You sure it's not disabled for AndroidPolice.com? I'm still seeing it.

The built-in ad blocker of the Vivaldi browser

Ugh, an ad-block force wall. No visit.

I am not excusing anybody, I am just tired of the blatant propaganda with zero reliable sources.

What you describe is horrible, and also it is simply not real, but entirely the result of your imagination. No source claims any of this the way you describe it.

In fact the latest reports describe two separate events, one where the stampede occurred, with no IDF involvement, and another event where there was a shooting at a check point. There is NO way to know what exactly happened from behind the keyboard. At this point all your claims are only the reflection of your beliefs, and nothing more.

That's not the description of a stampede which would result in killing 100+ people, even if true.

We will probably never know exactly what happened, as we only have IDF- and Hamas-controlled reporting of it, both obviously heavily skewed.

But the claim that this is Israeli military simply shooting to murder 100+ people is to say the least obviously unsubstantiated.

A stampede caused by Israel forces opening fire on the crowd.

It is not helpful that you just made that up on the spot. Not even close to what you linked to, or what both sides claim.

This is grossly misleading reporting.

The deaths were caused by a stampede. Very small number of people were fired on after approaching a military checkpoint and after warning fires.

Still a tragedy, but nothing like what the title makes it out to be.

Source:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-68438112

"/s" perhaps?

LLMs are really crappy at writing books right now.

However there is zero evidence they will not get better, in fact they are getting exponentially better all the time at all tasks which are getting measured.

My bet is on LLMs soon being able to put out mediocre fiction, and then not much later great fiction, indistinguishable from the best authors out there.

Then again on a second attempt I get wildly different resutls, for both of them. Might be a matter of advanced settings, like temperature, but single examples don't seem to be indicative of one being better than the other at this type of Qs.

Interesting but that's not what I'm getting at all from gemma and phi on ollama.

False.

The pedestrian in that accident was struck by a human driver, hit and run, THEN they hit the Waymo, which did a pull-over maneuver. It did drag the victim (of the HUMAN) in error. It did not strike them at all.

In fact the actual real issue was the C-suite trying to cover it up, intead of being upfront with the DMV. THAT’S what got Waymo in trouble. All fired now, as expected, the shitheads.

There is no contradiction in anything you just said. To defend agains Hamas is a necessity. To try and help humans in pain as well.

Sued a couple of conservative writers.

GPT is ML

When you have 100+ feeds you really want to avoid reading twice the same entry. It's the single most important feature in an RSS reader for me.

They threatened taking away Hungary’s voting power in EU altogether . Apparently there is a process to do that.

Replace "Windows" with "Windows Phone".

Again, it is not every time at all. Its after 1 MILLION first-time installs (per user, not devcie) in the last 12 months. This is an incredibly large number of installs!

Also it is 1M users annually, i.e. just in the past 12 months. A significant detail.

Also there is a fee waiver for certain devs, like NPOs and educational orgs. Overall there is a TON of great stuff coming to EU and absolutely no negatives.

Zero negatives, NOTHING is getting worse, and a lot is getting much much better.

Read it again:

The new business terms for iOS apps in the EU have three elements: Reduced commission — iOS apps on the App Store will pay a reduced commission of either 10 percent (for the vast majority of developers, and subscriptions following their first year) or 17 percent on transactions for digital goods and services.

Qouted verbatm from here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

There is NO 30% fee anymore, it is going to be 10% for most, 17% for some

You are saying this as if 1M users is something that just happens overnight. This is a huge number, and there are very few non-profit generating apps which have that kind of reach.

The EXISTING fees have changed, there is no 30% fee. It's 17% now.

That's exactly what USA are trying to do, minding their own business.

It's a law directly impacting all businesses operating in Quebec.

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

Full access to NFC, bring your own browser engine, zero fees on third party stores, the changes are genuinely positive. What makes you say they feel like “retaliation”?

Yeah the Apple doc is all about iOS, not mentioning iPhone or iPad, which made it non-obvious. Especially since both products used to run iOS in the past.

Not a single Apple user has complained about this in my circles. Many non-EU are envious though.

There is no 30% fee anymore. All the hate so far I find entirely unjustified, the changes are all really positive.

You can argue it can be better, but saying it’s “retaliation” is a bit extreme.

Not being on iPad is not useless. It will just hurt the iPad platform, not the other way around. Nobody really cares that much about it except some niche creative products anyway.

1M users is a huge number. How many as popular apps there will be, ever?

I visited Italy last summer, enjoyed it a lot, but let me tell you the trains’ timing was a mess, perhaps the most stressful part of the trip. Never on time and in a bad way (so it eats up any connection buffer time). Well, after the car rental, but that’s another story.

This is the first I hear about the changes being iPhone-only, where did you read they are not coming to iPad?

edit: ah looks like some 4y ago Apple switched to a separate iPadOS. Used to be that iOS was both for phones and tablets.

Not sure what you mean, the announced changes are pretty much the best thing ever to happen to the Apple eco-system. The only bad part about them is they're restricted to EU.

Prince of Persia, it's mighty fun!

I love visiting Portugal, been a few times to Lisbon, amazing city, and to the Algarve region. Visiting Porto is still on my todo list, I hear it's really nice too.

Berlin is one of my favourite cities, it has a special vibe!

I have different experience with Vivaldi, been using it for years, and it's amazing.

The proper question is “why not?”.

Someone was motivated and capable enough and there you have it :)