Yes, there's a command called "Empty Trash Items", which you can assign to any hotkey or access via the command palette. You can also right click on the trash in the left sidebar.
Although you could use a backup USB cellular modem, plugged directly into the Mac!
At some I imagine I'll inherit or acquire a cheap older M1 Macbook Air, which will be perfect!
I also have whole home battery backup and solar, so I technically have a UPS for everything!
Where I live the power tends to go out from time to time!
I monkeyed around with cheap ex-lease Dell Micro PCs with Intel 8th Gen to 11th Gen CPUs. But they not as performant as I'd like, and once you've experienced modern CPUs like Apple's M series, you dont really want to go back!
Also, I wondered if by complying with British law that they may somehow be breaking laws of another country?
Hypothetically, if Apple just provide a back door to the data they have on US Senators for instance, then providing that information may be considered treason by the US.
That's a totally made up example, and I have no idea, but it seems like it's possibly an issue.
Which is all about the issues around data sovereignty I suppose!
> Treason is the only crime defined in the constitution, and it is quite a high bar.
Well, it's defined, or bounded above, in the constitution. It's not exactly a high bar:
> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
So, if you happened to know Nicolas Maduro, thought he was looking stressed, and bought him some food, that would qualify as treason. There's no requirement that you act against the interests of the United States. The constitution will stop you from being prosecuted for treason for sleeping with Melania Trump. It won't stop you from being prosecuted for treason for completely spurious reasons.
Treason is a very heavy charge and as far as I know it applies more to individuals. Can a company be prosecuted for treason? I guess it depends on the country and I don't know US law well (never even visited there)
But I'm sure local laws conflict heavily between countries yes. I'm often wondering how multinationals manage to navigate this maze. This is why we have such a big legal department I guess :) And the company I work for is a pretty honest one, I've never seen any skullduggery going on with eg privacy or media manipulation. In fact employees are urged to report such things and I have to do a course on responsible behaviour yearly. Probably a result of being purely B2B. But anyway I digress, just wanted to say that getting away with stuff does not seem to be the reason for us having a big legal dept.
But just look at the laws of e.g. the EU and Iran. Pretty diametrically opposed on many topics. There's no way to satisfy them both.
I think what helps to make this happen is that most countries don't try to push their laws outside of their jurisdiction. Which the UK is trying to do here.
“Can we take a moment to appreciate the name? Apple Intelligence. AI. That’s some S-tier semantic appropriation. On the level of jumping on “podcast” before anyone knew what else to call that.”
“the Google executive Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes.”
So what you are saying is that Gemini is basically useless?
Not just the "50 to 60 percent" statistic, it looks like the entire paragraph in the ad is word for word identical to a preexisting cheese shop site. So either Gemini's "generation" is just searching the web and doing verbatim copy paste, or Google copied it themselves which would be a new low for Google.
A lot of the answers given by Gemini are just a verbatim copy of parts of web sites. I have seen this time after time when comparing the AI results and text that I find in the referenced web sites.
> “the Google executive Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes.”
This is a huge fail for Gemini. Google, of all companies, should know the incentives to distort information aggregators for monetary gain (just look at how bad search results are these days). It's 100% expected that people will try to game LLMs the same way. It's entirely dependent on the LLMs to counteract this.
If I do a google search I can inspect the source of a response for trustworthiness and I can inspect several other sources that also appear in the results for agreement.
With an AI query I get one response back and although people are trying to teach their AI tools to cite sources, this is not universal.
A healthy hop I would say, keeping in mind that this was showing off the best side of it in a commercial. So it just did a Google search, got a wrong factual result, the LLM couldn’t verify it was bogus, regurgitated it as is, and the executive piped in with
“acshually, it’s just a plain old search result” somehow not realizing that just makes them look even worse.
If a model often produces information that is blatantly wrong, then you need to check ALL of its outputs. If you're going to have to double-check all information that it provides, you might as well skip using it entirely and search for the information directly.
You're missing the part where searching for the information directly might take hours or even days.
You're looking for black-and-white truth, while the real world is actually more interested in efficiency.
I can spend 2 days scouring documentation and forum posts and experimenting to get ffmpeg or Matplotlib to produce exactly the results I want. Or I can just ask ChatGPT and check if its code works, and if it doesn't maybe spend 10 minutes correcting it so it does, or refining the prompt so it does.
And so you're also missing the part where verifying the correctness of output is very often many orders of magnitude faster than coming up with the output in the first place.
> but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes
It was a verbatim copy of the text, which raises the question about copyright. I guess "Wisconsin Cheese Mart" could probably sue Google, but more importantly, this would also mean that it is capable of making verbatim copies of the books contained in Anna's Archive.
That is, assuming that Google also did torrent the books like Meta did, which is very likely.
Funny how they call it "reflection", and not "copy". Maybe that's the way to win in courts: I didn't copy that movie, that was just a reflection of it.
Wouldn't this user of Gemini, who would copy Gemini's response to use this text in their ads, potentially get into copyright troubles with "Wisconsin Cheese Mart"?
Bingo. They admitted what everyone suspected: they are just scrapping BS from BS websites and spilling it back as something created by an "intelligent agent".
To be fair, do you believe a human would do better? If you hired someone to create content for your cheese website they would probably do the same thing. They'd search google and copy statistics without triple-checking all of them.
I don't think it's fair to frame this is an AI issue. The internet is simply full of misinformation. Should AI outperform the average human and detect misinformation? Maybe. But I don't think that's part of the current value prop, at least not for "non-reasoning" models. If you use an LLM you should be aware that what you're getting is whatever is most commonly found on the web. If that's not what you want, don't use an LLM.
I registered bluesky account for the second time last Friday and I've pick no interests during first login. Last year I had Discovery feed filled with drawn porn despite of my settings. And now on a fresh account it's mainly American politics - while setting are more liberal regarding adult content. I followed nearly 60 people but only few of them are active. The global stream overall seems to be much "slower" than public federated one on mastodon. My partner complains he gets furry porn in Discovery while having a zero interest in that - he follows only 11 accounts.
I haven't bumped on screenshots from twitter so far.
> My partner complains he gets furry porn in Discovery while having a zero interest in that - he follows only 11 accounts.
AFAIK the 'Discover' algorithm is based largely on _likes_, not who you follow. This can result in extremely weird results for people who never like posts, which I suspect is quite a large part of the user base.
I saw Elon posts on my following feed (whatever X now calls it) even though I wasn't following him. I even got notifications for them! I don't really know how anyone can think that's acceptable.
Thank you for providing a column with Folder Sizes as well! This is so useful, and yet MS still don't provide this feature in Explorer.
I have a question about "Empty Recycle Bin":
Is it possible to provide access to Emptying the Recycle Bin that doesn't require right clicking on the desktop icon?
It sounds trivial, but this would be a killer feature for me and a couple of other people I know!
It's so handy in Mac OS to be able to right click on the Trash Icon in the Dock!