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Additionally, the claimed infringement relates to the fact that it’s reflective pulse oximetry using three or more sensors. Your Garmin and old Apple watch aren’t infringing because they use two sensors. I think the patent in its current state should not have been granted. It would be like patenting the placement of three or more CPU sockets on motherboards that fit in a certain rack size.

Maybe they shouldn’t be targeting journalists then?

They won’t. Even back in the Steve days, they paid special attention to the Japanese market. The OG Macs were some of the first computers to have well-rendered fonts for CJK. Knowing Japanese culture, they will either do nothing with this new sideloading capability or they will run with it and an ecosystem will explode of alt app markets. I’m leaning toward the former.

Yes, it’s not just a DE and default package set but actual system improvements other distros aren’t offering. Kudos to the Asahi team for making this possible!

They thought they were going to sell it to the US Army as a combat HID but they were far too frail and gave people motion sickness. Additionally, to develop for it you needed to use their Windows-only dev tooling. Any serendipitous killer app was not going to happen. The product was DOA.

Gotta give them credit for selling it lol. It’s pretty much a given the next phone is going to shrink it, then eventually they will eliminate it altogether. No one seriously wants a hole punched display.

I expect better of Ars. Absolute clickbait title and sensationalism. You need a two point MITM and even then it’s not a magic shell.

That kinda is his point. A distro maintainer patching and distributing a thousand packages is duplicitous. Especially when the only real difference to the user is the DE. Putting those efforts upstream is a better use of resources. I develop software, and I’m not going to test a million different distros especially when the difference between Ubuntu and Zorin is a DE and some additional packages. It makes Linux users very mad, but the reality is that they are too fractured to support every distro they use equally.

My understanding is that’s a yes.

Yes, in my opinion. The configuration of grub (boot loader) is just another step to go wrong, and this will eliminate that possibility. Additionally, it will prevent stupider operating systems (cough Windows) from accidentally overwriting the boot loader during an update.

Same, I’m not a big multiplayer person so most of the time it works out. My latest has been Lethal Company, my first new multiplayer game this year 😂. Been a blast.

It’s been pretty good. So long as you stick to verified and playable games your experience is going to be pretty solid.

My Jamaican friend once said: “How many times do I have to tell you people flour is not a spice”.

At my company we have already used it to great length. We had a backlog on several thousand support tickets we wanted categorized. GPT-4 did it in about 8 hours and with over 80% accuracy, at a fraction of the cost (and higher quality) it would have taken to get humans to do it.

We’re rolling out a chat bot too using it, with a local model as backup, to reply to leads when our clients are busy. So far they love it.

We’re making our money back despite the costs, and we’re able to spend that money paying people to not do busy work.

At its current level of capability, an unaligned GPT-4/5 could cause harm to humanity

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Maybe in the EU, but I would have little hope for the US market. The US has been astonishingly slow to take adverse action against companies within their own borders for the past 25 years. Believe me, I hope Apple and Google get what is coming to them, but I won’t hold my breath.

This is due to licensing issues on Google’s end. They indirectly manufacture the gateways needed to implement the e2ee extensions at scale.

No. The e2ee is a proprietary extension developed by Google. To use it and the full set of extensions, you must either use the closed Google RCS API, which at the moment only Samsung is allowed to access. Alternatively you can use Google’s current flavor of the month chat app, Messages.

I have been very vocal that while this is a good thing, Apple for all their faults, should not be chastised for not implementing anything beyond the core of RCS. Google has been attempted to leverage RCS as a market force, and their widely publicized shaming of Apple not adopting it is at least partly in bad faith. If a telcom wants to implement RCS as Google touts it, you must also purchase and install the RCS gateways that Google can conveniently sell you for very large sums.

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-messages-rcs-api-third-party-apps/

This is great news.