Another downside is that Google is no longer releasing the source code for monthly security updates, only for quarterly ones. This, in conjunction with other delays in OS source code, means most custom ROMs can’t ship monthly updates anymore. Add this to the pile of other things that make it harder to mod your Android phone in 2025.
Great, Google is making AOSP-based, Google-free ROMs less secure. To accomodate corporate partners that are unable to do monthly bug fixes.
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Please don’t give Loeb more attention. He’s fantasizing about aliens every time a comet enter the solar system.
Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.
Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.
What happens when it detects tempering? Does it cause one syscall to fail, or a kernel panic?
I quikly gave up on correting those bots. Either you’re lucky and made a prompt that induced it to generate a decent answer. Or you’re not, and there’s no point in correcting it. In that case you’re better off doing whatever you were going to do without a LLM.
Providing feedback isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing. Closing an account and going to a competitor is another option, if competitors were not as bad.
I can’t talk directly the person responsible, the employee is more likely to be able to.
I was once an employee in a similar situation, getting feedback/complaint from a customer. As an employee you can’t do much if you alone think management is making a dumb decision. But if a (enough) customers thinks and say it, employees who agree may jump on that occasion and ensure that feedback gets noticed by management.
It’s sad that gouvernments require adhering to some corporation’s terms of service, and tracking, to access public service.
Public service are a right, it shouldn’t be a choice between public service and privacy, but it’s also important to have access to healthcare. It’s fine to both complain about an app, and to use it to avoid being excluded.
I try to use alternatives (websites, physical mail, phone) instead of apps whenever possible. When a provider announced their website would be retired and told customers to install apps, I email them to request they send monthly invoice by snail mail. They’re required by law if requested, at least here. And it’s probably more costly to them.
Refuse apps that require Google Play Services or trackers and tell it to your bank / utility provider… when they invite you to install it.
A bank employee was confused when I refused their app because of trackers from Google and others, telling me they’re not big fans of Google themselves. I showed an Exodus privacy report about their app to that employee to show that they integrated Google tracker.
I wasn’t familiar with Drop Site News and had a quick look, seems legit:
He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.
The video has more details.
24 types of trees, bushes, shrubs
Nice. He did his homework and made sure to not plant a monoculture.
A well informed, technicality litterate, reasonable person wouldn’t.
Many reasonable people start/keep using those products. All of this is somewhat obvious for tech hobbyist. Others may not be fully aware or the risk, or don’t consider they’re particularily at risk. The norm is to use those services and apps. There is strong peer pressure to use those service to stay connected with people and organisations.
There’s a need for more or at least better education around being safe online, and protecting personal data. An education that’s free of big tech influence/sponsoring.
This is an interesting example of narrow-AI working well on a problem it was specifically trained for.
Too bad people are going on wild goose chase trying to build AGI using LLM, creating more problems than they’re solving. Narrow AI are easier to build, people know how to build them, and they typically give better results, but they don’t get as much attention or money. It’d be willing to pay a subscription to access a collection of decent narrow AIs that works well for specific tasks, but not LLM that do many thing poorly.
The US is sidelining itself at the moment by alienating and making unreasonable requests to trade partners.
The point is not to permanently unweave relations, but to resist unreasonable requests, since giving in to Trump only embolden him.
The door need to remain open, as the US may one day became a more reasonable partner.
Everyone hate quacks.
Good luck to Ukraine.
I wish they didn’t publicise details on how the mines were discovered, and how they were destroyed. It’s an interesting read, but the Russian army may also find this intetesting.
That’s awesome.
Don’t stop there. The transition to renewables and electrification could also help, by reducing the import of oil, gas, and coal from Russia.
Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one’s environmental footprint.
And the energy cost doesn’t appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn’t profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don’t have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.