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Up until I was 9 I could, on demand, stop any dream and pick from a “selector” just like a jukebox to go back to any other dream I had and enjoyed. I was fully aware I was sleeping, and would choose freely.

I hate that as I got older I completely lost this skill.

Come to bioinformatics! We have the same existencial dread and fear of failure, but we also get state of the art GPUs to play around with!

Its not a coincidence that suddenly a lot of banks have been issuing warnings over the AI bubble. They already know.

They’re all getting AI integration

LibreOffice is not.

Kate is amazing, which is not surprising given it’s a KDE app

Forget about the BIOS for a second, try to bend the pins back into shape. You can do that by using a moveable light source, a thin blade and a mechanical pencil without the graphite.

Nintendo is quite clearly transitioning towards being a “Disney-style” media company.

They sell Mario, the character, not a Mario game. They want licensed plushies, water bottles, clock faces, theme parks, movies. And yes, a few games, so long as they have the characters in the safest most streamlined way possible.

Generative AI is profoundly dangerous to this type of company. ChatGPT won’t generate Super Mario 64 part 2 for you… But it can generate infinite amounts of shirts, mugs, funny videos, paintings, etc.

openWRT is fantastic and does indeed give you full control over your router… but not your modem. Modems are a complete mess of patents and proprietary software that nobody can control but a select number of companies.

Google’s approach to collecting more user data was launching a “free” service tied to it. Want to read their emails? Gmail. Want their files? Drive. How about every photo they take? Google Photos.

Looks like OpenAI wants to skip the “deliver a real product” step and just straight up ask for your data lol

Nothing you just wrote contradicts my comment. It would be super weird for me to say indie means “solo dev” and then write an example of a couple developing a game. My two examples were an Ubisoft side studio and a large developer getting money from somewhere (hint: a publisher) before publishing a game.

I “love” how the word “indie” lost all meaning within the gaming industry.

No longer a Flash game made by a single dude with a few screws lose, no longer a game battling for attention on the third page of Steam made by a couple of millennials.

Now it’s “Ubisoft’s little secondary 200 person team” or “tee-hee a tiny cute studio that had enough capital to pay developers for 10 years before releasing the game”.

Even if you fixed the issue with drivers…

…your modem runs it’s own firmware with a lot of extremely shady behavior, and you can’t touch that regardless of which OS you install. Even your SIM card can arbitrarily execute Java applets and fetch from the network without your command, but at least it’s somewhat contained. Your modem though, it can do a lot without your control and people like Qualcomm have been caught doing nasty stuff with it (plus, of course, giving the US the data whenever they ask for it).

This is why people like Stallman and Snowden often talk about teaching users how to use libre software on their computers, but rather than pushing for the same with smartphones, they tell you to not touch these at all instead. They’re fundamentally anti-privacy devices, built this way.

Of course I carry one, it’s fairly hard to live without a phone nowadays, but we must be aware of the impossibility of fully containing the data harvesting they do.