To further stretch that metaphor, it’s like I manufacture bikes, and you copy one of my designs to build a single unit for yourself.

Also, I imagine it would be hard to discover and then prove that the app someone is using on their own machine is a clone of yours.

Also also, the validity of software patents heavily depends on your jurisdiction.

Also also also, there’s a lot of word processors and photo editors out there. The usecase of an app would have to be incredibly specific to even try and prove a clone is infringing on anything. If it’s a library - reinplementing a function in your own (or a LLM’s) code is unlikely to be a problem.

I don’t trust current LLMs to do this well, or in an affordable way, but if you somehow manage it, I don’t think the original manufacturer would have an easy time sueing you.

Looks like a Clevo Chassis. They’re actually not that uncommon, a lot of smaller ‘laptop manufacturers’ offer them with slight customisation.

I have never not had a viable connection to work.

I studied bioinformatics, got into IT, got pushed into sales, got out cause I hated that. Now I’m a barkeeper. Not yet sure what I’ll do next. Maybe IT again, if I find a company that sucks less.

Also the sysadmin for a small non-profit, which is a lot more fun than any corporate job I had.

Ist halt aber genau die Malware, die du erwartest. Ich glaube bei dem Ratschlag wird davon ausgegangen, dass die installierte App vertrauenswürdig ist. Aber point taken.

Nothing OS hebt sich nicht von anderen Stock Roms ab. Wenn du das so werten willst, kommt jedes Android Gerät mit einer fork (was ja auch mehr oder weniger stimmt). Diese Stock Roms sind aber mit wenigen Ausnahmen (ein paar chinesische Hersteller aus rechtlichen Gründen) alle mit Google Apps mit Systemzugriff versehen, haben also genau das was zum Kernproblem hier führt.

F-Droid, auch wenn da ein paar fragwürdige Entscheidungen bei der Verwaltung von signing Keys gibt, ist deutlich besser gefiltert als der Play Store. Wenn es dir um kommerzielle Apps geht, wird es die eh immer nur da geben, wo du ein gro der User erreichen kannst.

Die Alternativen gibt es bereits, was fehlt ist der Wille und das Wissen der Konsumenten, diese auch zu nutzen.

Refurbished Pixel, sowohl mainline als auch aus der A Reihe, sind oft für den Preis von Budget Smartphones zu haben. Ist bis ein anderer Hersteller eine Plattform anbietet die von ROMs supported wird und einen relockable bootloader hat halt das einzige was man kaufen kann. Alles andere ist in meinen Augen nicht sinnig.

Was Google hier tut ist zwar BS, aber das zeigt in meinen Augen nur, dass eine ROM zu nutzen, auf der Google solche Kontrolle über das System hat, ein Holzweg ist.

Ich benutze Aurora zwar auch, aber allgemein rät das die Graphene Community meines Wissens dazu, den Play Store zu benutzen, weil der deutlich mehr Sicherheitsmaßnahmen hat, um zu prüfen, dass das heruntergeladene Package auch tatsächlich das gewünschte ist. Deswegen wird auch oft von F-Droid abgeraten, weil das F-Droid Projekt allein die signing keys für alle Apps verwaltet, was als größerer Atack Vector gesehen wird.

Founder/probably partial owner. Pretty sure the CEO released a statement that he doesn’t agree with the donation.

Surprisingly difficult to find a source on this that isn’t a Twitter Screenshot of some right-wing grifter’s account.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tokenminimizing-meta-moves-curb-employee-ai-usage-ai-costs-reach-billions

This seems to be it, but I don’t think there’s currently a working paywall bypass for the information (solid site, though).

https://mlq.ai/news/meta-caps-internal-ai-token-spending-after-costs-approach-billions-in-2026/

This might be that article, but not entirely sure. Ironically, that site seems to be another questionable AI project.

I have little love for Canonical, but I wouldn’t go that far. What makes an OS ‘the Windows’ of something is in my eyes the heaps of useless surveillance, which ubuntu lacks.

I’ve been using opensuse tumbleweed for quite some time on my systems, and been pretty happy with it, in case you need an endorsement.

All of those, including Counter Strike, are preying on addiction and should either be illegal or at least regulated

I’ve worked with people who seemed like that. But they usually had partners they loved, parents they mourned, there was depth and emotion and humanity somewhere, even though they where horrible to interact with in the office. An LLM doesn’t have the capacity for that.

I don’t think we’re gonna reach a green branch here, to be honest.

They are made of equations though. I think that’s the main point of contention here. They are not a simulated brain.

I can’t see how they could, on a technical level. They are a statistical model that predict the likelyhood of the next token based on the relation of tokens in training data. There’s nothing approaching any kind of thought process or understanding happening there.

4-12 out of 10000 humans apparently have one extra finger/toe on one or more of their extremities.

This is a wonderful encapsulation of the dysfunction of modern corporations.

Yeah, it’s a lot to enable mobile payment. Personally, I just bought myself a nice wallet. Much less hassle.

Also, conditions will vary depending on which Sparkasse/Volksbank you look at (they’re all independent and might have very different fee and offer structures), but they’ll likely all have more fees than most large private banks.

The thing is, they have some good projects like these independent mobile payment apps, and are great for giving out loans to smaller, regional businesses, but as banks for private users, they definetely aren’t the best available.