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@ corvus @lemmy.ml

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    Surveillance protects people from terrorism, and sacrificing some privacy makes us safer.

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  • Incarceration protects you from thieves and murderers, and sacrificing some liberty makes you safer.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • It's a script that I made some years ago. Give it executable permission and you can search (e.g. streema-cli jazz) play and save radio stations. I uses mpv. It loads saved stations when run with no arguments.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I moved to Linux, use Freetube, LineageOS on the phone, listen all day to internet radios from the command line, browser with uBlock add on and it's been years since I saw or listened an ad.

  • Made a Firefox extension to flag AI content on YouTube

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  • It struck me how seamlessly AI can now mimic human creativity, to the point where it's nearly impossible to distinguish between human-made and AI-generated content.

    And let any non trained people to subjectively judge if the content is AI generated? With the latest versions of video generation models we are already in the situation where only software can tell if some videos are AI generated or not. Lots of channels will be wrongly tagged.

  • Is it worth even trying with a samsung?

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  • No, IMO. For a real private android experience you have to switch to Lineage or Graphene and F-droid apps. I'm writing this from a Galaxy A5 2016 with LineageOS with F-droid only apps in one (main) profile and WhatsApp and a couple of other (in my case, sadly unavoidable) proprietary apps in another profile.

    Here is a list of supported phones by LineageOS in case you are willing to switch.

  • How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?

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  • Should I do the same if I want to expose an OpenAI compatible API to access an LLM to chat remotely on local technical documents?

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    To new users of Linux, how does it feel to have to enter your password 1000x more often than Windows or macOS?

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  • It feels awesome.

  • Menger cheese = string cheese

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  • Not surprising coming from a cat, not its field of expertise. Ask a mouse and it will explain you the difference between intensive and extensive properties of the cheese.

  • ‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

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  • May be it's the app, I use Jerboa.

  • ‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

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  • I don't get the downvotes. The article explains that many researchers pointed out methodological issues in the tests measuring microplastics and the implausibility of some results. An the criticism was made writing letters to the respective journals that published the results, i.e. at the highest level, even some authors admitted the possibility of mistakes in the results. Sounds good news to me and honestly having microplastics in the brain equivalent to a credit card was hard to believe.

  • Recommend a printer with open-source support.

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  • Brother HL-1212w fully FOSS USB only monochrome laser. If you have a router with USB and openwrt installed you can share the printer over the network. Cheap old printer but works great for just printing.

  • united states of the americas

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  • How avoid spying by my phone and harden my LineageOS?

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  • Using vanilla LineageOS and apps from F-droid which are open source you are fine. Most spyware and malware come from apps so LineageOS with F-droid is huge step from stock android concerning privacy and security. And improved version is GrapheneOS but I don't think is a necessity for the average user, if that's your case.

  • Hanson & Stylish

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  • What kind of hair style are we looking for today?*You hand over a piece of paper with the surface equation on it.

  • Nature

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  • and crickets

  • In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable – Wikimedia Foundation

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  • From the article you posted:

    • "He wasn't aware that ChatGPT could lie and that it was designed to keep him engaged."
    • "(They have) been fatally designed to create emotional dependency with users, even if that's not what they set out looking for in terms of their engagement with the chat bot,"

    Would you expect something different from a chatbot made by a greedy corporation only caring for profit? You are not aware of the dozens of AI solutions created for scientific use cases (among others) with succesful results in medicine, astronomy or mathematics, probably because they are not as clickbait as this article made by another greedy corporation. If you are truly insterested use you search skill to find them, may be you'll discover your confirmation bias and change your mind about AI being intrinsically bad.

    As an example a very recent work by one of the most renowned mathematicians: "In this paper we showcase AlphaEvolve as a tool for autonomously discovering novel mathematical constructions and advancing our understanding of long-standing open problems. To demonstrate its breadth, we considered a list of 67 problems spanning mathematical analysis, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. The system rediscovered the best known solutions in most of the cases and discovered improved solutions in several. In some instances, AlphaEvolve is also able to generalize results for a finite number of input values into a formula valid for all input values. Furthermore, we are able to combine this methodology with Deep Think and AlphaProof in a broader framework where the additional proof-assistants and reasoning systems provide automated proof generation and further mathematical insights. These results demonstrate that large language model-guided evolutionary search can autonomously discover mathematical constructions that complement human intuition, at times matching or even improving the best known results, highlighting the potential for significant new ways of interaction between mathematicians and AI systems. We present AlphaEvolve as a powerful new tool for mathematical discovery, capable of exploring vast search spaces to solve complex optimization problems at scale, often with significantly reduced requirements on preparation and computation time." https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864

  • In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable – Wikimedia Foundation

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  • But let’s not forget that Wikipedia is also responsible for ensuring that the content remains truthful and unbiased.

    It's literally the first sentence that I wrote.

    So let’s not get too excited about the possibilities of AI without critically evaluating its potential impacts on our society.

    That's my point. Corporations only look for profit without caring about the consecuences. Governments support this behavior and also are using AI for control and surveillance. So it's up to us to test and evaluate how this powerful tool can be used responsibly for things that we care, and it's already been used successfuly in many fields of science like astronomy, medicine and mathematics, so IMO it's not rational to generalize and blindly reject AI, like many people seems to do.

  • In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable – Wikimedia Foundation

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  • Seriously, ask it about a topic you do understand and see how wrong it is. >Then realize it’s at least as wrong about everything else.

    I teach physics and math and I asked about a topic of differential geometry related to general relativity that wasn't clear for me. I know enough of both topics to understand the answer and to acknowledge that it nailed it. You are the perfect example on how the mind of a fanatic works, without knowing if I know about what I asked and what was the answer, you dictate that it was wrong, based on pure speculation, just because it doesn't fit your beliefs. Seriously guys, don't be like this idiot, being so irrational can only do harm.

  • In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable – Wikimedia Foundation

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  • Agreed. I don't use it as an encyclopedia but I have used local models for learning and to explain me some things that I didn't understand and it's been impressive. It's up to you to test and evaluate how can be helpful.

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    Swapping storage between an Intel laptop and an AMD mini PC

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    Changes in Plasma 6 after some weeks using it

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    Create and restore an ssd image using dd in different filesystems

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    Bluetooth headphones not detected

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    Watching movies and series from the command line

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    Bash history option

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Bluetooth dongle working without propietary firmware

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    Bluetooth dongle working without propietary firmware

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    They are surrounding me... is it time to give up?

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Fastest animal

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    Learning english

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    science hell

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    googerteller: an audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google

    github.com /berthubert/googerteller