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  • Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram block use of Apple Intelligence

    photography guyphotography guy
    I hate that we're normalizing AI writing letters, personal messages, and research papers on our behalf. Like how pathetic and lazy have we become? You can't be bothered to write a WhatsApp or FB message yourself? I've actually learned how to read and write; I'm happy to do it on my own. I want AI that can do my laundry and wash the dishes; I want the robot maid from The Jetsons.
    I get that at times it may be convenient an AI tool to summarize a 5,000 word tl;dr article when I'm in a rush. But if it's a subject that I care about, I'm gonna do the work myself. And it bothers me that there are people who don't want to do the work themselves.
    jibspliff monkey

  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

    photography guyphotography guy
    In this "brave new world", I hope Apple can still hold to their commitment to customer privacy and security. So far, they've been robust enough to tell the FBI, "We literally can't access private user information." If Apple has to design technologies that would allow governments to access user data directly off of their devices, then that would make them government contractors, not consumer product manufacturers. Apple has built their brand on prioritizing customer privacy and security, and that's been part of their core branding for more than 10 years, I think.
    Yes, Apple devices HAVE been cracked by third party companies, but that is despite Apple's protections, not with Apple's assistance. I mean, it's fine to provide whatever data they have access to when given a court order to do so. I think they've been pretty cooperative with law enforcement in that area. But to build a back door—perhaps in the form of a law enforcement keycode—into all their devices and/or OSes would be a fundamental design change. It would be a fundamental rebranding. And it would kill the company... Because if you build a back door, anyone can exploit it. Not just law enforcement. That is the problem that Apple faces. And it's why Apple has to refuse.

    It's like when you're building a house, and you have one entrance at the front, so that you have full control over who enters and exits your house. Along comes a tyrannical government saying, "We want you to build a back door to your house, that only we can enter, and we super-serious pinky-promise that we won't abuse that access. Oh, also, don't tell your guests that there's a back door where we can enter at will and peak in on them anytime we like—which we totally won't do, as per our aforementioned super-serious pinky-promise. Also, we REALLY don't appreciate the commenter calling us tyrannical. That hurts our feelings! We're not tyrants! We just want to protect the children!"
    timpetusAlex1Nolswatto_cobra

  • OK Go creates manual music video visual effects with 64 iPhones

    photography guyphotography guy
    This video broke my brain. I mean, simply writing and performing a song is hard enough, but to create videos as complex as they do is trans-dimensional stuff.
    watto_cobrachasmmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple wants to cram sensors for everything into Apple Vision Pro

    photography guyphotography guy
    When there's an Apple Vision Pro model that is trimmed down to the approximate size of snorkeling goggles or those that we used in our undergraduate chemistry labs, and they're priced at under $2000 ($999-$1499 would be ideal), then I'll be ready to buy. I'm willing to wait a few years.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Pencil 3 may be able to be squeezed in multiple ways

    photography guyphotography guy
    The feature I really want is for the Apple Pencil to have an "eraser". Wacom and other tablet makers have had that feature on their styluses (stylii?) for years. Now that the Pencil is a single solid device, i.e., you don't have to remove the back part in order to recharge it, they could make it so that you just flip it around to erase marks. It's simple, intuitive, and could add a lot of functionality options to the Pencil—customize the back part so that you could switch between two different tools (graphite pencil on the main tip, broad ink brush on the rear tip, for instance) without going back to the tool bar; adjust the eraser on the fly (size, opacity, sharpness, etc.)
    Adding functionality to the rear tip of the Pencil would add a whole world of capabilities and creative opportunities for artists.
    jellybellybeowulfschmidtwatto_cobra