Apple will just drip feed locally running models that enable minor conveniences. They will probably drop the Apple Intelligence label later and just have things with their own names like "magic eraser".
Apple have had Siri for decades without any meaningful movement. If you think Apple is suddenly going to get better, that's just wishful thinking. Apple neither has the expertise nor the capability to do any of that. They'd hvae demonstrated that with Siri long time back.
What Apple does it build beautiful hardware. The software has been shambles for a really long time.
Discrepancy is that we're mixing (lunar) months and weeks with solar timekeeping, in a solar calendar. These are fundamentally incompatible, so we've gone with cramming the approximate periodicity of the lunar calendar into the solar calendar, while ignoring the fact that we're no longer tracking the moon, and that the weeks don't line up with the year, and the fact that the months are randomly different lengths because they also don't line up and we don't want a weird half-month at the end.
Another potential fix would be having two calendars. A lunar calendar for weeks/months, and a solar calendar for seasons/years.
That’s how units work, fitting the messy natural world into comprehensible numbers. A year is 365 days, except every four, except every 100, except every 400. A month is 30-ish days, and there are 12 of them in a year, because that roughly syncs up the orbits of the Moon and Earth. Except there used to be ten of them (“DECember”), with garbage time filling in the remainder of Earth’s transit around the Sun. A second is something related to Cesium-133, because it’s close to 1/(24x60x60) of a day, because Sumerians chose base 60.
Per se? No, maybe with the exception of GNOME Shell which literally runs code from the Internet unsandboxed. Can the traffic they silently generate be used for malicious purposes? Absolutely.
Wasn’t it KDE that had malware in its theme store not too long ago? Let that sink in for a bit. You changed around some icon themes and it executed arbitrary code.
And let’s not pretend that kde wouldn’t have an extension system if it could - but it’ll never have one because implanting one in that c++ spaghetti nightmare will never happen.
But if not, I'm not criticizing GNOME in isolation here. It's just what I use and what I'm most familiar with. KDE has the same issues and it does have an extension system too. It's called KNewStuff.
Widely only in limited — mostly english speaking — online communities. Otherwise most people hate it if it is likely to harm someone considered as an innocent individual but less if that figure is already kind of public — people love to know where and all the details on how famous people live — or to people they view more negatively. For instance nobody complains when the real owner, origin and location of say, a shady company, is made known to the general public.
Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't allowing them to collect a tax on transit pretty much continue to fund themselves to continue this bullshittery forever.
From my experience it does not help much, and I still get occasional freezes when a program misbehaves on Linux. It’s not a huge problem, but it is a problem and it exists; I have been dealing with it for about 15 years with no significant improvement.
It did eventually work to but it took a while. It also did not killed the culprit runaway processes somehow but it did kill enough stuff for me to regain control of the system.
Um, not all open-source code is GPL. Or even MIT/BSD, for that matter. There's plenty of Creative Commons (CC) code out there to train on. And on top of that, there are reams of public documentation pages that are effectively CC. And more recently, LLMs have shown increased ability things that they weren't explicitly trained on, so if, for example, we can't find a ton of Rust codebases that are open for training, it's not really a big deal.
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