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Zak

@ Zak @lemmy.world

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  • That means if Google’s verification system gets widely adopted, browsing the web could become a headache.

    Using a phone to scan a QR code in order to access a website on my desktop is a headache even if it has no dependencies in particular.

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  • I enjoyed being able to safely ride my bike the 8 miles to school

    Aside from the risk of the authorities treating it as child neglect, do you believe this would be less safe to do now? If so, why?

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    Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

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  • It seems very unlikely to me that the model itself has a list of banned words, and much more likely that a purported list is hallucinated.

    If they did want to have a simple list like that, it would probably go in the harness rather than the model, and the model wouldn't have been trained on it, nor would a reasonably designed harness provide it to the model. Legitimate use cases, such as asking the model for a list of abusive words for use as a first pass in a filtering system could get tripped up.

    As a test, I asked Perplexity to generate such a list. It did a bad job, including such words as abuse, hate, and threat which are far more likely to be innocuous than abusive. It did also include some highly offensive slurs that one would expect on any banned words list.

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  • Yes, but there were ways to discourage tinkering like using uncommon or proprietary fasteners. They were rarely employed. The digital equivalents are common.

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  • Basically nothing else in our society works this way. Basically nothing has changeable firmware.

    A whole lot of important things used to run on mechanical control systems. Someone with a modicum of mechanical talent and a box of simple hand tools could disassemble most of them and figure out how they work. Repairs were generally possible, and if original parts weren't available, there was a good chance of being able to improvise something in a home workshop or by paying a local machine shop. Modifications were also possible.

    Making everything with a computer in it locked down and proprietary was a choice.

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  • Though it obviously varies by jurisdiction, the typical rule is that the dead person's debts have to be paid before their heirs can inherit their assets. If they didn't have significant assets then there is no remaining person or legal entity to collect the fine from. Modern legal systems do not hold family members responsible for fines owed by their dead relatives.

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    Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms

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  • A judge can't make laws. Higher courts can set precedents about how existing laws are interpreted,but that isn't happening here. The judgment will be specific to Meta.

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    Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand

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  • Yeah, now every "desktop app" is a shitty website that bundles its own copy of chromium. Progress!

  • ‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near

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  • “It’s a piece of shit, it’s unusable” like the guy in the video says.

    He doesn't say anything like that. He points out the notice it shows on first use saying it's unfinished and soliciting bug reports, then ends by acknowledging they're working for free and it's a work in progress. Despite the comedic tone, that's an accurate assessment; PostmarketOS is currently suitable for hobbyists and developers only.

    In the middle he tries several times to make a phone call and never succeeds. If anybody is treating this as a serious review to decide whether they should use the same setup around the time the video was published, "unusable" might indeed be a reasonable conclusion, assuming they want to make phone calls on their phone.

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  • People shouldn't joke about Linux phones because somebody might not get the joke?

    On the other hand, there's a truth underlying the joke: Linux phones are only really ready for a narrow set of users. I say that as a partial member of that set: I have PostmarketOS installed on a phone. It's fun to play with, but I wouldn't like to use it an my main phone yet. I hope it gets there some day.

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  • The intention is to mock everything in tech. He mostly mocks big tech, but nothing is immune.

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  • The channel description says

    SAMTIME is probably the only channel on the internet not smelling the farts of the big tech companies! From Apple to Samsung, Huawei to OnePlus, we make fun of everyone and tell it like it is (aaand maybe exaggerate just a little if it's funny).

    and that seems about right from the handful of videos I've watched. He spends a lot more time mocking big tech firms than poking fun at Linux.

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  • Android was out for at least five years before Safetynet was a thing. I'm surprised people weren't louder in their objections to that then.

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  • He's a comedian. His videos aren't meant to be taken seriously.

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    What is your favorite conspiracy theory?

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  • Epstein isn't dead.

    He blackmailed someone into faking his death and getting him out of jail. There are plenty of candidates from Mossad to the president of the USA. He's keeping a low profile, and if he's ever found out, he'll ruin someone, perhaps several someones.

  • ‘Worth a thousand words’: Trump photo obscuring women’s tennis team sparks backlash

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  • I'm a little surprised he's not trying to fuck them.

  • Android Sideloading: New Rules, Advanced Flow & What Users Need to Know (2026) - World Today Journal

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  • adb sideload is for installing an OS or OS update. The command to install an app is adb install.

  • Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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  • Based on a quick web search, staff can only remove people temporarily for rule violations; it takes a court order to get a long-term ban from the NYC subway.

  • How does this platform work?

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  • People type usernames more than once in 2026? I thought everyone had password managers by now.

    Either way, the real username there is Nemo in standard Latin characters and ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 is a display name configured in the settings.

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  • others who are interested pull copies of them to their server where they can respond or not.

    To be technical, most ActivityPub federation is push, not pull. The server sends actions to other servers with members that have subscribed to the relevant community. In some cases, a user asks for something a server doesn't have and it attempts to pull it from the server that hosts it.