Doesn’t even need to be European. Ubuntu has a phone version that’s not currently universal, but it is on its way and could be someday. True Linux phones may be in our future.

We don’t need phones that respect your data, we need phones that don’t collect it in the first place.

You never did. Heart rate monitors have existed for years, and they’re typically more accurate than a smartwatch. Fitness bands, too, have been around for a long time.

And you can always use the tried-and-true free method of finding your pulse, counting for 30sec, and multiplying by two.

To be fair, mild confusion and concern is the judicial equivalent. Even the diehard maga judges still behave with decorum, even if their ultimate judgments are unhinged.

There’s a common and expected way to do lawyering. If a judge “expresses concern” towards a lawyer, that’s a big sign that you dun fucked up.

You’re reading a marketing piece from Anthropic. This is not an unbiased look at the AI landscape, it’s targeted propaganda.

If you think this is something to “appreciate,” congratulations; you’re the mark.

It sounds like you’re concerned with EEE: embrace, extend, extinguish. While that might be a problem for centralized pieces of software, who are dependent upon revenue streams, core distros like Debian, Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE are developed and maintained by the community (and sponsors).

If sponsors all pulled their funding tomorrow, the projects would not suddenly cease to get updates. By extension, sponsors don’t get special seats at the table just for being a sponsor; it’s not some corporate buy-in where they get 5% voting share for donating $1M to fund hobbyists to work on the code full-time. Likewise, they don’t have special push access to inject “features” (read: enshittification) into the codebase that will eventually hamstring the code. Somebody would notice a bad pull-request and say something.

And even if they miraculously did, the codebase is open source. There are enough motivated people in the world who would fork the code into something free and open again. It’s one of the biggest strengths of FOSS.

Sponsorships help the development happen faster, but sponsors are not the drivers of Linux—we are. Choose the distro you like, and enjoy!

If I hadn’t already bought one before all this AI-induced production chain ruination, but also knowing what I now know about it and how I’ve used it, I might still pay those prices for it.

Not really that crazy when you consider that the people in charge could have had a sweetheart deal with manufacturers in China, but they cut off all trade partners and all soft power channels, because they’re drooling buffoons who won’t accept that the US shifted to a global economy decades ago nor do they grasp how global economies work—mainly because they fired every expert under the pretense of “government waste.”

All they know how to do is grift and defraud, and the chance to maintain global hegemony is long past. It’s China’s time, now, and they know it.

Classic abuser language. Take it to the extreme to make the reasonable person sound unreasonable, then make it out that you’re their victim.

Conservatism and DARVO go hand in hand.

That’s nuts. Thanks for the source! I hadn’t heard about that

if you do not comply with court orders of the country you are based in, you can close up shop

This is exactly the case for every VPN and network operator. Some take steps to remediate issues around anonymity, and some even offer ways to pay anonymously, but no company is going to break the law for you.

I have issues with Proton’s head being far too conciliatory to Trump, but the email thing wasn’t something they could do anything about, because it’s an inherent flaw with how email works; it was a court order to which they were compelled to comply, whether they wanted to or not.

I’ve never heard of either of these things. Do you have sources?

It’s hilarious to me that news companies keep interviewing AI companies to ask them if they think AI is all hype. What kind of answer do they expect?

“Yeah, this is just smoke and mirrors, and I’m just trying to make a ton of money before the bubble pops.” Bruh, no CEO is gonna be honest about that.

Agreed, but maybe for different reasons. Could you use Signal for government communication? Probably, but it would take intentional preparation, setup, and training of the end-users (most of whom are likely not security-minded or tech-savvy).

But practically speaking, governments should reasonably be developing an option that uses their own servers as relays, not ones controlled by a third party. Signal is run by a nonprofit (i.e. not driven by moneyed interests) and has survived court subpoenas for user data (because of how the useful data is stored encrypted at the endpoints, not the relays), but they do not have the same interests in nor are they developing a platform to keep government secrets safe.

Also, it’s a central point of failure; even if it remains entirely uncracked throughout its lifetime, if the company goes under, those server relays will go, too.

I feel pretty safe as an end-user nobody, but I would be thinking twice if I was a government official.

“He’s eccentric! A visionary!” —Rich assholes, probably

No. Fine wine (allegedly) gets better with time. Meanwhile, I’m praying the caps and fans hold out until the market corrects itself even a little.

Digital Oil Rig is such a great analogy for multiple reasons.

“Digg watches what 1,000 of the most thoughtful voices in AI are paying attention to, and ranks the stories they’re pointing at by what’s rising fastest,” Rose said.

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It also uses AI from services such as xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini to “classify public accounts, summarize public posts and linked articles, describe public media, generate topic labels, score public content and power search.” That would explain how Digg quantifies user sentiment into a percentage for its posts.

Focus on AI. AI apologists from Xitter. Powered by AI summarizers.

Barf.

Is there something wrong with ES-DE?

That’s bad, but at the same time, there’s public data aggregators that sell your info, and you could go out right now and find your name, phone numbers you’ve had, former and current addresses, people you’ve lived with, former and current jobs, etc. It’s kind of terrifying what’s “public information,” and yet they continue to be allowed to operate with virtual impunity.

I’m not saying we should just accept things, but cutting off this “training data” would be a great start, and if companies can’t, then they should be forced to cease operations (including AI chatbots).

I prefer the Insomniac EP by Mad Routine, myself.