matlag

Actually, with resources getting scarce, we should already get comfortable with the idea that a phone should be expensive, and be repairable enough to last for many years!

• Oneplus One: mine lasted 11years, I had passed it down to my kid. I changed the charging connector once.
• Oneplus 5T: lasted 6 years
• Now Pixel 8a: currently one year, but I already had to get the battery replaced after 6 months :/

Based on my understanding, yes. There will be more affordable models later, they’re supposed to have a full line-up.

But for now, the affordable GOS phone is still a Pixel.

Multiple companies have that approach, I’m not denying there ARE companies doing things right (or at least better).

I work in a company using multiple agents. One of them is supposed to be off Internet, and even with that one we’re not to share sensitive IP.

But Proton is not an isolated case. I bet some execs have invested and promised so much they need to report some good numbers on usage, and you can’t make up productivity improvement if there are people left getting as much done without AI.

AI policies are so dumb. You don’t evaluate people’s perfs on how much they use a tool. So what’s the damn end goal of such evaluation??

"Hey! I did nothing useful this year, but all with AI! -You’re promoted!!

I fixed hundreds of bugs and developed 3 new features all cheered by users! -With AI? -Err… not much -You’re fired!!"

This would be so dumb… and at the same time so possible!

Execs totally disconnected from the players base having no damn clue how they’re going to react.

Players are going to be so pissed they’re much less likely to buy anything through MS ever again, but that won’t compute in an exec’s mind.

That still creates a procedural precedence. That means small orgs can get paralyzed from any US whim if they don’t have the means to quickly transfer their servers.

Now the US can ramp up the effort, asking for another server, and another, hey, here’s a list for now. The next one is coming in 3 days.

A decent amount of them are gays in denial. They can’t handle and take it out on the ones who can.

What an era we live in. Movie plot: Evil big pharma secretly unleashes lethal unstoppaple deadly virus and demands billions to search for a remedy. Everyone cheers when the evil CEO dies of a horrible death at the end.

Real life: AI companies openly claim to have rogue agents breaching databases and now developing computers viruses, say they need billions to develop way to control them. Medias treat them as geniuses who will make the world a better place.

It’s not infighting (oh well, if you want to see that, check any other post from GOS when they talk about privacy and security of other Android distros…). They quite legitimately ask why GOS using AI to detect vulnerabilites has triggered such a shit-storm while every other distro accept LLM generated code and no one seems to care.

Good justification to why GOS is right to use AI to detect vulnerabilities. The only true way to protect yourself from an enemy that has nuke bombs is to have some yourself.

Ukraine gave up its stockpile in exchange of promises from both Russia and NATO that no harm would come to them, and would there be harm from one side, the other side would come and help them. They were betrayed by both sides.

AI is very efficient at finding vulnerabilities. Among a see of false positive, they find real ones. It’s much more efficient and faster than human auditing code. So either it’s GOS using it, finding them and patching them, or it’s… someone else.

Based on my understanding, the “core” team uses AI to detect vulnerabilities.

They also take codes from paid third party devs, and they say they don’t mind how they wrote the code, but it must be clear and each contributor needs to be able to explain it.

They follow the same rules on code conventions including readability. So basically, it’s less that they accept it than they don’t care as long as it matches their quality expectations. If you can’t tell, you can’t ban…

Now eagerly waiting for a computer to tell them “Go fuck yourself”

Were these people working from a remote cave or island for the past year and half?

It’s not like Apple playing friend with Trump started yesterday! Apple has been openly pro-Trump since day 1!

Vaultwarden can probably keep going without BW. The main issue is maintaining the clients.

Was about to say the same thing: aren’t Americans supposed to accept a trade-off between security and privacy? He’s a public figure, he should get total security with cameras everywhere around his house, and their feed should be public so that his security is crowd-managed!

Next is a “funny” issue: scraping the web without checking sources will inevitably lead to AI trained on illegal content.

The only way for them to prevent that is to train their AI to recognize illegal content. And the only way to do that is to feed it that content with label.

AI corps would have to pay people to watch children sexual abuse and label the videos. (Not that I have the slightest doubt they would proceed if that was allowing them to keep going rampage on web scraping)

They’ll come for it at some point.

It’s worse than that. I’m sure they’re getting wet dreams about eradicating as many books as possible so that they can finally sell AI slop books at a premium price, claiming that will be “the last way to get something in [author] style!”.

Those 3 just figured they will get caught going to see prostitutes. The other oner have not figured yet.

Not talking about potentially blinding an idiot who was wearing them but was not doing any wrong usage.