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Interesting and good to be aware of

When on a random CLI though my personal preference though is still to use telnet as the commands are easily memorized and there’s something more natural about typing the email out and then sending it.

AI / LLMs are not intelligence .. they are just a prediction engine that has been branded as 'intelligence' by marketing employees

At the end of the day it is still making a best guess at what the user wants based on data it has seen before.

It still requires someone smarter than the output to be able to evaluate if the result is any good, or just hand waving.

Set up a GitHub action to auto-close any pull requests from anyone not on an approved list.

Leave a message in the pull request that if they want to argue their case for a pull request they can send a message through a communication channel of your choice, and say that anyone sending a message with AI generated text, even to help with language and grammar will be banned.

I stopped using samsung because of the uninstallable facebook apps.

I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider spyware and give the user no option to uninstall it.

On my last Samsung I went into the settings and disabled all of the apps that I couldn't uninstall .. and when I checked the settings like 6-8 months later, those apps were still disabled, but in the meantime they had installed a few more facebook authored background apps without my permission.

I will not be going back until they stop this.

As long as you never have to interact with them. If you run into issues they have caused themselves, you'll find yourself dealing with a unique mix of arrogance and incompetence.

I think people are too focused on the device part of it.

Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being sent in plaintext through Apple and Google’s servers.

It’s hard to imagine that Apple/Google couldn’t just be compelled to hand this information over if ordered by a court and wouldn’t need your phone at all.

And this loophole possibly only hinges on the fact that most law enforcement maybe never realized this was something they could ask for.

Or perhaps this is happening and the public just doesn’t know it yet.

It should be noted that they are not just bombing, but using airburst white phosphorus munitions over civilian areas attempting to scorch the earth and give people a lifetime of health problems.

At some point they got ultra aggressive about "duplicate" questions.

Technology changes at a fast pace .. so new questions would get asked, and then closed by moderators and pointed to similar questions that might be 5 or 6 years old and no longer relevant.. essentially ending the discussion on many topics and actively preventing progress in certain areas.

The xAI merger is the core of the rugpull

SpaceX made 8 billion in profit last year and xAI is losing 1B per month.

The whole IPO is convincing people that datacenters in space that are orders of magnitude more expensive than ones on earth is a financially viable business model and that tens of millions of people that already have internet are going to give up fiber for starlink.

It’s FSD and robotaxis x100

Gas turbines emit an array of pollutants including nitrogen oxides, methane, carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, and formaldehyde that you should not be breathing.

You might not feel it right away, but the closer you are to these things, the more your health is going to suffer over time.

I find discord is very helpful for this.

Find servers that are used by people in your desired audience and there is usually an appropriate channel to post in.

Let people know what you are doing and what you are looking for and interested parties will message you.

You either need a lab to test donor samples first, or when this was more of a craze, a popular source of 'donations' for the DIY crowd was young children.

If you're interested in digging into the people that were doing this, they had a website dedicated to everyone telling their stories of how they went about their own individual journeys.

The website was called thepowerofpoop.com and looks like it's gone now, but is available on the wayback machine including individual articles and images.

I would go back to at least 2022 .. I think they possibly got in legal trouble at some point and started taking things down.