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New comment by jwitthuhn in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:18:58 +0000

Apple also forces users onto a web browser that effectively has the same limitations as recent versions of chrome with respect to ad blocking.

They could easily resolve that by allowing alternate browsers, but choose not to.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

jwitthuhn — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:01:30 +0000

That is a quote from the lead developer of WoW about how everyone asking for classic wow thought they wanted it but wouldn't actually play it. Then blizzard made classic wow and it was a huge hit.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

jwitthuhn — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:14:23 +0000

The entire point is that it can't be reasonably enforced with any granularity. Rights-holders want it to be like that so a copyright win in a single country means something has to be taken down globally.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Muse Spark 1.3"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:59:31 +0000

Dario's idea of an ethical focus seems to be keeping powerful models out of the hand of anyone unethical, which coincidentally is everyone except him.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:12:14 +0000

Generative AI like LLMs and image diffusion models are perfectly capable of being deterministic. I have seen it repeated a lot that they aren't and that simply isn't true.

edit: to answer the second part, photoshop brushes are absolutely generative but I'm not sure they are AI.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:08:09 +0000

I think people don't know what they mean and I have yet to receive a coherent response when asking such people what they mean.

As best as I can tell "Generative AI" is a common shorthand for "AI I don't like"

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts"

jwitthuhn — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:52:45 +0000

I'm quite curious about that claim that pitch correction is not generative AI. It literally generates a complete output waveform.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:21:27 +0000

It is less secure though, and they are doing it in the name of security. People are right to call that out as bullshit.

Availability is a key component of security, and this is a 24-hour DOS on apps not blessed by google.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"

jwitthuhn — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:49:08 +0000

I have plenty of epithets for people who accuse others of lying based on vibes alone. It is not necessary or justifiable.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Our position on open-weights models"

jwitthuhn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:50:23 +0000

If models that fail the safety testing are banned, then asking for that testing is asking for a ban. That you believe any sane regulation would involve such a ban doesn't stop it from being a ban.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:10:37 +0000

That is just the SDK, but there is an unofficial open source implementation of goldsrc.

https://github.com/fwgs/xash3d-fwgs

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

jwitthuhn — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:23:45 +0000

Surprised to see I partially agree. They are indeed ungovernable and that is the best part.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

jwitthuhn — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:48:19 +0000

Not really, on the project I'm working on right now most of my longer prompts seems to consume somewhere between 300k and 400k tokens (input + output) and I find that both Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 don't seem to get lost with that much context. At least the results still look good to me.

I don't think I've ever pushed past 500k though, it may well fall apart at the higher end of what is officially supported.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

jwitthuhn — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:58:56 +0000

Claude does the same when you hit the context limit, but the difference is that claude's context limit is 1m and Codex's is 272k now. Claude lets you get a lot more done before you have to worry about the start getting compacted away.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:03:58 +0000

The text you linked mandates, as the first technical requirement, "An ADDW system shall determine when the driver’s visual attention is not directed towards the driving tasks and alert the driver through the vehicle human–machine interface."

Can you describe how you believe the driver's visual attention can be tracked by anything other than a camera pointed at the driver's face?

If no such other system exists, how is this doing anything other than mandating cameras pointed at the driver?

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:55:57 +0000

Why would physical copies matter for this? All physical games have to be signed by Sony anyways so it's not like a third-party can produce them.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:52:11 +0000

This is true but the buyout happened in 1985. Servco Pacific has been in charge for longer than Leo Fender and CBS, the two previous owners, put together.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

jwitthuhn — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:37:40 +0000

They did upload the wrong model but as of the time of writing they have not fixed it. Right now, 12 hours after they took the old one down, there is simply no model present in their huggingface repo.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:11:41 +0000

Fortunately for us all Dario literally asked for this sort of restriction on model usage so we can be certain Anthropic are not victims here.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

jwitthuhn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:14:10 +0000

Same for switch 1/2. it even has a browser built-in so you can log in to wifi captive portals but you can't access it through any normal means.