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_ink_··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
And here I am with my 26 Signature, still on Android 16 with Patch Level from January and the phone reporting happily, Looking Good! Everything up to date!

Get your update process working @Motorola!

_ink_··on Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
Cloud Act: The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) is a U.S. federal law passed in 2018 that allows U.S. law enforcement to compel U.S.-based tech and cloud companies to hand over customer data, even if that data is stored on servers located outside the United States
_ink_··on Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
How do you find events on instagram? I absolutely hate that everyone uses it to publish events. Even when you think, what's going on at location X, you get a feed of asorted photos and you need to doom scroll until you find what's on next weekend. Yeah, sure, the algo puts randomly events into your feed, but when you want to search for a specific type you just out of luck. I am seriously considering writing a scraper, that scrolls for me and just puts all events into a DB, so I can display the events in a sane way.
_ink_··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Lies are for free, while the truth is behind paywalls. This is not going to end well.

Edit: why is it that Billionaires just fund fake news. Are there no "white hat" billionaires that could fund an opposition to that?

_ink_··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
That's what I meant with freedom of worker movement, not sure what's the correct term is.
_ink_··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Man, I'd love if Canada became part of Schengen and had freedom of movement for workers as well.
_ink_··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Not as much as 4°C temperature increase will do.
_ink_··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
> but it’s way too difficult to do business in the EU.

They are working in it: https://www.eu-inc.org/

I have no clue whether that will be a success, but at least they have recognised that problem as well.

_ink_··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
> The "value" of most knowledge workers -- based on what enterprises currently pay for them -- is $50 - 70 trillion annually. It's reasonable to assume that if AI drop-in-replaced all those knowledge workers, AI companies could credibly charge somewhere in that order of magnitude, because that's what the market is already bearing.

I don't think that AI companies can charge the same. The human workforce can charge these costs, because of scarcity. But AI systems won't be scarce, it's just a matter of who can run inference cheapest. Plus you still have the human workforce, which might be forced to offer their time for less money.

_ink_··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
I am fully aphant and the only thing were this happens to me is highly stimulating content. I remember after endless counterstrike rounds on LAN parties, when I closed my eyes, I would still see images from the battles. Porn also does this. But normally that doesn't happen. When I close my eyes, I see the inner of my lids. And I could never control what I see.
_ink_··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
Not GP, but fully aphant. No I can't do that. When I close my eyes, I see the inner of my eye lids (red / brownish). That's it. Nothing comes up, even if I try to remember the face of my mother.
_ink_··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
Not GP, but also fully aphant: yes, I have visual dreams. I is very hard for me, to tell whether I also hear things in my dreams, but I think yes. For other senses, I am quite sure that I don't experience them while dreaming.
_ink_··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
Have you worked mostly as documentary photographer, or did you also do stages setups, like portraying people? I am only a photo enthusiast without any mental images and I struggle with portraits. Since I know about aphantasia I am wondering whether it has something to do with the absence of mental images.
_ink_··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
The article is only about the absence of mental images, but the same is true for all other senses as well. People might be able to recall or imagine images, sounds, smells, tastes, feels while being awake or not. And it can be in all permutations, tho, vision affected seems to be quite common.
_ink_··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Care to elaborate?
_ink_··on Will there be a 7G?
In Germany I notice a massive difference in 4G and 5G. If I see 4G on my phone and know I can put it away again if it's not some kind of an emergency because it's basically unusable. I am not sure what is going on here, probably the telcos that are limiting the bandwidth.
_ink_··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
That's what I thought. But then what is the point when no other async function is executed while the caller sleeps for 1 second (presumably, or is it ms?)?
_ink_··on Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
So, what can individuals do? I can stop using airplanes, stop eating meat, switch to bev and heat pumps, vote for green parties, go to rallies against fossil energy and tell my friends to do all that as well. Yet I still have a government (German), that reverses everything its somewhat progressive predecessor did with regards to climate change. And other countries are in an even worse spot. It just looks like everyone need to accept that we will simply not doing enough and that everyone under 20 will face 3°C global warming.
_ink_··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
But print is a side effect? Why would that be optimised away?
_ink_··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Can someone explain what happens in Rust and Python? I don't see how C / ABC can happen (or what's even the point of async when that's the result).
_ink_··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
They probably have enough compute for a 51% attack.
_ink_··on OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees
It remains to be seen whether the Chinese AI labs actually are capable of improving on their own or if they just distilled the US frontier models.
_ink_··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
They should tax Instagram for continuous scrolling. The longer one session gets the more it costs :D
_ink_··on So you want to use OpenRouter?
Wow, that explains a lot. I was using OpenClaw with open router, but stopped because how inconsistent the results were over the same prompt. I thought OC is at fault, never would have guessed that there are differences between providers.
_ink_··on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
Content that speaks the truth, like content about the climate emergency is not the problem, even if people don't want that to be true. The content that are just blatant lies, nowadays even published by elected officials, that they just publish because it is in their own personal and financial interest is.
_ink_··on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
That's ok. Thank you for the discussion. But I do wonder, should Russia and China be allowed to use these tools to sow distrust against our Democracy? For me the tolerance paradox formulated by Karl Popper comes to mind and it is a clear no.
_ink_··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
Yeah :D But I for one don't care much about my job, yet it still takes quite a chunk of my time away from me.
_ink_··on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
There was an experiment (granted its TikTok, but it's basically the same) where they register a new account, pretending to be a teenager and than start scrolling without liking anything. [1] The amount of extremist content that is shown is really worrying.

To answer your question, yes they should be highly regulated and forced to moderate what they show to users. Maybe even be liable since it is their decision what they show and not the users. And if their business model is then not working anymore, because it's to expensive to moderate the content, then tough luck.

[1] - https://dietagespresse.com/selbstversuch-so-radikalisiert-ti...

It's in German but you can watch the feeds.

_ink_··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
I really wonder where people find the time. Like two people, probably working stressful jobs, kids and still find the time to design and build something like this and probably also use it. Fascinating.
_ink_··on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
You are romantizising what Facebook and Instagram have become. The problem is not that people talk to each other. The problem is, that they created algos that optimize for maximal engagement and they get that by triggering the basic human feelings that create the biggest reaction: fear and anger. They literally hacked the human brain chemistry. And they don't stop when they detect that the human is struggling and getting darker and darker thoughts, but they keep pushing to extract even the last second of precision engagement.
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