CuriousRose

I like Safari. I certainly trust Apple more than Google with my data. It's faster and doesn't mine my email and web data to train models (yet).

If it gets particularly bad, I'm sure some impartial team will make another browser engine with Opus 5.5 but for now I can tolerate the minor inconveniences in Safari.

I mean you could always vibe code a replacement in 30 minutes. Thankfully I don’t see DRM being a problem when you can’t DRM an idea. They will try, but how is that going for the games industry currently?

You're right, I don't care and I certainly didn't ask for your political opinion or validation. This is a tech news website, not the place for your false and unrelated political tirades.

We really need to move past this USB port garbage, it's holding the whole industry back and there was nothing good about USB A compared to C aside from its prevalence.

It's a thicker port, single orientation and slower. Why you would still want this legacy port is beyond me and it should be a industry wide mandate by now. Very surprised to see it on the Mac Studio this year, just get an adapter/dongle.

I haven't had any issues with my Apple TV?

Are you talking problems along the lines of Karpathy's autoresearch? Reverse engineering does seem pretty straightforward actually in that use case, but for practical business building work as opposed to hobby projects that's where I'm hitting the wall at the moment.

Safari is the only real opposition to Google based browsers at the moment. Yes Firefox is a contender, but it has no brand traction among non-power users. Google has the brand, Safari has the defaults and energy efficiencies of the growing Apple laptop/desktop market. Although not open source, I trust it far more that a Google based browser as Apple - aside from PWAs competing with their App Store - has no real incentive to commodify, restrict or surveil the web like Google does.

An equally important issue with local AI use (not coding specific) is ensuring that the harness has fast and up to date data if recency is important in your querires (new package features, docs, etc). Hosted models do web search incredibly well and I think this is a huge part of output quality.

I don't use local hosted models anymore due to hardware contstraints, but I do have some degree of search anonymisation attached to my OpenCode and OpenRouter connected open models.

On my Macbook I run OrbStack that has the following docker containers set to route through a Mullvad based gluetun.

- Firecrawl - fast web scraping

- SearxNG - metasearch

- CloakBrowser - tursile bypassing Playwright alternative

If you wanted to get fancy with the proxy rotation, you could setup numerous instances of Playwright each with their own Mullvad wireguard key in different locations.

You could probably apply that logic to any innovation in any industry no?

Reusable rockets likely got the same ridicule, as did fast satellite internet, self driving and fully electric vehicles.

I can understand that Musk does not have the most palatable personality, but floating ideas and at least attempting innovation regardless of outcome over a long time is a net positive for society and should not be discouraged.

There was a point made recently by Musk that the whole clean room idea is outdated if you can just ensure the path the silicon takes from wafer to lidding is clean. Seems solvable to me, but leaves me wondering why it hasn’t been done before. I assume there is no human handling of raw/etched silicon now anyway, so why does the whole room need to be clean?

In terms of software that genuinely fascinates me Monero would have to be up there (along with Postgres, ZFS and OpenBSD). It's in my opinion one of the only (but probably the only) cryptos that has actually held true in terms of its principles of privacy (which was a perceived principle of crypto by users) and mass ability to mine and not be dominated by ASICs.

I've since taken to running a non-public Monero node, which will become public when I can ensure my network security as it's being run from my home.

In saying that, there is a lot of concern around the new Carrot changes. To preface, I don't understand it enough to have an opinion either way, but a good chunk of the vocal user base seems to be worried that making “optional” view keys show both incoming and outgoing transactions will force the hand of the remaining exchanges, and be a condition of adoption of new exchanges to support Monero.

I haven't really seen a dumbed down explanation from the core Monero team as to exactly what the change looks like, and what the theoretical implications could be. It would be nice if Monero had more accessible PR for non-technical users to encourage adoption and squash FUD when it arises or at least acknowledge it from a top level in a blog post or something so that the already hyper-paranoid user base doesn't unnecessarily drive a mass anti-Monero campaign.

In my experience, this is common among people with ADHD (myself, friends with ADHD, family with ADHD, psychologist’s patients anecdotal evidence). YMMV

Often people are under such mental pressures that the chance of a better financial outcome is more mentally digestible than the existing scenario they are in. Considering it from that perspective has allowed me to understand and empathise with the gambler. However irrational or unlikely a sliver of hope, it is a chance at hope nonetheless.

Sure, but instead of waiting another year for this to be launched - with a beta version precaution and inevitable bugs - why not remove the limited hard-coded Node paths and references now and ship something 80:20?