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AI summary:

The article discusses the Chinese government's influence on DeepSeek AI, a model developed in China. PromptFoo, an AI engineering and evaluation firm, tested DeepSeek with 1,156 prompts on sensitive topics in China, such as Taiwan, Tibet, and the Tiananmen Square protests. They found that 85% of the responses were "canned refusals" promoting the Chinese government's views. However, these restrictions can be easily bypassed by omitting China-specific terms or using benign contexts. Ars Technica's spot-checks revealed inconsistencies in how these restrictions are enforced. While some prompts were blocked, others received detailed responses.

(I'd add that the canned refusals stated "Any actions that undermine national sovereignty and territorial integrity will be resolutely opposed by all Chinese people and are bound to be met with failure,". Also that while other chat models will refuse to explain things like how to hotwire a car, DeepSky gave a "general, theoretical overview" of the steps involved (while also noting the illegality of following those steps in real life).

It's less that and more public schools are already under funded, and this will just make them even more under funded, possibly leading to closures and consolidation of public schools. All of this will make public schools worse and private (mostly religious/Christian) look like a better and better option for your children.

Public schools are funded by an amount set by the government, but private schools are funded by what the school demands. This allows private schools to be better funded because they'll demand that the money per student is higher, and when it's the tax payer that is paying it, more and more parents won't notice or care about price anymore (since it isn't coming from their pocket) and will pick the better funded school and hope to deal with the consequences (of indoctrination) later (if they know about it at all until too late).

This is something that the Republicans would like since religious schools typically tell students that Republicans (aka God fearing people) are good and Democratic (aka not God fearing) are bad and real Christians always vote for the Republican party. Indoctrination from the start. And the Republicans get to wash their hands of any negative claims because "it's not a government school" so free speech and all that. Don't like it? Go to the worse and horribly under funded public schools instead.

Very. It's unpatchable. It's taking advantage of a speculative execution flaw, which is baked into the CPU microcode. This is the Apple M-chip version of Spectre/Meltdown that happened on x86 CPUs a few years ago.

The best Apple can do is attempt to add some code to the OS to help prevent this issue, but if Spectre was any example, it'll cause a hit to the CPU performance.

And this entire side thing was a giant whataboutism. All laptops have always been unique. It's why I made sure to point out things like the pentalobe screws. But you were so desperate to defend Apple that you grabbed at laptop mobos as your only hope. Think also things like Apple keyboards/mice using RJ-11 connectors, TSR connectors, ADB connectors, etc... Always refused to use any standard for a long time. Other things like ADC for monitors. No one else does this.

The correct answer for that other model is that you just dump it in the trash

What are you, 5 years old? You ask a question, got an answer and this is the best response you could think of? Bad troll. Also, it's not "easy to stock parts for most Macs when you're running a refurb shop", since with Apple doing "parts pairing", those parts don't work. It's been happening since 2018.

And you know CMOS batteries leak and can permanently fry the mobo. And again, this is Apple it's not a standard CMOS, it's a PRAM battery, same thing, different name.

First off, look we get it, you love Apple and that's fine. Just don't make comments of "oh, I don't like them but let me make a bunch of easily disproven claims to make them seem perfect and amazing".

Except now Windows is dropping support randomly for older CPUs, including many that would run Win11 easily, just because they can. So they're honestly the same as Apple in that regard.

And they are all over 10 years old. Apple at best supports 7ish. This isn't the brag you think it is.

They support the old architecture for several years, how's that a bad thing?

Again, same answer. They are the shortest time supporter, and the highest cost.

They used to literally ship you parts with repair guides.

No, they didn't. I've used Mac's since the 80s, in the 90s, and have a 2009 MBP. No they didn't. Never have.

Go find me a motherboard for 2012 Macbook Air 13".

Go find me one with a working CMOS battery. Those are soldered, non-replaceable. Again, I have a 2009 MBP, and even that can be replaced. And a quick eBay check will find the other motherboard.

Of course they do. Now go look at how much Google does of the same.

And go look at how much Google claims to do the opposite. Which one is better, the one who's up front and honest, or the one who lies to your face?

Worst with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Google.

Uh, huh..... Again, which one is better, the one who's up front and honest, or the one who lies to your face?

The amount of kool-aid in the post is amazing.

Apple computers have always been on the lower end of support (see their support of hardware as they've gone thru different CPU architecture). Windows/Linux has never been this quick to drop support.

Apple hardware has always been hard to repair. Non-standard parts, non-standard screws (pentalobe screws, etc...)

Their laptops have never been the "highest quality", they are better than average but haven't ever been the highest quality. Companies like Asus and Sony (when they made laptops) were more reliable (unless you want to compare a $2000 MacBook to a $500 laptop but that's making sure it isn't fair.).

And Apple does data collection and ads. Always have. iAd was Apple's first and started in 2010. And Apple collects a ton of private data about you.

They have always claimed to be doing one thing while in reality been doing the opposite. They get flak because they are the worst for this two-faced behavior.

I referenced March 2023, because it's when the RESTRICT act passed which limited Tiktok. I also referenced April 2023 as a total public ban because I mixed it with the date that Montana banned public usage of Tiktok, which was followed by 2024 bill "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act", being a public ban like Montana, but also close to the RESTRICT act. Similar acts, close dates.

And I am only refuting what the article is claiming, that the Tiktok banned is solely about improving the image of Israel in regards to Palestine, because until Oct 2023, it wasn't US political issue so wouldn't have had anything to do with the ban. There never was a reference to anything about israel, Palestine, and Tiktok before that date. Which is the opposite of what this article claims.

The genocide of palestinians didn't begin in 2022

Never said it did. I did say/indicate that it was never a social/political issue until 2023. Things can happen for a long time, but take a sudden change to make it a big issue.

In fact, please, I would love to see anything political about Israel/Palestine in US politics/policy attempting/intended to make Israel look better on regards to Palestine (as is implied in the article) that predates Oct 2023. As you've, and others, have pointed out (I already knew, since it dates to biblical times), that it's been an issue for so long, then this should be simple. It keeps trying to be pointed out that the Oct 2023 event seemed to mean nothing about it, so you or anyone else should have no problems with this.

Bonus points for showing how it relates to Tiktok before that date too, which again with everyone's insistence about it, should be no problems at all.

If you make the point simpler it works. "We are banning tiktok because it is a social media platform we have no ability to censor"

I won't argue against that.

with this in mind it makes sense to say "its because of isreal-palastine" because that is just a facet of not having control over platform censorship.

This part is illogical though. Claiming that due to a future event, we went back in time to block/and-or control a message makes no sense. This was my entire point. They are blocking it for many reasons and have been for years, but claiming the whole reason they spent years attempting to block it because of a single event that happened years later makes no sense.

Sorry, I confused it with to the RESTRICT act (Mar 2023), which is similar to the 2024 law.

So let me get this straight....

The Tiktok ban, that was first proposed in Jan 2020, and was banned from government devices in Dec 2022, was getting first drafts for laws banned in Dec 2022, another law was proposed to block in nationwide in Jan 2023, was further restricted in March of 2023, and was signed into law to banned Tiktok nation wide on April 2023 (to be completely removed by Jan 2025) is solely being done to censor information about a conflict that started in Oct 2023...

Yeah, check outs. 👍