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That’s kind of the point of those AR games. It’s been obvious from the beginning.

This is a surprise to no one, assuming you have been paying attention.

Of course they do. Apple Intelligence.

But even more broadly you can assume Apple is working on it if:

1. It is in any way tech-related.
2. It has the possibility of marketing existing technology as “magical” and easy to use.

Oh there’s plenty of continued success as a consultant on one of the various fascist-backing TV channels.

Quite often the script is used for subtitles because it’s easier than transcribing those differences. All of the text is already there in a seasily readable for mat both for humans and machines to source that translation from.

This is the difference between translating and interpreting.

Tom Scott has a video that touches on this, although the video focused on subtitles not matching dubbing, it’s the same reasons.

There was a big deal last year after Mastercard and Visa threatened the indie game site itch.io for allowing adult games, after a single complaint from an Australian anti-porn group.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb

Payment processors shouldn’t be gatekeepers of what we can buy. They should just process the payments and take their cut for being a middleman.

I really enjoy reminding them that Satan only kills about 10 people in the Bible. He temps others to do things, but he’s only responsible for a handful.

God on the other hand… much more direct and merciless. Doesn’t really seem to give a shit at all about killing people actually. Like a kid with a magnifying glass burning ants.

There’s quite a bit of evidence to argue he is actually malevolent.

That is totally available self hosted. Nothing is blocked. In fact that’s why I originally switched, reducing unnecessary monthly costs.

OTP codes for websites as well as all the MFA options for Vaultwarden itself. It also supports organizations, so you can share info between multiple accounts on your server. Emergency access, and even a web vault client.

Everything the paid Bitwarden does as far as I’m aware.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

If you do any sort of self-hosting, take a look at Vaultwarden. All the premium functions for free.

Before my entire network setup changed recently for unrelated reasons… I had Vaultwarden running on my home server (TrueNAS) and a free Cloudflare account with a tunnel to my home server and a $5/year domain. Worked for my parents easily and no longer had to worry about the big infrastructure being targeted.

Vaultwarden, self-hosted is free as well. And since it’s not using the Bitwarden infrastructure, you’re only as exposed as your own network anyway.

But you can still use all the standard Bitwarden apps and extensions on any device, you just need to point it at your server. Easy to set up for friends and family as well. No need to try and teach them about VPNs, setting up syncthing, etc.

Had some time before the waterboarding appointment.

Probably, but even getting waterboarded would be a better use of my time than reading an article about Walmart accounts now being required on TVs.

Did not know that. Definitely explains the integration now. Although the rest still applies to other brands.

Doesn’t Walmart already have onn?

Nearly every electronic device sold at Walmart is a unique SKU sold nowhere else.

They have their own internal logistics and manufacturing specialist team that works with manufacturers to hit specific wholesale price targets that they demand to even consider carrying their products in store. They reduce the number of ports, features, included accessories, quality of materials, etc. to get the that specific price.

The manufacturers take a huge hit on their own profits from these… but in theory will make up for that with sheer sales quantity.

Requiring a Walmart account probably means some sort of kickback to Vizio, or other wholesale arrangement. And since these devices are usually unique SKUs that can’t be sold elsewhere, they can receive differentiated software, have no risk of any sort of price matching, etc.

There’s a third option this time.

It uses a lot of resources they can use immediately for the military contract that will now inevitably form the backbone of the company and effectively will mean they have won the AI war. Anthropic fumbled by not doing what the military wanted immediately, and showing a minimal backbone publicly.

Oh it’s part of the military machine now. It’s never going away now. OpenAI won the war, Anthropic fumbled the ball by not openly capitulating to the fascist state. The competition just hasn’t realized it yet.

The takeaway from all LLM-based AI is the user needs to be smart enough to do whatever they’re asking anyway. All output needs to be verified before being used or relied upon.

The “AI” is just streamlining the process to save time.

Relying on it otherwise is stupid and just proves instantly that you are incompetent.

That even ignores the even more egregious fact that she was supposedly Army. How many Army personnel are usually on Navy ships?

There are exceptions of course, and any number of possible explanations. But just that off the bat should make you pause for a second since it’s weird.

He made $400B, not Twitter. That’s almost entirely from Tesla and other ventures, not Twitter.

Last I’ve been able to find Twitter was valued at $33B when xAI bought it. But that was clearly an overvalued sale. Just look at the valuation over time.

And that’s just raw valuation which is easily manipulated, not revenue or profit, which can be easily manipulated.