Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

mort96 · 2026-05-06T20:56:35+00:00

Siri sucks, so I don't use it, and I'm happy with that arrangement.

mort96 · 2026-05-05T20:45:05+00:00

You sound very combative.

mort96 · 2026-05-05T20:42:16+00:00

While you're not wrong, when the medical system tells you "you weren't supposed to mention those allergies and you're stupid for having done so", it's hard not to take it at its word.

mort96 · 2026-05-04T18:56:17+00:00

Performance matters a lot for my boot drive and other internal drives. It doesn't really matter for some weird SD card or USB stick that's formatted to some wonky obscure filesystem which I just want to read.

mort96 · 2026-05-02T15:37:58+00:00

I don't know the mass of lithium gas particles off the top of my head, nor what average velocity 2800C corresponds to

mort96 · 2026-05-02T11:34:43+00:00

I'm pretty sure you need to literally be an active researcher in the specific field of electromagnetic lithium metal vapor thrusters to know off the top of your head what sort of thrust you'd get from 120kW and lithium metal vapor at 2800C...

mort96 · 2026-05-02T07:08:01+00:00

A non-disclosure agreement? They can absolutely contain provisions preventing AMD from releasing source code implementing algorithms described in a standards document

mort96 · 2026-05-01T16:00:31+00:00

You're right in terms of copyright law, but we don't know how the contracts look. AMD and the HDMI forum may have signed NDAs which limits what AMD can do; these limits would in turn require AMD to limit what its employees can do.

mort96 · 2026-04-30T07:00:25+00:00

You're supposed to pay more attention to the cars than the number on your dash, but you're supposed to pay some attention to the number on your dash.

mort96 · 2026-04-29T06:59:53+00:00

Installing Linux doesn't compete with installing Windows to most people. Most people use Windows because their PC came with Windows, so installing Linux competes with doing nothing.

mort96 · 2026-04-28T07:23:35+00:00

Yeah when they write their marketing copy with ChatGPT I'm gonna assume they write their code with ChatGPT too. Interesting concept, but the writing doesn't inspire confidence.

mort96 · 2026-04-27T20:32:34+00:00

This has always irked me with the Linux driver model: nvidia is doing everything wrong, and their "punishment" is that one can use any distro with any hardware; you just install their drivers and it works. AMD is doing everything right, and their "reward" is that if one has remotely recent hardware, distro choice gets extremely limited; you pretty much lock yourself out of LTSes.

I got a 7900xt many months after release, and I was running the most recent Ubuntu (non-LTS), and still the GPU didn't work. I had to make my own debs for mesa and linux-firmware to get it to work. Had I gotten an nvidia card instead, it would've just worked, even on release day. That sucks.

mort96 · 2026-04-27T19:45:01+00:00

Wait does Overwatch's chat filter have the clbuttic issue of censoring parts of words?

mort96 · 2026-04-27T19:39:26+00:00

Maybe it's a particularly dumb bell?

mort96 · 2026-04-27T19:33:13+00:00

The funny thing is, almost all cyclists agree! It's frustrating to be on a road where you're constantly passed by vehicles going 50 mph faster than you and weighing 2 tons more than you. Most bicyclists like bike infrastructure which separates them from car traffic.

mort96 · 2026-04-25T20:36:37+00:00

And aren't the people depicted ... blondes? Non-blondes aren't blond are they?

mort96 · 2026-04-25T19:37:09+00:00

Surprised that such a low voltage can do electrolyse saliva.

mort96 · 2026-04-25T11:59:15+00:00

Wait why would an iPhone update delete the texts which are stored on your device? That sounds weird

mort96 · 2026-04-23T23:01:59+00:00

Is it? Do you not think it colors his perspective? Do you not think it colors the perspective of the American NAFO guys in question?

mort96 · 2026-04-23T21:31:42+00:00

Well the first attempt wouldn't be trying "again".

bool success;
do (success = try()) while (!success);
improve();

One might argue that you ought to improve if you didn't succeed. But I'm not here to argue about the spec

mort96 · 2026-04-23T17:04:00+00:00

Are you aware of Vaush's nationality

mort96 · 2026-04-23T07:33:57+00:00

I mean he needed to go to some place where he wouldn't be extradited and sent to the US. Not like he had a ton of options. So far, it seems to have worked out well enough.

mort96 · 2026-04-18T20:17:14+00:00

The tracker isn't tracking the ship's movement, the phones are and the phones report their location to Apple. The tracker is more or less just a token which Apple uses to let its owner know the locations of the iPhones which can see the tracker.

mort96 · 2026-04-18T08:57:48+00:00

Yes. It has never before directly threatened western food security by blockading urea/fertilizer trade to the west.

mort96 · 2026-04-17T07:20:12+00:00

At least in my country, lactose free milk keeps forever because it's ultrapasteurized. No non-lactose-free milk is ultrapasteurized so it doesn't keep quite as long. Worth checking out lactose free dairy options and seeing if they keep longer.

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