Good. Why the hell would you want to teach kids in their most developmental years how to use a tool that by its very nature offloads their cognitive functions?
It's the same reason you don't give kids the option to ever use calculators in math class until at LEAST middle school, because if they just start with them they'll never learn the fundamentals and they'll just get used to offloading all the mental math to the calculator.
It's not really a "you need to bypass TCP" and more of a "TCP traffic could be censored"... just like UDP, DNS, or really any other kind of networked traffic.
Reticulum isn't necessarily immune to this, it just supports a variety of protocols as a mesh network, so TCP isn't something who's failure would make the network impossible to use (but good luck accessing any traditional website without TCP).
For example, you might be able to communicate from your Android phone running a Reticulum-compatible app to a separate nearby device over Bluetooth, then that device broadcasts a signal over LoRa, which hits someone else's LoRa-compatible radio, which then connects over a USB-C cable to their laptop, which is plugged into their router, which can then send the traffic over TCP, where it's picked up by someone elsewhere using the internet. If TCP traffic is blocked, say, by their local government, maybe their LoRa radio just broadcasts to another LoRa radio, and another, and another, etc, until enough of them chained together is able to reach the recipient. Hence, TCP wouldn't strictly be required, thus preventing censorship of Reticulum through blocking TCP connections. (though this would still reduce how many ways you could theoretically get to people, as if that person ONLY has access to TCP as the start of their connection to the mesh, they'd be cut off)
Of course, the government could also try jamming radio signals, then making LoRa useless, but if they do that and don't block TCP traffic, then you still have options.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't call Reticulum an internet replacement, nor do I think it could ever be without still relying on the kind of large-scale, high-throughput infrastructure we have for the internet today. It just doesn't have enough bandwidth, and it's difficult to run anything requiring low latency if every connection requires hopping through a thousand peers to get to someone on the other side of the planet who, say, wants to play the same online game as you.
Works the same on DuckDuckGo for those who don't have a Kagi subscription!
If you don’t understand your tools, you should be even more careful with it.
In this case, the "tools" are a settings menu in your phone. Should I and every other person (who are likely much less tech literate) have to deeply investigate the exact inner workings of every single setting just to use it?
Should I have to check when I turn dark mode on that there's not an LLM under the hood rewriting code for apps that don't support dark mode to make them dark anyways just because that's a theoretical possibility for them to have done? After all, a simple button that just says "Fix x passwords" is no different from "Enable Dark Mode" in most people's eyes. You tap it, it does what it says it does. That's how people see it. If I hit the dark mode button on my phone, I don't expect it to turn my apps yellow, and most people aren't expecting that kind of possible variation from any setting on their phone.
Especially if one has learned that those tools are prone to malfunction.
As mentioned previously, not only does this feature not clearly display that it uses an AI model under the hood at all, but many people also assume that a tool implemented by a company like Apple directly into the operating system would probably be reliable if it handles sensitive data. Could that be considered foolish? Maybe. But I don't believe people are stupid for assuming the multi trillion dollar company that didn't even indicate the system used AI wouldn't implement a system to change their passwords if it could easily fuck up and lock them out.
I don't blame people for it, honestly. If this massive company is telling them that this tool will work as advertised, and clearly believes in it because it's being widely rolled out across their devices, most people who simply don't understand the intricacies will believe they're not being lied to, or at least deceived as to how capable the feature really could be against adversarial attacks or unfavorable circumstances.
People aren't necessarily stupid per se, they just aren't constantly skeptical of every single possible claim, and familiar enough with the underlying subjects to understand it in the first place.
In this case, it's genuinely just "hit the big blue 'Fix x passwords' button" and it's done. Most users won't even realize it uses an AI model under the hood, and will just assume it's something to do with how the internet works. And honestly, can we really blame people for that when it's designed in such a simplistic manner?
“Sex-testing” children in schools sounds like something you’d find in a niche pervert hentai drooled over by 4chan /pol/ board weirdos
You're telling me the party that actively wants to destroy women's rights while supporting a pedophile in office would... try to do things that pedophiles and rapists would like? Say it ain't so! /s
New one seems fine to me, haven't had any issues with it, haven't been privy to any malicious behavior or past actions that the developers might have done, so personally I find it pretty trustworthy.
it was never as simple as “pick file, send file”.
Not really what Syncthing's for. Localsend is definitely much better suited for that. (though there is the option on the unofficial Syncthing Android app to use the Android share feature to "save to Syncthing", then pick which folder you want Syncthing to save it to before syncing it to whatever devices that folder is synced with, though again, not really made for that as a core feature, Localsend is better for that)
Syncthing is more for if you just want a folder on one device to be replicated to another device. For example, my Camera folder on my phone syncs to my PC so I always have a second copy of all my photos by default.
That if something is marketed with health-based language or claims, it must be true. (or that things that are healthy offset other unhealthy activities/behaviors/consumption, i.e. "I might have eaten a ton of ice cream today, but I had a lot of protein so that'll make up for it")
Way too many people buy into "healthy" products, especially the very expensive ones, without doing so much as a single search regarding if it's even necessary for them, or if that particular product is even healthy in the way it appears.
People think anything with protein is inherently healthy, and the more the better, even if their body can't use all the protein they consume, so they'll eat multiple protein bars, have meat with every meal, and drink a protein shake every day.
Someone on social media says eating all raw meat and drinking raw milk is healthy, and they don't even look up how much more likely you are to get a disease from consuming them. (not to mention the impact on their wallet)
A drink will be advertised as a "wellness shot" and is just some fruit juice with ginger, but people will pay 8 bucks for it every day assuming it'll revolutionize their health, then drink a bunch of beer later that night and wonder why they feel awful later.
Hell, people will even take multivitamins or supplement powders that have 100's of %'s of their recommended daily intake, and just assume that if they get 500% of their recommended vitamin B, they'll magically become "healthy" by doing so, instead of "only" getting 100%.
There is no definitive evidence linking the new F.D.A. guidance to the lunch, the donation or specific lobbying.
And yet...
At the lunch, the tobacco industry representatives expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Food and Drug Administration was regulating the industry
Mr. Trump interrupted the conversation to call Dr. Marty Makary, the F.D.A. commissioner.
When Mr. Makary did not answer, the president dialed Dr. Makary’s boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and another top health official, Dr. Mehmet Oz
Less than one week later, the F.D.A. issued new guidance that could pave the way for major tobacco companies to begin selling flavored vapes and to snare a chunk of the $6 billion e-cigarette market away from illegal Chinese competitors.
I personally have used Proton and Tuta, and both have been pretty good to me, it just depends on what you want and how much you want to spend.
Proton is a lot more worth it if you also want additional features that would otherwise cost more to buy on their own, like cloud storage, or a VPN. (they also have a calendar, password manager, docs & sheets editing, video conferencing, and more) It also comes with unlimited email aliases if you pay for it, whereas Tuta has limits on how many aliases you can create unless you use your own domain, which then makes them much more easily fingerprintable.
Tuta is definitely cheaper though, has a much simpler and more janky UI, and has both mail and a calendar, but no cloud storage to my knowledge. They run on more green energy than Proton does, but I find they have less quality of life features than Proton. If all you need is just a cheap way to send and receive emails, with end-to-end encryption, Tuta's definitely way cheaper than Proton and probably worth it in that case.
For Thunderbird, Tuta has add-ons to allow it to work with Thunderbird, and Proton requires a background application running to decrypt and pass along emails to Thunderbird.
Any encrypted email will require some form of add-on or bridge between them and Thunderbird since they require a way to utilize their particular form of end-to-end encryption, otherwise all your emails would appear as gibberish in Thunderbird.
Depends. Obviously when they say "secret spyware" that means it is, in fact, secret, and we don't know which spyware they're using, but as the article notes it could be Paragon Solutions.
They have a system called Graphite, but that primarily targets just instant messaging platforms. If the article is to be believed when it says it could activate your camera, that would signal to me it's more likely something from NSO Group, like their Pegasus spyware that can also access your camera, GPS coordinates, and more.
All of these are going to be reliant on zero-day exploits, essentially exploits that aren't known to anyone yet and are still unpatched. All exploits will be a little different, but when it comes to mobile spyware, we usually see them delivered either through texts, websites, or email.
Those attacks can either be someone just receiving the text (even if they don't click on it, AKA a "zero click" attack), or maybe having to actually go to a particular website with the exploit baked in, or running an attachment from an email.
I never thought I'd like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.
Police have a lot of leverage power.
Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say "fuck you, we're not going to respond to emergency calls if you don't give us what we want"
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aaaaaaand they'll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not... which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.
but im very excited to see linux’s growth :)
Same here :)
the usa gov graph shows a daily stat.
The frequency of a stat doesn't guarantee long-term assumptions. I could track linux market share every millisecond for a week, but that wouldn't make it much more of a reliable stat than counting it daily for that week instead. The problem isn't the frequency of the data, it's the timeline, and the scale.
Linux has so few users relative to the other players in the market, and the data being collected is for such a relatively short timespan where any meaningful changes to the numbers are happening, that it can't give you a good picture.
For example, if I start a club, and I gain an average of 10% more members every day for the first week, is it safe to assume nearly all of the people in the world will join my club because I currently have an exponential trend in my member count? Obviously not. I'm probably just pulling in people from my local community, and eventually I'll have gotten most of the people in my area that are actually interested in joining. I have an exponential trend for now, but it'll flatline in the next few weeks.
if u have any other websites that show linux stats lmk
I don't, but the sources cited here are actually the ones I personally have already relied on for a bit now. They're fairly accurate in their own ways. It's reliable data, just not necessarily indicative of future trends.
there are also reasonings listed in the dropdown at the top of the article
They're good reasons, but they still don't do anything to actually validate the assumptions made in the graph. The reasoning is "Linux will probably grow because of x, y, and z... therefore this exact mathematical function is probably accurate"
They help support the theory that Linux marketshare will grow, which I personally do believe to be true, but they do nothing to actually guarantee any numbers. They could mean a 0.1% gain in marketshare per year, a 1% compounding gain, a temporary dip because of any unforseen world events that isn't accounted for by that function, etc.
To bring it back to my previous analogy, it would be like if I said "all the people joining seem really invested in [club topic], are telling all their friends about it, and membership growth has been very steady, with more people joining over time through referrals from friends. This means I'll probably see exponential growth"
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"This exact mathematical function proves I'll have most people in the world in my club in 10 years"
Hopefully that all makes sense? Genuinely not trying to be confrontational at all, I just want to make sure you don't get your hopes up because the graph looks like it'll be guaranteed and then be disappointed if it's not 😅
There really just isn't enough data here to make those conclusions.
For example, here's the Steam survey data plotted without the added estimated graph lines.
Mostly flat, slow trend upwards, slightly sharper increase more recently.
That could flatline again, curve back down, grow way slower, grow way faster, etc. There's just not enough data there to predict the next 4X as long amount of time anywhere close to accurately.
Louis on the right side of tech history once again.
I used to wholeheartedly endorse Bambu's printers for newbies because they are affordable and have great out of the box print quality without a lot of tinkering, but at this point my recommendations for newbies have turned into "literally any other brand, maybe look at Prusa first? ONLY if you really, really want specifically a Bambu one, and no other options are good for you, THEN you should buy a Bambu."
Bambu's shooting themselves in the foot for no real gain.
And not only that, they'll consider its response more reliable if they can see it cited sources... which are almost always Wikipedia.