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Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:30AM (#49765229)
Pinephone is close to useless. Fairphone 5 I think is as good as it gets if you want to avoid android. It is annoying though that fairphone 6 is not working with linux.
Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:29AM (#49765220)
Pay monthly bills?
Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:29AM (#49765216)
We don't, and sadly accept the cost of our principles. What I generally do, is to put on the blinken lights, and try to hurry up. Up to about 20 minutes or so, it generally works alright.
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:48AM (#49764970)
The same organization that enforces all other laws.
Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:09AM (#49752661)
How do you know it is? Most likely we will never know.
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:58AM (#49682513)
Make the AI companies responsible for all destructive use of their tools, and they will shape up. Imagine a million or a billoion dollar fine per hack, and they will correct mighty fast.

Add to that, that just like AI:s are good at finding security holes to exploit, they can just as easily be used to protect sites. So once IT-security managers start to use AI to hack themselves, and plug the holes, the average security will spike up, and AI-fueled hacks will become more and more rare.

That does however imply, that AI is released to everyone and not kept away to a few secret actors who can use it. That is why open weight/source AI is so important, and why we must have many AI companies competing. No single actor must be allowed, through regulatory capture, to get a government monopoly on AI. That way lies disaster.

Re:Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:51AM (#49536240)
Because EU is a socialist and authoritarian project that will lead to war and disaster. Only the nationalist right has realized this, and the people are angry. It's boiling under the surface. The EU will either slowly sink down into irrelevance, or if noting is done, and the evil expands, it will lead to outright war.
Re:Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:50AM (#49536224)
”Tack ni svenska vakttorn, med plutonium tvingar vi dansken på knä! Här – Danmark, utskitet av kalk och vatten. Där – Sverige, hugget ur granit. Danskjävlar!”
Re:Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:50AM (#49536217)
”Tack ni svenska vakttorn, med plutonium tvingar vi dansken på knä! Här – Danmark, utskitet av kalk och vatten. Där – Sverige, hugget ur granit. Danskjävlar!”.

From the immortal TV-show Riget!

Re:It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:55AM (#49508181)
Nonsense, complete over engineering. I have a door, and people knock on it.
Re:Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks' on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:35AM (#49480102)
I often wondered if this strategy could work with email/phone scammers as well?

Have an LLM write positive email responses, stringing them along as long as possible.

Imagine the Nigerian prince of scams... instead of getting 0.1% response rates that he can work on, he gets 99% responses of encouraging replies stringing him along. He would drown in false positives.

On the other hand, the Nigerian prince of scams would probably just use his LLM:s to take care of the answers, and we'll have email storms of LLM:s stringing along LLM:s.

Re:Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:14AM (#49462891)
Fascinating! Where I live, fascism is not the threat, it is rampant socialism. It is spreading like cancer and destroying lives and economies.
Re:Nostr is an inclusive communication commons on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:37AM (#49447952)
Not at all. I never had a google account and I know many people who do not have one, and no, they have no problems with spam either.
Re:Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:36AM (#49447939)
True. Europe is close to getting eradicated by immigration from arabia and africa.

What I am seeing is the increase of gated communities with the mission of nurturing european, white, culture. But I suspect once arab and african culture becomes dominant in europe, those small communities of peace will be quickly dismantled.

Many young white people tired of europes socialism are moving to the rural US where they feel more at home.

Re:Nostr is an inclusive communication commons on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:06AM (#49432496)
Email spam is a solved problem. Normal people get approximately 0-5 spam messages per year or so.
Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:21AM (#49420223)
The socialist state of the EU is why god invented tax planning and the possibility to open your company abroad.

I've been doing business in the EU a long time, and in order to be successful you need to:

1. Never follow all the rules. Focus on your business and customers, and ignore/pay someone to deal with the rest if it ever becomes reality.

2. Start your company in a low cost, low tax jurisdiction. There are plenty of them in the forgotten corners of the EU, or why not a US LLC.

But I think the EU will implode in a decade or two and return europe to a state of innovation and profitability. The nationalist trend will lock any decision making in the EU, and the EU:s deep state will take care of the rest, enriching itself at the cost of the tax payer. The result... countries will leave or just silently start to ignore the EU rules, and then block any legal moves the EU tries to attempt at the EU level.

The grift that keeps on grifting.
Free tv and radio? Where do you live? Where I live you either pay taxes for it, alternatively, it is so ad infested that it is not possible to watch it.

I suspect the same will/is happening with AI. Either you will pay for it, or it will be so ad infested that it will become useless.

Re:We never use AI. For anything on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:06AM (#49418048)
This is the truth! We are living in a surveillance state that would make Stalin green with envy.

We are also seeing daily examples of this surveillance state being used against political opponents, powerful bloggers and journalists among the alternative media, and regular citizens who said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Since human beings are easily corrupted by power, this system will be weaponized more and more, and democracy will be hacked away at as well, until we are living in an authoritarian society with a democratic fig leaf, as we can see among the dirka-dirka-stans of the world.

And let us not forget that there are about as many billionaires in the chinese parliament as there are millionaires in the US parliament.

China is corrupt, mercantilist, and run like a maffia family, and with the coming demographic hit, their power will soon diminish.

Why bother with the drive at all? Just store your image in the cloud, and once you're past the border, download and re-image.
Re:Linux 7.2 Released on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:10AM (#49386402)
Yes. I have used it for 15 years without any problems. Just keep track of snapshots and consumed snapshot space. Besides that, works great!
Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:40AM (#49361472)
Would that be true if your child turned out to be a new Hitler or a burden on society?

Personally, I'm with the OP. Raising children, and to do a good job at it, is waaaay too much of a burden for me, and would seriously negatively affect most areas of my life.

I find it much more meaningful to focus on creating jobs, companies, products and services people need, than to raise a child with unknown outcome. I see way too many parents who try and appear as if they are happy and say they don't regret the decision, but deep down it is clear they do.

That is why, many of them, once the children are somewhat grown up, split up from their partner, and then try to re-live their lives and all that they missed.

Re:Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @05:43AM (#49343403)
Does ubuntu touch or postmarket os work reliably on the fairphone 6 now, or is this still just components working? Is it possible to use it as a daily driver?
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick! How difficult should it be? If someone sends you code that is well documented and easy to understand, you accept. I someone sends you code that is bad or incomprehensible, you reject it.

Who the f*ck cares who made it? A monkey could have made it for all I care. If it does what it claims to do, and I understand how, it's all good.

No, the copyright issue is nonsense. That is handled by contract where the contributor is responsible, alternatively, by code submissions of smaller size where copyright loses its meaning, or just base your project in a jurisdiction where it is a non issue.

For 99.99% of the open source projects potential copyright violations is a complete non-issue.

Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Friday August 14, 2026 @06:21AM (#49296804)
Nothing to worry about for europe. Open source and open weights will enable europe to pick up the slck when the party is over. Then the US markets will possibly regret the AI-bubble.
This is the way! The old web never went away. It is still there for the people who care to look. If you are curious, good places to start is here, gopher/gemini, mailinglists, usenet, irc, webrings/blogs, mastodon/pleroma instance etc.

Basically every area that is either forgotten by the mainstream, or completely unknown, and make sure the author is a person and not a company and you'll be on your way to way more interesting discussions, texts, content and interaction, that the B.S. of facebook, twitter and commercial web sites.

Re:Fastmail offers EU data region on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:57AM (#49286067)
True. Just like the famous democracy of north korea, china or russia! ;)
Re:We just raised $400M in Series C on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:56AM (#49286051)
Read today that Lovable is basically just an Anthropic front end. Seems to me that when Anthropic is ready to eat this niche, they'll easily outcompete Lovable.
Re:Fastmail offers EU data region on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:08AM (#49230676)
Of course the EU is not democratic. The sheep, the common people, are only allowed to vote on pre-defined options that are decided entirely in private by the new political nobility, the EU politicians.

Should they happen to vote incorrectly, like when the EU constitution was voted about in ireland and france ,they will just have to vote again and again until by exhaustion, the right result is guaranteed.

The EU has nothing to do with democracy. No, putting a paperslip in a box is not democracy.

I think perhaps switzerland is the country on the planet that is closest to democracy, and they also have the highest incomes ,highest living standards and lowest taxes in europe.

The EU has choose the path of soviet like socialism, and of course the economy will slowly decrease until it collapses, and then we'll get a Hitler 2.0 to "fix" the problems that were caused by the EU dictators.

The best thing you can do if you care about europe, is to move outside of the EU, avoid paying tax, do not feed the beast, and spread the truth, so that fewer and fewer people want to move there. Then it will hopefully collapse in time.

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