@exocomics Ah, you had one chance!

@cwebber This country is increasingly becoming like a dystopian hellscape with every passing day. I remember the movie Total Recall (from the early 1990s), when people had to pay for air.

@unfinishedsymphony @MissBehave @opensourceopenmind @DaveMasonDotMe @furilabs @mechasystems @dawndrums @Liberux @purism @postmarketOS

I have not tried postmarket OS on my OnePlus 6T. If I do try it, it will not be on the OnePlus, as I value keeping Ubuntu Touch, but I do like Pixel phones & have an old one (it's a Pixel 2, however). On the other hand, if it zapped the camera on the 3a, I'm not sure what would happen to 2 (since I assume it to be experimental [thus why the cam would not work]).

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116216524001334186

Correction: 49 years of thinking different and 1 year of sucking up to the oligarchy. 🫣

@MissBehave @opensourceopenmind @DaveMasonDotMe @furilabs @mechasystems @dawndrums @Liberux @purism Thanks for the suggestion. I will look this up. Not worried as much about the camera, but I can see how it would be a problem for most users.

@wesdym That's the danger of this stuff. I've been reading the concern in legal circles about how deepfakes, when they get to the point of being impossible to detect (even with the original file), will cancel out video/pic evidence in civil & criminal courts. We're living in the wild early years of this technology.

@sysedit If by tech people, you mean an enterprise engineer or someone overseeing the process, yes. If by tech people, you mean entry-level devs, sadly, increasingly, no.

@KellicTiger @arstechnica In our current politics, you are right, but I'm old enough to remember my mom & grandma regaling me about how we had trolley cars in my hometown & passenger train travel between cities before the 1950s (and it was reasonably affordable for a working person to use). My grandma never had a car or a driver's license, growing up in a mid-to-large-sized city. If we had this once, we can have it again. It's just a matter of political will. I have to hope one day we get there.

@sh I haven't tried that. I did use Bitwarden for a while but ultimately went to a Yubi key.

@thomholwerda Many of them, unfortunately, are being forced to do this by their employers, who are likely going to use that tech they're making them use to replace the workers in the future. It's like having to use/train your replacements.

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

@cmconseils That's me when I move, don't move, or think, every day.

@warandpeas Still better than LastPass!

@arstechnica It is sad that EVs in the U.S. are being undermined by bad-faith actors, even the main EV maker, never mind the current administration. Maybe we are at a point where we need to just desert cars altogether, outside of some obvious, needed use case scenarios, and instead invest in a real public transportation system in this country.

Secret Panel HERE ✅ https://tapas.io/episode/3193474

@nixCraft This is just the beginning, I fear. I recall reading a McKinsey report about a decade ago, warning of a future global workforce replacement by AI and robotics (back when self-driving cars were new-ish). Now, it's leaked into the tech sphere (just as it predicted). There is a perverse logic to this theft. The only way big tech makes money from this trillion-plus-dollar investment is to use it to replace their #1 overhead cost, human employees. I feel for younger workers.

@Bellingcat Wow. I'm not surprised. I've seen several stories about news outlets falling for AI videos and 'stories.'

@opensourceopenmind @DaveMasonDotMe @furilabs @mechasystems @dawndrums @Liberux @purism

I have looked at postmarketOS. I tried it on an old Nexus, but it was experimental at the time. I will have to come back and try it out on another model again.

@DaveMasonDotMe I still use Ubuntu Touch on a OnePlus 6T. The lack of a true native Linux phone is something that needs to be remedied.

@cmccullough This is so disappointing. I was hopeful, too, in spite of Mozilla's numerous bad moves over the past couple of years. I use a privacy-hardened script, but it's to the point that I'm inclined to go back to LibreWolf as my main browser. It's just sad to see the descent of Firefox (Mozilla).