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That's real, but:

> The only issue is that LG recently closed the vulnerability that made rooting possible so you don't want any firmware released after 2026-10-10 like 43.21.84. Hopefully a new exploit is found that makes rooting possible once again.

That's a good excuse to find a used one.

I didn't get to see any of his Shakespeare stuff, but I got to see him and Sir Ian Mckellen perform Waiting for Godot. I didn't know what to expect, but man those guys blew my mind.

You inspired a poem (with sincere apologies to Martin Niemöller):

First they came for the oligarchs, and I did not speak out -- because I was not an oligarch.

Then they came for the political cronies, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a political crony.

Then they came for the tech bros, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a tech bro.

Then they came for me -- and actually it was okay because now we live in a civil society, we were able to clear up the misunderstanding and everybody's doing fine.

:)

> Digital privacy is important to me. I think that all humans should have it. Feel free to disagree. Jared Kushner is a human.

All the counter-arguments I've read to this comment so far have been along the lines of, "well they started it."

And well they did. But if your response to the U.S.'s brand of dehumanization is more dehumanization then you've actually helped them achieve their goal. The people who run the U.S. want a world where respect for privacy (among so many other things) is thrown away because they believe they have the guns and resources to gain the most from that kind of world.

It's part of why I'm getting out of the USA. Key norms of decency we had are broken now, and in our social system you can bet that the next powers who come in will do little more than make a show of repairing them. They now see what's possible and they'll use it for their own ends. It's a spiral.

You're right. They were quiet for a long time and had promised new things "by the end of summer." They missed that window but have really been on a roll since they started up again.

I hope you're right. I do wish there was another way to get to what you are describing besides the same strong-arm tactics that the U.S. used to subjugate many other countries in Latin America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I keep getting this feeling that we're in late-stage capitalism because of how all the oligarchs are maximizing extraction:

* Facebook with this and its new scraping rules for business accounts

* Turning Venezuela into a fiefdom

* Skydance merger

and on and on. But it's not late stage. It's just capitalism and we'll be reading about the same behavior 10 years from now.

I'm sure a lot has changed since cough 2004, but that was the state with the PowerPC G4 and G5. Machine learning Linux applications used the IBM Power architecture because of their vectorization features, and that hardware was ridiculously expensive. When Apple started using Motorola and IBM's cheaper PowerPC chips with Altivec this small market was pumped, but none of their groovy scientific applications worked on OSX.

This created a large enough market for Linux distros installed on Apple hardware to make it a sustainable business model the makers of Yellow Dog Linux to buy the hardware through a reseller channel, ship it to the building, install Linux on it, then ship the device to customers. I worked there and it was fun.

Lots has changed since then of course, one of which being that Apple controls the chip from top to bottom, and their near-indifference in 2004 now seems to have transformed into something more adversarial.

You hit on something that's been making me nervous for awhile, and I hope I'm wrong. The US's relationship with Ukraine reminds me of stories I've read about how people train fighting dogs. It has just that level of abuse, negligence and reward for violence that creates a creature that is good at just one thing. I really hope I'm wrong about all of my assumptions.

Poke poke wake up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTu6TzLZIE

I saw this video referenced from this guy's longer video about a crow escape room he made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpg3VvoIVfA

Of course take it with the typical grain of youtube salt

You don't need their consent, but they don't suffer if they block you. Now Meta is saying they would be breaking their TOS.

> This won’t last forever but as long as the frontier labs are subsidizing this heavily the open models won’t matter.

It's amazing how new we all perceive AI to be, and yet how old the tricks that the big players use. Their job is to just suck the oxygen out of the room as long as they have the money to do it.

> I think right now it should definitely be a race to profitability,

I haven't been listening too closely, but this is the first realistic mention I've seen that actually says what the "AI race" is or should be about.

Yeah that's a good point. The numbers are smaller and I was looking at it absolutely.

Speaking from an absolute perspective I do think they are doing more with their money than either Anthropic or OpenAI.

> Man, a lot of this discussion sounds like people cheering for the last kid crossing the finish line.

Sometimes it's ok to cheer for the last kid crossing the finish line because they're actually running a totally different race, and winning might look completely different.

When I look at what Mistral does vs other organizations I'm impressed:

https://isaiprofitable.com/

They aren't profitable yet, but they're a lot closer than most and they're doing a hell of a lot with very little.

Pointless racing story:

I was in high school track with a really tough guy who was just not a runner. We went to a pretty messed up high school and if you screwed around in track practice sometimes the coach would make you run a crap race at the next meet, like steeplechase or hurdles. Well this guy and a few others screwed up and coach made them all run hurdles at a meet.

He hooked every single one and fell on his face. Every time he got back up and kept on running. By the time he hit the finish line his knees were bleeding halfway down to his ankles. We cheered like hell and he was smiling ear to ear.

Coach quit punishing us with races after that.

I'm a KDE guy through and through, don't get me wrong, but statements like this deserve attribution, otherwise it's just FUD.

> If a new project is causing a “strain on resources” then the utility planners have failed that community.

Call it an echo chamber but when it comes to data centers that's the preponderance of news that I read. These two stories are about the county next door to mine. The first story highlights how the builders of the data-center continuously broke zoning laws. The second story from a month later describes how the board of commissioners let all that slide and approved construction to continue.

https://www.cpr.org/2026/08/07/weld-county-ai-data-center/ https://www.cpr.org/2026/09/10/weld-county-officials-approve...

But it's not just my state:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/new-jers...

Those guys were fined a "record" $1.1 million, and:

> The state is mandating DataOne apply for and obtain the required permits or cease operations, but is giving the company 45 days to do so, according to a NJDEP spokesperson. During that time, regulators are allowing the facility to continue running the generators.

That fine is a slap in the wrist.

> The whole point of the word purpose - its purpose if you will - is to be able to talk about the difference between what a system does and what it ought to do. To say the purpose of a thing is what it does, is to render the word completely redundant.

I think you might like this song then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqBBNjkAlXM

as it takes normal every day systems that we think we can depend on (banks, the army, phones) and sarcastically highlights some of the worst things those systems do vs what we're told they do. The chorus is that slogan.

What you describe reminds me of some studies of jumping spiders. Some aspects of their intelligence (like counting) matches that of a 1 year old human, but because their brains are so tiny it just takes them much longer to do the same counting. IOW it's not the size of the model, but how it's organized and the strategies for using it.

This article has lots of fluff but it describes a lot of what I'm talking about:

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2021/are-s...

This paper focuses on the use of the providers' web and phone tools, and the data sharing arrangements they built through ad networks and tracking services like Data Dog. It doesn't talk about how they handle data from API calls. For one thing that can be pretty opaque.

I have a friend/client who understandably doesn't trust the existing privacy policies of the major providers. They have the same problem many of us do: We want the most powerful models, we're willing to pay for them, but we see over and over how much of a frontier the frontier actually is. Frontiers are ugly if you don't have guns.

So for now maybe platform tools like Open WebUI and TypingMind are a good workaround since the big boys don't (apparently) train on API data (for now) or (probably) send that data to advertisers. It would be interesting to confirm that.

> - how do you solve the 3 body problem? you need people and their people and their people on the platform to use the platform

> - how do you go about getting the 1st 1000 people for something like this?

I am definitely not an expert, but I did see on their site:

Discord bridge & server import

Mirror a channel both ways, or import your whole server. Nobody has to move all at once.

And I think that helps answer some of your last 2 questions. If it works seamlessly with existing discord users then it seems like a good first step. The server-runner gets autonomy and users get the ecosystem they're habituated to.

Actually there's lots of evidence that there is life on (in?) Enceladus:

https://sales.bigmachine.io/curious-moon

This book teaches how use PostgreSQL to crunch real data from the Cassini probe, which shows a "smoking gun" for life on Enceladus.

I think there's plenty we can do about it.

* If we find life on another planet it provides a realignment for most of our world religions. That's important to several billion people. It might even create a new religion. We haven't had one of those in awhile, how exciting is that?

* If we spent $50 Billion to find algae on Enceladus we'd definitely spend 200x that to put said algae on a billionaire's plate for them to eat. That would fuel hard sciences and the economy in numerous ways, similar to how the space race gave us Nike Air shoes and the Dustbuster [1]. Like you say a human would probably never dip their toe in the water of Enceladus but we would get a lot better at drilling holes and extracting.

* We need more enemies and aliens would be great, even if they are single-celled. It would probably result in a global defense system within 50 years which would once again have several ancillary benefits for technology and warfare.

[1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-would...

I was hoping this was minimal enough for somebody with dementia to use to make calls, but when they say "Phone" they don't mean like the old folks do.

I kept reading though, kind-of envying the physical keyboard because that would be fun, but I'm a swipe-typing guy through and through. Then I saw that it supports swipe typing, possibly by sliding your fingers across the keyboard. The idea of swiping across those keys literally gave me frisson, won't lie. That would be so groovy.

Yeah so like that XKCD, the cops have a post-it in their car with your details. But like fashion it's also making a statement.

How about internationalized then? Give the UN something to do?

You mean the same best friend that you unilaterally groped[1], shit-talked[2], undermined[3] and tried to drag into a brawl[4]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-nato-policy-def...

[3] https://www.cadtm.org/Trump-Europe-and-the-international-neo...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/europe/trump-lashes-out-europ...

I despise Salesforce, but when I landed on this page I was like, huh. wow. honesty. Looks at GitHub

So yeah you're exactly right, the snark is not deserved if you ask me, and I'm 82% snark.

> It should be remembered, however, that the bird successful in flight is an evolution. It has taken a great many generations of his kind to develop his muscular system in just the right way for flying purposes, and very likely the process has consumed many centuries of time. The mistake of the scientist would appear to be in his assumption that he can do with much less suitable material by a single act of creative genius what nature accomplishes with such immeasurable deliberation. [1]

> Face it, earth is all we get: make it last.

Recent sci fi novels I've ready have been really depressing because while maybe some colony planet is doing OK the Earth is a used up husk, and I'd like to think that we could have both: a planet we chose to make last and successful footholds on other bodies (water moons and water planets make more sense to me)

[1] New York Times, 9 weeks before the Kitty Hawk's first flight (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true...)

> you could reimplement all its basic features easily in a weekend with AI

Cloudflare did that:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

I haven't heard of anybody but Cloudflare using it though.

Name recognition still means a lot. WordPress is baked into most hosting platforms now so SMBs just reach for it. Most of them won't hear about this b.s. and honestly the platform can continue to run on momentum for years.

There's a whole ecosystem behind WordPress that, while it's a security nightmare, is also pretty damn useful. You can't vibe code that yet, you have to build it over years, if not decades.