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New comment by fartfeatures in "Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch"

fartfeatures — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:45:34 +0000

Standard Operating Procedure.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

fartfeatures — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:10:46 +0000

Sure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?

New comment by fartfeatures in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

fartfeatures — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:23:13 +0000

Either that or Apple don't want to lose their 30% until they are forced to, one jurisdiction at a time. I guess we all need to make our own inference as to which is more likely.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

fartfeatures — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:58:51 +0000

Why as an Apple user in the UK am I considered too dumb to use a 3rd party app store but if I were 30 miles away in France I would be considered intelligent enough to cope? Because this was never about my safety. It was about their 30% as correctly supposed above.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

fartfeatures — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:50:07 +0000

I'm very clumsy and I've never hit the play button by accident. What are you guys doing that makes it so easy to accidentally click the play button? Are you using the mac with the touch bar or something?

New comment by fartfeatures in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

fartfeatures — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:47:57 +0000

Sounds like snuff porn, not my sort of thing but thanks though.

New comment by fartfeatures in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

fartfeatures — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:43:59 +0000

This is very dystopian in my opinion. I'm not the arms, legs, sensors and actuators for a machine super intelligence. I wouldn't treat another human as my slave because they aren't as intelligent as I am any more than I would expect to become a slave for a machine. This is our world (for now) and that is why we fit in. Not because we can serve.

New comment by fartfeatures in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

fartfeatures — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:09:35 +0000

We've known of a very good way to fix primary schools since 1907. Nearly 120 years. We simply do not want to do it because the labour and materials are more than we want to spend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

New comment by fartfeatures in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

fartfeatures — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:54:57 +0000

Nobody uses a horse and cart as an every day method of commuting anymore.

New comment by fartfeatures in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

fartfeatures — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:15:50 +0000

Why would having more thinking companions stop you from thinking? Knowledge compounds.

New comment by fartfeatures in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

fartfeatures — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:12:40 +0000

I think by that point humanity will having some pretty fundamental discussions about the nature of work and money.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

fartfeatures — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:23:11 +0000

"bake cake in 170" is genuinely confusing at first glance though.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

fartfeatures — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:35:18 +0000

You absolutely should not be using the same browser for general browsing and VPN based browsing. Check out Mullvad Browser, based on Tor Browser but without Tor.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

fartfeatures — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:00:04 +0000

I read it as a suggestion vs a demand but I can see why you felt it was entitled. The author doesn't need to care and can take or leave the advice. In many ways it is a shame we don't have the concept of the Semantic Web as an extension to simple Hyperlinks.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

fartfeatures — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:46:08 +0000

It is easier to search for keywords (Capture the Flag) vs acronyms (CTF) which likely resolve to other terms as well. Child trust fund is the first result when I put CTF into Google. Admittedly searching CTF security solves that issue. A quick link to an article on CTF to make the post digestible by outsiders seems reasonable enough.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

fartfeatures — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:37:09 +0000

There has always been tension in this area. A prime example is Dual_EC_DRBG https://harvardnsj.org/2022/06/07/dueling-over-dual_ec_drgb-...

New comment by fartfeatures in "Apple reports second quarter results"

fartfeatures — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:47:34 +0000

The people who designed Mach in 1985 would almost certainly design something very different if they had today’s hardware, AI agents, secure enclaves, NPUs, ubiquitous networking, cloud edges, wearables, smart home devices and generally device density per person.

HarmonyOS is interesting because it points at the right axis: one coherent OS fabric across many devices, not a set of separate device OSes glued together by continuity features. Continuity, iCloud, Handoff, AirDrop, HomeKit etc are impressive glue. They are not the same as one logical OS fabric.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Apple reports second quarter results"

fartfeatures — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:25:11 +0000

I found out about it through this guy and his videos, they are slow but in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSLFz4jTMEY

New comment by fartfeatures in "Apple reports second quarter results"

fartfeatures — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:06:10 +0000

Because nothing lasts forever. Take a look at what Harmony OS is capable of if you want to see what a modern take on an OS and ecoystem looks like. It sure isn't the pinnacle either.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Apple reports second quarter results"

fartfeatures — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:42:48 +0000

Yeah that's definitely what I'm saying.

Hopefully there is work being done on the replacement for the Mach kernel and OSX / iOS in general. If there isn't that would be a grave mistake and exactly the kind of one someone like Tim Cook would make. Look at how he fumbled AI at Apple. I'm not saying he isn't talented, he is, but he isn't a product guy or an engineer.

This could happen in parallel with existing software dev skunkworks style.