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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.

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

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  • Wikipedia responsibility is to ensure is that the content remains truthful and it has to use any technical mean available to accomplish that valuable goal. Being no more than just a new powerful tool, AI can also be used for good causes, as any other tool.You are being bombarded by news of what corporations and governments are doing with it, so you naturally think that AI is a intrinsically a bad thing, but what Wikipedia and the Humans Rights Foundation are planning to do with AI are examples that it's not the case and by rejecting the use of it you miss the opportunity to learn how to use it for the benefit of people and help to level the score. Sorry guys but someone had to tell you.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • Most people are against AI because of what corporations are doing with it. What do you expect corporations and governments are going to do with any new scientific or technological advance? Use it for for the benefit of humanity? Are you going to stop using computers because coorporations use them for their benefit harming the environment with their huge data centers? By rejecting the use of this new technological advance you are avoiding to take advantage of free and open source AI tools, that you can run locally on your computer, for whatever you consider a good cause. Fortunately many people who care about other human beings are more intelligent and are starting to use AI for what it really is, A TOOL.

    "According to HRF’s announcement, the initiative aims to help global audiences better understand the dual nature of artificial intelligence: while it can be used by dictatorships to suppress dissent and monitor populations, it can also be a powerful instrument of liberation when placed in the hands of those fighting for freedom."

    HRF AI Initiative

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • That's perfectly fine if anyone just doesn't want to use it, but he's "strictly against" it and he's searching for reasons. Pretty irrational IMO. It doesn't surprise me, it's the general trend regarding almost any subject nowadays, and you can't blame AI for that.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • You should check Mint again, things in the Linux world are improving fast lately. Some people got their grampas into Linux and they are happy using it, with your use case it can easily also be the case, the terminal it's not needed, may be sporadically and to setup some things as you like at first, like changing settings to not enter passwords, may be it's not so safe but it's not as unsafe as using Windows. Just get used to the good habit of making regular backups. In any case just make a post asking and we will be happy to help. Just go ahead and slowly you will get confidence to do more difficult things. The freedom that you experience using Linux really worth it, but it can take time to appreciate.

  • Can Google read my Signal messages on stock Android?

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  • If you use stock android and proprietary software, YES. Everything you type can be recorded before it's encrypted.

  • What to do about being unable to use a custom ROM?

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  • Don't fall into the illusion that you can have privacy with stock android. Google has admittedly igrored user settings to continue spying them.

  • Fictional

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    Do you prefer natural immunity over vaccination?

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  • Our immune system is amazing? Yes, it is! Wiil it protect us against every pathogen in existence? No! Can vaccines help? Yes. Source: History.

  • Biblical loophole Number 96

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  • Don't missionaries go to heaven as well?

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Signal would only shrug and hand them metadata

    So at the very least by using Signal the government can know everyone you communicated with, at what time and where. And still is considered a private messenger. Amazing.

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  • Obviously you are missing the point. Even Gmail is private if you are going to do the job of encrypting your messages by yourself, but that's irrelevant with what we are discussing here.

    What we are discussing here is that if you are a company offering a service of encrypted communications located in the US, the government has all the power to force you to shut down if you don't give them access to what they want. And that's not speculation, they're actively doint it because they are backed by the law.

    Why people are so naive thinking that the government are not going to do something to get what they want when the law is on their side, when sometimes they don't hesitate to do it even when it's blatantly illegal?

    The only way to avoid surveillance is with free, open source and descentralized software. If there is a company in charge of running the software that's a vulnerability and, like the cases already mentioned, those in power are going to exploit it shutting the service down if the company doesn't comply.

    It doesn't matter how much you like or trust the service, there's simply no reason why they wouldn't do it again when they already dit it successfuly. Why some people who care about privacy can't see this obvious fact is beyond my understanding.

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • If it's so easy why Lavabit and Silent Circle had to shutdown?

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  • Since when is encryption dependent on the service’s jurisdiction?

    The US has a law that applies to any US company operating within its borders: it is illegal to tell your users that the US government has asked your company to spy on their behalf. This is called a key disclosure law, and the US's version of it, called National Security Letters, underwent an expansion with the PATRIOT act; by 2013, President Obama’s Intelligence Review Group reported issuing on average, nearly 60 NSLs every day.

    Companies that don't comply with this law are forced to shut themselves down, or remain open, and grant access to user communications to the US government. The Signal foundation is a US domiciled company and must comply with this law without being able to disclose that they have been issued an NSL letter.

    Luckily we don’t yet live in that world

    Comply with the government order of granting access to messages or shut down implies that we are already in that world, long ago. What makes you think that what happened to Lavavit and Silent Circle would not happen to Signal? Only wishfull thinking can make you think that, evidence tells you otherwise.

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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

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    Bluetooth dongle working without propietary firmware

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    Bluetooth dongle working without propietary firmware

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    They are surrounding me... is it time to give up?

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    Fastest animal

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    Learning english

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    science hell

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    googerteller: an audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google

    github.com /berthubert/googerteller