the CPU in my laptop is technically capable of draining the battery in about 45 minutes, but in real world use I get about 18 hours of battery life out of it - because the software works really really hard to keep CPU idle. On slower hardware that translates to excellent performance.
Sure - install the right software on a Linux system, it won't need much in the way of resources... but on MacOS you can run modern state of the art software efficiently - a lot of that comes down to low level features like GCD and ARC. Both of which can be used on Linux (they're open source) but in practice you won't find any software that actually uses them. On MacOS pretty much everything uses them.
Free to use; Flexibility
100% agree. That's where Linux really shines (I think you should have lead with those) and these are the two reasons I run either Linux and MacOS for 99% of my computing life. I even have Linux VMs running on my Macs most of the time. Use the best tool for the job (I even have a couple Windows PCs, though those are rarely used).
Anyone with access to root cert can decrypt the data
Not directly no, but it could be combined with other attacks to potentially decrypt your data. Maybe.
The root certificates are used for the primary proof that the server you're talking to is the server it claims to be. It's not the only protection so just this alone wouldn't generally be enough to decrypt anything. Also if your traffic does go to the correct server... then having the root certificate doesn't allow them to decrypt it.
It's a complex system and difficult to explain all of it, you really just need to learn how every step of the process works and also how each one can be compromised, to fully understand any of this.
As I understand, OpenAI’s structure is similar to Mozilla’s, so a non-profit steers a for-profit.
Right, that's my understanding too.
But there’s the massive difference that OpenAI’s for-profit takes on outside investors. That is where Microsoft has invested.
Does that matter at all? Microsoft is a for-profit business, investing in a for-profit company and hoping to make a profit. Seems pretty straight forward to me.
As such, control over the for-profit really isn’t in the hands of the non-profit, because obviously, they have to satisfy whoever gives them money.
They have to satisfy whatever terms where in the contract signed when Microsoft invested. From what I can tell, Microsoft basically just has IP rights to the software any patents. They don't have any control.
In particular, it also means that unlike in Mozilla’s structure, where the for-profit is ‘neutered’ in that it can’t pay out profits to anyone, this really isn’t the case for OpenAI.
That's not true at all. Mozilla pays about a quarter billion dollars a year to their employees for example. They absolutely can and do user their money to pay other people.
There are strict regulations on how a non-profit can spend their money, but they absolutely are allowed (and expected) to spend all of the money they have. Generally, a non-profit is required to clearly define some purpose that benefits the community somehow (it could be helping kids with cancer, or helping elderly people get to their doctor's appointments, or building a better Internet (Mozilla), or trying to create AGI that benefits all of humanity (OpenAI)). Whatever your purpose is, as long as the money is spent on that it's fine.
However, the for-profit arm of OpenAI isn't a non-profit. So it doesn't have that same limitation.
Again, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if OpenAI is legally in the clear here... but I will say that I don't see any major problems. I also don't think it would really be the end of the world if the EU declares they're a for-profit enterprise. In fact I'm not sure it would change anything at all. There's nothing wrong with running a private company. You just might have to pay a bit more tax... but since OpenAI doesn't actually make any money... they don't have to pay any tax anyway.
It's also entirely possible for them to be recognised as a non-profit in some countries but not in others. Different countries, different rules. Not a big deal.
SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.
I'd say the "holy grail" is to move away from lithium entirely and instead move towards capacitors or hydrogen fuel cells. Both are far more promising, however right now they're quite expensive and heavy.
In the case of capacitors, essentially you have two pieces of metal very close together. The closer they are together without touching the more energy you can store (the size of the metal pieces also matters - larger being better). Capacitors are old well understood technology, and in a laboratory setting you can make ones that are far better than a lithium battery. Getting that out of a lab and into mass production is more difficult and the best we have right now are quite heavy for the amount of power they store. Still, they do exist, and they work very well. A lot of electric trains, for example, will charge a capacitor when the train slows down for a station, take on a bit more charge while stopped at the station, then use most of the energy to accelerate up to speed. They might also get a bit more charge from overhead wires while travelling down the tracks.
In theory, a capacitor can charge or discharge instantly. In practice providing that much charge isn't really practical, so it's easier to charge them a little more slowly... but still way way faster than a lithium ion battery which wouldn't even be able to do regenerative braking on something as heavy as a train - that's just far too much power coming in.
Hydrogen is actually technically very light. Just 1kg (about 2lbs) is about the equivalent of the battery in a lot of EVs. However the equipment to convert that energy into motion at the wheels tends to be quite heavy and expensive. Costs are coming down however, and the Japanese manufacturers (Toyota/etc) seem to think it's the right way to go. Time will tell if they're right... but it seems like right now the biggest problem with those is just that there's nowhere to buy hydrogen - compared to an EV which you can charge pretty much anywhere. Even in your own home. There are also prototype hydrogen aircraft. Something lithium will never be able to do.
My prediction is capacitors and hydrogen will both eventually displace lithium batteries. It's more a question of when than if... I wouldn't hold your breath though.
I still don't see how jobs are at risk. Worst case scenario, Musk is forced to resign. Why would it all the other contractors?
They're not a majority stakeholder. They invested $13b and a lot of that wasn't cash, it was just credits to use Azure.
That's more money than anyone else has invested so far, but it's only about 2 weeks revenue for Microsoft and not even close to enough to fund OpenAI.
Wether or not they're a non profit? I dunno. OpenAI's structure is pretty unusual.
Um, what? No. We know the board were behind the CEO firing, and MS was part of cleaning up the mess the board created.
It was a few minutes after takeoff so they were still over a populated area. Hardly surprising that it was found... also if it landed on grass I'm not surprised it's undamaged.
If all text that can ever exist, already exists, how can any single person own a specific combination of letters?
They don't own it, they just own exclusive rights to make copies. If you reach the exact same output without making a copy then you're in the clear.
Have a read of this: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/all-the-changes-coming-to-google-play-and-sideloading-following-700m-settlement/
Sideloading is a lot harder on Android than it should be.