Radish hardly ever makes noise when he meows. But he'll look right at me and mouth the word meow when he wants something. Only when he thinks I'm not getting the message will he actually make noise.
Like: pigeons have an incredible ability to recognize patterns. When taught to eck at certain patterns, they are faster and more accurate at finding malignant cancer cells from a picture on a screen than humans. But, more incredibly, they're able to infer patterns in an incredible way. One experiment featured them being taught to peck a word on the screen of it recognizes it, but peck the "I don't know" when it doesn't. So they started with real words, and then started introducing gibberish words, and the damned birds started recognizing the difference between gibberish and real words without having had to see the real word before. They essentially inferred "vowel frequency" in real words, being like "two z's and 3 k's? Not a word."
Yet another Beeper rewrite, lol. This will be the third time in three years that they've built a new iOS app. Sounds like the desktop version might not be a super janky fork of Element in a pile of Electron, though.
"However, to achieve these benefits, there may be a brief delay (a couple of seconds) when opening the app after the update. We want to be transparent about this so you know what to expect."
This makes me laugh because when I installed the last iOS rewrite, they said the same thing and it was taking longer than screen timeout. I eventually had to set the screen timeout to several minutes to get through it.
@nyquildotorg I don't know what MLB hot dogs are like because I usually can't afford the financing to buy one, but I do know the Costco ones are like a bag of salt. They're the hot dog equivalent of Ramen.
Seeing the photo of Nigel Farage taking a milkshake to the face reminds me of the time that, while searching for a replacement for Wes Borland when he left Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst got a pie to the face at a Portland Guitar Center.
Sadly there's no footage of that one. (That I know of?)
Those hilarious "Lightning" earbuds that are really just Bluetooth devices tethered to the cable for power remind me of a device I was seriously considering making at one point: a battery pack with a USB cable for power that would snap into the bottom of an Apple Magic Mouse to make it into a "wired" mouse, but the USB cable only provided power.
@nyquildotorg oh yeah unrelated to my other reply but I just remembered that the Xbox 360's wireless controller also didn't support data over USB, only power over USB. If you wanted a wired controller for Xbox 360, you had to buy an entirely separate controller.
I thought making up a ridiculous fact about about how Apple will respond to Copilot Recall, as a joke about how incomparable Ubuntu is, could go without clarification that it's not real, but I guess I was wrong.
Apple's NPU work is probably not architected to record all your actions and data. (For now.)
Today I learned about people called "buffers," who hate seeing paint on walls where no one has given permission for it to be there, so they carry a bunch of paint in their car, so they can liberally apply it to the same wall without permission, but for good instead of evil.
Microsoft: takes screenshots of the screen, OCRs them and places the data in an unprotected sqlite file for later recall.
Apple: creates new NPU architecture designed to save PDFs of the screen and OCR them, storing the data in CoreData for later recall by authenticated users.
Ubuntu: every time the computer sleeps, it wakes up slightly slower than the last time, until you reboot it.
@nyquildotorg
That's fair, although I'm more focused on Apple's data collection. Sure, they redirect to Google. It takes a linux distro (or whatever crack windows is on) to not defualt to Chrome, as it's by far the most popular browser. Also, 18 billion is 18 billion...
Again, I'm not concerned about Apple relatively defaulting to something hostile. I want to see Apple, themselves, collecting data. Maybe something in an application of theirs, or perhaps the OS?
@Zink how about the thing last week where people found photos that they'd previously deleted came back months and years later after an OS update? It's kind of the opposite of collecting, but a clear problem