cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/55024586

Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.

Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”

It's far from perfect, but at least it's not a rotted hazard with screws sticking out for the dog to catch her paw on while yeeting herself off the edge.

Ukrainian Marines have established positions on the Russian-occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region and are advancing further into Russian-held territory across several sectors, according to a senior Ukrainian military officer.

According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Crimea.Realities on November 7, Colonel Alim Kerimov, chief of staff of Ukraine’s 34th Separate Marine Brigade, confirmed that Ukrainian forces are maintaining multiple positions on the eastern bank while conducting assaults against Russian defensive positions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/62941347

https://feddit.nl/comment/28692505

Fucking yikes, this shit is exhausting...

This guy was very helpful and informative, and there was a really bad accident on the other side of the highway he was going to have to deal with on the way back. I was going to tip ~60% but apparently I'm restricted to about ~30%.

It's very unfair and corrupt that a corporation of Uber's size can limit tips to the workers that are the entire reason they exist.

cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/15321376

Amsterdam (Netherlands) (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people dressed in red thronged the streets of Amsterdam on Sunday to denounce ongoing violence against Palestinians in Gaza, carrying signs reading "Stop the Genocide".

Organisers said some 200,000 people attended the "red line" protest, demanding that the Dutch government take action against Israel.

"Stop sending weapons to Israel," one of the protesters, Steven Eisinger, a 33-year-old robotics engineer originally from the United States, told AFP, wearing a red scarf around his neck.

"I'm Jewish myself, I have family that's actually in Israel, living, and I wanted to really say, look I support Palestine and I'm anti-genocide."

[...]

But an acute humanitarian crisis persists in the Gaza Strip, alongside regular Israeli strikes, while settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has intensified.

Unlike other European countries such as France and Belgium, the Netherlands has not recognised the state of Palestine.

Prime Minister Rob Jetten attended a similar protest when he was a parliamentary candidate in 2025. On Friday, he told reporters that it would now be "inappropriate" for him to take part.

At the end of September, the Dutch government brought in a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which are deemed illegal under international law.

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar revoked the accreditation of Dutch diplomats in response.

The Netherlands has withdrawn from the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, with public broadcaster NPO citing the "sensitive" issue of Israel's participation.

TOMORROW IS 11/9 HOLY SHIT

I finally got around to making my batch of rolled tacos after getting a gift card for donating blood.

I made shredded chicken for them and a side effect of that is a lot of deeply flavored chicken stock with roasted green chilies, onions and other things. This is literally one home canned jar of black beans and some fried tortillas away from tortilla soup.

If we count everything that goes into making the taquitos they come out to 26.7 cents each. The soup base is free surplus. This brings the cost of this meal to just 48¢ per person with the taquito included.

This soup base is so loaded with chicken extract that it was a full gel when I pulled it out of the fridge.

@fediverse Writing this from Mastodon as a Test. Hello!

That would be funny.