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    From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 10 08:00:19 2025
    So I've got:

    * "Front and centre" (OK, center)
    * Tim flexing his knees to adjust his incontinence pants
    * A big "f you" to MAGA with the rainbow stage
    * Craig with super helmet hair
    * Craig pronounced as "Cregg" by whoever decided Jaguar was Jagwar
    * More pointy pointers
    * Quite a lot of ChatGPT in screenshots
    * Engineers who are forbidden to tuck in their shirts

    And some unimportant stuff about software. Actually, iPadOS looks good - overlapping windows, a menu bar, and more exposed files and folders.
    PeterC would have loved it.

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    Chris

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Chris Ridd on Tue Jun 10 10:54:21 2025
    On 10.06.2025 09:00, Chris Ridd wrote:
    So I've got:

    * "Front and centre" (OK, center)
    * Tim flexing his knees to adjust his incontinence pants
    * A big "f you" to MAGA with the rainbow stage
    * Craig with super helmet hair
    * Craig pronounced as "Cregg" by whoever decided Jaguar was Jagwar
    * More pointy pointers
    * Quite a lot of ChatGPT in screenshots
    * Engineers who are forbidden to tuck in their shirts

    And some unimportant stuff about software. Actually, iPadOS looks good - overlapping windows, a menu bar, and more exposed files and folders.
    PeterC would have loved it.

    You must be incredibly bored, dear.
    Absolutely no value in your post.


    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita" (Augustinus)

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  • From TimH@21:1/5 to hugybear@gmx.net on Tue Jun 10 11:05:53 2025
    On 10 Jun 2025 at 9:54:21 am BST, "Jörg Lorenz" <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

    And some unimportant stuff about software. Actually, iPadOS looks good -
    overlapping windows, a menu bar, and more exposed files and folders.
    PeterC would have loved it.

    That sounds encouraging. If only I had an excuse to buy an iPad new enough to run it..

    I wonder what Peter would make of current tech events, particularly the AI
    hype (and, admittedly, the non-hype part).
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    TimH
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  • From John@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 10 13:12:55 2025
    On 10 Jun 2025 11:05:53 GMT, TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 10 Jun 2025 at 9:54:21?am BST, "Jörg Lorenz" <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

    And some unimportant stuff about software. Actually, iPadOS looks good - >>> overlapping windows, a menu bar, and more exposed files and folders.
    PeterC would have loved it.

    That sounds encouraging. If only I had an excuse to buy an iPad new enough to >run it..

    Your older iPad is unable to run the newer OSes so you *must* buy a
    newer slab.

    There, excuse provided. Have fun. :)

    J.

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to TimH on Tue Jun 10 13:44:12 2025
    On 10 Jun 2025 at 12:05:53 BST, "TimH" <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote:

    On 10 Jun 2025 at 9:54:21 am BST, "Jörg Lorenz" <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

    And some unimportant stuff about software. Actually, iPadOS looks good - >>> overlapping windows, a menu bar, and more exposed files and folders.
    PeterC would have loved it.

    That sounds encouraging. If only I had an excuse to buy an iPad new enough to run it..

    I wonder what Peter would make of current tech events, particularly the AI hype (and, admittedly, the non-hype part).

    It looks like my iPad Mini 5 (which I keep meaning to replace!) will run
    iPadOS 26,
    so maybe I'll hang on to it for a bit longer despite its dodgy battery.

    <https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/can-your-ipad-run-ipados-26-heres-the-compatibility-list/>

    --
    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to TimH on Wed Jun 11 07:58:09 2025
    On 10/06/2025 12:05, TimH wrote:
    On 10 Jun 2025 at 9:54:21 am BST, "Jörg Lorenz" <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

    And some unimportant stuff about software. Actually, iPadOS looks good - >>> overlapping windows, a menu bar, and more exposed files and folders.
    PeterC would have loved it.

    That sounds encouraging. If only I had an excuse to buy an iPad new enough to run it..

    There are of course a few videos of people trying the first developer
    beta. Some things a broken (beta!) but the fundamentals seem OK. Very
    very interesting. I can't wait to try it out in an Apple Store.

    And there's a new way for apps to perform background tasks without
    getting nuked - the example given is Final Cut doing an export - and
    letting you do other things. Currently FC just cancels the export if you
    switch to another app :-(

    These are some big changes for iPads.


    I wonder what Peter would make of current tech events, particularly the AI hype (and, admittedly, the non-hype part).

    I think he'd be quite astonished. And to be fair, I am too - at least
    some of the time. Filling in code for you is a great time saver. But
    they are also very wrong a lot too, despite sounding very convincing.

    There have been a couple of very recent research papers suggesting that
    all the current AI tools are fundamentally limited and cannot break
    those limits. They really are just *very* sophisticated pattern matchers.

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    Chris

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  • From TimH@21:1/5 to Chris Ridd on Wed Jun 11 09:49:07 2025
    On 11 Jun 2025 at 7:58:09 am BST, "Chris Ridd" <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:

    There have been a couple of very recent research papers suggesting that
    all the current AI tools are fundamentally limited and cannot break
    those limits. They really are just *very* sophisticated pattern matchers.

    And one of those papers is from within Apple:

    https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

    Also, Tim Bray had a good piece on his blog the other day.
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    TimH
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