The Ai thread

[dada_dave]

 

[Cmaier]

Bought my daughter an iPhone 17 Pro Max for Hanukkah to replace her hand-me-down iPhone 13 that she’s been using for years. She refuses to turn on Apple Intelligence. Strong AI backlash among her peer group.

 

[Eric]

Bought my daughter an iPhone 17 Pro Max for Hanukkah to replace her hand-me-down iPhone 13 that she’s been using for years. She refuses to turn on Apple Intelligence. Strong AI backlash among her peer group.

Same here, disabled the whole thing. They need to find a way to make it feel friendly as opposed to invasive and I don’t see them making that leap yet.

 

[Cmaier]

Same here, disabled the whole thing. They need to find a way to make it feel friendly as opposed to invasive and I don’t see them making that leap yet.

I use it to make custom emoji all the time. Nothing else.

Also I just went to make an appointment to get her iPhone 13 repaired (so I can keep it in the shoebox I call the “iPhone Museum” in my closet without a shattered back), and Apple offered to just send me a replacement phone instead. (I have apple care on it, at least until the replacement is done). That’s nice of them.

 

[dada_dave]

Bought my daughter an iPhone 17 Pro Max for Hanukkah to replace her hand-me-down iPhone 13 that she’s been using for years. She refuses to turn on Apple Intelligence. Strong AI backlash among her peer group.

 

[Katbel]

I use it to make custom emoji all the time. Nothing else.

Also I just went to make an appointment to get her iPhone 13 repaired (so I can keep it in the shoebox I call the “iPhone Museum” in my closet without a shattered back), and Apple offered to just send me a replacement phone instead. (I have apple care on it, at least until the replacement is done). That’s nice of them.

I keep older devices too, still functioning and sometimes my guests can use it. But most of the time I keep it shut down , no Bluetooth no wifi. An iPad 10 doesn’t have any problems with its battery, even when it’s off loses 4 to 8 % of charge in one or two months. An iPhone 12 instead keep losing so much more , 30-40% in two -three weeks
Do you know what should I deactivate? I know that Apple implemented something that I would like to turn it off
Do you know what it is?

 

[Cmaier]

I keep older devices too, still functioning and sometimes my guests can use it. But most of the time I keep it shut down , no Bluetooth no wifi. An iPad 10 doesn’t have any problems with its battery, even when it’s off loses 4 to 8 % of charge in one or two months. An iPhone 12 instead keep losing so much more , 30-40% in two -three weeks
Do you know what should I deactivate? I know that Apple implemented something that I would like to turn it off
Do you know what it is?

If the iphone 12 is powered off, it shouldn’t lose much battery life. Could be the battery just has a lot of use on it and is not able to hold a charge as well anymore.

 

[dada_dave]

Apparently Microsoft is doubling down on AI writing internal code, this time porting everything to Rust:

Joel (@joelh@infosec.exchange)

@maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town @jalefkowit@vmst.io @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social The good news is we removed every memory bug in Windows*. The bad news is we introduced 10,000+ new logic bugs. *providing the LLM doesn’t just wrap everything in an unsafe block.

infosec.exchange

 

[dada_dave]

 

[RockRock8]

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[RockRock8]

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[Eric]

In what way is it invasive lol?

Not going down this road with you. If you enjoy then more power to you.

 

[Cmaier]

Have you updates to 26.2 and tried PCC model in Shortcuts?

I’ve played with it, but I have no practical uses for it.

 

[RockRock8]

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[RockRock8]

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[Cmaier]

If you have time, I'd recommend looking up Shortcuts YouTubers. They have plenty of examples I didn't even realize you could do stuff like what they demo

oh, i’ve seen plenty of examples. I just don’t have a need to do any of that stuff. I write my own apps when needed, and use conventional shortcuts for little things.

As for AI, I feel like it’s 2112 - the priests of silicon valley are telling us how their “great computers fill the hallowed halls” and are trying to force them upon us so we’ll pay for them.

 

[RockRock8]

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[Cmaier]

My comment wasn't about "AI."

It was simply about using Apple's models to extend shortcuts.

I think if anyone here is invested in Siri and improving it, then it's worth paying attention to what Apple is doing with LLMs.

Oh, I know. I was just referring to most LLM stuff in general.

 

[Eric]

 

[dada_dave]

Not quite AI as we have been typically discussing in this thread, but close enough for metaphor: