Marco Pfeiffer

@melvynx The problem is that a transcript alone is not enough. But most tools fail to create usable text that is longer than 2 sentences. Especially if you aren’t reading a script.

bro, literally the same software is free and open source (not $10 nor $14/m) handy.computer how people can still pay for speech to text tools lmfao

@Winterrose You can get rid of some of them with Adblock if you put a list in it that blocks those cookie notices. But yeah, the malicious compliance of most websites is really annoying.

I would pay $1 per month for life for a browser I could tell my cookie preferences to and never see a f*cking European GDPR popup from ever again. how did these idiots let this happen

@EU_Commission I think I found the @EU_Commission in this gear construct.

@justalexoki Back when I had an Apple Watch, I had that every other night. But I kind of just ignored it.

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Anthropic's API lets you force US-only inference via inference_geo. An EU option would be nice. Won't solve GDPR on its own (still a US company), but it's a step.

EU Inc. proposal right now: - max. 48 hrs and €100 to incorporate - registration through common EU portal, automatic tax registration - fully digital process, no notaries - EU employee stock option plans, taxed only when sold - simplified insolvency procedures

Vibe coding on a pricing page. What could go wrong? (looks at Anthropic)

@nico__vgc Stimmt zwar, aber hollow knight ist ein verdammt geiles Spiel. Über Genshin kann ich nicht reden.

Warum ist das bei Games eigentlich so ein Ding? Hab echt noch nie von einer Person gehört, die nur ins Kino geht, wenn der Film besonders lang ist oder ein Buch ausschließlich kauft, wenn es über 1.000 Seiten hat. Die Debatte ist totaler Quatsch.

@justalexoki Apple is a logistic company. The AirPos Max is a low volume product. I bet the reason they used the H1 for so long is to clear inventory. The update now is likely because they ran out.

it's like 99% the same as the last one. apple fell off so hard it's not even funny anymore

Browsing through a Terraform plan and finding disabled_by_microsoft = (known after apply). At least they're honest about it.

@saraaa7447 Nice one. Being technically correct is always the best.

Oh yeah? Explain this then. Checkmate liberal

@SebAaltonen I don’t think the point of that post was to complain about the lack of connectors but rather show what a giant the small MacBook was in 2001

MacBook Neo is so much better. Old ports: - RJ-11 phone + RJ-45 ethernet -> replaced by WIFI - FireWire 400: Non-standard data. Barely used. - Mini-DVI: Non-standard video. Barely used. 2x USB-A -> 2x USB-C. New ports provide power + tunnel 4K image + ethernet.

@lawen4cer Ja, das ist genauso wie beim Wohnungsmarkt: Angebot und Nachfrage sind unelastisch. Im Prinzip kann man jeden Preis verlangen, der geht. Man muss nur 1 Cent günstiger sein als die Tankstelle/Wohnung nebenan.

Du bist Benzinverkäufer. Wegen dem Irankrieg erhöhst Du die Preise drastisch. Du verkaufst weiterhin die gleiche Menge Benzin. Wie wird deine künftige Preispolitik aussehen?

@straceX 1974. that’s the year that IBM first implemented ACID compliant SQL. I’ll just use that.

Interviewer: There is exactly ONE concert ticket left. 10,000 fans click 'Buy' at the exact same millisecond. How do you guarantee only one person gets it without crashing the database?

@melvynx The mcp gold rush really hurt it. There are sensible use case for it. Connecting a dev database isn’t one of them.

MCP sucks. I just replaced ALL the mcp with a CLI and a skill in ONE-SHOT with API2CLI.dev: Last creation "postgresql-cli" is actually insane. The agent can add a database: $ postgresql-cli add prod "db-url" then he queries it $ postgresql-cli database schema prod (get the schema) $ postgresql-cli database query prod "SELECT * FROM users" that's it. 74% tokens saved with this, you're welcome.

I don't think an iPhone could run Whisper large; I even have issues on my MacBook Pro sometimes. Whisper Medium is really bad. Apple's speech-to-text model is really good for how small it is. The closest competitor is Nvidia's speech-to-text model, but even that is a lot bigger (though also better). So, fair.

Siri not using Whisper is one of the strangest things in tech. Whisper: open-source, years old, near-perfect speech-to-text. Siri: still mishears half of what you say. Hard to believe the engineers actually dogfood the product.

There is a few problems with that theory: - land in good areas (mostly cities) is a finite resource. - demand is not that flexible. Everyone needs to live somewhere. What really needs to happen is that we need more city centers where people want to live but initiating that is extremely high risk for basically the reward of lower prices which is not great for a developer. And American suburbs… as far as I know, they are all bankrupted by design because they are already unsustainable.

Capitalism is just the best system. When something is expensive, people rush in to make money. Supply explodes. It always leads to a surplus. Prices come down. That expensive thing is now cheap. Romans spent 75%of all their money on food. The Soviets spent 45%. The average American RIGHT NOW in 2026? 10%. Your great grandparents spent 20% of all their money on clothes. Now we have minimum wage workers ordering burrito taxis, doing haul videos on tik tok The only time this system breaks is when regulation stops it. Want cheaper houses? Build more. Want more expensive houses? Stop them from being built. Who wants more expensive houses? People who currently own houses. If there is excess margin, it will be extracted through competion IF THAT COMPETITION IS ALLOWED. This creates the incentive to capture power to stop competition. Our legal system, our politicians on both sides of the isle have been captured to stop competition in their own pet industries. This is leading to a bunch of teenagers thinking capitalism is failed. Or that we are at the late stages of it. There is no end of capitalism. Just the vines of political capture trying to choke it. If you want cheaper shit- You want less regulation and more capitalism. This is the only solve for housing, education, everything. Don’t let them promise you things they don’t have and can’t deliver.

@VadimYuryev Their marketing just says 18 core cpu. You have to dig to find the fact that it has different kind of cores. I’d say this is another case of xkcd 2501. I don’t think the average user does even know what a cpu is let alone how many cores it has.

Here's why Apple rebranded their Performance cores to "Super" cores on the M5 series of chips: Apple realized that the Efficiency cores don't really matter much for their higher-end Pro & Max chips, so they wanted to replace them with brand new mid-cores. By doing so, it greatly improves multi-core performance to the point that they can easily perform a core count reset, lowering the total number of P cores while still getting faster overall multi-core performance thanks to the new mid cores. So Apple reset the total number of Performance cores from 12 P cores on the M4 Max, to only 6 P cores (rebranded Super cores) on the M5 Max. Why perform a core count reset? It makes it easier to increase the core count on future generation chips to more easily show gains instead of having to rely on more difficult architectural improvements. However, if Apple kept the same Performance core naming as before, uneducated consumers would assume that losing HALF of the P cores, from 12 to 6, is a HUGE downgrade and a terrible idea, despite the multi-core performance actually being faster thanks to the addition of the 12 brand new mid-cores that balance everything out. Apple's marketing move makes it seem like the 12 Performance cores on the M4 Max remained (actually 12 new mid cores) while adding 6 NEW Super cores. Sounds incredible to uneducated consumers. And it's actually really impressive that we're seeing multi-core performance gains this large on M5 Max even though Apple sacrificed half the P cores and replaced the E cores with new mid-cores. Even better, this move will actually HELP greatly in certain tasks like heavy CPU rendering and Logic Pro where Efficiency cores were practically useless. So the Super core rebranding is a WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN in 4 different ways: 1. Reset Performance core counts to make it easier to add more in future generations. 2. Avoid the issue of uneducated consumers assuming that the loss of 6 P cores means slower performance. 3. Switching out useless E cores for much more useful Mid-cores (newly branded Performance cores) 4. M5 Ultra will now come with 12 Super cores and 24 Performance (mid) cores, which means that 100% of the CPU silicon on the die is beneficial for high-performance tasks, compared to the M3 Ultra which was stuck with 8 Efficiency cores that were basically useless for a desktop machine, since the E cores were really only created to improve battery life.

@DylanMcD8 I get the 5k part. But I don’t get the 2000 nit part. I have an old OLED monitor and I’m Kind of glad that it can’t flash bang me.

Having a 5K 2,000 nit HDR monitor is lowkey lifechanging

@qumoporo @iamhereforelon @brandenflasch Multi core is a lot faster on the M1 Pro. And I’d bet that the 16gb ram make the old MacBook Pro outlive the new Neo. It’s not unprecedented that Apple releases an education focused device and drops support only a few years after.

@iamhereforelon @brandenflasch It doesnt have a faster CPU by any metric Storage speed seldom matters Everything else is irrelevant when the next 2 macos updates are its last

For the average user, having a new Neo would be better