RRRA

Unlike the SS, surveillance goes both ways now...

The Android app (and OS while we're at it) is such a horrible mess compared to Claude, just pure horror coming from Google, i'd be ashamed...

They hopefully get sued into oblivion

Are inline AV1 as well supported by browsers as animated AVIF?

So long for monopoly laws...

Funny thing for me, it was NEVER the code...

Oui, j'ai hâte que l'on partage d'avantage avec l'Europe que les É-U...

Bonjour du Québec.

When is this turned into an RFC?

So has the spec been built with a bluetooth capture dongle, would it be better?

That said, I'm in Canada which has some different nuances around the same exemption and IANAL

I'm currently toying with a similar process which I think falls under the interoperability exemption:

- Get an apk online, you haven't accepted a EULA.

- Run jadx to get some code to work with

- Ask Claude to extract the protocol specification cleanly for a Bluetooth device with capabilities etc.

- Use Claude to implement a version as a TUI/CLI in go, rust, whatever.

I get to use a device I own with a local Bluetooth connection from my machine, maybe Home Assistant. I do not contact any online services (there are none anyway in that case).

Since it's to avoid getting locked in with proprietary OS, it's a clean room reversing through a spec and an LLM produced a non copyrightable output... Can I just release this however I want? Probably a basic MIT or CC0, whatever...

It'd be nice if it could use a mic to self calibrate according to a target response profile curve.

I think that unlike Meshtastic or Meshcore, this one is transport agnostic.

Exactly, it's making connection across vast set, not bringing the magic intuition.

Has anyone tried feeding all of human knowledge to an LLM prior to Einstein's work and tried to have it reinvent physics?

Pretty sure it's been the year of the Linux desktop for 30 years for me...

Oh yes, Wi-Fi was cheap, but before HaLow we ended giving up because we couldn't get a meaningful density for the network to get far enough across town to start to be remotely useful, even with 10-15dBi antennas mounted outside.

About the messaging aspect, I mean that though a messaging app is great, I feel that the end goal is having an independent network from the telcos, carriers, etc. In that sense we're going to need to allow more than an SMS replacement.

And from there is born the problem. Bootstraping such a network for more than geeks is relatively impossible in that context. You either have a device that does one thing as a drop-in magic solution for newcomers to jump on, or you chase the better solution, but that brings as much complexity, if not more, as running the Internet...

And while I'm happy to see p2p and mesh research continuing, participate when I can, I just feel like it's a pipe dream that is far far away and I'd like to see it grow beyond the few dozens of decentralization geeks in every city :)

In Montréal we've rebooted Réseau Libre which used to be a Wi-Fi mesh experiment 15+ years ago. It's a fun experiment, but in a way feels like a step backward for me. Meshtastic and Meshcore are just that, messaging, but that makes it the standardized killer app. On the other side you have reticulum which allows decoupling from the LoRa low bandwidth only radios, seems to do a lot of neat stuff, but if we're reinventing a whole network layer, we're going to have to reinvent services, discovery, etc. and I fear we're wasting time when in the end what wins is controlling the backbone bandwidth, but with the added difficulty of a p2p mesh.

I'm starting to feel this is a fun activity, but realistically copium for a world that is very sadly centralizing everything.

Now rebrand it the Apple car, and somehow it would makes sense...

Surprised Enlightenment didn't make the cut while fvwm is there

If you think the 2000s were special, try going back to the 90s when you could finish browsing the web! :P

It was pretty funny to see Qwen 3.6 (heretic) tell me about how many death the Chinese government thought happened at Tiananmen Sq. on April 15th 1989.

Makes you wonder where that data was taken from, or if their great firewall is broken, or even if Alibaba engineers have special access...

The irony of posting ethical social reflection on X though...

https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560

How long before LLM perform perfect disassembly exploitation...

The worst thing about this is a company saying you need to lock yourself on one of the 2 proprietary platform that somehow didn't just wrap the web for apps and use a ridiculously small device you might own, but anyone on an open standard system can go F themselves...

Yeah the only reason I still use YouTube is because μBlock Origin still works great.

Google being shown as unsafe makes me think they have some internal methods for filtering?

Because 2 letters should be reserved for countries and not random endeavors

.cs RIP too...

It's 100% economic corruption and populist/fascists forcing it down everyone's throat through extreme manipulation. yes...

We might always need some for various materials and industrial process, but wasting it on ground transportation is beyond absurd at this point.

Canadians not being able to disable Amber alerts sent at presidential level all the time might also be interested to be able to sleep again...

That's 2 Turing award for the Université de Montréal in 6 years. Sadly, I never had those 2 teachers during my years there!

I did see Gilles' lunch talks though, it was really insightful!