At this point, why not just root it? There are public exploits for Android 6 vulnerabilities, it’s not like you’d lose any security.

The incident comes barely a week after a group of tourists were filmed blocking migrating wildebeest at Kenya’s Maasai Mara […] crowding riverbanks and forcing wildebeests into crocodile-infested waters

WTF…

China has been building massive “coal to fuel” conversion plants for over a decade now. Their main goal has less to do with Russia, or caring about the climate, and more with reducing the extreme pollution levels they used to have in those mega-cities.

Same thing with electric vehicles. China has a massive population, with growing energy requirements. They’re building everything they can to catch up with expected per capita energy demands.

For reference, in 2022:

• United States: 78kWh
• Germany: 40kWh
• China: 31kWh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

TLDR: It’s a mess.

Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in “backups to migrate later”. 😮‍💨
I’ve been considering “vibe coding” some converters…

As for syncing… the Markdown part is easy: git.
Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.
Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn’t find a decent compatible editor for Android.
I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.
I’ve read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible… and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.

PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.

Yeah, I don’t think I like llamafile, reusing some weights between models, and smaller updates, sounds like a better idea.

What I’d like to see is a unified WebNN support, for CPU, GPU, and NPU: WebNN Overview

(Not to pull rank, but my mail profile can be tracked to Netscape Navigator, across multiple OSs 😁)

I was going to say that AI has a lot of implications in the online world that Mozilla was supposed to promote… but maybe you’re right, the AI genie is out of the bottle and there is little left to do about it. Its impact will be whatever it will be, no matter what people want to say about it.

Not sure which “old Mozilla” you want, the 1998 one? the 2005 one? the 2015 one? It has changed a lot indeed, but kind of has been Google’s anti-anti-thrust shield for 20+ years.

From those projects, which ones are out of scope for the Mozilla Manifesto?

The African nuclear reactors might need more explaining, but the rest seem to be right on the goals:

• Anti-censorship groups
• Lobbying EU AI regulations
• Tool to reveal censorship on ISPs
• Coding/operations related carbon footprint and pollution, which can be used to prevent people’s access

What would be the proper advocacy groups? Would you’ve ever heard of Mozilla without some advocacy group?

People building the yachts, and people operating them, are probably glad for the opportunity to divert some of the money to feeding, clothing, or treating, themselves and their families.

The problem isn’t that billionaires spend money, the problem is that they don’t spend nearly enough.

• ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
• ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
• ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
• ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)

The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.

Seems like it hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Is it abandoned?

Not sure if entrapment, chasing thought-crime, a case of “laws don’t apply to aliens”, or just a way of diverting some public funds.

There used to be chatbots posing as minors for some time already, expanding it to other areas is disturbing though.

Don’t get me wrong, the US is totally going towards a dystopia. I was talking about the remaining 95% of the world and the long term goals. The US has done its part, some US companies can still do some stuff, but the US as a country, or its monopoly-USD “billionaires”, are no longer a relevant part of the equation.

Worldwide, NPUs and client-side AIs will lead the next changes. Some people in the US will have a chance to leverage those, learning will become a local query away, only limited by each person’s curiosity. Keep in mind a full copy of the Wikipedia is only 100GB, all of Project Gutenberg is only 70GB, I have both and more on the same smartphone I’m writing this from (and it’s not even a “flagship” model). There is a lot, and I mean A LOT of knowledge to be extracted from there, which just so happens to be part of the training data for chatbot AIs, meaning they’re particularly suited for retrieving it.

You’re right, you don’t “need” neuromorphic hardware to get those facts right… but at the same time, you don’t “need” those facts to use neuromorphic hardware to retrieve them as quickly as you can ask for, then get them with all explanations, related keywords, topics, plus links to sources for it all. With a simple text-to-voice, it will even help you read it!

I know, it may sound like the world upside down. Another way of seeing it, is as the pivot point of a balance, the joining of different ways of approaching knowledge. Interesting times lie ahead 😉

All of us computer geeks in the 90’s (and I do mean all) were evangelical about the internet ushering in a Renaissance in dissemination of truth. We were naive.

Hard disagree. The truth has come out, and the Internet has allowed more people than ever to see it… in all its glory and horror. Actually, we’re still in the process: only 5.5 billion people have Internet access right now, that’s 67% of the world population, we’re still missing 1/3rd of the whole picture.

Just wait until you see what 90% of the truth looks like.

As for AI… it’s safe (and who’s going to read it this deep in the thread anyway?) to tell you a little secret: neuromorphic hardware.

The goal has never been centralized AI like what is being sold right now, not even the dream of an AGI, or some super-AI. The goal is giving every person a self controlled personal assistant capable of sifting through the Internet, or in other words: a smartphone with an NPU running an AI of their choice customized to their personal preferences. The goal is direct democracy where the interests of everyone are taken into account 24/365 on millions of subjects all the time. The goal is giving everyone access to millions of lifetimes worth of skill sets with zero training time. Moderators? You can get hardware with a modest NPU right this moment, download any number of LLMs, and decide for yourself. Moderators will be people capable of affording the hardware, which are already in the hundreds of millions; those billionaires can fuck off, the genie is out of the bottle and it’s spreading fast (last I’ve seen, there’s an estimate of a “Moore’s law” where AI is growing at 100x efficiency per year, most people don’t even remotely realize what that means).

Study material: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Depends… I’ve been running 2.99 for a while now 😄

Oooooh, can’t wait to see the new features!
[what? there is no new features…?]
Can’t wait to see the new splash screen! 😇

Why Joe Rogan […]

Because it sells.

I wouldn’t venture to guess what are his actual beliefs.

1. Books bought a long time ago (created the account last century)
2. Books not available on the high seas that were 50% cheaper on Amazon
3. Books from Humble Bundles

And who said anything about being surprised? Got my offline copies of all of them already, but can get another one.

6 pages of apps… nice. 😅

Now, seriously. Android 14 on a Samsung phone, lets me select “location: only while using the app”. I close apps when not using them, and limit notifications so they don’t get auto-started at random. Unused app detection, puts them in “deep sleep” which doesn’t allow them to run at all, and strips them of all permissions.

This scanner, would be more useful if it also checked which apps have the location permission enabled, and are frequently used.