5G network upgrade ensures the used phone market in Canada is a lot more limited than it was one year ago.

I’m sure they’ll come up with some other reason to force us all to upgrade soon enough. Wife and I are seriously looking at Linux phones or 5G-capable flip phones for our next refresh, due to Google’s noose-tightening bullshit.

Hmm, that could be neat thanks!

Wish there was an Atari version though :)

I am hoping sooo much that those LinuxPhone projects get to basic call,network and photo functionality before Google completely locks down the ecosystem. GrapheneOS and LineageOS have served me well up to now but it looks like the noose is getting too tight.

Hell, my wife is even asking if she can or should get a 5G ‘flip phone’ as she’s heard how bad it might get soon.

Enron got nothing on these crooks.

Yeah, what’s the gaping truck-sized loophole no one’s reporting on yet?

I haven’t watched “The Big Short” in a long time… but aren’t BBB- rated things “dogshit wrapped in catshit”?

… me too and I jumped when I saw it. brrrrrr spooky

Hmm, sounds like a nice tie-in to anonymous USB dead-drop sites and so on. Go connect to a tree somewhere, upload your new .snk files, download any new ones placed there since your last visit :)

Maybe have a Meshtastic solar-powered node feeding new .snk files onto it too, from afar!

Fnord

And now SSD and hard drive prices. Keep your tech going, it’s going to be a long few years, if ever, before affordability returns. They (cloud and AI tech-holes) want local compute and storage to be unaffordable so we use their crap. F-ck that, I’m gonna scavenge whatever I can to keep self-hosting to the bitter end.

Sure, but lots of people thought it was crazy conspiracy thinking that the NSA backdoored certain Elliptic Curves CSPRNGs years ago… yet it turned out they in fact did, and successfully, and it took years to come out. Whether or not some ‘threat model’ applies to the situation.

The chances of a normal person being targeted by some obscure NSA backdoor is very low, certainly; but that doesn’t refute the historical fact that they do try to subvert standards processes.

?!?! It’s alive? thanks!

https://warehouse23.com/basement by Steve Jackson Games was hours of fun back when it existed. Think of the giant warehouse at the end of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (SyFy also ripped the idea off in the show ‘Warehouse 13’).

Indeed, beat me to it. Now is the time to make it hurt for these stupid C-levels execs. Oh, and UNIONIZE ASAP.

…and they deserve eternal damnation for the idea, IMO. Hrrmph. LLMs by definition can only make derivative works. That’s what they do, draw from their training on other works by humans. They are nothing without the training data. Data which was scraped from the entire f*cking Internet, without anyone’s permissions. Why is this so hard for devs to understand?

Yes, I am grumpy about this.

From the article:

…given the pretty massive and widespread architectural changes needed to make the implementation libified and memory safe, we decided that the codebase is not a derivative work that would require carrying forward the GPL license and have decided to release the code under the MIT instead.

I’m sorry but that pisses me right the hell off. I don’t care who it is, using this rewrite-by-LLM to work around the GPL is just going to be a pox on the global software landscape.

Basically the author is saying “if you can afford to spend $20K on tokens, buy your way around the GPL! Those with the cash can bend, nay break, the rules!”

This is just abhorrent to me. It’s STILL a derivative work, git already existed and these LLMs 100%, for sure, used knowledge from their training of the original C git implementation. Just because no one knows exactly how, where or when in the process it occurred, we know the LLMs all had access to original git in their training data.

Agreed, but hey no need to pile the the hate on Pascal, modern ones like FPC/Lazarus are pretty cool actually :)

And that’s why they’re trying underhanded tactics to inflate earnings and IPO directly into the index funds, so every American’s 401K will legally have to rebalance and invest in them. They’re racing to fleece retirement funds before the bubble bursts.

Not financial advice, of course :p but people should really consider getting their stuff out and into self-directed funds or whatever it is US people do to not depend on auto-allocated funds.