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Re:Dumbphone 2 by jorisw on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:35AM (#48395405)
> customer retention

I suppose you're referring to engagement maximization algorithms (my words) of socials?

> already deep in their hands

If a person observes they're sensitive to these, do they really need an additional device to disrupt their reactive behavior and be a little bit more deliberate in what they do?

> remove or limit their products

Is deleting the apps or using them in moderation[1] really so hard?

[1] One form of moderation I've found is to disable notifications for those (if not all) apps. Again, seizing control instead of being reactive to whatever some platform/app/device decides to shove down your throat at any given time.

Re:Dumbphone 2 by psd1 on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:22AM (#48424855)
> Is ... really so hard?

Anecdata: I implement most of my behaviours on a kilo of fatty meat and neurotransmitters. It's not a great stack; it has a massive attack surface. It's also orchestrated by an endocrine layer, which is precisely the wrong way round.

I didn't select this architecture, I was instantiated with it, and there isn't a nice migration path.

Zaibatsus - Meta, Condé Nast - outgun me and my biological peers by many orders of magnitude. They can attack vulns that should have been patched in the Precambrian, they have research departments, and they can A/B on millions. We're lambs to the slaughter.

Brain modules cannot be unloaded, so if you were compiled with `addictable=on` then you have no defence-in-depth against an entire class of attacks. If they get through the gate, they have a good chance at persistence.

Hth you understand the difficulties faced by bio-organism admins.