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  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • in what ways is GrapheneOS actually more secure than LineageOS?

    In many ways. This document provides a detailed overview of Graphene's unique features, and is worth a skim even if you're unfamiliar with some of the jargon.

    My very reductive summary is that Lineage is primarily focused on reviving and bringing modern features to old devices, whereas Graphene is focused on hardening the security of AOSP as much as possible.

    Both are de-Googled. Lineage is good for e-waste prevention, but not security. You will never be able to secure a device that can't receive kernel updates because the OEM abandoned it, and "state actors" are certainly not the only people who can exploit those vulnerabilities.

  • Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more

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  • Does Bazzite have good Nvidia support and do they have a good track record with testing updates? I don’t want my graphics card to suddenly stop working after an update as it likes to on Kubuntu.

    Yes, although nobody is perfect so it's always a possibility. The difference with Bazzite (and other immutable distros) is if it does happen, all you need to do is reboot and choose the previous version in grub. It'll be like the update never happened, no need to look up or run any magic commands.

    Then you just wait until they fix it before updating again.

  • Sad about .NET

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  • We are quickly back to the corporate MSFT that doesn’t listen to its users or employees. All that good will has been washed away and now I feel the need to switch off of Windows.

    Please cite one example of Microsoft ever giving a fuck about users. Since their inception, Microsoft has always been about gaining as much leverage as possible in every business relationship, and then exploiting that leverage to the fullest. "Embrace Extend Extinguish" is a well documented example of that philosophy.

    Anybody who still trusts Microsoft is dumb, or too young to have been really screwed over yet.

    Seriously, STOP TRUSTING MICROSOFT. No matter how much the tech industry evolves, that rule is ironclad. It has even outlived Moore's Law.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • This is nonsense. Everyone needs the most secure phone possible, especially considering it's the only device some people will ever own. None of the other de-Googled offerings come close to the security features that Graphene offers, some of which are custom built solutions. They go above and beyond what the typical ROM does, which is why it even supports a lot of banking apps that would normally be blocked.

    There's a good reason people talk about GrapheneOS a lot lately, and not any of the many alternative Android ROMs that exist.

    Also, let’s keep in mind that GrapheneOS only supports Pixel because they don’t want to allow people to run their OS on hardware they don’t think is secure enough

    Obviously. That's the point: Graphene isn't just any de-Googled ROM, it's specifically a product designed for security-conscious users. If someone doesn't care about security and just wants to dick around on an old Android device, they can use one of the many toy ROMs out there (like iodé)

    The main goal of Graphene OS is to protect users from some very specific attacks like some devices police uses to unlock phones or some targeted hacks by state actors.

    That's simply not true. It does do those things, but that's not "the main goal". Not sure where you got that from?

  • The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

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  • But by definition they are learning and it is not conceptually different from how we learn.

    (citation needed)

    "Machine learning" is neither mechanically nor conceptually similar to how humans learn, unless you take a uselessly broad view and define it as "thing goes in, thing comes out". The same could be applied to a simple CRUD app.

  • The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

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    • Take a human and have him study every single repo on GitHub
    • Take an AI and train it on every single repo on Github

    Which of those two will continue to make novice mistakes like SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities?

    These AI "coding agents" aren't learning or thinking. They're just natural language statistical search engines, and as such it's easy to anthropomorphize them. Future generations will laugh at us, kinda like how we laugh at old products that contain cocaine, asbestos, lead, uranium, etc.

  • We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch

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  • I paid ~$80 or something for Sublime Text 4 a few years ago, and I can't remember the last time it had an update, yet I am an extremely happy customer.

    A text editor should only focus on stability and performance, and Sublime does exactly that, and is why I am "stuck" with it.

    But Gram looks like it's going the same direction, and it's open source! I really hope development on it picks up so I can finally gain peace of mind by having a FOSS code editor that can actually compete with Sublime.

  • We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch

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  • Fun fact: these forced arbitration clauses can backfire spectacularly

    Any lawyer who wants to make a shit load of money fucking over a company engaging in these kinds of abusive business practices should look at what Bucher law firm did to Valve.

  • Good job Docker!

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  • I wonder if this counts towards your rate limiting quota?

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  • I don't. Personally, I don't believe that AI assisted coding has a future, and I don't like the quality of what it produces. Either we achieve AGI or whatever the finance bros are hyping up this week, or we don't. If we do, then AI can write code without having a human in the loop, so "vibe coding" is dead. If we don't, then AI code stays where its at right now, which is garbage quality. After a few years vibe coding disasters, demand for human coding will increase, and my skills will be much more valuable than even before all this craziness. In that case, letting those skills atrophy today would be the wrong move.

    And if I'm wrong? Well, if AI code generation makes it so anyone who doesn't know how to code can do it... then surely I'll be able to figure it out? My existing skills wouldn't hurt.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • What is this a solution to? You're going to pay high prices even if you don't buy from Amazon, due to Amazon's illegal price fixing. That's what the OP is about.

    Things are at a point where the only solution is in the courts.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Not until Kent pkills his AI waifu

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Time to coin a new term. The "bus factor" is the risk of a critical maintainer being hit by a bus. We need one now for the risk of them developing chatbot psychosis/brainrot.

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune

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  • Peter Thiel is a creepy weirdo who injects himself with the blood of young people in an attempt to reverse aging.

    That means it's very important that you find and spread unflattering photos that highlight the fact that he's almost 60 years old.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • What do you use to communicate with your git repositories?

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  • Sublime Merge is what I use, mostly for dealing with merge conflicts. For more complex operations I just do it in the terminal, even though I'm sure it supports way more features than I use it for.

    It's not FOSS, but it's also not Electron.

  • Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

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  • I think the real problem is that nobody cares about security because there are very little consequences for data leaks. I guess what little safeguards existed in the past have been obliterated by the sheer velocity of AI code generation.

    What we need is laws to hold people criminally responsible for negligence in handling user data. It isn't unprecedented, since we already have HIPPA. A watered-down version of that for ANY business that collects personal data would fix a lot of problems.

  • The Mullvad ad that was banned in the UK

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  • That's probably pointless. You should only use it for piracy, bypassing content filters, regional blocking, and things like that. Otherwise you're just wasting money/hurting your internet speed for zero benefit.

    A VPN only offers marginal protection from tracking, since it only hides your IP address. Most tracking happens in the browser, via cookies and fingerprinting techniques. The only reliable way to protect yourself against that is Tor, and you should not use Tor with a VPN.

    I like Mullvad and I am a happy customer, but this misleading advertising is kind of a bad look IMO. It's good to raise awareness of this serious issue, but they're clearly trying to profit off of consumers who don't understand the product they're selling.

  • Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media

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  • "If people saw it and they immediately knew it was fake, then they would just scroll. The selling point of generative AI models is that they look real," RadialB tells me over the phone. He refuses to share his real name but reveals he is in his 20s and from the north-west of England. He has never been to Croydon.

    Social media was a mistake. The "creator economy" was a mistake. Everything was a mistake. We really fucked up.