Yes. I was poking around all the different ways Apple was shaving storage and I found that the Leopard welcome animation (showing the word welcome in different languages in a galaxy) was stored in JPEGs, one for each frame; the Snow Leopard one was finally a video in H.264.
fond fond fond memories of Snow Leopard. I was just a kid back then, so I guess I missed the complaints that people are mentioning here, but even back then no shiny new features but an improved and refined product seemed like a good/brave idea. something I'd like to see more of.
The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.
This is why the perpetual obsession with creating new genres in university art departments is so dumb. One told a prospective student (my wife's friend) "we don't do beautiful here" as if that signals erudition.
Real beauty comes from expressing something coherent within constraints such that the constraints become the means of expression.
I was happy to see gen Z art students dropping this sort of snobism when I visited a student art exhibition made for an edition of the Long Night of Museums in my city.
Instead of the usual hideous red, black, grey and white that seemed ubiquitous since at least the 80s along with the most terrible textures one could find, there was blue, yellow, different shades of green.
And one painting featuring an exchange of text messages.
The people they do that have a lot of experience and make a lot of money. Fortunately, most of the world doesn’t have the software business’ cavalier attitude about safety-related things being perfectly safe.
Just because they are worse than they should be doesn’t mean they’re comparable. Cheap Chinese consumer goods? Sure. But aerospace and software aren’t in the same galaxy when it comes to QA and accountability. Source — I worked in software for decades and currently work in aerospace manufacturing.
Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to create a weapon of mass destruction seems entirely different than restricting access to historical facts because they are embarrassing to the government.
I think there might be a difference between “I’m violating copyright law to enjoy a work of art” and “I’m violating copyright law on a global, species-wide scale to create a trillion dollar company and enrich myself.” Maybe you can argue the former is wrong but there’s no way it’s equivalent to the latter.
If Google changes the internet so that no one visits websites anymore, no one is going to make or maintain websites. And at that point, A) What is left of the internet and B) What is left for Google to summarize via AI?
LLM already took around 70% of my traffic. I live from that website. I don’t think it will survive another two years, and updating it already feels pointless. Why choose my words so carefully when Google will just scramble them?
It's a hard decision, I would say a cooldown by default in the last few months would have prevented more attacks than not upgrading to the latest version due to an immediate RCE, zero-click, EPSS 100%, CVSS 10.0, KEV mentioned Zero Day CVE. But now that the Mythos 90 days disclosure window gets closer, I don't know what tsunami of urgent patches is in our way... it's not an easy problem to solve.
I lean toward cooldown by default, and bypass it when an actual reachable exploitable ZeroDay CVE is released.
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