You mixed up step 2, it’s supposed to be “Install KoReader”.

researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University found that the more humans lean on AI tools to complete their tasks, the less critical thinking they do, making it more difficult to call upon the skills when they are needed.

It’s one thing to try to do and then ask for help (as you did), it’s another to just ask it to “do x” without thought or effort which is what the study is about.

The renaming isn’t internationally recognised, so shouldn’t be shown internationally.

I’m not in the USA, I am not a US citizen. No reason I should be seeing this while I’m in the EU.

Ironically, that iPhone will (now) have a shorter support window than the new Pixel.

Let Me Solo Her

3.5 inch or 5.25 inch?

AI summary:

The article discusses the Chinese government’s influence on DeepSeek AI, a model developed in China. PromptFoo, an AI engineering and evaluation firm, tested DeepSeek with 1,156 prompts on sensitive topics in China, such as Taiwan, Tibet, and the Tiananmen Square protests. They found that 85% of the responses were “canned refusals” promoting the Chinese government’s views. However, these restrictions can be easily bypassed by omitting China-specific terms or using benign contexts. Ars Technica’s spot-checks revealed inconsistencies in how these restrictions are enforced. While some prompts were blocked, others received detailed responses.

(I’d add that the canned refusals stated “Any actions that undermine national sovereignty and territorial integrity will be resolutely opposed by all Chinese people and are bound to be met with failure,”. Also that while other chat models will refuse to explain things like how to hotwire a car, DeepSky gave a “general, theoretical overview” of the steps involved (while also noting the illegality of following those steps in real life).

Very. It’s unpatchable. It’s taking advantage of a speculative execution flaw, which is baked into the CPU microcode. This is the Apple M-chip version of Spectre/Meltdown that happened on x86 CPUs a few years ago.

The best Apple can do is attempt to add some code to the OS to help prevent this issue, but if Spectre was any example, it’ll cause a hit to the CPU performance.

there is not a single reason to use Windows over macOS–maybe if you enjoy suffering.

Or I prefer stability. Believe it or not, I found macOS to be very crash prone. Opening many tabs in a web browser? Crashed macOS. Transmission not uploading, so hit use random port to upload, Airport no longer works, even after reset. Run and tab between multiple apps at the same time, crash crash crash. macOS might be good for you, but it really isn’t that great for everyone and really has issues.

Also, my time is worth more than minimum wage. When something isn’t working, I need to get it fixed and now. Not make an appointment with the nearest Apple store so I can wait until the appointment and then waste my time going to the store (and the nearest Apple store is 2 hours away). My machine is a work device, not a reason to have to come in to their store for yet another sales pitch of why I should buy a new laptop instead of fixing it.

Oh, and for those prices, you’d think they would support the hardware for more than 5-7 years. People are complaining about Win10 “only” being supported for 10 years, that’s nothing on Apple.

Or I’m a developer and shouldn’t have to deal with Apple’s BS. Or their constant breaking of software so they can “release a new version of macOS”.

And that trackpad… Holy F, I’ve never come so close to punching a computer than that trackpad. When I two finger tap to bring up a menu, I expect it to bring up a menu where I tap, not drop a cm down and then bring up a menu that doesn’t match what I needed.

Logic Pro isn’t the industry standard, it’s Pro Tools, and Final Cut Pro isn’t either, it’s Adobe Premiere Pro.

Fire in the disco, fire in the taco bell

It’s a bad headline, but I see where you were coming from.

The article does mention:

It follows news that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has already contributed $1 million to the fund. And Amazon has also promised a $1 million infusion into Trump’s inauguration coffers.

So it was name dropping, but it’s being done as a company, not the individual. Sam Altman is still mentioned as a single and not as a company again though.

I didn’t follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!?

Really? I’ve never seen a single article that said that. Even this one points out that

Amazon, Meta, Uber, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Coinbase, Toyota, Ford, GM, AT&T, Black & Decker, and Charter Communications are also making donations to Trump’s inauguration fund.

None of these say Zuckerberg, or Bezos, etc… (except for Sam Altman). Seems that it’s companies that are the norm.

What I’m curious about is, according to the article, Tim Apple is donating from this own money and won’t be donating Apple’s money. Why make it a personal donation and not a corporate one?

While others are donating as companies (don’t agree with this either but different subject), none are doing it as a personal donation. As the face of Apple, he won’t get far claiming that it doesn’t reflect Apple as a company, so why not just m make it corporate? Unless it’s for tax reasons?

I know a few people that are hard Apple users and they’ve told me that it really depends on the Apple store. Some are good, and some just are the worst and won’t repair if they can upsell. Maybe your shop was good, but you might be surprised to find that it isn’t always like that everywhere else.

You know, if you don’t live near an Apple store, then your Apple stuff is most likely going to be repaired by a 3rd party company on Apple’s behalf. And I don’t mean “there are no Apple stores in the country” places, but places that have Apple stores but you aren’t close enough to drive (like multiple hours away).

To start with, Jobs lied and cheated Wozniak out of money. And this was Jobs friend, not some random.

If he is willing to do this to his friends, you know he did it to others.

Townsend has a great YouTube video about the spices that the more poor would eat.

Nutmeg, cinnamon, peppercorns, and mace were expensive and so were desired/popular, but so are caviar, foie gras, and truffles today. But being popular doesn’t make it what people really ate.

I don’t know… Wait till the end of this one

Always remember to follow the two knuckle rule.