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  • Trump vs. Harris: How to watch the September 10 Presidential debate online


    ronn said:
    I don't need a debate. The choice is that clear: A proven track record for VP Harris who is up against a convicted felon that will do anything to avoid jail. All that talk about President Biden's cognitive decline while the traitor clearly has lost the few marbles he had. MSM want him to be as foul as possible to garner clicks and $$$.
    You clearly haven't watched a single source that shows Trump talking actual points to think like that. You are being manipulated.
    Q: If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable? And if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?

    A: Well, I would do that. And we’re sitting down – you know, I was somebody – we had – Sen. Marco Rubio and my daughter Ivanka were so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that – because, look, child care is child care. It’s – couldn’t – you know, it’s something – you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly – and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care. That – it’s going to take care – we’re going to have – I – I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country. Because I have to say with child care – I want to stay with child care – but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just – that I just told you about. We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people, but we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first, it’s about Make America Great Again. We have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. -- Trump.

    Yep. Very coherent and put together plan. You're clearly not watching the right TV channel if you can't make sense of this record high IQ. He's just playing 4D chess. Let's ask Leon Mursk what he thinks.
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  • Look out MapQuest, Apple Maps debuts on the web in beta

    My two cents… worthless as usual.

    1— quote: “So, finally, we've arrived 12 years later at Apple Maps on the web.”
    Tim Cook always remembers us that… “Apple is for the long run…”
    (Just go to look Google's cementer of apps…)

    2— Why did you… or your editor… mention MapQuest in the title and then it does not appears in the body of the article?

    On the other hand… somewhere there is the news that Microsoft, Amzon, and Meta put a lot of money in an open maps foundation… 
    MapQuest still exists. It's been used for years as a way to get human readable printouts of driving directions from the internet. It's so (recently) prevalent that I had to submit MapQuest directions in some requests for leave in the military as recently as 2016. Which I thought was wild at the time.

    I believe this Apple Maps update is more of a threat to dinosaurs like MapQuest than Google. Those using Google Maps likely won't stop, but if you use Apple Maps on your phone and still, for whatever reason, used sites like MapQuest on a PC, then Apple Maps has arrived to replace that use case. That's why it's MapQuest in the headline, not Google.

    All in all, it's just a silly reference. You get it or you don't. There wasn't any reason to explain the reference in the story. But those who know got a chuckle. And now you know too.
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  • ChatGPT for Mac app logged queries in an unencrypted file before getting caught

    Er, isn’t the author conflating sandboxing and encryption? 
    Nope
    jfabula1 said:
    Hmmmm, Elon is right about open AI???. Be careful out there.
    Nope
    Anilu_777 said:
    OpenAI just didn’t sandbox their app??? Who the f is coding it and who will take full responsibility?? Glad I’ve got a 14 Pro Max and won’t deal with this crap. 
    That's not how any of this works. The ChatGPT app on macOS has nothing to do with the ChatGPT handoff that occurs thanks to the company's partnership. Apple Intelligence is made by Apple, powered by Apple Silicon on device or in an Apple-run server. If a user sends a query to ChatGPT from their device, it is with explicit permission and through a separate service channel that doesn't log IP, the query, or any attached data.

    BTW, encryption and sandboxing are very separate things but can work together. When ChatGPT updated their app, note that the data storage location didn't change. ChatGPT didn't opt into sandboxing. Instead, it chose to encrypt the data in place. All sandboxing is is a permission structure where data is siloed into different places associated with the app that created it and you have to have permission to hand data between silos. ChatGPT didn't and still doesn't silo its data. It's just there open for anyone to get, but now it is at least encrypted.
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  • Elon Musk's latest anti-Apple tirade is about a ChatGPT feature that doesn't exist

    Xed said:
    gatorguy said:
    omasou said:
    He’s POed b/c Apple found a way to kneecap X.AI’s monetization model.

    Bet MS/OpenAI pay Apple like Google does for search b/c data sent to ChatGPT 4 will help train their models.
    Data from Apple devices will not be used to train OpenAI’s models.  If it did, then Musk would have a point.  You don’t want queries and supporting information that pertains to you’d business secrets being added to a 3rd-party commercial LLM model.  And so Apple’s deal with OpenAI explicitly excludes that capability. 
    Does it include anonymized and aggregated user data collections, which Apple does not consider to be "user data" anymore and is not covered by Apple privacy policies, or just personally identifiable data? I don't remember that question being answered, but perhaps it has been. To be clear I would have no issue with the former being shared if it improves the overall results.
    I'm not sure radarthekat understands what omasou is saying. As soon as you say you want to use ChatGPT ten OpenAI will have access to those queries and requests to use to train their system, regardless of how well Apple anonymizes the originator. OpenAI could be paying Apple to be the default just as Alphabet pays Google for internet search. I think we're on the same page here.
    Actually no, Apple has locked OpenAI into this agreement from a legal standpoint. *By Law* OpenAI can't keep any data sent to it by Apple devices. No files, no queries, no IP. Nothing. It is all tossed.
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  • Apple is paying OpenAI with exposure, not cash