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pizzaioloon What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance

If you're thinking in terms of optimizing car traffic there's a good chance this city will suck

pizzaioloon GrapheneOS – When an app is slow

Weirdly how? CoMaps seemingly works fine out of the box on my device

pizzaioloon Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots

"Intellectuals are idiots, listen to me instead"

pizzaioloon An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

Look around HN, plenty of people buy the "LLMs are scary" IPO-boosting talking point

pizzaioloon Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

The was by far the most common type of comment I saw on this topic on Reddit. Do people think they'll be held at gunpoint?

pizzaioloon Are we going to use the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

We're lucky to have him in the open source community

pizzaioloon Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Wake up, babe: https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/fp6-img

pizzaioloon Giving up on smart rings

The only problem is that the data is woefully inaccurate, so what's even the point?

pizzaioloon There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier

The program output being nondeterministic is not proof that it's autonomous

pizzaioloon How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

Bit of a positive piece amid a negative headline this week: https://cybernews.com/privacy/police-telegram-whatsapp-signa...

pizzaioloon Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

Enough to pay back the investments on a sensible timescale? Press X to doubt.

pizzaioloon GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

Graphene is clearly bullish on Android, but I have no idea why. The writing is on the wall, Google is slowly asphyxiating AOSP.

pizzaioloon "We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"

Another AI salesman selling AI, nothing new here

pizzaioloon I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

Stuxnet was a good example of that.

pizzaioloon Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

That's how far back Windows needs to go to try to elicit some non-negative attention

pizzaioloon Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code

Any inconveniences with Linux phones are less annoying to me than what Google is doing to AOSP. My next phone will run postmarketOS.

pizzaioloon The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck

This was an interesting read, thanks for sharing.

pizzaioloon Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

Luca Weiss (Fairphone employee and pmOS dev) has confirmed on the wiki that the FP6 image also works on FP6+: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?title=Fairphone_%28G...

pizzaioloon Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

> No internal speakers or microphones are currently working. Media sound (not calls) is working if connecting a Bluetooth or USB audio device.

See the other blog posts by the same author in the story posted.[1] He's added support for these and other hardware parts for the FP6, currently being upstreamed directly to the Linux kernel.

[1] https://catcrafts.net/posts

pizzaioloon Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

AOSP is quickly becoming a dead end as Google tightens its grip on Android.

pizzaioloon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

Primarily? Maybe depending on where you are, but it's common for them to be fed hay with grains like soybeans.

pizzaioloon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

It's not exactly a closed loop, though. A lot of crops are grown using fossil fuel-derived fertilizer.

pizzaioloon 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

It's not permanent. It's only this way until the bubble pops.

pizzaioloon AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

So, like the present

pizzaioloon How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise

The caveat for anyone outside of the United States is that what they call "socialism" is really just capitalism with a welfare state.

pizzaioloon GCC steering committee announces AI policy

It struck me as a bit odd. They care about copyright issues from LLM-generated code, except if it's a test case? That's a contradiction.

pizzaioloon Worse on Purpose

This goes well with https://consumerrights.wiki

pizzaioloon Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

Another dev has been hard at work bringing Fairphone 6 Linux support for calls, audio, microphone, NFC, GPS, and IMU: https://blorp.piefed.zip/inbox/u/https%3A%2F%2Fani.social%2F...

It's now probably the most modern well-supported pmOS phone.