Somewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas. I hope, but do not expect, that it will come back in the final releases.
If I want to still be able to set a timer when I'm cooking with my voice, I probably need to accept a bunch of nonconsensual slop ("writing tools") being shoved in my face in every app.
Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social
Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.
But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.
Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social
@glyph i hate how there is this duopoly with phone operating systems and neither option really gives you much freedom. we can't just make an ios distro without the apple spyware and llm stuff. making one for android is ... somewhat possible, for now, but google really wants to make sure we do not have that ability anymore
we should have 1000s of competing phone operating systems, such that they are forced to interoperate and work together. not this shitty duopoly
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@lumi I mean this is absolute fantasy but so's the competitive environment where 1000s of independent OS providers could exist, so, as long as we're fantasizing, let's dream big
@lumi in android, we do have 1000s, with all the budget handset manufacturers, and it is a miserable slog to make software in that environment, which is why nobody does. stochastic competition won't solve this problem, what we need is regulation. a UN agency that develops software in the global public interest, mandates that apple/google accept it, and regulates their developer programs.
Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social
@glyph i think government regulation could also work here, yeah
though it would have to be done in a way where anyone could make their own from scratch (as in, devices should not be locked down, remote attestation tech should be banned, etc)
also abolish IP law and put software freedom into law (as in, if you distribute software, you must make sure someone else can build it themselves, modify it and run it with the same features even if modified)
i know, lofty goals, but software freedom and device neutrality should be non-negotiable
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