And there’s so many out there already you can use the existing ones and teach others; get two birds stoned at once

Interesting, looks a bit like Arc at first glance, I’ll check it out!

That’s what the blue is for

Just a huge portrait screen to to doom scroll through Facebook reels and instagram stories probably

Can’t wait for all the crapware to flood the market and slap that 80gbps logo on anything and everything

That’s true, there’s no way to know what sort of back asswards string modifications are happening to the password before it makes it to a hashing function, if it ever does. But the OP did say they told him his previous password was too long, and he was required to change it, so they were either storing it in plaintext, or storing the length of it somewhere. One is really really bad, one is weird, but also bad

Very true, though I think in the early days of the Silicon Valley boom most tech workers were liberal democrats, whereas since tech finally became very measurably lucrative, it’s since been flooded by neocons and techno-libertarians

Moving to texas as a remote california tech worker is incredibly common, but it mostly comes down to not wanting to pay california taxes. That being said, it’s important to note that the majority of west coast tech workers give fuck all about the common good or societal improvements, or they wouldn’t work for facebook/google etc

How does this change my message that the US isn’t the only player in this game?

Edit:

According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita

By percent of global average

Just an important note, speech to text models aren’t LLMs, which are literally “conversational” or “text generation from other text” models. Things like https://github.com/openai/whisper are their own, separate types of models, specifically for transcription.

That being said, I totally agree, accessibility is an objectively good use for “AI”

I think it really depends on how accurate you want / what language you are interpreting. https://github.com/openai/whisper has multiple variations on their model, but they all pretty much require VRAM/graphics capability (or likely NPUs as they become more commonplace).

I think it’s a nonzero chance they’re not hashing it. Pretty much every hashing function, in the interest of preventing collisions, provides vastly different responses on small amounts of input. Even if they were hashing it, it would just appear to be the same password in a situation where they somehow got a collision, but again, the column length for passwords would always be fixed since a hash function always outputs the same data length.

Not how password hashing works. Demonstrated with sha256:

hunter2butitsreallylong:
a9953dfbfec699349341edc857dcfe5c7a617c81f312cf57297d5b852881bab3

hunter2:
f52fbd32b2b3b86ff88ef6c490628285f482af15ddcb29541f94bcf526a3f6c7

a hash algorithm encompasses all provided data and returns a single fixed length data response

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

Any changes, even just removing a few characters, drastically changes the output of the hash function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect)

You have no way of knowing a user password when you are storing hashes, you can’t truncate them, and the user password length doesn’t matter (up to a certain point where it’s technologically dumb to hash user input over a certain amount of data)

I do agree however that changing / randomizing your password is important, as someone brute forcing or running rainbow tables etc on a hash dump can quickly attack a common password across different dumps

Absolutely, I’m definitely not criticizing the devices, I have an iPad Pro and the thing is very impressive in terms of computing capability for such a thin and light device and especially considering its battery life.

My only gripe is with the restrictions on the OS. I’d love to be able to use Darwin on iPadOS the same way I do on Mac for local development tasks.

With Apple opening up restrictions so we can use things like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id1564628856 for emulating other OS’s it’s certainly a step in the right direction, but I do wish they would consider the other “pro” side of potential mobile computing users, one side is creative professionals (photo/video/audio/writing), but they don’t have that same support for the development side of the pro world.

Hell, I’d buy an 11 inch MacBook Pro or Air with an M series chip in a heartbeat, but it’d probably be easier if they just opened up the iPad to a local dev environment

I agree, as long as all sources of income are being considered, mostly meaning capital gains, which the article is pretty vague so I’m not sure where they’re getting their income data.

I mean yes, but also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions

The US by far gets the most press, and has some of the most braindead responses to the climate crisis, but it’s a big club of assholes, and America is just a part of it

Why? Probably some wild row length limit being hit where a table storing user data was storing an asinine amount of data, just terrible DB organization in an org where someone said “who even needs a DBA.”

How? If you can truncate user passwords, you should never handle user passwords again, unless you’re a student or hobbyist learning a valuable lesson.

Yup, destabilizing the west, especially through increasing tensions everywhere possible, and getting a malleable idiot into power have been Russian goals since Putin took power.

It’s literally his playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

We’ve only now gotten to the point where all the necessary bits of the cauldron are finally bubbling enough for it to overflow and / or blow up

They have laptop level chips right now

There is no more iPad, just pro, air, mini, and the newest air has an M2 chip, though it’s a bit handicapped with one less GPU core

That being said, no, an M2 chip on an iPad Air is nowhere near dedicated GPU hardware like on these handhelds.

https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&D=Apple+iPad+Air+6th+Gen+(M2)&testgroup=overall

As you said, maybe once you get into iPad Pro ranges with the M4 chip, but at that price point it’s way more.

What will be interesting for sure is the difference of this approach vs. the porn approach in the southern US. In this case in Australia? Social media companies will tip toe any line they can because there is so much money to be made and they want every dollar.

PornHub? They just blocked access in 17 states instead of even trying to worry about age verification. They’re still getting their users, but now they’re coming over VPN.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/pornhub-florida-vpn-google-searches-skyrocket/