#daringfireball — Public Fediverse posts
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Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell
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You know... I had a whole thing I was writing up about how I was finding Gruber's response towards the Claude watermark topic odd, but his own words better showcase the lack of awareness than I ever could
The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.
Using an LLM for "writing" isn't choosing words. It is letting a tool pattern-match a concept down to the median.
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There's a verbal form of a dickover too. When I call to renew my prescription, I have to listen to announcement or push to get something before I can renew my medication.
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Sometimes @gruber has good points of views, like this one:
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, #Intel can offer #Apple that they would invest on.
To me, Intel may get something in exchange of datacenters, but that would mean Apple still needs some x86 for the cloud, which is weird given how invested they are in #AppleSilicon.
My guess? Yeah, they'll hard pass on Intel like they did on OpenAI.
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Keine Apple-Executive-Gäste beim WWDC-Talkshow-Live-Auftritt
Wenn Du wie viele andere treue Zuhörer:innen des Daring Fireball Podcasts bist, kennst Du wahrscheinlich die Tradition von John Gruber. Seit 2015 lädt er zu der jährlichen Spezialepisode von "T
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/keine-apple-executive-gaeste-beim-wwdc-talkshow-live-auftritt/
#News #Tellerrand #Apple #AppleIntelligence #AppleExecutives #DaringFireball #JohnGruber #Kritik #Siri #Technologien #TheTalkShow #WWDC -
I'm on a roll
I was quoted in Business of Fashion last month, after reading the newsletter every morning for years.
Now after reading @daringfireball since the early 2000s, a toot I wrote this morning got linked to.
And yes I do sometimes have a love-hate relationship with that website but I've been reading it since I was a teenager, it's been a part of me, somehow, very few blogs survived this era or my changes of interests in my RSS reader.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/the_website_hacker_news_is_afraid_to_discuss
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Wer sich näher mit dem #Apple-Universum beschäftigt hat, wird sicherlich auch schon von #JohnGruber gehört haben. Der #Tech-#Blogger schreibt für seine Website #DaringFireball schon seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten über viele Themen, die Apple betreffen. Nun hat sich Gruber mit sehr deutlichen Worten zu Apples verspäteten personalisierten #Siri-Funktionen geäußert.
Alle Infos: https://www.appgefahren.de/?p=375591
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Hilariously predictable, how #DaringFireball has just completely ignored the »Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M« topic.
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Any other longtime #Macos users remember the "secret" slo-mo window minimize effect? It was done by shift-clicking the yellow (minimize) button. Apple disabled it many years ago, but as #daringfireball reveals, it's actually still there!
TLDR: `defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES; killall Dock`
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@cabel just watched your XOXO talk (via @gruber #daringfireball ). I own a playdate, luxuriate in Transmit and can say confidently - you are a kook. In the absolute greatest sense of the word. Bravo. The world is teensy weensy bit more of a tolerable place because you are in it. 🫶
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"""
[Sun and Xue] defrauded Apple by submitting counterfeit iPhones for repair, to get Apple to exchange them with genuine replacement iPhones. [..]They submitted the fake iPhones, with spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers, to Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers, [..]
[They] submitted more than 6,000 inauthentic phones [..] causing an intended loss of $3.8 million [..]
"""https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/02/counterfeit-iphone-scam
via https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113240577305712623
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I had no idea Taylor Lorenz had done work on the Digital Markets Act #daringfireball
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@treats I mean... I love markdown.... what the fuck would I have done without daring fireball? Decades of fuck knows what. TYSM xoxox
#markdown
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Justin Searls writes:
I’ve been pairing with ChatGPT (using GPT-4) every day for the last few months and it is demonstrably terrible 80% of the time, but 20% of the time it saves me an hour of headaches, so I put up with it anyway. Nevertheless, my experience with Llama 2 was so miserable, I figured Zuck’s claim about Llama 3 outperforming GPT-4 was bullshit, so I put it to the test this morning.
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I agree with John Gruber that OpenAI lacks a moat, but what they still have is a pretty significant head start in the “server-side large-language model” market. Meta and Google are still clearly playing catch-up there. In the long-term, though, OpenAI really does need to figure out a way to avoid being outflanked by the larger platforms.
Gruber writes:
I keep circling back to the notion that OpenAI has no moat. ChatGPT is certainly the best-known LLM, and perhaps still the best, but I don’t think that’s any more of a long-term competitive advantage than some company in 1986 having “the best C compiler”. What’s needed are ways to bring LLMs to users. To give them purpose, in products. That’s what Meta is doing, by integrating their AI into all of their major products.
Daring Fireball: Meta Releases New AI Assistant Powered by Llama 3 Model
I think moats are too early to be commented on because nobody still really understands what parameters matter from a user perspective / business perspective. I think Justin’s considering this from a “help me code” / code productivity angle while Gruber’s looking at this from a has-this-hit-mainstream-yet angle?
In all these cases, early days is the answer.
That said, I still think that Gruber’s giving credit where due – at least Meta’s making a cohesive effort. Sure, they’ve just slapped on a text box to all their products at this point. However, anyone in a large company knows that coordinating all of this means that there’s cohesive push from the top. That suggests that there are clear owners and there’s execution. Personally, that’s a muscle that will help facebook execute fast. They’ve already shown they’ve the necessary muscle to learn from mistakes so, I’m bullish.
https://gurupanguji.com/2024/04/19/moats-in-ai-facebook-and-openai/
#ai #daringfireball #facebook #llama3 #llm #meta #openai #tech
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I think Gruber might be mistaking Mastodons higher honesty for a smaller usage. To me this is only good as the start to a set of experiments, not as an end to it. https://daringfireball.net/2024/02/poll_results_on_apples_finewoven_iphone_cases #DaringFireball #mastodon #Threads #x (2/2)
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Will there be dedicated camera button on iPhone 16?
@gruber makes a point:
"I want to press it with my right index finger. (You can orient the Action button to be on the top right by holding the iPhone horizontally with camera at the bottom, but that feels awkward to me.)"
But for me misses the issue, that with the action button at top-right, your fingers want to naturally cover the lenses when supporting the iphone!
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/12/29/iphones-16-capture-button
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I’ve never minded the ads on #daringfireball.
Because it’s clear John cares about the user experience and not letting ads fuck it up.
I do not get that vibe from #apple or #News +.
I like the service. I’d **happily** **prefer** LESS content, if some pubs pulled out because of losing #ads or ad revenue.
Please. Kick those assholes to the curb.
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Has anyone else noticed the immense amount of Facebook/Meta shilling on #DaringFireball as of late? Seems like Gruber’s been their biggest cheerleader recently.
