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Does the new SpeechAnalyzer API not call Apple Servers? I remember when I was building on the last version, it you wanted real time transcription you needed at least to upload it to Apple Servers for processing.

I think it once did! Now it doesn't - ways to easily verify this:

1) install the dmg in the GH repo

2) turn off wifi

3) use it offline


That doesn’t prove it doesn’t send data if it has the possibility. It could use the offline model only as a fallback.

yeah, this is a possibility and also they could store it and send it after we appear online.

I've been here! It takes a veryyyyy long time to grow them unfortunately and they're not as durable as they seem though. I don't think they last for centuries...

I just use Rectangle. It's got all the core functionality. https://rectangleapp.com/

I imagine the play here is going be connectors. Can you get slack to avoid integrating with anyone other American ai providers, same with Google suite, etc etc.

It's almost trivial to create a custom Slack application wrapping your desired harness running in a container on your organization's k8s cluster. Likewise with MCP support. These are already open.

I imagine it’s going to be a negative for them but dimensions comparisons would be interesting


I think practically every government will want to put restrictions on private companies building models.

Frankly the EU and the US will practically be less involved and have more pushback from the public in this than China. I think that’s less “China bad” than recognizing that China is a more authoritarian state and has far more proclivity to interfere than western states.

Maybe I’m wrong? What does deep seek say about Tiananmen square in 1989?


https://chat.deepseek.com/share/uf8jih4q95lbq3s8t2

This is what Deepseek replied when I asked it with a burner account. Claims it doesn't have it in its training data... sure.


Be interesting to see if it's possible to jailbreak and have it talk about it.


I am sure it can be but like it does prove the point of state interference in what the LLM is allowed to say/do in this case.


Ask an American model about the Epstein files and trump's involvement of them. Or about Israel committing genocide in Palestine.

Every model will have their own bias. Freedom is relative and American freedom is not the only form of freedom. China bad or China authoritarian and thus not free is a result of the red scare


Here is what Sonnet says on genocide:

"Surveys of genocide scholars (e.g., one by the journal Journal of Genocide Research contributors) show meaningful disagreement, though a visible and growing share of specialists in genocide studies specifically have concluded the term applies or is defensible — more so than international law scholars generally, who tend to be more cautious about the intent requirement."

You can be of the opinion that this shows bias, but it's a far cry from the Chinese censorship.

Clichés like "freedom is relative" are not serious arguments. You can't genuinely argue that the US, for all its problems, is less free than China. Words have meaning.

E.g. looking at freedom house index you can disagree on the precise score or how different aspects are weighed, but you can't argue with the underlying facts in the country reports

https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores


You asked about genocide in general. Not Israeli genocide. Are you astroturfing? No one can make an omission that obvious

You can't genuinely argue that the US, for all its problems, is less free than China

This is how Americans convince themselves they are at the top of the world when they are not. No one outside of Europe and the US cares about the US anymore. They buy Chinese products and do business with Chinese businesses instead, right now. Worldwide, China is seen more positively than the US specially in global south countries. The exceptions of course are Europe and The US, the cold war first world countries of course.

freedom house index

This is obvious American bias. Astroturfing.


Human embryo genetic modification has been effectively taboo if not banned until just recently since WWII and the aftermath of the Holocaust. I think some people in the US are proposing doing it now but I don't think anyone has tried it yet without repercussions.



What does the new Siri do that circumvents the need for a mac? To access Siri you still need one no?


the new Siri does the apple-ecosystem tasks you would have needed a claw type agent for natively


Is there any hope for Red Alert 2?


Looks like EA did open source the game (only the first maybe)

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert

This seems to be the most active port saying it works on a Mac/Linux https://github.com/Daft-Freak/CnC_and_Red_Alert


I wish they open sourced RA2 - I love that game, I heard they lost the source code :/


Yes, they have also lost Tiberian Sun and Firestorm I think.. very unfortunate.


That's wild. How does that happen?


Red alert 2 was released in 2000, which means it was developed probably in 1998->1999.

Life was different back then. Source control systems were a LOT worse (this is CVS era for open source development). We certainly weren't in the current era where everyone wants to play these old games on their phones now.

What almost certainly happened is all copies of the source were simply lost. They may have sat on someone's hard drive, a team server hard drive, or somewhere else. It's possible they didn't have more than a few copies while development was ongoing.


Everything will be lost unless it's somebody's job to preserve it. It's pretty common to close game studios or lay off the entire development team while simultaneously scolding them about "stealing" IP so the predictable result is the code being lost.


You can always play it in the browser https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991853, sadly no Yuri's Revenge is possible there though


they lost the original assets so afaik they arent gonna make a remaster

cnc-ddraw i think would get it to run fine on a steam deck though, so you should be able to play it without much issue


How far back in time do you need to give though? I imagine it will be limited by the time to think of new problems. Still seems valuable.


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