utopiah
@utopiah@lemmy.world
- Comment on Something is wrong.. 3 days ago:
developed a new thing about which to worry: what have I forgotten to check?
Well you can make rules so that you can automatically rectify things without having to even check.
Then… you can worry about things you haven’t automated properly!
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 days ago:
Can’t easily help there. Maybe you can find someone local who could help. Best of luck.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 4 days ago:
banking apps and cash apps
Unfortunately that’s prevents from switching to Linux proper over (hopefully deGoogled) Android.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 4 days ago:
If by any chance you can be in Brussels for a bit, I can lend you mine for a while to test.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 5 days ago:
clear rules on disassembly and repair, requiring manufacturers to supply key spare parts within 5-10 working days, and for at least 7 years after the product model is no longer sold in the EU
Wonder how that applies to eBike. Been waiting for my CowBoy belt since February now. Do not recommend. No more “designer” eBike now, I’ll only buy bikes with the most standard parts.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 5 days ago:
Daily driving the cmf with /e/OS from Murena for few months now, warmly recommended.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 5 days ago:
Can’t speak for Ubuntu Touch but tried PostMarketOS on PinePhone and PinePhone Pro.
The PP works well, good support for most things included SIM, camera, BT, etc but it’s big and bulky, also IMHO not powerful enough for Waydroid so no Android apps, “just” Linux. Relying on the browser to avoid using app is rarely practical as it’s too slow.
The PPPro being more powerful should cover the gap… but some lack of support, specifically the camera, makes it tricky as daily driver.
Both PP and PPPro don’t have great battery and/or power management so you can go through a day of usage, barely, and you might get stuck in a cycling loop if you depleted it entirely. That means also as daily driver, if you are not very cautious, it’s tricky.
So… we are nearly there but unless you have a very VERY minimum usage of your phone, basically a dumb phone with a bit of CLI to remote connect to your own server from time to time, it’s probably not practical for now.
Maybe the Liberux NEXX thanks to its power would have closed the gap but the failed crowd funding campaign shows that price point does not have a market fit right now.
- Comment on StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun. 2 weeks ago:
Probably specific by country then because I didn’t have to show any ID. FWIW
“To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes.” which is as of a week ago and still today :
- nationality
- name
- birth date
- address
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nice try FBI, you’re not getting that info from me!
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think eSIM providers do but I admit I didn’t check. It’d be even more convenient, no need to leave your home to switch.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment… but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable… and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can’t disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 weeks ago:
Ironically enough that’s is exactly the kind of seemingly “simple” question a 4 years old could answer… but LLMs can’t.
Asked my better half to test DeepSeek locally few months ago and they, without trying to “trick” it (as I would have tried) genuinely tried “What time is it in Sri Lanka?”. That made me smile because I was rather sure there was no way the model could answer that. It would need to know the current time on any time zone then, if it’s not in Sri Lanka already (which it wasn’t on my local system) would have to convert it. That would be very basic arithmetic (that some 4 years old could also do) but not “just” spitting back words related to the question.
Guess what… it failed exactly as expected. The model replied back “information” (which is being generous for a string of words arguably related to the topic, which was mostly about Sri Lanka, not time) and yet was basically irrelevant and thus useless.
So… yes I’m not actually sure CoPilot could even help there unless there is a lot of custom made handling of this kind of queries upstream!
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 3 weeks ago:
What?! Haven’t your heard?
- FSD is happening next year, for sure,
- we’re still 18 months away from developers being replaced,
- it’s “deep” reasoning, basically nearly ASI!
/s (obviously)
- Comment on It is what it is 3 weeks ago:
changed the search engine in Firefox
Which… takes maximum 1min to do.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 4 weeks ago:
He should just goto hell early.
He’s going to Mars as soon as FSD on Tesla is ready, next year for sure!, to not blow in his rocket then once there chat with his amazing chatbot telling him, with 20min delay for each message, that he truly is the best.
What an absolute retard.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 4 weeks ago:
So many you didn’t list one.
Also OP didn’t talk about AI broadly, just vibe coding.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully it was a symbolic downvote. They say they did only to provoke but in reality they did upvote.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 4 weeks ago:
Good analogy as most people don’t understand how a microwave is working either.
That being said, at least microwaving isn’t on fast track to pollute our entire ecosystem so…
- Comment on I know I'm a damn failure OK 4 weeks ago:
Hand them a mirror.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
I use the Coil extension but seems it’s now addons.mozilla.org/…/web-monetization-extension/
If you go on my web site fabien.benetou.fr you should see 3 heats under the 3D model if it’s enabled.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 5 weeks ago:
being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it
It’s exactly what’s been reporting in several pieces from 404 Media, and others. Namely xAI does NOT have the infrastructure BUT Musk has a history (Tesla, SpaceX, etc) of cutting corners. He “gets shit done” like no one else not because he’s particularly smart or efficiency … but because he breaks the law, as simple as that.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 5 weeks ago:
histrionic
True… yet nearly everybody else, maybe beside few like 404 media, seems to be either boot licking or access “journalism” so I get the “spicy” take.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 5 weeks ago:
May I introduce you to webmonetization.org ?
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 5 weeks ago:
You’re right obviously, you dirty community! /$
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 5 weeks ago:
how is Belgium to live in and what would it look like to live there right now?
It’s literally between France, Germany and the Netherlands, I mean geographically yes but roughly culturally too. Arguably Brussels is a mix of all that and other cities again match where they are.
So… it’s a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate. You don’t have to be a socialist to be here but if you want to become a rich entrepreneur it’s going to be challenging.
Source : immigrated there from France ~10 years ago.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 1 month ago:
No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Not sure what NLNet is going to do about software lol, I believe you mean something different.
That NLNet nlnet.nl funding FLOSS project.
There are also BlueHats in France showing how administration is using AND consequently funding FLOSS code.gouv.fr/en/bluehats/ by paying for sysadmin, feature dev, maintenance, etc.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Don’t underestimate management desire to be absolutely indistinguishable from their competition.
They read the Harvard Business Review, learn new terms they don’t understanding, make a PowerPoint out of it and voila, they are “innovative” like everyone else.
If HBR put “AI” on its cover you can be damn sure all those innovators are going to put AI wherever they can.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
I would love to, but we stiill use Windows specific software
If I had 1 cent every time I read that… and I pulled those cents together… and then paid software developers to build that missing software for other OSes like Linux… then we’d gradually see less of those comments.
It’s as if the isolation was the business model, proprietary software insuring that alternatives do not exist because users do not bother to get together and unstuck themselves from glowingly dangerous (security wise but probably even financially dependencies.
Hopefully initiatives like NLNet are precisely trying to alleviate such challenges. Until them compatibility layers like Proton are showing the way with arguably some of the most complex and demanding in terms of performance software, namely games.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
Minority Report, the bad parts.