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sfdlkj3jk342a··on Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots
I bet there are some people building cool things for narco cartels with similar parts..
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
Zoom works fine with Firefox on Android.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
What's wrong with a Chinese owned company? As someone who has no plans to step foot in China, I'd much rather be spied on by the Chinese than the US or EU.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
I don't think the EU wants FOSS phones. If anything they'll push regulations that make them illegal to own. They want backdoors for all of your communication.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
There already is a means to keep children away from toxic content: parents (possibly with the help of locally run content blocking software).
sfdlkj3jk342a··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
Bubblewrap containers to keep all of my environments separate on my laptop works just fine without giving up control to Google.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Grok 4.20 Beta
Do you happen to know what model "Grok Expert" is currently using?

Expert has consistently produced better results than 4.1 for me, so I'm curious if anything has changed with the release of 4.20.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
> I love it. We need to see more of this.

> Use of semantic elements is an interesting take. I'll give it a try.

> Thank you for this, can’t wait to use. Minimalism at its best.

> Good one. Presentation is good too. Thanks

These are the kind of comments you see from Indians paid to boost Youtube content.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
That's evidence of possible low-level protective mechanisms, but what really matters in the end is the effect on cognition, which in RCTs have favored DHA.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
Your link doesn't say anything about dementia. Do you have any source that shows EPA is more beneficial than DHA?

What I found from a quick search says the opposite:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019002/

sfdlkj3jk342a··on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
Still working on IronFox (Firefox fork) on Android with the Video Background Fix extension.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
> Is this cultural?

Absolutely. I've been traveling for the last 10 years and lived in 50+ countries. I believe that all cultures have unique pros and cons and that the cultural diversity of the world is an amazing thing. There are good and bad people everywhere, so I rarely leave a place with such a strong opinion as the multiple times I've been to India. I really wanted to love India because of their rich history and diversity, but I ended up leaving with a feeling that their culture is overwhelmingly objectively bad.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on A Social Filesystem
Sounds interesting, but I can't find any links to an actual live B2C storefront..
sfdlkj3jk342a··on European Majority favours more social media regulation
> today most “social” media is not people

Do you have any evidence to support that?

People frequently claim the majority of social media is "bots", but I highly doubt that.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
In the end, we are at the mercy of those with power. Laws are just a way to make their decisions appear fair and appease the masses. If you piss off enough the wrong person with power, it doesn't matter what the laws say, you'll get screwed.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
> The moment you need C’s performance or assembly’s precision, you’ve crossed into territory that demands human accountability.

I disagree. I write a lot of one-off numerical simulations where something quick and dirty is useful but performance matters and the results can be easily verified without analyzing every line of code. Python would be a terrible choice.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on Fighting the age-gated internet
Do you think the main force is misplaced good intentions (which I assume is what drives Ashton Kutcher) or more sinister intentional efforts to harm the public?
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Fighting the age-gated internet
I think it's possible that there are secretive efforts to destroy permissionless access to the internet, but my guess is that states are simply copying each other and/or global conditions are similar enough that they naturally come to the same conclusions around the same time.

A somewhat analogous situation is how landlords raise rents in sync with each other, not because they're intentionally colluding to fix prices, but because nowadays it's easy to see average rental prices in neighborhoods, and the natural strategy is to set your rental prices based on that.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
What version is actually running on chat.deepseek.com?

It refuses to tell me when asked, only that it's been train with data up until July 2024, which would make it quite old. I turned off search and asked it for the winner of the US 2024 election, and it said it didn't know, so I guess that confirms it's not a recent model.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on Implications of AI to schools
I know the US has fallen behind in math, but where are you taking algebra in 3rd grade? We didn't get it until 8th..
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
There are plenty of services that sell US-hosted SIMs (or for most major countries) that are capable of SMS and calls without any KYC.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
Well ideally everyone should have contingency plans in place before he experiences severe cognitive decline.

A unilateral takeover of your accounts by your son should only happen if there is a sudden incapacitation and with some kind of medical-backed court approval.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
The only real solution to these problems is to convert the accounts of the elderly or anyone who can't be trusted to spot scammers into joint accounts with restrictions on large transactions controlled by a trusted family member or nominee.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
Singapore and China
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
GrapheneOS on a Pixel
sfdlkj3jk342a··on German government comes out against Chat Control
That works until the government and media successfully push the narrative to the public that anyone using encryption is supporting child molesters and terrorists.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging
How old are you? I found I grew out of an interest in cars after my early 20's.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees
Generally you will be expected to pay for the costs of your life decisions.

The world has more than enough people, so we shouldn't be subsidizing having children. Imbalanced demographics can be solved in other ways.

sfdlkj3jk342a··on PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
Which can still be useful. Just like banks used to issue "IOUs" in exchange for depositing your gold coins, so that it was easier and safer to transfer small amounts.
sfdlkj3jk342a··on Bank of Thailand freezes 3M accounts, sets daily transfer limits to curb fraud
I've worked in trading in NY, London, and Singapore for nearly 20 years and have never seen anyone actually write M to mean "thousands".

"Thousand" is always "k" or "K". "Million" is "M", "MM", "m", "mn", or "mln".

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