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I find it to be pretty reasonable, and also consistent with what GrapheneOS previously said. They were consistently against company-owned verification. I don't see anything offensive here: they aren't attacking individuals or projects, but rather attacking an approach that is harmful.
Could you please share some examples?
I often see them being on point and highlighting important details. Majority of custom roms aren't taking security seriously, so I don't think there's anything wrong with calling them out on that.
This is a false dichotomy. There's way more options on this spectrum than 2 extremes.
But the problem still exists, and the issue is still on the agenda. It's still a priority to solve.
People are pushing back on this every single time. Maybe it's time legislators read the room instead? Is there a step for this too?
Last time I tried JLCPCB, it was way too expensive on a smaller scale. Simple PCB with a cheap Nordic nRF, a few other basic components, 10cm x 5cm: ~17 euros/unit (including shipping) at 5 units which was the minimum amount to order.
Do you have a different experience?
I feel like the article ignores the elephant in the room — production costs.
Producing PCBs (say, 5 or 10 units) is pretty expensive, and components are also costly on such a small scale. Combining these two requires additional money or time. Beyond that, you need to consider that you probably won't get it right the first time, and every attempt multiplies the cost.
It'll be a deal-breaker for many people — the risk is just too high.
During the first week of June I merged 293 PRs, and have found no production defects tracing back to those changes so far. The latter part is a bit of good luck — I think 2-3 minor and 1 major defect would be acceptable for this volume.
At this point, articles about LLMs paired with meaningless metrics have become a classic combo. I get that it's typical corporate BS, but publishing this widely is just weird. "Look, my productivity is skyrocketing according to a chart that only my manager cares about!"
Mitchell Hashimoto put it well: https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2071971627748020409
they could had bought an entire ram manufacturing company along with its entire supply chain
And then what, sell it for cheap? Right, Apple is well-known for subsidising their hardware.
(2025)
Fully agree, that's just straight up fraud and it's covered by chargebacks.
Sure, will do a small write-up about my setup in a few hours.
In terms of apps, I fully believe it will only get worse from here: Google’s trajectory has been pretty hostile, and third‑party developers tend to follow it.
That’s why I have two phones. One runs GrapheneOS and is my daily driver; the other (considerably less private and secure) stays at home connected to my server so I can always scrcpy into it.
And how many options are there exactly? How many of them are capable of at least making and receiving a phone call without any issues 99% of the time?
While I agree with your general sentiment, I feel necessary to acknowledge that it's just not there (yet?). GrapheneOS is a great option if you want to have a fully working and secure device.
How about paying 60 billion for a bunch of enterprise contracts?
I got really excited thinking it was a new post for a second :(
A vibecoded petition with no clear expected outcomes and no actionable items whatsoever.
Is it just a honeypot to get names and emails? Why would people sign something like that?
Local models are looking better and better each day. Still, not as capable, but you can be sure that nobody will take it away from you at a moment's notice.
IMO if numbers on Socket.dev can be trusted, then impact seems rather small (luckily). It also makes sense — I know some packages from the affected list, they're heavily outdated and their upstreams aren't maintained anymore.
Other than this — I don't know how many there are affected people in total, but AUR team probably has an exact number. I am also sure, they're doing their best to handle it accordingly to the impact.
Orphaned packages, so other people are able to file requests and take over them. That's how AUR works — it's community-driven [0].
I'm so glad that the LLM hysteria at $WORK is barely scratching the surface. These Twitter-brained CEOs are living in a completely different reality, so I am really happy I don't have to experience it firsthand.
[citation needed]
IDEs made by JetBrains are huge. At this point, they're basically the standard option for several JVM languages.
Same with PCs... do you really want to run that *.exe you downloaded from that cool site you found?
Yes, I am fully capable of making decisions about what software to run on my personal hardware on my own, thanks. I don't need Apple or Google or Microsoft to make this decision for me.
They're trying to fix social engineering. It's simply not possible.
You don't need to belittle someone else's work. It's a series of articles, and author has 2 more articles that aren't related to articles Ciechanowski wrote at all.
It's not? The only 2 options available there are last gen Strix Point (AI 300 series).
This doesn't sound quite right, I think they put a wrong price there.
Bottom cover alone goes for more than that, even without battery or speakers: https://frame.work/sg/en/products/laptop13pro-bottom-cover-k...
So does the screen: https://frame.work/sg/en/products/laptop13pro-display-kit
I was also surprised by this sentence. It sounds like this is the author's first attempt at running models locally.
Or maybe the author has been running heavily quantized small models all that time — Gemma 4 gguf he's using is Q4 and only 16 GB. In my experience quants like this tend to perform much worse.
You made a few typos in "LaLiga"
I am so glad DuckDuckGo allows blocking specific sites from the search. Just did this for a domain linked in this repository.
Well, lossless over Bluetooth is a mess currently.
Only 1 codec is capable of that — aptX Lossless. Then, your transmitting device, phone / laptop / etc., needs to be compatible with it, and that's often not the case. Samsung and Apple don't support it.
I bought USB-C Bluetooth dongle that I use with my iPhone for that exact reason. It looks janky, but I think it's worth it.
Discord isn't under pressure to implement these measures globally.
I fully agree that they shouldn't be blamed for kick-starting age verification, because governments are pushing for this all around the world. But it's simply ignorant to pretend that Discord isn't helping these governments to normalise this process with their actions. They're also signalling that businesses are willing to comply and that they have all means necessary to do this.