VortexLain

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by VortexLain 3mo ago
Russian Aurora OS was an official Sailfish OS offspring, focused on MDM devices, but Sailfish cut ties with Aurora in 2022, after the Russia-Ukraine war has emerged. It's now developed independently of Sailfish, although they share the
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by VortexLain 3mo ago
Could you please elaborate, which software is usable on mobile Linux except for Firefox? I've seen multiple people using mobile Linux, and they were using Firefox and webapps for everything, no exceptions.
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by VortexLain 3mo ago
It seems like in 5 years using stolen ID scans as a basic privacy and anonymity tool will be as common as using VPNs today. What a wonderful world.
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by VortexLain 3mo ago
Allowing contributions only from big tech companies sounds ideologically questionable from free/libre software movement perspective, and it emboldens decisions which go against the user's interests, such as removing manifestv2 in
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
So every adult citizen is forced to open a credit line?
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Oh yes, let's induce regulatory capture and ban open-weight models in the name of alignment.
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
During Iran shutdowns I've been researching what ways Iranians manage to get to the internet by mimicking as whitelisted resources (such as hcapcha). ChatGPT had refused to lookup information written in Farsi since "circumventing
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Now this is very bad, as bad as it can get. As soon as all local services will stop working in sanctioned countries, those countries' governments will force all users to either install a root certificate or lose access to all local ser
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
I really hope this will have proper GNU/Linux support, otherwise it will end up the same way Qualcomm ARM PCs did.
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Starting with the days of Siri, i've been evaluating all chatbots of that nature by writing them a meaningless string of text and seeing how they answer. GPT-3 was the first system which instead of refusing to answer or answering meani
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
You could have told the guard you're going to a competitive programming contest.
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Ladybird going source-available is quite unfortunate, seems like Gecko is the only production-ready independent browser engine we're left with. They may, at this point, go ahead and remove "get involved" block from their webs
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Recently, GitHub has changed their terms of service to use all user data for AI training unless users explicitly opt out. This is probably the way Microsoft has obtained "appropriately licensed data".
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Having no GMS implementation at all or using microG introduces compatibility issues for a lot of proprietary software. GrapheneOS is the only ROM which supports running GMS in an isolated manner, without giving it direct access to privilege
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
> The mechanical actions and the physical presence really helps in retention of the materials. Although this is the case for many people, I personally struggle to process information and write it on paper at the same time. Thus, I stron
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
And the only way to win this lottery is by using an automated script that starts sending automated requests as soon as the new day starts at Beijing time.
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by VortexLain 4mo ago
Although you will have to buy a used phone in order to pay less than 250$, it seems like GrapheneOS is the best solution for that problem. Not optimal, but the best among what we have.
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by VortexLain 5mo ago
Conducting insurance fraud? What a usecase.
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by VortexLain 5mo ago
This pretty much means OpenAI becomes a monopoly in Malta. Seems anti-competitive.
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by VortexLain 5mo ago
Well, having less competition is a bad thing.
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by VortexLain 5mo ago
GPS and other similar technologies work by passively listening to the satellite signals without having to respond to them in any manner. Location is calculated based on time it took for the signal from difficult beacons to arrive.
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by VortexLain 5mo ago
>we'll even buy compute from China if we can sell Anthropic models there. Considering that Anthropic mass-bans Chinese users accounts based on using VPN (used to circumvent the Chinese firewall) and then demands an ID or a residence
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by VortexLain 5mo ago
It would have been much better to be able to disable telemetry without losing basic functionality such as navigation and safety updates. Having to choose between being spied on and having no connectivity at all is a false dichotomy.
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by VortexLain 6mo ago
I personally explicitly avoid parallel agents, since it creates too much cognitive debt, and sometimes an agent may need steering towards an architectally sane solution mid-work.
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by VortexLain 6mo ago
I've tried it but after 10 minutes I found myself not comfortable running software this unpolished, specifically managing any sort of private data.
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by VortexLain 7mo ago
Appending "Good." before clarifying questions actually helps with that suprisingly well.
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by VortexLain 7mo ago
GPT models are generally much better at C++, although they sometimes tend to produce correct but overengineered code, and the operator has to keep an eye on that.
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by VortexLain 7mo ago
Now this is bad. "Registered App Stores" seems like a way to satisfy regulators before taking away the user's right to execute arbitrary code on their devices (or as it's called in modern corporate newspeak: sideloading)
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OpenAI requires ID verification for cybersecurity related tasks(openai.com)
4 points by VortexLain 8mo ago|0 comments
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by VortexLain 8mo ago
I haven't looked at the MCP server, but generally, reverse engineering with AI is quite underrated. I’ve had success extracting encryption keys from an android app that uses encryption to vendor-lock users by forcing them to use that s

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