GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 4d ago
How they spy on people isn't the issue. Spying on people without explicit consent (in a situation where you can say no without penalty) is the issue.
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by GeekyBear 5d ago
It's worth remembering that Apple is releasing a new framework (Core AI) this fall that goes beyond the Pytorch and Tensorflow workloads that the decade old Core ML framework allowed. > Core AI allows your app to use the latest mode
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by GeekyBear 5d ago
> As a general principle, as a user, I expect a file on one computer to be usable on another computer. As a general rule, I expect a file on an encrypted disk to be unreadable for anyone who lacks the encryption key(s). > if I need to
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by GeekyBear 6d ago
At that price, it's competing against a cluster of M5 Mac Studios, which we don't have test data for yet.
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
> new foldables are surprisingly strong along the spine Have you seen the video in question from two weeks ago? > GOOGLE MADE A MISTAKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUT3rUZGqLA&
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
After four years of watching the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel snap Google's foldable phones in half at the same spot along the antenna lines, I'm looking forward to seeing how well this holds up. Something this expensive sho
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
The AOSP does not run modern Android apps, since Google has been replacing the APIs those apps require with closed source versions (that only ship as part of Google Play) for over a decade.
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
> There is no alternative. There have been several projects like Ubuntu Touch to create an open Linux for smartphones. That would be an open alternative. Android is not open.
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
Clang, OpenCL, MLX
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
I'm pretty sure Intel is providing Xenon CPUs for free when they are used in Linux servers, so they have no financial interest in providing first party Linux drivers. Sure, they relied on community Linux drivers in the past, but that d
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
If selling Linux servers (or parts used in Linux servers) is a major chunk of your revenue, your company is likely to start providing first party Linux drivers? This is a shocking development.
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
> I'm not sure I understand the target user for Asahi. If you want to run bare metal Linux on Apple's hardware (instead of running it in a virtual machine) you are the target audience.
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
In the beginning, Bootcamp had a real job. It allowed a machine running Intel's EFI firmware (as Intel Macs have always done) to boot an OS that only understood the older BIOS standard. Once Microsoft and the various PC vendors started
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by GeekyBear 11d ago
The same thing that has previously happened with discontinued Intel Macs or PC hardware that is no longer supported by Windows. You can still boot Linux natively on it.
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by GeekyBear 11d ago
It serves the exact same purpose that WSL does in Windows. You can run any flavor of Linux you like in a virtual machine, while booted into the native OS.
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by GeekyBear 14d ago
> it looks like the software Google is shipping intentionally doesn't use MTE on the Pixel 11 hardware. That raises the question of...what does Google know is wrong with MTE on the Pixel 11? Apple replaced MTE with an upgraded versi
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by GeekyBear 16d ago
This is the sort of user focused feature you add when you take the phrase "user agent" seriously.
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by GeekyBear 16d ago
GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep I don't think the project kept up with changes to the APIs over the decades compared to h
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by GeekyBear 16d ago
I remember Google buying Chrome market share by tricking users into installing Chrome when they didn't pay attention while clicking next through the installers for more popular software.
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by GeekyBear 16d ago
MLX is an open source framework that allows you to run open models in a manner optimized for Apple's hardware. You can take advantage of larger amounts of memory, higher memory bandwidth, and clustering multiple systems. How is using a
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by GeekyBear 16d ago
They didn't "accidentally" add tensor units to the GPU cores in the M5 generation. However, I don't think they expected the level of Enterprise interest they saw.
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by GeekyBear 16d ago
> Classic monopoly move: Control the user base, then control hardware Classic monopoly move by who? Apple created MLX as an open source framework to allow users to run any open model locally.
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by GeekyBear 18d ago
The company that Google targeted with their Motorola patents was Microsoft. Google sought to ban the sale of Microsoft products that used the H.264 video standard on a global basis if Microsoft didn't hand over a literal fortune. >
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by GeekyBear 18d ago
> They purchased Motorola Mobility for the patent portfolio as essentially a nuclear deterrent against Apple By Apple, you mean Microsoft. The early Android device makers had to pay a per device patent licensing fee to Microsoft. Google
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by GeekyBear 21d ago
The new project leadership team prioritized upstreaming the existing work first. Once the upstreaming was largely done, they first mentioned beginning the work of adding M3 support in the February progress report. Now we have this: > Wit
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by GeekyBear 21d ago
> You don't need to write performant 3D graphics drivers for servers. Intel, AMD, Nvidia does it anyway. Apple is the only Linux-hostile company. You can't think of an Enterprise use case for GPUs that has become popular of lat
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by GeekyBear 21d ago
Intel has stopped pushing clock speeds to such ridiculous extremes, so battery life is getting better. However they still have to nail single core performance on chips that can operate without a fan before they can be said to have caught up
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by GeekyBear 21d ago
Sure. When you make a big chunk of your revenue selling Enterprise Servers, you can no longer rely on drivers written by volunteer labor, as they did in the past.
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by GeekyBear 22d ago
She was such an impressively kind person.
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by GeekyBear 23d ago
According to Mark Gurman, the base M6 is bumped up to 200 GB/s of memory bandwidth with a single core performance bump of 15%.

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