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  • 'Queen of Canada' arrested on livestream after RCMP deploy to village where cult has lived for 2 years

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  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • On linux it's just called running an executable

    Edit: As a less snarky answer, you can run Android apps natively on linux by installing Android OS in a container using something like Anbox Waydroid.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • I think the biggest thing lacking in this kind of hardware is displays. Where can you find a phone-sized 1080p display that doesn't require signing some NDA or reverse engineering the specs? OLED would be even better for battery life.

    I don't see that probably 360p black-or-white e-ink display is going to be a good experience unless you're comparing it to a flip phone.

  • 'Queen of Canada' arrested on livestream after RCMP deploy to village where cult has lived for 2 years

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  • If it looks like a real gun, it's pretty much exactly as effective for commiting crimes as a real unloaded gun. There's very few legitimate reasons to have a replica firearm and they are highly regulated. Anyone with a criminal record would not be able to get a license for prohibited firearms.

  • Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

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  • That's unfortunate for you, but not every company operates like that. There's new startups every day, and with all the VC money they're getting, they're in a prime position to be building these new products. The fact so many AI products are under-delivering is enough of an indicator for me to agree with the article's logic

  • Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

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  • "AI bad therefore..." was not part of their argument at all. They're saying lack of time is a primary reason developers don't release more products and try all their ideas. If the productivity increase claims of 2x or even 10x that some AI shills are pushing, then we should expect an increase in shovelware product releases.

    The logic seems sound to me. They even collected their own data to try and back up their theory.

  • 'Queen of Canada' arrested on livestream after RCMP deploy to village where cult has lived for 2 years

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  • They actually did seize several replica firearms... the warrant was accurate as far as I can tell. The cult leader has a whole Wikipedia article talking about their history with the police. They tried to pull off a citizens arrest on police officers over "COVID crimes". That's insane behavior.https://www.vice.com/en/article/queen-romana-didulo-citizen-arrest-qanon/

  • i 💚 animals.

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  • Loads of new technologies are discovered because of people mixing disciplines that hadn't been put together before. A new perspective on a problem can make a massive difference!

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [edited post to change title and URL]

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  • That's probably true, but it sure can be hard to motivate yourself to do things yourself when that AI dice roll is right there to give you an immediate dopamine hit. I'm starting to see things like vibecoding being as addictive as gambling.Personally I don't use AI because I see all the subtle ways it's wrong when programming, and the more I pay attention to things like AI search results, it seems like there's almost always something misrepresented or subtly incorrect in the output, and for any topics I'm not already fluent in, I likely won't notice these things until it's already causing issues

  • WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

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  • Can that not run through Proton? You could probably launch it through Steam, even if you bought your copy somewhere else. I have loads on external apps added just for easy setup with Proton

  • Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

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  • biometrics

    This means you only enter the password when your phone restarts, you access specific settings, or I think one or two other rare cases. Personally I only need to enter my pin maybe once a week

  • Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

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  • That's for breaking a bcrypt hash, and I don't believe there's any way to extract the pin hash from a phone since it happens inside a secure hardware layer (like a TPM). If it is possible, the attacker would most likely have to physically destroy your phone to get at it. To bruteforce a 4 digit pin with retry lockout timers, it takes 16 hours to try all combinations, according to a tool I found that auto-enters pins via usb keyboard emulation.

  • YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

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  • Sponsorblock works perfectly fine on Firefox Mobile

  • ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience

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  • Bit rot happens on much longer time scales (like 10+ years), and can happen regardless of use. Most storage media has this as an issue though, so that's why it's always good to have backups.

    Save games probably wouldn't have a huge effect on write endurance, but certainly in some uses that write constantly like a dashcam, it could potentially destroy the flash in a matter of months. There are endurance sd cards for this kind of application, but they usually come in smaller sizes, and I've still had them fail eventually.

  • ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience

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  • Once upon a time I owned a GameCube memory card, specifically so that I could have my own save progression when visiting my friend's house (who actually owned the GameCube and games). That may not really apply anymore?

    On another note though, making the sd card read only means it will last significantly longer. Flash storage (like SD cards) have limited write cycles, so this preserves the games themselves while leaving the much smaller save files to be written somewhere else where they're easier to back up.

  • Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

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  • This is about Nouveau, the reverse engineered drivers, not Nvidia's official open source drivers... Pretty confusing from just the title.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • That's unfortunate. Personally I can barely tell all the black rectangles apart. It's a utility for me, not a fashion accessory. Maybe if it was, I'd have an iPhone

  • No justice, no peace.

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  • Doing some quick math and numbers pulled from wikipedia, Lead is about 14-15x as effective by volume compared to water at blocking gamma radiation.

    I think far more significant in saving the other scientists was the inverse square law. The radiation energy falls off with the square of distance, so Slotin would have received a significantly higher dose just from being right next to it.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • I used my last phone for about 4 years. At that point the battery life was getting worse, and the coating to prevent smudges and make your finger slide easily had worn off in the middle. Even then it's still perfectly usable, I just wanted an upgrade and to get away from Samsung.

    I don't understand the people that upgrade every year or two. In the last 5 years basically the only new development has been higher refresh rate displays and faker looking (more processed) camera images...