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  • US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

  • From what I've gathered, I think you're right to assume it's legally safer to refuse to unlock rather than wipe. Also, worth noting that you can be compelled to unlock with biometrics, but not a password. On grapheneOS this means simply shutting off/restarting your device as it requires a pw after a fresh boot, even if biometrics is enable.

  • You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever

  • RE "If you're not paying, you're the product," also doesn't always apply when it comes to not paying EG: Linux and other FOSS products.

  • You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever

  • Not that I know of, unless self-hosting. I've gone back to ripping CDs and sometimes buying DRM-free HQ audio. Probably getting my purchases profiled, but at least I can download it and no one else has to know when, what, & how much I'm listening to.

    For easier access I have a Jellyfin server on my home network. I plan to switch to navidrome or similar for a better, dedicated music experience as well as setting up secure access over the internet for me and my friends and family.

  • Distrohopping be like fr:

  • You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever

  • Beyond the obvious problem of paying but not owning, it's impossible to watch/listen without that data being stored on a massive corporation's server and likely sold to hundreds of advertisers. Last I saw Spotify had over 300 venders they share data with. I've seen sites with over 1000.

    So you're not only paying for something you don't own, but you're also paying to have a larger profile in the surveillance capitalism machine.

  • MPV or VLC? Which one you prefer? Why?

  • vlc for watching.mpv for listening.

  • Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

  • This is "Lines of code = productivity" levels of stupid and lazy. I want to work with people who are well rested, not ones who run themselves ragged and are always on the verge of burnout.

    Maybe Meta has to payout unused vacation time and laying off someone who used vacation time is cheaper than someone who has a lot of vacation time? Still be dumb but not surprising if the only measurement they're going off of is $.

  • What is the best privacy-respecting Android keyboard?

  • +1 It also works with Futo Voice Input for quick access to local STT (I swipe up-left on Return key).

  • A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth

  • If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee.

    This is giving Adobe too much credit. They suck, for sure, and are monopolistic and have set the industry back, but if people want to do creative things, there are manageable options outside of Adobe. Especially if you focus on alternative software for a particular niche (photography, illustration, compositing, etc).

  • Your notes. Your files. Your rules.

  • I love FOSS and Obsidian is literally the only close-sourced software in my stack, but open source is not necessary to prevent enshittification, not if you have interoperability. As long as data is stored in md files, if the obsidian team makes bad moves people can pack up and migrate to logseq or other competitors. While the 3rd party plugins add enhancements that might bog down switching, many of those plugins are open source and could be ported.

  • It's all aspirational isn't it?

  • Agreed, except I'm not frustrated by AI being overloaded-- it makes sense to me that a well-known, two-letter acronym be highly inclusive-- it's frustrating that market dominance and marketing can just take over that acronym. LLM is a more accurate description than AI, but it would hurt their sales if most people understood it's a statistical model and didn't mistake it for a kind of intelligence.

    I'm starting to think that those of us who understand this will probably fair better by forfeiting the semantics battle and making the distinction between LLM-AI and ML.

  • It's all aspirational isn't it?

  • I think The Lorax comparison is warranted for LLMs, hyping the race for AGI, and AI as marketing/branding, but the AI umbrella includes a lot of Machine Learning that's just practical, applied statistics.

    A lot of ML applications aren't anymore resource intensive then using Lemmy. So I think the discussion about harms v. benefits of ai-- beyond hypers and doomers-- often diverges from conflating "AI" with these AI companies that are all-in on LLMs vs AI as a field that contains an over-hyped, over-invested, resource-intensive, subcategory bubble that needs to pop already as well as subcategories that make it easy and efficient to classify and cluster data.

  • What Is A Good Sub $300 Computer I Can Use For A Server?

  • Slightly better is still the direction we want to head in. Not sure how else we get off the racketing-effect/boiled-frog path we've been on.

  • Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

  • If you're interested, the linux unplugged podcast had a recent episode on their experiences. I've never loved the tone of "hey, look, this is inevitable" when it comes to ai, but I can see its utility when well-scoped with conservative permissions and oversight vs letting it loose or vibe coding. Now if only hardware wasn't artificially inflated I might think it was worth dabbling locally.

  • TIL mondegreen is the mishearing of the words in a song.

  • how things become science

  • I imagine this is how it'll work for stage 2 of Ai enshittifation. They'll just add a bunch of garbage upstream about a brand or product marketers are paying to push and it'll infect a bunch of outputs downstream.

  • Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

  • Haven't read the article and have a limited knowledge of ai, but I wonder if they do this for reinforcement learning: So OSS PR responses can be used to label different weights and models. Using even more free labor to train their models.

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  • I wonder if hierarchical structures need reframing rather than removing. If changing our mental model could be the dismantling. I'm considering the definition and observation of emergent and beneficial hierarchies as discussed in "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows-- the hierarchy structure is not inherently bad. What's bad is, when it comes to human social structure, the person coordinating a collection of people is often considered more important.

    If they were equally as replaceable as anyone in the collection (as it should be in a resilient system)-- perhaps by randomly reappointing that position, periodically-- then you could have a central-coordinator structure where benefitial, without the problems of that coordinator becoming drunk on power.

    Coincidentally, that book has a quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that's very fitting for that last part you mentioned:

    if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

  • Give me European Alternatives

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    How long do you typically use a water bottle/tumbler before you wash it?

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Clocks with an hourly chime?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    OrganicMaps asks if users care they're on GH.

    fosstodon.org /@organicmaps/115202657995358203
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    PBS News interview with Karen Hao, Author of Empire of AI

    www.pbs.org /newshour/show/new-book-empire-of-ai-investigates-openai-the-company-behind-chatgpt