That is not responsive to anything I said. What statement did I make that is false?

We have a long history of exploiting decoders. Image based malware exists, has for decades. Hell back in 2004 the Windows GDI+ library had a arbitrary code execution attack trigged by simply opening a Office document with a specific embedded JPEG image, or using Office to attempt to insert a specific JPEG image into the document. I don't think IE was affected so it wasn't a remote execution from what I recall. That's just one example. Exploiting of decoders is a thing.

The attacks often exploit standard software bugs, e.g. memory unsafe code, buffer overflows etc. In this case they are talking "safer" because they are using the Rust based library which prevents a subset of the potential bugs creating security issues.

Don't confuse your ignorance with marketing trash.

Sure thing, honky.

More like society changes. At one time people sat and laughed at minstrel shows https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Who has masked secret police snatching people into unmarked vehicles? Also take 15 minutes and read this. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FAr...

That's cool, I'm currently at an airport on a mobile connection. How long of an ethernet cable does my NAS need to reach the next continent?

Not all use of AI is slop. AI is a tool. There's no reason it can't be sensibly incorporated into a workflow. While no doubt creating a game from a prompt is just slop, the reality is there is a practical place for including tools such as this in a workflow, such as using it to create starting point.

I recently came across this at work during a 1 week workshop we had. All the presenters (including myself) used AI extensively to create our presentations (because powerpoint fucking sucks), but only some of them looked like slop. The ones which looked like slop were the ones where AI did the finishing: i.e. people made presentations and asked AI to make it pretty. The rest of us used AI to structure the presentation and then manually tweaked it afterwards and they looked unique and individual.

There is a place for this. Use an AI prompt to come up with a base game, and then put AI (Actually Intelligent) people in place to turn that base structure into something creative.

That's not how LLMs work. While they are trained on existing data, they are also capable of reasoning. They can produce novel solutions to problems.

Just because they don't work the same way as a the human brain doesn't mean that they are not capable of this sort of thing.

It's not as clear as you think. It's not sufficient to write and tweak prompts. Look to Jason Allen v. US Copyright Office https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.artnews.com%2Fart-ne... Jason Allen attempted to copyright art that he created with Midjourney. Despite going through hundreds of prompts and using photoshop to edit the result *he* (not the computer) was denied copyright by the US Copyright office.

I think the court case is still pending.

The keyboard seems fine. I think I'll be able to type prompts at a sufficient WPM.

Benchmarking CPU/GPUs targeted at laptops generically is fucking stupid. The performance of each device is almost exclusively determined by the thermal and power design. You are using benchmarks wildly incorrectly. Please stop.

Now maybe you're right and the performance numbers are as you suggest, but if you are then it's by fluke, not because you're doing anything sensible. Wait until the device is released, tested, and benchmarked in its actual configuration before you draw any conclusions.

And no portability? If you're in the market for a desktop then this product isn't targeted at you. It's okay, not everything is made for Fly Swatter (30498). I know you may not like to hear this but there are ... other people out there. At least for now. God knows the way the world is going you may be the last survivor in your basement.

Literally every desktop computer thermally throttles as well. It's a question of time. CPU / GPU design has dynamically adjusted performance to thermal envelopes for years now. It's why watercooling your system often nets you performance boosts even without changing a single setting.

To be fair there is fuck all difference between Home and Pro these days. About the only thing that I miss between my "Home" laptop on my Surface "Pro" (whichever moron at Microsoft decided that was a good combination of software and hardware needs to be lynched by the marketing department) is that the Home models can't remember and store bitlocker passwords for external storage.

Beyond that if you're not on a domain, Pro really doesn't give you much extra, at least nothing that can't be replaced with a simple script or tool or app (e.g. you can use different software for encryption and virtualisation, and you can substitute gpedit with some clever scripts).

It is not the most important feature. It's the most important feature if your use case is to run it on battery. Some use cases aren't that. Some use cases is simply the requirement to be able to move around between places where power is accessible (like all our work laptops spend 99.9% of their time on different docking stations). Likewise some use cases are for things to be as light as possible (like how I requested a different laptop to my co-workers due to how much time I spend travelling).

There is a LOT of variance in what is "important" in the portable world.

Disagree. As someone who is using a Microsoft mouse right now I can tell you their hardware is a mixed bag. Some things are good, other things are buggy, some things are well built, others are cheap. Microsoft's headsets have a tendency to snap, their Surface Pros (as much as I am a fan and love every one I've used) are horrendously unreliable and break very easily (my current one has given up on fast charging, is down to 1 USB port, and is on its second keyboard). The Surface Laptops on the other hand have actually been quite good. Also I'm happy with their keyboard (but it doesn't make a satisfying klunk sound that Slashdotters love).