If only most people weren’t NPCs who don’t make a single conscious decision in their lives and who don’t care about anything but fitting in.

Hopefully LLMs may help fix some random small bugs or rewrite legacy code.

Jokes on you we will soon be raiding data centers for fresh water

I heard advertisers consider young parents the most profitable demographic, so anything childcare related is weighted very heavily in their models. I don’t have a source though

Why do you think people buy from a monopoly?

I wouldn’t celebrate prematurely. It could very well mean that both German and American Amazon profile you, but American is just more transparent about it because Americans aren’t as spooked by surveillance as Germans are.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

someone should have just shut down Facebook entirely

And nothing of value would be lost.

Interestingly the website menu only links to Privacy page, while the link to the actual privacy policy is in the bottom of the page.

I skimmed through it, haven’t found anything terrible, or any inconsistencies between Privacy and Privacy Policies. But maybe someone has a sharper eye than I do on privacy policies.

Also, I wonder what model is it under the hood. Truth Social was found out to be an illegal fork of Mastodon, so maybe this America AI was some open-weights model too?

Bing and Google. Separate index so far only available for France.

I use it anyway, I like how it shows climate impact I made by using Ecosia with ads (right now it’s 3 trees planted, 22 square meters of land restored).

I use DDG when I need to search pictures though, because Ecosia doesn’t have “no AI pictures” toggle, so it’s all AI slop.

Shitty browser scoring quick points by taking a stance against thing everyone already hates.

I only wonder if they have ditched Microsoft Bing, or it’s still the default search engine.

Flathub sandboxes applications to prevent them from infecting the system if app gets hacked, and lets you control permissions for each app, like microphone, camera etc.

But they are still work in progress and easily circumvented, thus I called them only minor improvements.

The only real issue with Ubuntu is it uses Snap app store instead of Flathub app store.

Flathub has more apps, is faster, and has some minor security improvements. Linux Mint uses Flathub.

HOWEVER, you can add Flathub as additional source in Ubuntu app store app, and use Flathub exclusively.

In that case, no real difference between Ubuntu and Linux Mint other than UI.

You might be thinking about Geocities, it died in 2009. Neocities was inspired by Geocities but is a separate project launched in 2013.

I managed to squeeze 5 years out of a $200 budget phone. 7 years on mid-range or flagship is trivial.

Especially as new Pixels have lots of features to improve battery longevity:

• charging only up to 80%,

• OLED display that turns off pitch black pixels. Many apps nowadays have pitch black themes, and you can set wallpapers to pitch black,

• limit display smoothness to 60 Hz,

• battery saving mode,

• dark mode,

• turn off background usage for individual or all apps

Your argument is extrapolating way too much. You constructed this overcomplicated chain of thought that supposedly proves GOS sold out because… They got a manufacturer to build hardware that meets GOS requirements?

This is no different from ZOG, deep state or Blackrock conspiracy theories.

I could have sworn they had plans to ship Graphene phones

They do. They say it in their roadmap:

Hardware and firmware security are core parts of the project, but it’s currently limited to research and submitting suggestions and bug reports upstream. In the long term, the project will need to move into the hardware space.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#roadmap

People usually have different tolerance level for pop-ups and distractions based on their neurobiology.

I have heard autistic people say pop-ups hurt and overstimulate them, ADHD people say they can’t ignore pop-ups, while neurotypocal people say they don’t even notice the pop-ups.

So both experiences can be true at once. You have no issues with pop-ups, while for someone else physically can’t tolerate a single distraction without stressing them out.

There might be, but very few. Most (like gpt-oss, or Deepseek R1) are open weight, because no one wants to make their model training data public.

Open sourcing a model would likely give away they are using pirated content or scrap internet websites without permission. That’s something Anthropic was fined for last year, they were caught using pirated books for model training.

Moreover, training data is one of most lucrative resources in AI race next to GPUs, and AI companies are going all in on finding it, desperately fighting for any possible data. Heck recently they even started buying antique books, digitizing, and burning them.

They invest a whole lot of resources to get quality data, and they don’t want to share it with competitors for free.

My personal opinion though is FOSS philosophy doesn’t apply that cleanly to LLMs anyway. If compiling Chromium or Linux kernel from source is tedious enough, “compiling” an LLM from source on consumer hardware is straight impossible. It’s something only your competitors could do.

Thus you can’t verify the LLM is the same as it’s source code anyway, so open source label becomes meaningless.

And open weight model is still an improvement over using a cloud model, as it’s local and doesn’t call home with your chats data.

According to the article, this guy’s legal team claims he did, in fact, tell them they should show a search warrant, and he won’t talk without a lawyer.

But they were ignoring those requests, and pressuring him further till he realized it’s a lost cause, and handed them over the Duress pin

Or both! Don’t consume where possible, seek out the most ethical option when you must