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proceduralnightshade

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  • Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

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  • They do look extremely cute though.

  • Researchers uncover Android zero-day exploits affecting billions of devices, used to unlock a protester's phone in Serbia

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  • Calyx is not as degoogled as it claims to be (at least it wasn't 2 years ago, see below). I know this is a bold claim, but the only ROM comparable with Graphene was DivestOS, which was a one human project and was dicontinued last year. And even Divest had the problem where updates were delayed by a few days or weeks.

    Obligatory eylenburg link, and there's this blogpost I like to link to. It's written in German, but I'm sure it's a good read if you put it through a translator.

    "CalyxOS has reconfigured Android to avoid Google's spyware and tracking." However, I only see this to a limited extent. To be truly privacy-friendly, the project would need to modify more parameters/source code of the AOSP standard and provide users with more options/freedom (Captive Portal Check, Key Provisioning Server, SUPL Server) for customization. The mere omission of Google Play Services is not enough to consider a device "de-Googled". There is still room for improvement.

    Overall, CalyxOS is certainly not a bad custom ROM, but rather offers a coherent overall package that users who want to significantly reduce their dependence on Google should have a good starting point. However, one should also consider the drawbacks: the delayed provision of (security) updates and an external presentation that does not quite match the results of this analysis.

    Take this with a grain of salt since it's been two years since this blogpost was published.

    Here I deleted a whole paragraph in which I sounded like a Graphene elitist haha. I would say using CalyxOS is a lot better than stock Android or Lineage. Please don't choose your OS based on vibes. If you need any of the features Graphene offers that others don't, please use it (edit: like the protester mentioned in the article). If you don't, don't.

  • Researchers uncover Android zero-day exploits affecting billions of devices, used to unlock a protester's phone in Serbia

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  • I agree, Graphene is not for everyone, and what you wrote is a perfectly fine opinion when it comes to privacy- and security-focused daily driver OS's for smartphones. If you're a protester or a journalist though, it's all or nothing. There are no alternatives, no compromises that can be made. If you use a smartphone you are at risk, even if it's a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

    Graphene has decided to instead frame everything that isn't a Pixel running Graphene as universally bad.

    They did say on several occasions that they would support other phones if they weren't locked down (Samsung) and commended the security of upcoming Mediatek and Qualcomm chips.

  • [SWE] Swedish government wants a back door in Signal

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  • AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead.

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  • What item did you get from your ex that you still have, but not because you associate it with your ex / are hung up on them?

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  • A seam ripper from my ex's mother, if that counts. I've kept it in my little sewing box for a little over 10 years now.

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  • This is great! There seem to be quite some tricks out there, one I learned is to focus on the temperature of your breath and where exactly you feel it while breathing. In the beginning it's just little moments of thoughtlessness, but you can make them last longer with practice.

    There's also this reply I read on /x/ like ten years ago that has stuck with me, to the question someone asked, "how to meditate" – "Notice the space between 2 thoughts? Enter it."

  • Study.com leaving AI prompts in their "facts"

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  • I just don't like the premise of a market where one has to sell their artistic labor in order to survive, or thrive. I'm on board with noncommercial licenses and everything because the reality looks different, but that was not my point. And neither was it the point of the original comment you replied to.

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  • The problem with copyright/data ownership is that it's useless if you're unable to enforce it. Data is replicable, doesn't matter if you call it "work" or "ideas". Do you think you own the text you just wrote? Let me show you something.

    We aren't talking about "ideas" being stolen here, we're talking about work being stolen and exploited for corporate profit.

    Personally I don't think it's crazy to suggest that the person who writes a book should own it, the people who compose a song should own it, the artists who paints a painting should own it, etc.

    As much as techbros love to pretend that AI is ushering us into a post-capitalist, post-copyright Star Trek future, it is actually in fact doing the exact opposite--it's empowering the biggest and richest tech companies to exploit human creativity in the largest industrial plagiarism scheme in history, all so some bullshit VC investors can gain their way up the pyramid scheme known as the stock market.

    There. I just stole your text. I stole it. I own it now. It's mine now. What are you gonna do about it?

    Instead there is no stealing when it comes to information, there's only replication, there's only copying.

    I agree with you, corpos shouldn't have this amount of power. But you won't get there by trying to protect the work of artists writers etc with the exact same scheme corpos pulled to protect their power and interests. Like, it didn't work, did it? No copyright for me, thanks

  • Looking for an Android data migration tool

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  • If it's really just pictures and contacts, do it manually. Contacts app should have an export function. Pictures you can just copy via USB.

    Messages are usually cloud-stored nowadays right? Do you have more than idk 5 different messaging apps? If you don't, and one or some of them for some reason don't store messages on some server, find out if you can do it manually, most apps should have export/import functionality (not just messaging apps btw). For standard SMS though, no idea.

  • Privacy meme

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  • Years ago, when Telegram was relatively fresh, I convinced most of my friends and acquaintances to use it. I don't know how I did it, but now that I want to get away from Telegram, I wish I could do it again.

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  • OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, isn't profitable. Should that be normal?

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  • Dream technology is weird

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  • Hm I occasionally dream about getting messages or seeing/doing something on social media, but I never use a device when doing so. It's just the isolated experience. It doesn't happen very often but when it does it's the only content of the dream.

  • Would you trust yourself with infinite wealth?

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  • Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

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  • Wait I had a similar idea once! Youre right that would be cool af, but very difficult to get right. In open world games you usually get away with "isolated" side quests, in a dense cube this is difficult – which might be a good thing, it forces interconnectivity.

  • Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

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  • Horizontally I'm fine with how big games are. They should grow vertically, and I wouldn't mind 6 times the depth.

    What do I mean by that? I have no idea. Maybe you people have

  • Words of encouragement to those facing privacy burnout

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  • Oh it's been a year already?!? Time flies when you have a good time I guess. Thank you!

    I edited my comment I forgot the conclusion as always lol you might wanna check it again

    AI is a tool that's used as a disinfo machine primarily, at least LLMs are in praxis, and they get better much faster at that in particular with such amounts of data. But I would argue that this kind of data (acquired without user consent) isn't necessary for them to get better edit: at anything else.