If not for the banks investing hevily into it, i’d not be all that worried.

Every company in that list could shrink by half and we’d all be at worst back to covid times. Sure unemployment would suck, but do we REALLY need microsoft and NVidia to be as huge as they are?

We’ll kick piracy into high gear.

Then they’ll make any ISPs suspecting people of piracy to be forcibly shut off.

The real question is what will we do then?

A slight, but crucial reordering of electrons.

When I first added 2fa to page, I had a bug and made it do that to compare the values.

production or test, it’s likely debug code.

Stockholders

Stockholders want the products they own stock in to have AI features so they won’t be ‘left behind’

I’ll agree that nothing changes, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be released anyway.

We already have docs from other cases that implicate loosely people in power (all the way to the top)

It’s unlikely that they have truly damning things calling out people and acts, those would just have been burned long ago.

What’s in there needs to see the light of day and be public knowledge good, bad, change, no change.

good point.

While I appreciate the pep talk, I truly think your heart is in the right place. You just claim that my artwork is better without having any view of my artwork or knowledge of my skill.

This is a very common thing that people do. You can’t conceive that someone can’t do something, so you blame them on their persistence, or their ID or their ego. I don’t know what your skills are, but it feels an awful lot like projection.

It’s not like I’m useless at art, I can sculpt 3D objects from 3D objects. I can even, with limited success, use Zbrush.

It was a good read until he started with the art is a skill and anyone can do it. He’s kind of in his bubble there making assumptions about people. People have various levels of aphantasia, it’s not binary. Those that are good at visual imagination do art, people without can’t draw a fucking apple from memory reasonable art is beyond many, even if they had the time to dedicate to it.

Everything else he said was on point. well eventually on point, that was a long ride.

Edit: Man, look at all these talented people telling me I could be talented too if I just tried. Some of you might find a shocking revelation in thevfact that not everyone has the ability to perform the skill you perform. Some people, like me, have put several thousand hours into trying to improve my ability to draw, and while it has improved slightly, I am still not capable of drying anything above rudimentary. Talented people find it easy to project their skill onto other people but that’s not how it works. It’s not just a feeling that you can’t do it, it’s trying for years and not being able to do anything appreciable with it. My seven-year-old had more skill out of the gate than I had after scoring around with it for 30 years. So keep on telling me that I could just do it if I’d just invest the time and make yourself feel better that you invest at the time. That’s truly helpful to me.

I just fed a bunch of them I expected to be unique through a skyhook provider, all but one so far had at least dozens.

It’s not about stopping malware; it’s about being able to act on malware.

Making a new account with a new phone number and new credit card is a minor barrier to entry.

That said, it’s a cool story, but I think they’re looking to stop vanced style patching.

Shouldn’t they be keeping bypass strategies a secret right now?

They’re up against a company with more money and developers than they know what to do with. This is, at most, a game of cat and mouse. Secrecy will buy them a sprint or so.

If Google wants to go nuclear, they can do some rolling encryption bullshit or put a million calls all over the OS to check app validity and stop open source altogether.

The GD phone is modular and repairable. How TF did they manage not to make the jack at least an option?

Fair enough, no content then. Those people who quite their jobs to make the streams are only doing it because they get paid. They’re not going to spend 60 hours a week moving over to peertube and having to go back to their 9-5.

All the people who will make content for nothing are already on Peertube. If you don’t want anything else, you’re already good to go.

Someone will make a press that puts epstein in there.

I mean, peertube is full of that right now and nobody wants to watch it.

There’s maybe a couple of hours, a week worth of reasonable content and it’s the same handful of people.

Until somebody figures out monetization on Peerube, the platform will be stuck right exactly where it is now.

Tell me, if it’s harder to publish and it’s impossible to monetize, what are you going to be viewing?

The primary problem we have with putting Linux on phones is a lack of drivers. Hallium is basically fishing bits and pieces out of AOSP, then feeding that data into the Linux install. The upside is that we get pretty good power management and we get working cameras and working radios and all those creature comforts you really expect a phone to have.

The downside is that Google (and nearly every hardware manufacturer) is rather aggressively heading towards locking third parties and out of things. It’s not hard to envision a world where a couple of back room deals are made and some firmware updates happen. And all of a sudden, hardware that is at any updates is not capable of running Halium.

Halium’s core system partition is also read-only, so there’s some lack of hacking ability there that we’d really like to see. You have to put the custom stuff you want into a separate container. Not impassable, though.

Halium is at the very least private and works fine right now. Will it continue to work? Once the eye of Sauron hits it, will it survive? Will it be sued into submission? Will it be sabotaged by Google or the hardware manufacturers?

It might very well be the crutch we need for now. But it also makes sense to get the hell off of it as soon as we can.

For consumers absolutely. For creators trying to make a living no so much.

I’m the only lemmy person in my circle too,

but OSM is getting some love from all kinds of people, and magic earth, and co-maps

I’m also the only meshtastic/ham.

and self-hoster.

These are all popular things, just not in my circles.