Truls Aagedal

Perhaps better integrated sets of narrow AI would be safer.
But the benefit of deeply integrating generalized AI models into an OS —understanding how to navigate visually and through system APIs— is that you would hypothetically never need to make another integration again.

The problems of integration, inconsistent quality, security and privacy will likely be attempted to be solved at the same time. If that’s the case I would limit its use to non-sensitive tasks/systems for the foreseeable future.

Even if AI has become more general, its inconsistent quality and lack of integration cause it to remain narrow in utility.
Browser and OS integration will be a huge step to solve the integration problem. But more integration likely increases the privacy and security problem.

Unlike the other two, my name was not mentioned in the news after the deadly crash.

Had a weird dream where Vladimir Putin and Ronald Reagan were working together to save the United States. I was invited to join a secret mission. When returning from the mission with the objective, there was a malfunction with the plane and we all died while trying to land in a tunnel under water.

But I suppose there is a chance that Apple will release a new Apple TV device that isn’t called Apple TV, freeing up the name for the streaming service. Perhaps ‘Apple HomePlay’. Signifying that it is both a home hub and a multimodal entertainment device?

I feel like the recent Apple TV+ rebrand to Apple TV is just one example of the general trend in tech to increase naming ambiguity. (OpenAI Codex is another example) essentially the name is no longer a concrete product, but rather a concept that encompasses a range of products.

To be clear; I don’t know the technical details of how online ID checks happen today.

Maybe make it so the verification center doesn’t know which site the user is registered at, but just has a signed token associated with the ID? And if you needed to legally confirm something you would need a key from both the verification center and the company that requested user verification?

Is it possible to do online ID verification in a way that is privacy preserving? For example through an independent non-profit/state verification center, that confirms if the user fulfills the age requirement or not. To prevent spreading of social security number, sex and exact age.

With increased frequency of online age verification; will decentralized unregulated networks get a permanent/temporary surge? Will most people forget about the issue and call online ID verification normal in a few years?

10/10 correct on today’s real or render challenge. A few were hard. But then again, it is easier when you know one is fake and one is real. It’s harder to tell if you don’t know that you need to look for a fake one. I also wanted to mark both as fake once.
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I’m addicted to the constant flow of information myself, but I try to remind myself that I usually feel most satisfied when paying attention to a single thing for 20 minutes or more. Attempt to not let your focus be stolen.

The natural evolution of FOMO targeting is FOMOO. Fear of missing out overload. Essentially attention grows to a point and then it becomes too much to pay attention to and it feels natural to just disconnect from everything. At least for some people. Available attention is not unlimited.

I just want to say that ‘1984’ is a good book.

I just want to say that ‘1984’ is a good book.

I’m also interested in the Nook browser; recreating Arc UI and features as Open Source, initially using the WebKit engine, but perhaps adding the Chromium engine later. From what I’ve seen this could be good, assuming it is more stable than Orion.

But I’m not that fan of the design of Helium, I just like that it tries to get out of the way. But I would really like a hidden URL bar, and a vertical tab bar like Zen/Arc. It doesn’t need to have all the features of Arc/Zen, just those two things.

I love the UI of Zen, but as much as I try to like the Firefox/Gekko browser engine, I always end up having one problem or another with certain pages. Which is why I need a WebKit or Chromium browser. Orion is too unstable, and Safari it’s great for vertical screen space. That leaves Helium.

Arc browser is until this day still my favorite browser, but I am more and more considering switching to Helium/Zen.
Mostly because I’ve had more issues with Arc lately. Downloads not completing for instance. If it weren’t for the issues I would likely still use Arc.

Det irriterer meg litt at man ikke kan være kunde i DNB og Sbanken samtidig. Ja, jeg er typen som bruker flere banker. Det går helt fint med andre banker, men det er visst ikke teknisk mulig med akkurat disse to bank(konseptene).

I suspect that AI is most often used —not because it’s better or more efficient for that task— but because humans are lazy, and it is fascinating to see what a machine can accomplish.

I just binged 8 episodes of Murderbot without a break, even if I only planned to try one episode.
The short episode structure and a cliffhanger every single episode made it too easy to binge. The only reason I didn’t watch more was because there weren’t any more.

Sorry about all the Apple tech stuff these days. I just find it interesting. Just saw the session about the new open source Containerization tool. Probably didn’t understand it completely, but it seemed like a performant alternative to Docker images. And _sort of_ support for EXT4 in macOS?

I don’t see it in the beta, but according to the Safari/Webkit WWDC Safari finally supports rendering HDR still images. Also included new CSS tags to let web devs more easily match SDR and HDR images side by side. Firefox is still the odd one out, not supporting HDR images or tonemapping of them.

Just testing the new Spotlight in macOS 26 Tahoe, to see how it reacts if I send an email that is waaaaayy too long. The answer is that it will clip outside the display rather than creating a scrollable window. It does expand both the top and the bottom of the original Spotlight field automatically.

Apple confirmed in the State of the Union stream that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last to support Intel Macs (x86).

The new iPadOS 26 actually seems like a great update, making it closer than ever to a full desktop style OS. May even be capable enough for me to daily drive.
Also interesting that Spotlight search in macOS 26 is copying a lot from Raycast.
Really like the new Liquid Glass design.

I like thinking. So much in fact that I think I can be considered addicted to processing information.
At the same time I am aware that it is when I am thinking the least (meditation and sleeping) that I have experienced the best existential comfort.

(I really should be sleeping now.)

Related thought; If entropy causes spacetime to expand enough, at some point every subatomic particle would be spread so thin that disorder or entropy itself will seemingly be gone. At which point spacetime itself will cease to exist. The subsurface of reality is calm again. Until the next disorder.