Agreed. I'm not looking forward to iOS 27 where basically the only option is this new Siri. I was perfectly content with using the old "dumb" Siri to set timers, turn on a light and control my Apple TV and nothing else.
I've been loving the Pihole setup I just set up. It uses Quad9 as the upstream provider and then I do all the blocking myself. I used to use NextDNS but this is so much better and free!
Yeah I have a VPN set up. I don't have the best internet so sometimes it's slow (mostly just app downloads seem to take the longest, so I'll just disable it and then re-enable it.) But it works just fine for streaming, including video
It's a fun myth but Parton and Curry already come fast on the heels of a few recent celebrity deaths: Sam Neill, Bonnie Tyler, Daveigh Chase, Hayden Panettiere, and Lindsay Graham.
I wonder if it even gets that far. He's so obsessed with the limelight that his (alleged, but very clear) health scare for a week drove headlines.
There's also the factor of Vance. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to pull off the 25th, but perhaps he's waiting for popularity to completely erode. He's certainly not going to be a serious candidate for 2028 without an absolute miracle of a turnaround in the next 2 years.
Yes, I am. If they are not fair and free, we have very different and much more serious set of problems than Democrats vs. Republicans. I hope we do not get to that point.
Permanent 25th Amendment is impossible. It requires two thirds of both houses which is more than impeachment. Amendment probably shouldn't have provided a mechanism and just required impeachment. Trump would have to be unable to respond or persuaded to resign.
Vance trying to pull off a 25th would be political suicide.
Trump's fan base is absolutely rabid. Anybody trying to exercise the 25th Amendment would be treated as a betrayal of the party and country, and I'm sure some morons would try to claim it's treason (because they don't know what defines treason).
> but perhaps he's waiting for popularity to completely erode
Never gonna happen. There's nothing that'll reduce Trump's popularity with MAGA.
> He's certainly not going to be a serious candidate for 2028 without an absolute miracle of a turnaround in the next 2 years.
Vance has an utter lack of charisma. Neither the good form of charisma, nor the anti-charisma that Trump carries that riles up a base. He's boring and doesn't know how to talk to people. Just look at the 2024 video when he visited a donut shop while campaigning with Trump.
I like to think that because Vance is utterly incapable of getting people excited, he would get devoured in a general election, but the DNC really knows how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm terrified that the DNC is going to push Gavin Newsom in 2028.
If 2028 ends up Vance vs Newsom, we'll probably see the lowest voter turnout in decades.
there is a US senator who has been dead (either braindead, or literally dead) for weeks now yet no one has seen him -- why do you think they wouldn't pull the same with Trump?
and given T-bone's history for saying and doing dumb shit AI hallucinations wouldn't even tip the scales
Yeah, when you realize this decade and the next, pretty much everyone you grew up whose entertainment you consumed in the 60s-80s, who was an adult then, is coming up... it's a sobering thought.
"Baby Boom + Life Expectancy..." I dread at the idea that some startup is probably in stealth mode, ready to "disrupt funerals" by the end of the year.
(Also, I dread the fact that I know a few boomers that I would actually like to stick around for while...)
"Hey AI, find me a X cuisine restaurant around Y location that has availability at 7pm tonight" .. "Cool, book Z"
Seems obvious why an API would be helpful on that page instead of having the AI attempt to navigate the page, open up a date picker and click all around..
And as others have said, if you are disabled in some way being able to just speak and get something like this done seems pretty life changing.
This isn't for when you are looking at the restaurant booking page, it's for when your agent is on that page. Personally I don't need an agent to help me with this specific problem, but I could see it being a real boon for people with accessibility needs.
Sometimes it helps to not think of why we should reject things but instead to think of why someone might accept them.
I think the notion that the solution to accessibility is to place a unreliable agent in-between is ludicrous.
If a page has good accessibility an agent should have no problem to interact with it. If WebMCP becomes an acceptable solution for accessibility then the only way people who need accessibility will be able to interact with services is via agents.
The accessibility tools most computers have had since the 90's? Apple has a plethora of screen navigation tools in their OS's. Or, calling the restaurant and booking a table directly in this case.
Absolutely. I am always complaining that natural language creation of calendar events is not a thing. “Meeting next Thursday at 9 am at the starbucks near me”
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