They’ll never understand, or never admit yo understanding, that if you put a door in a wall, everyone will exploit it. Just think of how city defense worked before flight. Every invader would go after the gate and it was much, much easier to penetrate than the rest of the wall. But in this case that gate will be totally unguarded, so anyone who figures out how to open it, will open it for everyone. And will make tools for others to use to unlock and open it easily and it will be very difficult to change it if it’s the same gate with the same key used by everyone. Imagine if door locks were all the same. No one would bother locking their doors if it was that easy to unlock instantly. And that’s what the real goal is. To make people stop using security.

Yeah, that only works for people who are brainwashed to follow whatever the current regime is pushing regardless of how much it hurts them personally, but especially if it doesn’t hurt them directly in the very short term.

Wish that was possible. Unfortunately, at least in the US, most industries are consolidated into a small handful of giant corporations with tons of money so unions, much less co-ops, are impossible. I mean, even Ben and Jerry with all their money weren’t able to hold off the hostile takeover of their company and slow transitioning into a crappy, overpriced product. So sad about that one since it was one of the last remaining grocery store icecream brands that didn’t fall prey to shrinkflation of smaller “pints” and whipping.

It could totally be used effectively if and only if they do the work to train the LLM on only very specific content. But since they think the LLM shouldn’t require people to train it, and seem to believe that more content is better no matter what, this will never happen.

But of course the other issue is that either way, the LLM will still be biased based on the content provided to it for training data. If it’s trained with religious content included, or some other set of content that some group believes is “wholesome” or “kid friendly”, it might still end up saying some pretty messed up stuff. Like if religious content is used, telling very young girls they are property owned by men (their fathers or husbands) and need to give their body freely to them, maybe not directly, but it will be implied in much of the advice it would give since that is a pretty deeply seeded belief in most current monotheistic religions and implied in many of the texts, even if it’s no longer openly practiced or legal in mainstream western societies.

If they wanted to pretend it’s about adding value then having a percentage pricing doesn’t exactly support that. If they were actually adding value, then people would be willing to spend more and artists could charge more and the existing percentages would mean more income. Increasing percentages means the are providing less value and need to increase their cut of that decreased revenue to continue to increase profit margins.

My Meta account got locked without explanation and support couldnt tell me why, but suspiciously right after they implemented their new policies allowing hate speech but also I had deleted all of my posts going back to 2006 not long before that and had only been using it fir groups, so it wasn’t as big of an impact so wasn’t worth suing them to find out why I was locked out exactly or to start a new account.

GrapheneOS is great, but this move by Google may make it difficult for Graphene to continue to offer major updates. Only time will tell. But for the short term it’s a great option.

It’s AI generated slop. Creating a product that checks all the boxes that people want without any basis in reality. There was obviously no engineer involved and the mockup images are obviously a mashup of existing products just made gold and with different text on it. I mean just look at the fingerprint scanner. There’s no border between it and the screen like say an iPhone 6 had, but if it’s a fingerprint scanner behind the screen, why is it showing? And either way, why is the color not smooth inside the circle but is outside and it’s obviously not a pixilation issue of the current image. It’s because the source images were either pixelated or multiple mixed together and ended up not getting the gold color applied the same to each source image.

Not really. It’s not a real time message and there will be no status or read notification or any other realtime feedback that I would call a chat app. It can’t be realtime because the messages have to be split into chunks and those chunks are sent at regular intervals not all at once. The idea is that it there will be a constant flow of messages going to the news organization and only some of the will contain chunks of actual messages. And if the chunks are configured to be small and/or the frequency of messages is low, then if the message is large it could take a while for the full message to be transmitted. It’s closer to an encrypted email system than to a chat system TBH.

This is a significantly different use case than a secure chat application that most in these comments are discussing. This system is more interesting for the obfuscation of the data, not the secure communication itself which is just x25519 public key encrypted messages. It’s the fact that intercepting the relevant messages from actual whistleblowers and informants is made very difficult. It’s not a chat application.

I’ve decided not to invest in any more Pixels, personally. Even if they reverse the decision this time, it just means it will happen later, so then future versions of the OS will be out of reach or at least not as good as they could have been. I probably will keep my Pixel 7 Pro with Graphene until the battery is too bad for daily use.

Battery circuits come on enough to be a load that needs to be considered and will show up if you measure load on the device vs load consumed by the components connected to the power supply. In terms of low power devices, it is significant, though not the primary concern. But compared to the pi PSU, the charger not to mention the battery and internal PSU of a laptop, consume way more power and produce way more heat.

All of the rest assumes needing always on, heavy load processing which isn’t what the post I replied to was talking about. I was specifically replying to idle power load. And in my case, even with a bunch of self hosted applications, most of the time my servers are idling. If I was running a virtualization farm or something that was always under heavy load, then yes, as I mentioned, a single board server isn’t ideal.

As for disks, I don’t use SSDs on my pis except one that actually does a lot of local data processing. Everything else runs in memory and stores persistent data on my NAS, including logging. Virtual memory/swap is disabled on all and things that need temporary storage/cache of small amounts of data is cached on RAM disks where applications can’t be configured to not use disk caching. The only need for the SD card is for boot and some minimal IO needed for local OS operation. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B i got about 8 or 9 years or so ago with the same SD card in it.

They aren’t what I use as a database server, obviously, but they are extremely low power compared to what an old laptop would need and work great for things like pihole, and other network applications as well as being a part if my home kubernetes cluster and run the majority of the cluster’s processes on demand.

Yeah it sucks that the Spotify algorithm for both automated playlists and “shuffle” is a mess now. It used to be half-decent, but now from what I’ve heard from insiders, though no official confirmation or anything, is that the algorithms were modified to heavily favor sponsored artists, and so only really works with popular genres with lots of sponsored artists from major record labels, and “popular” songs, which means the more a song is played, the more often it gets played which becomes a self-fulfilling popularity cycle that excludes less well known songs. Really does a bad job for me with interests across many genres and wanting to hear more “b-sides” from artist I follow.

To be fair,i switched to Tidal for a bit because i got a several moth discount for talking with a product manager about what I thought the app needed (though they didn’t seem to take any of my advice anyway), and it’s no better than Spotify with finding new music. It paid artists better at the time and streaming quality is a bit better (not sure about now), but it was also missing a lot of artists I listen to, unfortunately.

I really miss the early days of Pandora when it used to use the “components” of music to cross genres and didn’t rely as heavily on how popular a song was and had just about all artists I could possibly want. Sure, I did a lot more skipping of songs back then, but now I just hear the same 50 or so songs over and over. I get really tired of it and don’t have the time to make my own playlists, not to mention even if I make a list, I want it shuffled, and even that just plays the same songs over and over way more than “random” would.

I’d love if there was a service for finding new music that allows me to hear new songs and then choose to purchase them if I want to hear them again.

And even better if it gives me a list later to review if I want to purchase so when I listen in the car I don’t have to touch 4 or more buttons to “like” a song. Never understood why Spotify, Tidal, etc., car apps always bury the like button and instead present a back button that doesn’t work if you aren’t in a predefined playlist anyway, and a shuffle button that I’m not going to want to turn off and on on the fly anyway. The like button should be immediately after the next and pause buttons in priority order. Such bad Ux design.

I also really miss Aimee Street that Amazon bought and killed. It was a cool way to get less popular music for cheap as well as getting the artist more exposure and more money the more often a track was purchased. Got so much stuff for pennies that I ended up really liking and buying a lot more from the artist.

Anyway, that’s my rant about music apps for today.

Only if you’re running it at full load all the time and comparing that to a comparable number of raspberry pis it would take to do the same amount of work. Also, only if you live in a cold climate and the heat generated is not a concern and power is supplied by a renewable source so power isn’t a concern.

Not quite. Unless the system has pretty advanced power management and is using very recent technology with high density, it’s unlikely that an x64 chipset will use less power than a comparably powered arm64 chipset. Not just the processor, but the smaller board is actually a power saver and allows it to generate less heat meaning both less power wasted and dissipated as heat as well as less power needed for fans to properly dissipate the heat. I’ve never seen a laptop use 3W at idle when considering the whole device, maybe just the CPU, but not if you include the rest of the components like RAM and disks and power supply. And especially true in a laptop that is old enough that it’s being recycled. Heck, the power supply and charger alone might be using 3W at idle with full battery.

With a raspberry pi 4, the typical power usage for the 2GB RAM model is 5W under load for the whole device and about half that for idle. Add a couple of watts for the extra memory and wider bus on the 8GB model and other things can add to that, but that’s mostly accurate. The pi 5 is a little more and the 3 is a little less. Of course, the efficiency of the laptop at full load might end up being better than a comparable number of raspberry pis it would take to do the same amount if work, but comparing a single pi or any other reputable arm-based, single board computer to a single laptop at idle is always going to be that way.

Based on the latest AOSP missing Pixel device trees, binaries, and kernel source, GrapheneOS might be on the way out, or at least for newer phones and android versions. Still not sure what this means, but it doesn’t look good, so I wouldn’t recommend investing in Pixels as they are no longer open platforms like they or the Nexus line before used to be. I have a Pixel 7 Pro with GrapheneOS which works great, but it’s likely my last Pixel. And I’ve been buying Nexus and Pixel exclusively since the Nexus One.

They hire experts to deal with it.

The issue with any crypto mining is that you can’t uaually do it casually. You are generally competing with others to return the result first in order to get paid for a block. If you mine too slowly, you’ll never actually complete any blocks. If you mine too fast, you use a lot of energy. The only way I found it economical for an average person over the long term is if it’s not a popular coin, but popular enough to have some value or you generate a lot of excess power from solar and your power company either doesn’t buy it or the rate is miserably low. There are short term scenarios where it can work, but much like the stock market, you need to be paying very close attention to profit margins, power rates, crypto price, current local temperature, etc.

Gendered restrooms only exist because men wanted to keep women from being out of the house for too long because public restrooms were men only. Then they used them to keep people of color from being out in public too much by making the “colored” bathrooms as unbearable to use as possible. Now it’s trans people. It was never about safety and always about discrimination.

Yeah, and it was a one off restore, so others who are mentioning self hosting will still be taken down as long as that policy remains.