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The usual Manjaro Stable updates. Manjaro Drama. As aside note, we are aware of the drama unfolding inside the Manjaroโs teams. Frankly it proves how trade ruins pretty much everything. Very easy to predict.
Manjaro depends on Arch. Arch on the Linux Kernel and GNU. Plus on Desktop Environments like Gnome, XFCE, etc.. So?
Manjaro's decisions are bad. I tried to talk to them, to help, etc.. for years. Nothing worked. Therefore: TROMjaro. As simple as that.
I am of course grateful for the open source and the linux community. But only for the trade-free part of it. No "business" shit and deceiving people into buying their stuff. That is disgusting and it ruins all projects as you can see.
Also, if the post is in english maybe would be good to translate your message into english so I dont have to do it...
New post: shell tricks that aren't exactly secret, but aren't always taught either.
Split into two sections: what works on any POSIX sh (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Alpine...) and what's Bash/Zsh-specific. Because not everyone is on Linux with bash as their login shell.
Things like CTRL+W, $_, pushd/popd, fc, set -euo pipefail caveats, and more.
Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and youโll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and whatโs Bash/Zsh-speci...
No problem with Passkeys. If that would be the only thing that would be fine. (As long it does not exclude certain people for accessibility or other reasons)
hear me out: i starting to feel like all this OS, social media age/ID & KYC verification push because people are speaking out against world governments & the wealthy brats
They want to create fear. if you talk against them they can send the police or their supporters to your home because they know exactly who you are. This has nothing to do with kids. If it did, many AI apps would have been shut down a long time ago when they started 'undressing' women and deepfakes. Yet those apps are online
Fraud is rampant, there is the KYC camp which are typically businesses that have some reason to need to verify you are not exfiltrating their systems, and then there is the tinfoil hat security crowd (mostly us) that sees boogiemen everywhere (and are often right, often wrong.
These two are seemingly at odds, but in reality what it suggests is that there are distinct identity domains that we need to solve for - public and private, and we haven't.
there is some truth to the issues with bots or AI based spam, but then again, companies are firing competent software devs/IT staff & still expecting everything to work perfectly
the solution to these AI bots is regulation. they've 3/4 companies that all these bottom feeders use for spamming via API. It isn't that hard to fix the problem but governments are too busy with throwing dirt at each other these days & for profit social media want to tag everyone with ID so they can market you better
I have been involved in a very few real crises. The first thing that management did was reach down through levels to get to the cognizant engineer and bring that person into a corner office. They want the straight shit...they want it now.... They want "how"..."why"...and "who"... They don't want "I think".
Sometimes crises happen even after substantially controlled development and testing. When the crisis or issue comes, having been through that process enables you to know the nature of the problem and what can / needs to be done to address it.
So... Who do you call? How do you know even where to start?
In dieser Woche fรคllt im Europรคischen Parlament die Entscheidung darรผber, ob die anlasslose Durchsuchung privater Chats und E-Mails durch US-Techkonzerne (Chatkontrolle 1.0) doch noch fortgesetzt wird. Nachdem das Parlament am 11.
๐ช๐บUS tech corps & lobby NGOs want to scan our chats! ๐ TOMORROW (agenda vote) we can kill #ChatControl for good! ๐ง Emails are ignored. ๐ CALLS work!
This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue.
๐ซ๐ทLes gรฉants de la tech US & les lobbys veulent scanner nos messages ! ๐ DEMAIN (vote de l'ordre du jour), nous pouvons tuer #ChatControl pour de bon !
Stoppez les lobbys, appelez vos eurodรฉputรฉs MAINTENANT : fightchatcontrol.eu
This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue.
๐ฎ๐นLe Big Tech USA e le lobby vogliono scansionare le nostre chat! ๐ DOMANI (voto sull'ordine del giorno) possiamo affossare il #ChatControl per sempre!
This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue.
Microsoft spent 4 years stuffing Windows 11 with unwanted ads, forced Copilot integrations, stealing data to train its shity AI and other bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it. Reasons for a Change of Heart: 1 Increased Linux gaming 2 Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI 3 The "Microslop" social media shaming campaign 4 Increased costs due to AI leading to almost 0 ROI since there is no consumer demand sambent.com/microsofts-plan-toโฆ
Microsoft spent four years stuffing Windows 11 with ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it.
there is an old saying: vote with your wallet. Microsoft is now finding out that people have choices. This is not the 90s or 2000s of Bill Gates era anymore where you can abuse everything and get away with it.
I was rocking BeOS in the late 90's on my server while using an iMac ๐ Worked on a Windows call centre all day there was no way I wanted to do tech support for myself at home as well! ๐
@Gina i agree. microsoft/google etc all work their way up to the line of the most user hostile version of their apps and services. they don't care unless it become headache that hurts their investors and stock price start to go down. i won't be surprised if they will start with AI loaded version 12. Lmao.
my advice is still the same. get a cheaper (used) thinkpad (or brand of your choice) and install Linux or *BSD that doesn't have corporate backing or age/kyc verification nonsense added. always install an ad blocker, script blocker, and dns level filtering just in case for your own safety (also install those on your parents and friends family computers).
say no to microslop and their stupid apps. enough is enough.
Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws
in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.
The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...
@kobold Get a grip on reality. It's a field in a JSON. Your name is in passwd. Every program on any Linux or BSD can call getpwnam.
Nobody forces you to set either. There is no enforcement mechanism and no verification, but there are legitimate uses for either, as there are legitimate interests in not setting either.
I have two spare unused laptops, one with Linux (more than 10 years old, low spec) and one with W10 (Nov 2016).
Which BSD should I try? Both SATA HDD. Download Link? Both boot from USB sticks. The Win10 model runs Linux Mint far better (I swapped HDD from a similar Lenovo).
I use Linux Mint + Mate & X11 100% since 2017. Dual boot Linux (Red Hat, Debian etc) since 1998.
Used Cromix in 1980s. Tried Crostini on ChromeOS for 3 months (crippled and same HW now runs Mint natively).
I would have done that maybe 20 years ago. Now I'm only interested in using it. That's why I mentioned I'm happy with Linux Mint + Mate + X11. I have also Cinnamon, XFCE, ICeWM etc installed on some to look at and as fall back if I break Mate. I might have tried Free BSD very long ago (I did once install Xenix from floppies). I also have Pi4B (2G RAM) with only SD Card. It's gathering dust. I see freebsd.org/where/
I had a 10 year old Lenovo Yoga.. excellent product.. replaced the battery.. replaced W11pro with Linux and the latest Mint distro.. my live makes sense again and the digital sovereignty is a step closer ๐๐คฃ
Thatโs exactly what I did. My 8 years old desktop wasnโt Win 11 ready. So itโs running Fedora KDE now as dual boot to Win 10. For my journeys I bought a refurbished Thinkpad T14 Gen 1. Deleted Windows and running Fedora KDE on it. My parents got a new desktop. They wanted one anyway. Pre-installed Win11 deleted and itโs running on Linux Mint now. My partner bought herself a new laptop. Itโs running on Linux Mint now as dual boot. When Iโm back home the PCs of to friends will be installed from Win10 to Linux Mint as well.
I'll believe it when I see it. The business case is still painfully obvious:
1) turn on Copilot by default in all Office365 apps, integrating access to all business data of its users. 2) Copilot suggests email responses based on this 3) managers seamlessly integrate Copilot into their workflow, without ever deciding to 4) since everyone's LLM is different, the managers will be unable to leave Azure/Windows 5) increase the price! Locked-in companies ftw
I would reverse #1 (Increased Linux gaming ) and #2 (Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI). IMHO it's #MacBookNeo that's getting #Microsoft to #debloat #Windows11. Lots of people, including me as I wrote about in mathstodon.xyz/@nm/11621342792…, are so fed up with #Windows that we're switching to #macOS. Thank you #Apple for #MacBook #Neo and maybe helping to ma
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I would reverse #1 (Increased Linux gaming ) and #2 (Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI). IMHO it's #MacBookNeo that's getting #Microsoft to #debloat #Windows11. Lots of people, including me as I wrote about in mathstodon.xyz/@nm/11621342792โฆ, are so fed up with #Windows that we're switching to #macOS. Thank you #Apple for #MacBook #Neo and maybe helping to make Windows a little saner.
I'm so frustrated by #Windows11 that I'm thinking of getting a #MacBook #Neo. I've written a lot about #Windows and some about #Linux, which you can see at ii.com/portal/windows/ and ii.com/portal/nix-nux/. I'm losing my mind learning about all the ways to #debloat Windows, minimize #telemetry, use only a #LocalAccount, get rid of ads, get rid of AI, etc. that maybe it is time for me to give up on Windows. I'm thinking I'll get one at #Costco, but I'd love your thoughts on...
* whether Costco is a reasonable place to get a #MacBookNeo * what #privacy and #security issues should I be aware of with a MacBook Neo. I will not connect to an #Apple account or use any #AppleServices
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
If we can't change the incentive we cannot change these behaviors.
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
If we can't change the incentive we cannot change these behaviors.
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
yeah, I had similar issue last week, trying to open a laptop, also had to buy overpriced screwdriver just to be able to do it. Exactly it should be illegal to put such screwheads.
At the shop they havenโt gone fully dynamic price tags so there was still the physical price tag to refer to. Online, the price had changed and you wouldnโt know it. Anyway, I am sitting here waiting for a manager to decide if he will honor a physical price tag.
They were trying to get me to โupgradeโ to the full price box โcoz you never know whatโs wrong with open boxโ but their own open box sticker said โexcellent conditionโ
I think sometimes men in consumer electronics think they can scam me on anything to do with computers and devices? Itโs very confusing for everyone. Yes I know what RAM and SSD is!
Iโve never bought a car. But I imagine itโs a similar experience
No no no, car buying is the worst experience bar none for a woman. It's so gross. Took me weeks to recover after doing battle. Like you, I prepared and stuck to my guns. The next time I just bought the car through my credit union. That's the way to do it.
@noondlyt works with bikes too. I once went into a bike shop with a male friend. Everytime I asked a question, the guy in the bike shop gave the answer to my male friend. Every. Single. Question. Even after my friend said "don't tell me, I don't ride bikes".
@noondlyt in one bike shop I had gone in there largely to shelter from the rain while I waited for a tram. I was looking at the GPS units. Shop person walks over and asks if he can help. To make small talk and kill time. I asked what the battery life was like. "6-8 hours, plenty for any ride you'll do" "I did a 17 hour 300km ride on Saturday"
@quixoticgeek Yes! I've absolutely had this experience! A male friend with a van came with me to pick up floating floor boards bc too long for my car. Somehow this caused me to become invisible. And yet, if you asked these men if they respected women, they'd say yes.
People on another website would consider this level of determination to be some kind of flex. It's nice to be able to out-determination layers of corporate policy as a day-with-a-Y thing. Also, good on you.
I bought a fridge from them and it didn't work (lol, no, autocorrect, it was not a fruit)
When I bought it they told me that if I had any trouble under warranty, they would come out to my house and pick it up
When I called to arrange pickup, they said no that's not a thing
Three times we attempted to return at the store. They always gave us hassle. One time it had some light dust on it, and they said no you can't just wipe off the dust you have to take it home, wipe off the dust and then bring it back. Other times were similar fake issues
The store is an hour from my house
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this reminds me of this time decades ago when I got fined for not having a ticket on public transit. I can't remember the specifics, but the fine was clearly unfair in a way I would still have to pay โ some bureaucratic BS.
Anyway, I went to the public transit authority to challenge it. Because of the bureaucratic BS, they could not just dismiss me. In the end I waited for about an hour for someone many levels up in the hierarchy to show up so I can lodge my complaint.
1/2
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he shows up and the first thing he tells me is that I can of course lodge my complaint but it will be rejected and so I am only wasting my time.
To which I responded: I'm a philosophy student. I have all the time in the world. What matters is that I am wasting *your* time and pulling you out of whatever else you were doing.
*blank stare* *deep sigh*
The fine was much lower than the combined cost of the time of all the people that had to handle my complaint.
@rysiek In her case though, she was saving $200. I don't know what her typical consulting fees are like, but $200/hr (and it sounds like it was more like $200/10mins) seems very much worth it! ๐
@rysiek oh, speaking of bureaucracy etc, that reminded me of a story I had, also regarding fine for not having a ticket on a public transit. This one was valid, but I forgot about it, and so did they. Then they remembered, but after the "expiry time" (I don't remember the proper english term) for it passed. I informed them about it, they said they interrupted the expiry period, but when I asked for details they accepted it expired. [1/2]
@rysiek now here comes the chef's kiss part: shortly after I got a letter from the tax bureau for being taxed for the amount of the unpaid fee, due to having a monetary gain of not having to pay a fee ๐คฃ [2/2]
Waitaminute. So with digital prices a customer might need a bodycam to prove when shops change the price between them taking something from the shelve and walking to the checkout. ๐ค
Actually [crunching sound] seems like this one might not be in "new condition" [sound of a screw dropping to the floor then sloooowly rolling under the heaviest piece of furniture in the room]
^ The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent Commonwealth statutory authority tasked with enforcing the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
very specific and appropriate. whenever I shop for anything at Target, I set my store to the one near my sister in rural Ohio where prices are a lot lower. Then I switch to pick up at the last moment once everything is in my cart. That way I get the Ohio price at the store in San Francisco.
@neuralgraffiti @mike805 depends on what it is. Target branded items are generally the same everywhere: they come with preprinted tags so hard to get around. But things from national brands, especially in the personal care/household supplies/grocery space are *always* more expensive in SF. In my experience as much as 10-15% per items. And itโs not just to buy them in store: even to ship things to an SF address itโs more expensive than to ship to Ohio if thatโs how you have it set before you start your search. So everyone feel free to use 44124 as your default zip code and Mayfield Heights as your local store.
although its also possible to update the e-ink type of shelf price label dynamically, I wonder if (legalities aside) it would even be possible in physically smaller shops (particularly those in Europe), as surely folk would notice if the price tags started changing like fruit machines (especially when the shop got crowded)
Dynamic pricing is evil and wrong. It's an invitation to discrimination. It **is** discrimination. Today, based on what they think you can pay (wrong in itself!) Tomorrow, based on your phenotype or your political affiliation or your zip code.
wait wait - youโre in the physical store, an item is marked with a visible price, and theyโre trying to justify charging you an unmarked, unadvertised price? Wtaf?? Hello, consumer protection, Iโd like to report a scam please
In Quebec if the sticker price differs from the register price they have to give it o you free if the item costs less than 15 dollars. I've even gotten free wine at the SAQ a couple of times!
In Canada, the law requires stores to honor the lowest of any clearly expressed physical price, and makes it a criminal offense if they don't (though it's not clear if this applies to website/pickup prices).
There's also a pact in Canada by most big retailers that if an item scans at a price higher than the tagged price, they promise to honor the lower price plus an additional $10 off. Best Buy is part of that voluntary group in Canada.
If a business uses physical price tags, they should honor those tags. The highest ranked mgr on duty is empowered to override pricing - they always have been. Waiting on a GM is bull. You called their bluff.
I heard about some place in Scandanavia that was using dynamic pricing to lower the price of bread later in the day and just thought, "oh, that's not at all how they'll use it here."
Best Buy sold my Dad the "gift cards" that the phone scammers used to rip him off. To my thinking, an 80-year old man probably doesn't need a bunch of $500 Google Play cards, and it's at least worth asking him what they are for.
Since then I have never even considered buying anything from them, and I invite y'all to join me.
cascading identity profiles across VMs and multiple devices with proxies and VPNs are going to become the new coupon clipping if Meta AND Gavin Newsom don't succeed in fully deanonymizing all online activity to protect the children...
Since we are all griefing on Best Buy, i've got my own horror story from something like 15 years ago that involves them literally stealing my camera that I had brought in for warranty repair/replacement.
Their scam was even more blatantly scammy than yours, if you can believe that's possible. The punch line to the story is the important part: it got resolved when I went in there with small claims court papers and said I needed the name of the manager and the specific employee who had taken my camera and wouldn't give it back. And then I added that I would be filing these papers and sending out a press release detailing all the evidence of how their scam worked.
Did the manager come out and immediately give me my choice of upgraded replacement cameras off the shelf? Why yes, yes he did.
Small claims court in California is an amazing resource and easy to use.
The one time that happened to me, the item I was going to buy jumped 30% from the time I picked it from the shelf to the register, I just walked. I told the cashier that I will not support a dishonest business with any kind of differential pricing, for any reason. And registered a complaint via the store's website informing them I would no longer shop there and would tell others to do the same.
I don't understand how it is not illegal. I currently work on retail tech and the day someone asks me to implement dynamic pricing is the last day I work on retail tech.
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
@esp32 Supporting Pixel devices has become more difficult, which is why the partnership with Motorola is so valuable.
But AOSP is not Google and can be used without Google services, even though AOSP is, in a sense, tied to Google, mainly because Google is the largest contributor, you can create a mobile OS based on AOSP without depending on Google services.
You cannot ban FOSS, just as you cannot ban encryption and the mathematics used for it; you can discredit it, try to generate negative publicity, attempt to impose backdoors, etc, which is exactly what authoritarian and fascist regimes are desperately trying to do.
@archigato GrapheneOS has an official long term partnership with Motorola and will support many of their future devices, not one. It will support multiple new Motorola devices every year. We aren't lowering our security requirements but rather their devices are being improved to meet our requirements. The reason GrapheneOS won't support their currently available devices is because those don't meet our security requirements. Currently, only Pixels meet our requirements.
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.
We aren't lowering our standards but rather their devices are being improved to meet our requirements. Existing devices from every non-Pixel Android OEM lack important security features and don't provide the level of driver/firmware updates we need.
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.
@lexinova I may be wrong, but I believe that this is whatโs planned, from what I understand, and that a version of the Motorola device running GrapheneOS could be offered as an option, sold at a slightly higher price than the original product.
The key takeaway is that this wonโt be a GrapheneOS device or one bearing the GrapheneOS logo, but simply a high-end Motorola device sold normally to everyone, which will also support GrapheneOS for those who want to install it. I believe that through this partnership with GrapheneOS, Motorola Mobility aims to become a trusted actor in mobile device security within the business sector.
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@Flittermouse @archigato GrapheneOS is privacy project and privacy depends on security. We have very reasonable hardware security requirements which are listed at grapheneos.org/faq#future-deviโฆ. We only expect industry standard updates and security features. The only non-Pixel Android devices meeting these requirements don't allow using another OS. We're officially partnered with Motorola and they're making devices meeting these requirements with official GrapheneOS support.
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.
@Flittermouse @archigato GrapheneOS is a highly usable production quality OS with broad app compatibility. It isn't a niche choice only for people who are highly committed to privacy. It's very usable as a daily driver. The vast majority of Android apps are fully functional on GrapheneOS. In practice, the only apps unavailable on GrapheneOS are a tiny subset banning using any alternate OS with the Play Integrity API or similar methods. 90% of banking apps work and 99.999% of other apps
@archigato @Flittermouse GrapheneOS is a privacy and security project. It isn't elitist to have a reasonable set of hardware requirements including proper driver/firmware updates and important hardware-based security features we need to protect against widespread real world exploits. Similarly to iPhones, GrapheneOS devices are far more secure than using a traditional desktop OS. The security standards for mobile are much higher than what passes for acceptable for laptops and desktops.
@gcheseaux Fairphone has made it very clear they don't care about providing serious privacy or security. We aren't going to be supporting their devices or working with them. They already chose a different path incompatible with working with us.
@archigato @Flittermouse There's a huge audience interested in having private and secure devices. Providing the bare minimum of standard privacy/security patches and important standard hardware-based defenses rules out nearly all Android devices. iPhones have much better security than the vast majority of Android devices. Out of the Android devices supporting installing another OS, the only ones with similar security protections are Pixels. People who want privacy/security mostly buy iPhones.
eh, don't forget the asterisk of "only on supported devices." I understand that manually backporting major security and system updates to "EOL" devices is too effort for what you probably see as a small number of potential users, but it still sticks in my craw a little that my pixel 6a is unsupported, even though the hardware continues to be needs-suiting and i don't want to contribute to the growing e-waste problems not than I need to.
I don't want to have to buy another new (or new-to-me) device just so i can get the kind of privacy and security that ought to be part of modern Android to begin with (though that part's surveillance capitalism's fault, not yours)
> I understand that manually backporting major security and system updates to "EOL" devices is too effort for what you probably see as a small number of potential users
End-of-life devices no longer receive driver and firmware updates. Porting major OS updates to them won't resolve the insecurity. GrapheneOS is for secure devices.
> my pixel 6a is unsupported
Pixel 6a is supported by GrapheneOS and will continue to be until it's end-of-life:
@digitalCalibrator You won't get decent security on a device not receiving driver/firmware updates. Pixel 6a is not end-of-life yet and is still fully supported by GrapheneOS. It's not one of the recommended devices for new purchases due to lack of recent security features and remaining support time.
The whole point of GrapheneOS is substantially improving privacy and security from the baseline. If Android included our current privacy and security features, we'd have a large set of new ones.
huh, i could have sworn i saw something that said it wasn't supported, but i guess I'm wrong! Thanks, now i just need to get the willpower and time to dump all my memes and photos and such so i can switch over...
@digitalCalibrator It's not one of the recommended devices for new purchases because it lacks ARMv9 security features and more important because it doesn't have enough support time remaining. 6th gen Pixels had 5 years of support from launch compared to 7 years for the Pixel 8 and later. Pixel 6a will be end-of-life after July 2027, possibly as soon as August 2027, and then it won't be getting important driver/firmware security updates or official support for new major releases.
@NNN @archigato That's not how Android updates work. There was previously 1 major yearly release which was changed in 4 major quarterly releases and has been reduced down to 2 major releases per year. Those are made available to OEMs and published to the Android Open Source Project. There are monthly security backports to the major releases from the past around 3 years which are also pushed to the Android Open Source Project. Pixel stock OS is separate from what OEMs use which is the AOSP code.
@NNN @archigato Pixel stock OS no longer has nearly as many changes in the monthly releases beyond the security patch backports. QPR1 and QPR3 will be smaller releases than previously and stock Pixel OS exclusive. These releases are only relevant to GrapheneOS for Pixel support. We don't need to deal with it for another device.
GrapheneOS has security preview patch access already which we didn't receive from Motorola but rather from another OEM not working on devices supporting GrapheneOS.
so, I was about to give GrapheneOS a try on my Pixel6a. As it stands now, would that still work? And when would the potential changes in regulations start?
@Johan_E_M Pixel 6a is fully supported and works well. It's part of the oldest generation of supported devices and has an update guarantee from the OEM until at least July 2027.
Some of the laws we're referencing were already passed. It isn't going to result in any changes to GrapheneOS and it will remain available everywhere. Many other projects are making changes due to it or blocking downloads in regions passing these laws but we've determined there's no need for us to do anything.
looking forward to the partnership with Motorola but are you going to keep supporting current pixels (8, 9, 10)?
Asking this because I'm using a pixel 6 that will go EOL in October. As such, I might have to buy a new pixel soon, as I don't expect Motorola to ship new devices compatible with GrapheneOS by October.
@plf Yes, Pixels are going to remain supported and it will be a while before the Motorola devices launch. We launched experimental support for the recently launched Pixel 10a yesterday.
The initial devices with GrapheneOS support from Motorola will be 2027 flagships. We'll add support for new devices each year along with expanding to cheaper devices once those meet the requirements.
Does any law require that this info be sent to the OS developer / that the OS developers need to verify? I thought the Californian law doesn't stop the user from lying?
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@stavpup The whole point of the partnership is those devices meeting our requirements and providing official support for GrapheneOS. There's nothing about our statement specific to any particular devices. Our partnership with Motorola isn't to bring a non-GrapheneOS operating system to their devices. It will be regular GrapheneOS with the same things it has elsewhere. The only difference will be the hardware support code being for Snapdragon and the other hardware in the devices.
Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.
@Binder Iโm re-learning how to code after about 20 years. Going right back to basics, even touch typing. This is part of the joy. Seen loads of courses on how to vibe code. Donโt want that, โmake pong in 30 secondsโ NO! Have seen tech bros argue that itโs the same as compiling stuff. Again no! One is a direct conversion, the other is throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks. What happened to the fun of making sprites bounce around the screen?
I like that you're calling it a labour of love. There was a time just before the dot-com crash when EVERYONE was getting into programming because it was big money. Those of us in it for love looked on, aghast, as our field was overridden by people who only cared about money, making it all the harder to find work.
This feels like the next iteration of that time, only people learning how to program didn't cause them cognitive harm.
And that suggests that this might be cyclic. I wonder what the next one will be. If it's a quarter of a century away I plan to still be working in the industry. It's what I love.
@psu_13 That was a great blog post, good read ๐ The idea of manual labor of love and slow code reminds me of the trade-free movement. When everything's made for profit then it will naturally lead to a place where all they care about is that, to make a profit. There are still some good trade-free projects out there, like the ones listed here - directory.trade-free.org/
We should understand that trade is an overall negative influence on our society, and promote trade-free projects
These goods and services are submitted and reviewed by people like you. We cannot guarantee that all of what you see here is trade-free, since at times it is very difficult to review them all and do so properly.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023ย ย /ย ย Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
simple truth that no one wants to admit is most of the population see it as if I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't care, so the laws pass as the politicians majority votes for support it and the minority who didn't want it then run around all pompous like ones who have to implement the laws are the evil ones...
Often taken without the persons knowledge, especially in the case of females. One tampon is enough, it is called discarded DNA in many countrys and no law protects citizens..
Then they ask for your mother, father, husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, daughter, son, all relatives and friends, co-workers, local activists, religious leaders, teachers, librarians, breathing humans. And it's not enough.
I don't know if you are in the UK, but I can tell you 'they' do not ask for any piece of data.
I discovered last week that my local authority, (RCT), has handed all their council tax data for each household over to a third party data management company, and surprise, surprise....all this data is stored in the AWS cloud, no doubt searchable with AI.
Sweden is one of the countries that has a semi-government digital id (known as BankID). Initially it was just used for government and bank interactions but it has slowly seeped into basically everything. The other day I just wanted to check what homework was due for my kid (which shouldn't even require a log in since it isn't sensitive). When identifying, with said e-id, I was told to turn off my VPN and try again...
yea, at this point, people will start going back to pen-and-paper notebooks, flipcharts, feature-phones, filing cabinets, typewriters, libraries, telegraphs, checkbooks, cash, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players and movie theaters for their day-to-day affairs.
they were convenient before, they're still convenient now, and they won't EVER betray you.
why even bother with computers?
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Then they leak it all and every single form of ID we have becomes useless.
Once it's all breached, leaked, compromised and useless we will end up with the one solution we could have used since day one, a solution that could have been implemented that preserves our privacy, security and identity.
Digital signing. Safe, secure, private.
Breaches and age verification will break ID as we know it and make us all far less secure.
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
I think that unfortunately, this policy is exactly what big tech wants - fresh training knowledge and training data from humans, which the tech companies are free to remix into new public domain works that are not protected by share-alike.
With this policy, Wikipedia demands that humans work for the bots for free, and the humans can't even take advantage of the bots to work against the theft of the commons.
@yoasif You have no idea what you're talking about. There is no way for humans to "take advantage of the bots to work against the theft of the commons". Slop-spewing bots cannot magically create new knowledge of the real world. All they can do is remix things that were already written and scooped up into their training set to make something that sounds plausible but that has no provenance.
Yes, malevolent capitalists will continue to scrape and attempt to enclose the commons. We fight them and continue to maintain the things we need and that nourish us. We don't destroy our own treasures to keep them from copying.
My genuine hope is that this can spark a broader change. Empower communities on other platforms, and see this become a grassroots movement of users deciding whether AI should be welcome in their communities, and to what extent. On their own terms.
A pushback against the #enshittification and forceful push of AI by so many companies in these last few years.
I would say that the battle was lost when Wikipedia allowed big tech to buy access to copyleft content without needing to share alike.
Your new policy simply enforces "fresh meat" for the models, without any requirement for reciprocity back to the commons.
Wikipedians then, are signing up to work for free to feed the models, while people downstream from the models can use their labor entirely for free without giving back.
I think the truth is that it is a total mess when it comes to AI and copyright regulation, we know big tech companies have literally used pirated books to train their AI and nothing was done about it. So I don't know if saying "Wikipedia allowed it" make any sense, to me it seems like they would've scraped the data anyway like they did with the books (and the entire internet for the most part).
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Wikipedia could have presented a legal challenge to the LLM providers, or simply stated that "you are indexing our servers, we can see it - if you don't stop, we will sue to protect our community".
@yoasif It would be interesting to see how a license like Creative Commons be applicable in the case of LLMs, does it mean all of the LLM's output must also be licensed under the same? Yeah it would've been nice if Wikipedia had fought back legally, even if they might fail it would've lead to some interesting discussions about copyright laws and LLMs.
@futureisfoss Unfortunately (and I am blogging about this in a few days, so follow me if you are interested), since LLM outputs are uncopyrightable, I don't think there is any legal way for LLMs to train on share-alike and in turn to produce share-alike contributions.
Wish I had seen this, I personally do not write in Wiki but yesterday I watched a video which brought up a kid asking if Abraham Lincoln's voice had been recorded. I knew Edison's recorder was too late to make this happen but remembered that inventor รdouard-Lรฉon Scott de Martinville had made the first recording of a human voice in 1860. Google's AI doesn't mention it was possible but instead only mentions Edison. AI cannot seem to cross reference or info based on old data only. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
@appagalcrochet #LLM s have no logic. They are extraoridinary predictors of the best word to go next. If they don't find some previous source that says A implies or causes B, you won't see it in the output.
๐๏ธโ Are you looking for an interesting weekend read? noyb recently conducted a survey among privacy professionals to find out what kind of #GDPR simplification #European companies actually need.
๐ One of the key findings was that most professionals donโt actually want protections to be cut back, but for documentation duties and #paperwork to be reduced. In many cases, they even ask for clearer laws instead of more โflexibilityโ.
@PeterLG this makes no sense and will protect no one. I'm just going to be angry the next day when I either gain access to what I need or proceed to shoot myself in the foot, but angrily.
You've never had to deal with an upset great-grandfather who is confused about why his bank account has been drained, just to find out a helpful bloke rang up to configure his Samsung phone to get "free messaging" the week before, have you?
You flip the switch when you first set up your phone, and it never bothers you again. Big deal.
Google closing off side-loading completely is a much bigger issue.
And this will be their first step towards closing off "side-loading" entirely, do not give them the benefit of the doubt. They want to steal our right to install the software of our choosing on the device that we bought and paid for, but before they can do that they introduced this "advanced-flow" to prevent the normalization and prevalence of 3rd party app distributers like @fdroidorg
There is malware on Google play store, it was never about safety.
like the saying goes โthe pen is mightier than the swordโ except in this case freedom to put whichever software on your device is mightier than the gun!
Thankfully it's only to do the initial unlocking of this misfeature, not every time you want to install something. But we've pushed back this much. We should push for more. Like canceling this bs entirely.
Thankfully, we know from the experience of the "assault weapon" ban that a ban on phones with locked bootloaders will just put an end to operable older phones with unlockable bootloaders being thrown out.
Like high capacity gun magazines 1994-2004, they will be kept running as long as possible and trade over ebay, craigslist, and if necessary the darknet.
Especially valuble will be phones old enough to have removable batteries that can be changed without having to get the screen off.
I need help with the server hosting all my open-source projects: #Fedilab, #HolosSocial, #HolosDiscover, and more. The current server costs โฌ350/year but is no longer suited for the load. I often run out of disk space. I need to migrate to a more powerful one with expandable storage. Renewal is due in a few days. I have set a goal of โฌ500 on Ko-fi, cost unknown.
My name is Thomas, I use a part of my spare time to develop and maintain open source projects (Fedilab, Tubelab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps, FediPlan, Mastodon comments for โฆ
Not what you asked, so ignore me if you don't want to think about it. Have you considered self hosting? Storage was the limiting factor that pushed me off the cloud. A 1TB drive costs about โฌ100 and will last years. 1TB cloud storage was tens of euros per month when I last looked at it.
#HolosDiscover just hit 3 million indexed posts. What matters more than the number: 145k deletions processed, 83k edits tracked, and over 1k opt-outs respected, all in real time. Respecting people is the priority and the only way to do it right is to be a full #ActivityPub participant, receiving deletions, edits, and opt-outs as they happen. Before indexing anyone, Holos Discover follows their account, so they know they are being indexed and can opt out.
@thibaultmol I donโt want to visit the web page. I donโt want to read about it. I donโt want to learn the โeasyโ actions I must take. I donโt want to think or know about this โtoolโ in any way. I didnโt ask for it; I donโt even want it to exist. But now I have to. Itโs all an unwanted imposition.
So you do it. Opt me out. Itโs your job anyway, whoever made this, whoever runs it. I decline to accept the assignment.
#Holos 1.0.0 is available! With this release, Holos moves from release candidate to production. This version adds a reverse timeline option to display posts oldest-first.
A lot of improvements have also been made to the relay, especially around Bloom filter performance, that are not always reflected in app changelogs.
Mind boggling what folks are saying about this Android side loading issue. In addition to people saying use Linux, without ever actually using something like PostmarketOS as a daily driver and experiencing how much of a PITA it is to use, they say they're going to an iPhone. I'm like, let me get this straight, you're leaving Android because it's becoming more locked down to an even more locked down OS?
@cinimodev ๐ I ditched iOS for Android. Not going back. I have realized how much of the smartphone stuff I can live without. Even on Android, what I do most is read webcomics, do puzzles and use maps. And I was someone who was neck deep in Apple ecosystem. I will happily use a dumb phone and Garmin GPS and live like its early 2000's if it comes down to it.
This has to be said, even tho I have great respect for the people working on PostmarketOS and similar projects, they're nowhere close to being a replacement for Android the way that desktop Linux is for Windows - that will take a lot of time and effort. So especially in the context of Android getting locked down, it's important to fight back against this anti-consumerist policy which only helps to make Google an even bigger monopoly and have control over our devices.
I've been looking into GrapheneOS as an alternative, a bit worried about banking app support tho - may need to carry a second phone in that case. In the long term I'd like to see Linux on mobiles succeed, PostmarketOS may not be very practical now but I think the work they're doing is still important.
![CHATKONTROLLE STOPPEN - RUF JETZT DEINEN ABGEORDNETEN AN!
TELEFONSKRIPT:
โGuten Tag, mein Name ist [โฆ], ich rufe aus [โฆ] an. Ich rufe wegen der skandalรถsen Wiederholungsabstimmung zur Chatkontrolle an. Wie positioniert sich Herr/Frau [Name] dazu?
Das Parlament hat am 11. Mรคrz entschieden, das massenhafte Scannen zu beenden. Es ist ein undemokratischer Trick, eine erneute Abstimmung zu erzwingen.
WICHTIG: Herr/Frau [Name] soll am Mittwoch (25. Mรคrz) DAFรR stimmen, die Neuabstimmung von der Tagesordnung zu streichen! Falls am Donnerstag abgestimmt wird, muss er/sie รnderungsantrag 35 unterstรผtzen, der anlasslose Massenscans verbietet.
Wir schรผtzen keine Kinder, wenn wir die Polizei mit Datenmรผll รผberfluten (die Hรคlfte der BKA-Meldungen sind Fehlalarme). Geben Sie der US-Tech-Lobby nicht nach.
Wird [Name] das Briefgeheimnis verteidigen und gegen das Scannen stimmen? Bitte bestรคtigen Sie das per E-Mail.โ
Link unten: fightchatcontrol.de](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/44218780 "CHATKONTROLLE STOPPEN - RUF JETZT DEINEN ABGEORDNETEN AN!
TELEFONSKRIPT:
โGuten Tag, mein Name ist [โฆ], ich rufe aus [โฆ] an. Ich rufe wegen der skandalรถsen Wiederholungsabstimmung zur Chatkontrolle an. Wie positioniert sich Herr/Frau [Name] dazu?
Das Parlament hat am 11. Mรคrz entschieden, das massenhafte Scannen zu beenden. Es ist ein undemokratischer Trick, eine erneute Abstimmung zu erzwingen.
WICHTIG: Herr/Frau [Name] soll am Mittwoch (25. Mรคrz) DAFรR stimmen, die Neuabstimmung von der Tagesordnung zu streichen! Falls am Donnerstag abgestimmt wird, muss er/sie รnderungsantrag 35 unterstรผtzen, der anlasslose Massenscans verbietet.
Wir schรผtzen keine Kinder, wenn wir die Polizei mit Datenmรผll รผberfluten (die Hรคlfte der BKA-Meldungen sind Fehlalarme). Geben Sie der US-Tech-Lobby nicht nach.
Wird [Name] das Briefgeheimnis verteidigen und gegen das Scannen stimmen? Bitte bestรคtigen Sie das per E-Mail.โ
Link unten: fightchatcontrol.de")
![Graphic with text: STOP CHAT CONTROL - CALL YOUR MEP NOW!
PHONE SCRIPT:
"Hello, my name is [...] and I'm calling from [...]. I am calling regarding the scandalous repeat vote on Chat Control. What is [Name]'s position on this?
On March 11th, the Parliament decided to end mass scanning. Forcing a repeat vote is an undemocratic trick.
IMPORTANT: [Name] must vote IN FAVOR of removing this repeat vote from the agenda on Wednesday (March 25th)! If the vote happens on Thursday, they must support Amendment 35, which bans indiscriminate mass scanning.
Flooding the police with data trash does not protect children (authorities report almost half of the flags are false alarms). Do not give in to the US tech lobby.
Will [Name] defend our digital privacy and vote against scanning? Please confirm via email."
Link at the bottom: fightchatcontrol.eu](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/44219025 "Graphic with text: STOP CHAT CONTROL - CALL YOUR MEP NOW!
PHONE SCRIPT:
\"Hello, my name is [...] and I'm calling from [...]. I am calling regarding the scandalous repeat vote on Chat Control. What is [Name]'s position on this?
On March 11th, the Parliament decided to end mass scanning. Forcing a repeat vote is an undemocratic trick.
IMPORTANT: [Name] must vote IN FAVOR of removing this repeat vote from the agenda on Wednesday (March 25th)! If the vote happens on Thursday, they must support Amendment 35, which bans indiscriminate mass scanning.
Flooding the police with data trash does not protect children (authorities report almost half of the flags are false alarms). Do not give in to the US tech lobby.
Will [Name] defend our digital privacy and vote against scanning? Please confirm via email.\"
Link at the bottom: fightchatcontrol.eu")
![Capture d'รฉcran avec le texte : STOPPEZ CHAT CONTROL - APPELEZ VOTRE EURODรPUTร MAINTENANT !
SCRIPT TรLรPHONIQUE : ยซ Bonjour, je m'appelle [...] j'appelle depuis [...]. J'appelle concernant le scandaleux nouveau vote sur le Chat Control. Quelle est la position de M./Mme [Nom] ?
Le 11 mars, le Parlement a dรฉcidรฉ de mettre fin ร l'analyse de masse. Forcer un nouveau vote est une manลuvre antidรฉmocratique.
URGENT : M./Mme [Nom] doit voter POUR retirer ce vote de l'ordre du jour demain (25 mars) ! Si le vote a lieu jeudi, il/elle doit soutenir l'amendement 35, qui interdit l'analyse de masse indiscriminรฉe.
Inonder la police de donnรฉes inutiles ne protรจge pas les enfants (les autoritรฉs signalent prรจs de 50% de fausses alertes). Ne cรฉdez pas au lobby amรฉricain.
M./Mme [Nom] dรฉfendra-t-il/elle nos correspondances privรฉes en votant contre ? Merci de me confirmer sa position par e-mail. ยป
Lien en bas : fightchatcontrol.eu](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/44219031 "Capture d'รฉcran avec le texte : STOPPEZ CHAT CONTROL - APPELEZ VOTRE EURODรPUTร MAINTENANT !
SCRIPT TรLรPHONIQUE : ยซ Bonjour, je m'appelle [...] j'appelle depuis [...]. J'appelle concernant le scandaleux nouveau vote sur le Chat Control. Quelle est la position de M./Mme [Nom] ?
Le 11 mars, le Parlement a dรฉcidรฉ de mettre fin ร l'analyse de masse. Forcer un nouveau vote est une manลuvre antidรฉmocratique.
URGENT : M./Mme [Nom] doit voter POUR retirer ce vote de l'ordre du jour demain (25 mars) ! Si le vote a lieu jeudi, il/elle doit soutenir l'amendement 35, qui interdit l'analyse de masse indiscriminรฉe.
Inonder la police de donnรฉes inutiles ne protรจge pas les enfants (les autoritรฉs signalent prรจs de 50% de fausses alertes). Ne cรฉdez pas au lobby amรฉricain.
M./Mme [Nom] dรฉfendra-t-il/elle nos correspondances privรฉes en votant contre ? Merci de me confirmer sa position par e-mail. ยป
Lien en bas : fightchatcontrol.eu")
![Grafica con testo: FERMIAMO IL CHAT CONTROL - CHIAMA ORA IL TUO EURODEPUTATO!
SCRIPT TELEFONICO: "Buongiorno, mi chiamo [...] e chiamo da [...]. Chiamo per la scandalosa ripetizione del voto sul Chat Control. Qual รจ la posizione dell'onorevole [Nome]?
L'11 marzo il Parlamento ha deciso di fermare la scansione di massa. Forzare un nuovo voto รจ un trucco antidemocratico.
IMPORTANTE: l'onorevole [Nome] deve votare A FAVORE della rimozione di questo voto dall'ordine del giorno domani (25 marzo)! Se il voto si terrร giovedรฌ, dovrร sostenere l'emendamento 35, che vieta la scansione di massa indiscriminata.
Inondare la polizia di dati inutili non protegge i bambini (le autoritร segnalano quasi il 50% di falsi allarmi). Non cedete alle lobby USA.
L'onorevole difenderร la segretezza della corrispondenza? Vi prego di confermarlo via email."
Link in basso: fightchatcontrol.eu](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/44219037 "Grafica con testo: FERMIAMO IL CHAT CONTROL - CHIAMA ORA IL TUO EURODEPUTATO!
SCRIPT TELEFONICO: \"Buongiorno, mi chiamo [...] e chiamo da [...]. Chiamo per la scandalosa ripetizione del voto sul Chat Control. Qual รจ la posizione dell'onorevole [Nome]?
L'11 marzo il Parlamento ha deciso di fermare la scansione di massa. Forzare un nuovo voto รจ un trucco antidemocratico.
IMPORTANTE: l'onorevole [Nome] deve votare A FAVORE della rimozione di questo voto dall'ordine del giorno domani (25 marzo)! Se il voto si terrร giovedรฌ, dovrร sostenere l'emendamento 35, che vieta la scansione di massa indiscriminata.
Inondare la polizia di dati inutili non protegge i bambini (le autoritร segnalano quasi il 50% di falsi allarmi). Non cedete alle lobby USA.
L'onorevole difenderร la segretezza della corrispondenza? Vi prego di confermarlo via email.\"
Link in basso: fightchatcontrol.eu")
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