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by sterlind 1y ago
You can enable root on GrapheneOS. It will erase your data, however, so make a backup before you do. But if you really want root you can save your data, root, restore, and leave root on.
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by sterlind 1y ago
that's a good point. honestly, very little. though the lawmakers almost certainly had a smaller, and less.. vigorous.. fanbase than Mr. Kirk. and it could be my bias, but I think the Right is more likely to react vigorously to assassin
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by sterlind 1y ago
> Among age 20-39, only a minority expressed being "disappointed with the US' excessive measures." huh? why??
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by sterlind 1y ago
pragmatically, you can't kill an idea with bullets. terrorism does one thing only: it triggers retaliation. nihilistic accelerationists who want a war can use terror to provoke one. some of Charlie Kirk's last words: > ATTENDE
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by sterlind 1y ago
haven't seen it, so I shouldn't comment, but from the reviews they went out of their way to make the movie apolitical, or at least to obfuscate the setting's relation to our current zeitgeist. which resulted in a tortured, im
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by sterlind 1y ago
> No, it is not the "last generation of a functioning world" and we will solve climate change like we solve every other problem. half-assedly, far too late and at tremendous cost, after multiple wars. but we will survive.
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by sterlind 1y ago
> But despite all that, I can appreciate that he was a man who was willing to have a (mostly) civil conversation with all sides, something I wish more people would try to do. could you give some examples of good, civil conversations he
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by sterlind 1y ago
you really don't have to self-censor "emulator" here. HN moderation is not like social media platforms.
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by sterlind 1y ago
I'd personally like to have a FOSS, privacy-aware CSAM (or even generic gore/porn) detector I could plug into Matrix/Lemmy/Mastodon servers. something self-hostable, so I could run those services without worrying about p
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by sterlind 1y ago
those platforms will be banned. this will doom Signal, the fediverse, and countless smaller platforms. anything that isn't compatible will become illegal.
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by sterlind 1y ago
so you encrypt your image, send it to the government, the government runs its CSAM detector on the encrypted image and gets... an encrypted result. then what? you decrypt the answer and send it back to them? promise that you totally didn&#x
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by sterlind 1y ago
I'm not worried about the Basilisk, I'm worried about the AI researchers who believe they're being blackmailed by the Basilisk into creating it. ...hm. maybe I am worried about the Basilisk, then.
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by sterlind 1y ago
you can actually declare containers directly in Nix. they use the same config/services/packages machinery as you'd use to declare a system config. and then you can embed them in the parent machine's config, so they all c
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by sterlind 1y ago
> Ignorance of the law does not excuse you from having to follow it. ICE agents and other Federal workers are largely insulated from consequences due to Sovereign Immunity protections. only egregious, malicious violations cause them pe
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by sterlind 1y ago
I'm really interested in Monero. I feel kinda nervous about using it, though, since even though everything I'm buying is legal, it feels like I'd be calling a lot of attention, and I want to make sure I'm buying and exch
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by sterlind 1y ago
the Reddit revolt drove me to Lemmy. it's methadone to Reddit's heroin, but it doesn't feel like Dead Internet over there.
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by sterlind 1y ago
I think the companies themselves changed. Google used to be much less evil.
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by sterlind 1y ago
I stayed away from cryptocurrency when DeFi and Web3 and NFTs were everywhere, but I've started paying with BTC where I can, so I don't have to deal with banking apps, and to stick it to puritanical payment processors, after the S
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by sterlind 1y ago
ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) brings back a kind of domain fronting, except you don't need to front anything at all. the Client Hello itself is encrypted, so the SNI is hidden. hopefully ECH will catch on. I suspect the corporate backla
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by sterlind 1y ago
you could even be extradited to Mississippi by another state, depending on how friendly they are and how much they want you.
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by sterlind 1y ago
it's regulatory capture if there's an oligopoly of audit firms. it's regulatory capture if a cartel of ID verification companies are lobbying for specific requirements that lock out upstart competitors.
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by sterlind 1y ago
Android forks. AOSP, GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS. we need more OEM unlockable phones, though. GOS is looking at getting one made, I'm planning to throw money at them to make it happen.
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by sterlind 1y ago
so? pop up a permission prompt. have the user confirm. and isn't it immediately apparent that the app is leaking data if your calculator is popping a webview?
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by sterlind 1y ago
use a fork. GrapheneOS is amazing. I feel like I own my phone, I trust my phone, and it obeys me , for the first time in a decade. unlock. flash. spread the word. use the fork, Luke.
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by sterlind 1y ago
> How can we fix this? turn people onto sideloaded apps. show them Revanced and NewPipe, show them system-wide ad blockers and bloatware removal and every other thing Google doesn't want plebs to use. people don't care about &q
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by sterlind 1y ago
it's perfectly legal to modify any copyrighted work. it's only illegal for you to distribute copies. so it should be legal to install an ad block plugin, but not legal to run an ad-stripping proxy.
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by sterlind 1y ago
on the other hand, Musk et al are building AI-powered thirst traps, like Grok's "Ani", or the accursed Replika bots (whose user base went on suicide watch when the company abruptly decided to digitally neuter their "comp
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by sterlind 1y ago
it's not erotic role-play, but I have a use case of making an AI-powered NetHack clone. specifically, to generate dungeon layouts, dialog for NPCs and to fill in the boatloads of minutae and interactions which NetHack is famous for.
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by sterlind 1y ago
does Perplexity store crawled pages for training?
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by sterlind 1y ago
> why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf? is it just on your behalf? or is it on Perplexity's behalf? are they not archivi

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