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The Jedi are SO competent with the force. Some memorable points (spoilers ofc):

  • The masters’ restraint in never igniting their lightsabers unless lethality is absolutely necessary, relying on the force as their primary defence.
  • The contrast between Yord’s anxious rule-focussed approach and Sol’s force-led approach.
  • Torbin’s impenetrable force aura whilst meditating - for over 10 years!!
  • Sol’s ability to restrain Mae in-place whilst using the force to figure out what she knows
  • Every single example of Jedi mind trick use
  • The lightsaber hilts and sounds each being more refined and elegant imo

Instantly sending me back to the pre-prequel era games, books & comics this series is. I am so glad that they chose to flesh out this era with the High Republic books first to ensure we have a vast array of literature and strong world building to draw from.

Naturally hyped for next week. We’re eating well today.

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Introducing Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Given that personal sensitive data doesn’t leave a device except when authorised, a bad actor would need to access a target’s device or somehow identify and compromise the specific specially hardened Apple silicon server, which likely does not have any of the target’s data since it isn’t retained after computing a given request.

Accessing someone’s device leads to greater threats than prompt injection. Identifying and accessing a hardened custom server at the exact time data is processed is exceptionally difficult as a request. Outside of novel exploits of a user’s device during remote server usage, I suspect this is a pretty secure system.

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A mastodon DM is a private post. Setting a post to private before sending means only mentioned accounts can see it, and all mentioned accounts get notified. In a sense this enables both DMs and group messages too. But it’s not the most elegant interface for it tbf. A good app makes this feel more DM like, such as Ice Cubes on iOS or the equivalent on Android.

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Sincere condolences to all the Magmites and Vesties who held these two as their oshis. Losing a parasocial connection is a real and valid sense of loss, and a sobering reminder of how temporary things can be.

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Tempus forever, love and respect to talents and fans alike. 💙🧡💜❤️💜💛

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Good example, I hope confirmation will be crucial and hopefully required before actions like this are taken by the device. Additionally I hope the prompt is phrased securely to make clear during parsing that the website text is not a user request. I imagine further research will highlight more robust prompting methods to combat this, though I suspect it will always be a consideration.