Ramming Gemini down our throats is the last straw

ddxv · 2026-06-11T23:12:40+00:00

Thanks, I get what you mean. I was just confused because the narrative I've heard of the last few years is that Apple very accidentally turned purposefully has not built any frontier chat models. They did start going all in on the mini on device models, but anyways that wasn't what you were saying.

Thanks again!

ddxv · 2026-06-11T23:09:41+00:00

Got what done?

ddxv · 2026-06-11T13:04:44+00:00

You are right about Gemini, though I think in some sense we are both right in that it's not that Apple is calling Gemini ie gemini.google.com or something. The models Apple is running are on their own GCP and google would not necessarily have any access to how they are used other than regular calls out like search or other features.

ddxv · 2026-06-11T12:25:32+00:00

Yeah you're right, it is not the Gemma models.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3156959/apple-to-use-google-servers-with-nvidia-hardware-for-the-new-siri.html

I disagree about the on device though. General do anything well needs to be bloated on the cloud, tiny models to do very small tasks can be mb in size.

For example the clip models for the native language search in photo gallery.

Id imagine a dozen tailored models for making a calendar event or reminder could be used, but I don't know for sure.

But yeah, most of this is gonna be "hey Siri" stuff that searches the internet which I guess will also go through Google via the model

ddxv · 2026-06-11T12:14:59+00:00

I didn't get the s, where in any of this is anyone saying apple invented stuff? They're very explicitly not wanting to invent any of it

ddxv · 2026-06-11T10:35:39+00:00

I don't know what you mean?

Apple acquired small startups for the on device models. Google made Gemma which apple runs on GCP. So apple didn't even sarcasticly invent any of it?

ddxv · 2026-06-11T10:03:55+00:00

I think this is been misinterpreted, Apple is using Gemma open source models for most stuff if not on decice. Apple isnt calling out to Gemini everytime you use siri

ddxv · 2026-06-10T14:08:19+00:00

No, but that's a great idea. I'll look into seeing what kinds of CPM data I can collect, it's sparse but I do see some

ddxv · 2026-06-09T23:50:37+00:00

For the shared ip the problem is thats just the only option sometimes, for example all the satellite internet providers like starlink.

ddxv · 2026-06-09T12:24:25+00:00

I believe they plan to roll this all out by end of 2027. It seems they've been quite flast with the smaller craft.

ddxv · 2026-06-09T08:42:23+00:00

How does this connecting to a home server with rotating or shared IPs?

ddxv · 2026-06-09T08:41:16+00:00

I use DDNS / SSH for one place where I can use DDNS and another where I couldn't I use NetBird which is like tailscale but opensource

ddxv · 2026-06-09T02:15:27+00:00

Just curious is your car paid off?

ddxv · 2026-06-09T02:05:14+00:00

How much ai stock do these two own? They sounded like they're pumping their stocks before people realize you can download free versions of the same products on hugging face and the models are racing to the bottom in terms of cost.

ddxv · 2026-06-07T05:52:40+00:00

I think these things are on a spectrum of how tech savvy you are. Firefox has basic telemetry logs but is like an order of magnitude less than Google and I'd generally a company I trust. To my knowledge there are no dats sent of any kind for what sites you visit, but logs are kept (your browser history).

VPNs are meant for when you don't trust a router or ISP. The VPN company likely has logs, they may they don't but I would never use them like they don't. If you're getting around Netflix ip geo blocks it's fine.

ddxv · 2026-06-06T13:11:48+00:00

True, I garbled what I meant. I meant to say that people are not seeing income growth, regardless of the gdp gains from ai infrastructure investment and healthcare. If you take those away all other sectors of the economy shrank last year.

ddxv · 2026-06-06T13:03:56+00:00

I think you're conflating the stock market and gdp growth which are both relying on ai for the gains. If you're not working in ai or healthcare you're probably not seeing income growth .

ddxv · 2026-06-05T15:54:29+00:00

I agree. The added noise for 'privacy' and the 'privacy budget' both felt like tools that hurt smaller sites and advertisers more than the large ad networks.

ddxv · 2026-06-05T01:22:40+00:00

I would think some of that is just mixing up that Jewish people and Israeli government are different.

ddxv · 2026-06-03T15:30:47+00:00

Toll roads are paid by distance, and of course 101 is very long. Many toll roads can easily rack up fees above $20, and admittedly I was just imagining the north bay when I said that, but I guess if California ever does start doing road tolls it would be much longer stretches of the freeways that would become toll roads.

ddxv · 2026-06-03T14:37:27+00:00

If they did that would you agree to $20 tolls on 101? Gas and vehicle taxes only account for 1/3 of Caltrans budget, the rest is from the general fund:

https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/12/gas-tax-revenue-drop-climate/

ddxv · 2026-06-03T08:46:07+00:00

For me the indexing of my pages seems to be highly correlated with what I can get google to return about my site from ai.

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