gankouskhan

I am a 100% FOSS boy-oh. Down with corpo greed!

I am sad it’s required for any level of privacy and sovereignty

I have two phones which is only because I wouldn’t be upset if this phone was stolen or lost or broken unlike my main phone. My travel phone is an older and cheap Google pixel phone on which I installed Graphene. I use it regularly to read books from my local library. I do not bring it with me anywhere other than travel. On this phone I also:

• Do not log into anything other than the library app which uses a random username as the login. No email or anything attached to it beyond my home address.
• Ensure that ADB is NOT enabled.
• Require a pin to unlock the phone. No biometrics alone. Ever.
• Install signal for all communication. Lock it behind a pin that is not my phone unlock pin.
• Any and all files that I create on this device have their exif stripped and are automatically encrypted using automation software then sent to my S3 bucket or home server depending on the nature of the files and their size after I connect to wifi somewhere.
• Transfer my service plan to this device.
• Install apps only from obtanium that are verified to match the hash signatures from the distributor.
• The phones drive is encrypted
• While in line for TSA I turn the phone off to which it will remain until I am at my gate.

I have had issues in the past with TSA and my phone with a “random” search. They requested I unlock my phone. I did not, and requested a warrant and will not speak more than my rights and that I will only speak through legal counsel should they be able to produce a warrant. They searched me and my belongings over the course of a few hours. They can eat my ass.

In addition all of my personal machines including my steam deck and my laptop are also encrypted and secured using FOSS software including Linux as the OS. I have nothing to hide, but I’m also smart enough to not provide them with anything they could twist out of context or use against me.

For as long as it is an LLM I will not call it intelligence for it does not think. It’s an approximation or an estimate at best. While capable this is a major hurdle these companies will face to replace skilled workers. We are a generation at least and a ways off from general intelligence, and not algorithmic output for a given input (idempotency).

I do however agree that we would remain informed about the ever changing world around us; this however, is until reviewed by an unbiased third party in masse a marketing document. I will be taking it with a grain of salt, but will take it as an improvement over the prior versions.

Now with that out of the way… interesting. I will be watching this progress, but am far less optimistic in this being as capable as they are suggesting. It’s more than likely another Mythos hype attempt that is not revolutionary, but a nice addition to existing systems or augments to staff. Now if we assume its 100% as capable as this suggests then we are in for a ride.

Maybe they meant they would not negotiate because they themselves are the terrorists?

It’s better than many US cars yeah, but not most ICE cars currently on the road today. Most ICE vehicles can have a vast majority of their internal components replaced with a stop to advanced auto parts or a specialist store to buy things like an ECU. Not with Tesla however or pretty much any EV we can get here. So for EV cars here yeah that’s absolutely better than any we have here.

Right? These cunts love to tell us of the benefits of capitalism and the free market such as lower prices from competition driving the market, but then they cut off said competition that is not in their price fixing enshitification club. Can’t wait for them to tell us we do not own the vehicles we purchase because the software on them is a license. Basically like a mobile phone or a console.

They are in the way that you can purchase the parts for them from sources including the manufacturer, but also third parties. Until I have that I will not be buying EV in the US. If that expands to ICE vehicles then I will not purchase those either.

I just recently swapped off syncthing to livesync and todosian for quick markdown notes in obsidian for android.

Been working flawless for me for many years now. Although I could see issues with misconfiguration causing issues. The UI is not exactly elegant and it does not explain much.

Don’t be less evil*

See “don’t be evil” is still there

It’s not like the CS program is devoid of programming, norb would I say the SWE students are that much better off without outside education. CS is about half theory half practical for core education at least. The difference is you learn why and how which is more beneficial long term. After the first 6 months on the job the difference between the two on programming ability should be about the same with some more optimal solutions found by the CS student if any difference. It’s a pretty short term problem.

What if I had both?

Or if like my family they DID make enough money but they used it in addition to starving me at home when being punished for who the hell knows what. So I got a job and paid for that lunch. It was the only meal I would eat many days. Summers were not good.

Privilege blinds you to reality. If you’ve never faced systematic abuse, been hunted by your skin color for your membership to a belief, hanging in fear to leave your home, getting stopped or shot by police with zero cause. You’re never going to get it.

Living under constant terror isn’t something you can understand unless you’ve felt it. And words? They matter, sure, but sometimes they’re just the warning before whatever comes next.

I am honored 😭

TomaGITchi

Honestly it’s just the tech job experience.

Sadly that is AI of the present. A few of the leaders have already mentioned and have implemented “suggested results” in their responses, and surveillance is well… I assume we all know that was baked in from the start.

You know we could just upload an unedited photo to a platform, and then that platform keeps it unedited on a server. Then before exposing to web uses the latest poisoning service periodically. Remove the old edited photo, and apply again to the “raw” with the new updated service. Problem solved. Not super efficient, but still a solution made while shitting on the toilet. I’m sure there’s better.