Climate Town did a great video breaking down where a lot of this ends up, worth the watch if you want some more detailed background on the agreements in place that are leading to this happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c
The gift link worked for me, without any other issues but I'm not on my VPN currently. When I am though I get those kinds of issues everywhere, even with endpoints that you'd figure wouldn't be well used. Not sure if that's your issue though, but it's definitely caught me out in the past.
The article addresses this directly, arguing the point that the social safety net has a cost which is what is curtailing the economy in some respect:
For all its economic power, the US has the largest income inequality in the G7, coupled with the lowest life expectancy and the highest housing costs, according to the OECD. Market competition is limited and millions of workers endure unstable employment conditions.
Europe’s social safety net needs to be paid for, warned Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, in a speech in November. Boosting competitiveness is necessary for long-term prosperity, she argued: “Failure to do so could jeopardise our ability to generate the wealth needed to sustain our economic and social model.”
"Circle to Search is launching January 31 on select premium Android smartphones — the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series"
Well that's a little disappointing, I was expecting at least 2 generations of Pixel devices would get it. Wonder how long it'll be before it makes its way to other handsets.
Is it just for pushing the sales of these newer models? Because you'd still have to use Google lens (though more tighter integration), but it's not intrinsic to a new hardware (gpu or cpu) at all.
I like how overly underwhelming this year apple and Samsung flagship products are. The 1 year release cadence seems to hit a point where no fundamental new changes were to be added.
It's 100% for pushing the Samsung phones, the whole galaxy unpacked event theme was "Galaxy AI."
Everyone I know has gone from upgrading every 1 or 2 years to 4+ years, including myself. Phones are much more expensive and iterations are fairly minimal, but over a 4+ year span it's pretty significant. I'm going from an S20 Ultra to S24 Ultra this year and excited for the better display, cooling, cameras, and having a stylus I can use for small pixel arty stuff without lugging my massive ipad around.
The same holds true for apple. I had an iPhone 11 that I finally broke, and the 15 is the first phone with a really significant change (lighting to usb-c). I had a 6 before the 11. OTOH, I’m a minimalist user, so maybe a lot changed between versions and it’s stuff I turn off. I spend <3h a day on my phone, it’s mostly for texting and phone calls.
Samsung at least indicated that "many" of the AI features they announced for the S24 series will also be made available on earlier flagship devices (including but possibly not limited to the S23 series, Fold5, Flip5 and Tab S9) once they get the OneUI 6.1 update. It's not currently clear exactly which features are included in that "many" though.
Which really feels discordant with the claim that all this stuff is only enabled by the new AI-specialized hardware. I say this as someone who owns a Pixel 8 Pro - love the phone, but am utterly disillusioned with these AI claims.
Yeah, a lot of it is ultimately offloaded to the cloud and the hardware is effectively just a license key that grants you access to those API endpoints. Googles Magic Eraser was originally a cloud service, but they eventually got it working on-device with the Pixel 8 series, but they simultaneously launched Magic Editor which the Pixel 8 still defers to the cloud.
What was your stack for doing the fine tuning with your own data? I've been looking around at various different approaches and I think I have a general idea of how to approach it (generating embeddings, putting them in a vector DB, somehow linking that to a useable UI, etc.). Would definitely be keen to understand what your solution looks like though!
I like the look of this. I'm currently using PhotoPrism[1] and PhotoSync[2] as a combo to get the same thing and whilst it works fine I've always thought a single app would be far better placed.
Looks relatively straightforward to get running, pretty much inline with what I had to do in order to get PhotoPrism running in the first place. Only thing I couldn't see anything about was hardware acceleration, do leverage any of the Intel instructions (VAAPI) for transcoding? That's a paid feature on PhotoPrism and something that's sorely needed. CPU bound transcoding is terrible!
Think I'll put this on the TODO list for the weekend!
Nothing in iOS seems to have true autobackup because background apps don’t seem to reliably wake. What I find is that it works until the app is closed, like after an os update, and then you have to manually open the app before it will start going again. I have mine set to try to run whenever I plug in to charge, and it works pretty consistently until reboot, and from there I’m not consistent about remembering to open the app again.
Well, Google Photos works on iOS. And I presume they would be as much a third party app as anyone else. So it is possible. From what I remember reading in the past it is possible to get wakeup events for GPS location changes. I think that's one trick to get an app to run in the background.
I agree though. It's a shame how iOS is completely crippling background apps.
I'm hoping for an alternative for Google Photos and I'm paying for ente.io. It works fine on Android, but background sync doesn't work on iOS. So for me personally it is not ready to replace Google Photos. If it can't be set and forget for non-technical family members it's not going to cut it.
Thanks for pointing out the workaround with GPS, will look into it!
Currently on iOS, our servers send silent pushes to your device every hour. This wakes up the app and gives us 30 seconds to execute a background sync (provided you've previously not killed the app). This is not sufficient to backup videos, but it works pretty well for incremental backup of photos (I personally use an iPhone).
Oh, hey! ente.io is super promising! Have been following and paying for it for 2 years now :)
> This wakes up the app and gives us 30 seconds to execute a background sync (provided you've previously not killed the app).
I wonder if this is the crux of the matter. It doesn't work when the app hasn't been started in the first place, right? I don't know how Google Photos does it, but I'm pretty sure they have solved syncing without having to remember to open the app. I half wonder whether they achieve this by showing constant notifications about "look what happened x years ago" or "look at this new collage" that gets people to click on it and actually start the app.
It does. I use PS to sync to a WebDAV server I rent. I set PS to auto-backup when I put my phone on the charger and when I arrive at home (whether you consider this "auto" is up to you). I have opened the app exactly 0 times in the last year, and my photo backup is up to date as of this morning. PS is a shining example of a simple, reliable app.
The concentration of deuterium in the ocean is about 150-160 parts per million and with 1233.91 quintillion liters covering the earth we have approximately 8.2260667e+12kg worth of it to extract, so we've got a bit to work through!
Tritium however is far more rare with only trace amounts of it being available within nature and barely more than a kg produced per year. Producing the 100s of kgs required per year still seems to be an unsolved problem, although my quick searching shows there's a couple viable solutions for it.
The solution is that fusion power plants can breed tritium and become net producers of it...
Though in practice enough will be lost that probably they'll still be somewhat net consumers-- just not nearly to the extent predicted by a simple thermodynamic model.
Still, even if fusion becomes a net producer of tritium, the whole tritium-is-hard-to-get problem will likely be a constraint that we'll be fighting as we ramp up use of fusion power in the future.
