It's a bad ad and the AI just makes it worse. The song doesn't rhyme well, the lyrics doesn't make much sense (they feel very forced), the things they portray are mostly unrealistic/exaggerated, and the cherry on top is that McDonalds is somehow a respite from the chaos of Christmas. I've never once in my life thought of McD as somewhere comforting to go. It's just a bad ad period.
Also, no one wants a bad (probably also AI-generated) song about how terrible Christmas is. I'm not saying it's not terrible but no one wants a song about it.
> What this really signals is the intention (which might be sincere or not) of getting some sort of OEM deal with some device manufacturer.
I assumed they were talking about their partnership with Jony Ive/IO and an internal hardware product, not partnering (not that they won't do that as well).
If you truly believe you have a revolutionary device, you don't need to advertise before its time. You wait in secret, and launch it in a big surprise.
I smell bullshit, and some kind of partnership in which OpenAI provides model access and some third party hardware manufacturing. I could be wrong though.
This news only came out after The Information leaked that OpenAI is working with Luxshare to begin manufacturing a consumer product [0] a couple months ago.
Not officially. It was implied, but it wasn't hard data about their seriousness in comparison to subsequent hiring as well as their enlisting of Luxshare as a vendor.
I still remember the original announcement around LE and thought "Great idea, no idea if they'll be able to get buy-in from browsers/etc", now I use it on all my self-hosted sites and will probably be transitioning my employer over to it when we switch to automated renewal sometime next year.
LE has been an amazing resource and every time I setup a new website and get a LE cert I smile. Especially after having lived/experienced the pain that was SSL/TLS before LE.
We actually spent some time making sure that we weren't going to run into problems with browsers. However, as the OP points out, because LE had a cross-signature from an existing CA, browsers didn't have to any positive action to make LE certificates work. This was absolutely essential to getting things off the ground.
> is it just a place to consolidate the various AI models through one billing platform, or does it do more than that
You can easily switch models, use the cheapest provider (especially for open models), and not have to reach certain "tiers" to get access to limits like you might on OpenAI/Anthropic's direct offerings.
> And are the costs slightly more as they take a cut in between?
5% more, you buy credits upfront and pay 5% extra. Aside from that you pay the normal prices listed (which have always matched the direct providers as well AFAIK).
Well I couldn’t get through that article on mobile. What a horrible website. Ads every paragraph, reflow of content while not even scrolling jumping the content around, header and footer and full page pop ups at various points. Ads rotating moving content around. Just insane.
Good, I tried Fleet but it was like VSCode without the extensions (as in a community, they had support for plugins or whatever but the support wasn't there) and I don't like VSCode even with extensions. It was the worst of all worlds.
Let the people that want to build an IDE from the ground up have their fun over in VSCode land, please just focus on a powerful IDE that works out of the box.
PS: Agentic development is fine to pursue but so far things like Claude Code run laps around everything JetBrains has tried. Add "mount points" for agentic flows but please just focus on making a powerful IDE. Agentic development was unable to lure me away from JetBrains, double down on that, not trying to be Cursor.
To give an example, Dublin, OH is like this. There are many restrictions on signs/advertisements and it’s quite nice. I grew up there so it felt normal but I’ve had friends who have visited comment on it. Some have complained (mostly joking) about how all the buildings all look similar, the McDonalds is a nice brick building with a relatively small sign [0] which looks similar to the bank next door [1] but for whatever is “lost” in boundless creativity is gained in the lack of eye sores IMHO.
> He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond.
I remember reading that when it first came out and all I can think is: No, he doesn't like podcasts, if you like podcasts you listen to them.
That's like saying "He loves food, but instead of eating it he feeds it to an analyzer that tells him what elements were detected in it".
I have to assume it's all BS/lies because if that's a truthful statement (about podcasts and the other things) then I really question wtf they are doing over there. None of that sounds like "the future", it sounds like hell. I cannot imagine how shitty it would be to have all my emails/messages to the CEO being filtered through an AI and getting AI slop back in return.
The podcast thing reads like something he made up that sounds cool and futuristic on the surface, but doesn't actually make any sense. Maybe what's actually happening is he's just having the LLM give him the cliff's notes of the transcript, but that isn't interesting enough so he's making up some BS about having a conversation with the AI.
The man left prior to Apple facing, and losing, a class action lawsuit over his favored keyboard design. Screens also died left and right in designs approved by him, and his next great innovation would be the Touch Bar.
Everyone focuses on M1 as supposedly super chip that fixed all the "intel problems" of Macbooks, but similarly large difference was how first M1 series reversed a bunch of Johnny Ive era designs including how forcibly thin it was.
It was a big mistake to leave Jony Ive in charge of design after Steve Jobs left. Jobs had a good design sense that was key to grounding Ive's work.
Ive's vision of Apple as a luxury brand certainly aligned with Cook's focus on profit, and the results of that sadly still echo through the company today.
Leaving him there was an even bigger mistake that Apple allowed and never corrected--Alan Dye had to correct that himself. Any dis post-departure only points the blame back at Apple's management.
I use Syncthing and have for many years but I don’t use it on Android so feel free to dismiss my opinion.
I’ve read through a number of the GitHub/Gitlab/Forum threads and while I’m not saying anything new:
You couldn’t script a more suspicious transfer [0]. That fact is maybe the most compelling reason to assume it’s actually above board, if there is malicious intent, it’s being poorly disguised. To make matters worse, both Catfriend1 and researchxxl appear to be very bad at communicating (both in language and speed). Yes, Catfriend1 has surfaced and says they did transfer the repo/signing keys. Why that couldn’t have been posted at the start of this is beyond me. Researchxxl seems to not be a native english speaker and I tried to take that into consideration but I’m increasingly finding it difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt. They seem… immature, that’s the best way I can put it. They certainly don’t seem trustworthy nor have they made any attempt to address raised concerns. I wouldn’t touch their releases based on what I’ve seen, way too much access and way too little trust.
[0] Repo redirected to brand new account/repo with no notice/announcement from original owner. Furthermore, evidence that the signing keys were transferred and users might be at risk of malicious updates (see the many examples of Chrome extensions that were quietly sold and turned malicious).
Also, no one wants a bad (probably also AI-generated) song about how terrible Christmas is. I'm not saying it's not terrible but no one wants a song about it.
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