This feels like more of a 2000s department store credit card dig

Doesn’t feel as horrifying as something like refuling a ship

They’re kind of already is. It’s the free and open source community.

The problem is phones are actually incredibly impressive pieces of hardware and the fact that we can Mass produce them has diluted that opinion. I’m actually to look into building my own phone and I wanted to have at least some near-flagship specs. I know how to design my own circuit boards and get someone to print them. But acquiring CPUs that perform at least 1/4 as well as Pixels or iPhones is objectively not possible, these companies have deals with manufacturers for exclusive products. And even if you could these chips are so precise you will never be able to figure out the signaling yourself.

Maybe things have gotten better now that we have ai and you don’t need to be any sort of expert in anything you just need to be good enough at decision making problem solving and communicating to acquire the skills and knowledge to work on these chips. And by the time you’ve done all the work and acquired all the hardware you might have spent close to 3 to 5K on a device you could have just bought for $800. All for what, to circumvent privacy breaches that should be illegal in the first place?

And that’s the root problem we’re trying to solve. Another symptom of these companies being able to engage in the bad behavior that they do is that they gain the ability to overvalue themselves. There should be no safety or privacy concern when engaging in the purchase of any device for the same reason that people should not fear food poisoning every time they go to the grocery store.

That’s what the regulators are for. This is a legal issue not a technical one.

But the only underlying cause for why we’re not regulating tech companies is because fear of privacy violations is not reducing market activity. Apparently people are still going to use their phones even if their phones are listening to them having private conversations. Apparently people will still buy shit off of their phones even if their phones are going to use that data to show them ads.

Apparently the harm of your privacy being breached does not hurt enough to prevent you from doing good things.

Now if Android takes away my F-Droid, Tasker and Termux I’m gonna throw a fit. That’s not privacy that’s self-determination, I bought an Android because I can customize it to be as low friction for me as I need, if my phone starts giving me friction then we’re going to have problems.

I’m trying to think of a rule against using AI or even the rule of at least documenting where you use AI. There was one project where I tried to be diligent about including GitHub copilot as a co-author but then I slipped and forgot and there’s no point in bothering.

I think I’m just going to strongly encourage disclosing AI usage but there can be no requirements.

It costs $0 to tell the police…

You can literally walk up to any cop and say “my brother says he wants to kill me and I’m scared” and that’s more than plenty.

The way I see it we have very little agency in this world. That’s why I choose to believe in predestination. If your brother kills then he was always destined to kill, you can’t know that about him like that’s not something anyone could know about anyone else. But I fully believe and live by the truth that it is possible to know a little bit better than everyone else.

By the nature of things you know more about the situation than I can ever. And you know more than the other people experiencing this situation. There is nothing immoral about such a state, the correct way to characterize it is “a potential matter of life and death” therefore “the potential of dialing 911”, and back to my thesis it cost $0 to give the right people a heads up.

There’s nothing wrong with knowing better.

Full disclosure I’m kind of suffering with my own motivation issues, I have things in my life that feel small to me that I just can’t do for my own reasons. I’m sorry if I presented the words “my brother says he wants to kill me and I’m scared” as easy.

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Rust is the foot gun, it’s so perfect that you genuinely cannot just sit down and type out what you need.

Recently I’ve just been getting co-pilot to do it

I have an alias that calls the copilot CLI with a prompt that says “set up typescript”

Fuck this

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I really wanted to be better.

If there was some kind of automation mechanics I think I would be happy.

You can run into players organically?? I thought you had to go into the Nexus for that

The source of this report came to the journalist via the police.

Or this is a report about police activity related to this story.

Entire way not a clear encoding scheme

We already have activitypub, and projects like Gitea are actively implementing it (at this time I don’t think it’s live enough yet)

I feel like we should be treating git as more of a federated system. What rule is there against pushing to multiple remotes?

Can I ask what this “personal information” could possibly be? I’ve been 100% aware of all the information I put on the internet and the only thing that really bothers me is chatgpt. What information have I put on the internet that I wanted to keep a secret but like “whoops” it ended up on the internet?

Frankly I feel like this is what most people feel like. I mean who cares that Amazon can recommend to me something that I might actually want, it’s still up to me to buy it if I want it. I’m not losing control if anything

The same advantages as all free and open source solution, it’s free and open source. That means how much it’s going to cost to your business is directly under your control. You can make a decision on how you acquire hardware based on your business’s needs. If you want to add or change features you can decide how to do that based on the deals you have with your programmers (like pick the developer you have with the best skills and the lowest cost), and then you get to control how much it costs you and how reliable the result is going to be.

If you feel like the support you get from customer service from Amazon or Google or Microsoft is reliable enough and you don’t need more reliability then go ahead and stick with paid products. But if you already have a team of really expensive and talented engineers you might as well let them solve problems with free and open source equipment.

I wish Rocket Chat got more attention

Ok but I got to choose

There is a metadata protocol called opengraph, it’s how apps get the information to display a rich preview. Basically the app takes the link as it’s written in the SMS message or Twitter thread and then it tries to fetch that page and then read the open graph metadata from inside. That should give it enough to show a title description and a background image, considering the web developers implemented opengraph.

If Google is planning to use their own servers basically as a proxy then all this means is that the opengraph rich metadata is going to be a little more stale than if the app just fetch the page and generated the rich metadata itself

Yeah so I get that… most of the US’s debts is to its citizens through treasury bonds. And yeah you can’t print money…

I was asking literally what would change? Like what would that change be? Like what does the world look like where the United States is not in debt?

Realistically speaking what could actually happen in the world to make it so that we are creating value again instead of accumulating debts.