Yup. Also, apparently as of OpenSSH 10.1 people who aren't using quantum-resistant key algorithms will be warned.

I agree that some of these things---the ones that aren't explicable as searchlight beams reflecting off of clouds, or Venus, or balloons--- are not physical objects. My favorite idea is that someone (China, say) has lined up a bunch of tiny drones with radar transponders. When the first one in the line detects a radar ping from some American fighter, its transponder sends out a response that makes it look like a sizable object (whereas the drone itself is too small to show up on radar). Simultaneously it sends a signal to the next drone in the line, which does the same with some delay. Depending on the delay, the line of drones can appear to be a single object moving quickly or slowly. And if the line is bent, the virtual object can appear to take a sudden turn, or go into the water or come out of the water.

Optical illusions could be created in much the same way.

"Correct sun and moon icons during midnight sun — Fixed an icon that wrongly showed a moon during all-day daylight in polar regions... "
Huh? The Moon comes up in day time just like it does at night (with the possible exception of the full Moon, which rises about the same time the Sun sets, and sets about the same time the Sun rises). And if you look in the right place, you can see the Moon perfectly well in the daytime (assuming no clouds in the way).

Nice insults, bud. So your point is people are using AI, but you can't name a famous example of a household name company that is upending established non-tech markets through AI? "Household name" means it's known by ordinary people. Tinder is a household name. Cloudflare isn't, despite having a 10x valuation. However, it's safe to say few outside of IT or investors who target technology could explain what CloudFlare does. And you name Zeiss...an optics manufacturer who is arugably a household name for expensive lenses...although they largely failed in their original market and pivoted towards industrial products....Also ASLM???...who the fuck is that?...you mean ASML? Did you bother Googling?...

However, Zeiss and ASML are pick and shovel manufacturers. They're selling products to chip makers to pump into this circular economy.....no....ASML doesn't count (assuming that's who you meant), nor does nVidia. They're not disrupting markets, just selling chips and chip making equipment to support this bubble.

Every technology revolution we've had has been used to disrupt existing markets...not create them or just support people who enjoy playing with technology. The internet, after it's initial research days, was a place for nerds to have fun...it was a revolutionary technology once you could order books and games and pizzas off it. It killed Blockbuster. It killed Sam Goody and every major music chain. The majority of customers prefer to order online today, even for basics like toothpaste or fruit. However, the internet didn't just sell goods and services to internet fans...it disrupted real, established markets.

AI will be a serious technology revolution once it actually SUCCESSFULLY disrupts and existing market to become a household name. No, not some company we've never heard of that I have to google who "promises" they're using AI. Netflix didn't have to "promise" they were using the internet...Grindr/Tinder didn't have to "promise" they were leveraging mobile app technology...the results spoke for themselves. People saw it with their own eyes. All we have today is companies promising to investors that AI is making them more efficient...with no evidence...no reduction in cost...no tangible boost in service...nothing other than promises.

I use Claude daily...it's nice. Sometimes it's even helpful. I am glad I have it available, but my tickets don't get closed much faster...it's no revolution. At best, it's current impact is similar to the Spring Framework 20 years ago....helpful...but not enough that outsiders could notice.

It's foolish to think that AI won't someday bring about a revolution. I do believe I'll see it in my lifetime, but no...it hasn't happened yet and there's no sign it'll happen within a year. The shit has been out for 4 years now...If it was going to set the world on fire, we'd be smelling the smoke already...not just hearing promises from tech vendors that someday this will pay off!

Like the article said...most of us who actually professionally use these AI tools are unsure if there's really a tangible benefit. I think there's some...but not enough you'd know from actual output...other than it gets shittier the more you vibe-code.

Dude hipsters don't exist anymore. The kind of young hip dude or dudette that would qualify as a hipster is so thoroughly beaten down these days they've just faded into nothing. They're busy putting 60 hours a week in at Uber for just enough gas money to do it another week.

The core market for this is neurodivergent people who are being actively harmed by.. I don't want to call it social media because it's not. We need a new word to describe the kind of nastiness that Twitter and Facebook do where they actively keep you in a state of panic and fear and misery for the purposes of engagement so they can serve up advertisements and slurp up your data.

It's like how we tend to call right-wing extremists "conservative". When somebody's going to do something really awful they make sure that they pick a word to describe it or a phrase to describe it that is the exact opposite of what they're actually doing. Otherwise they couldn't get away with it because well, it's like you wouldn't buy a bouquet of dog shit would you?

It's not the approach that substandard it's the quality of the phone. It's a $500 device that you can buy the equivalent without the blockages for about 150 bucks.

I mentioned Twitter and Facebook has the kind of places that someone who is having trouble with doomscrolling wants to avoid and therefore wants a device that refuses to install those apps. That's presumably the selling point here you can't install the kind of apps that you would use to Doom scroll with. You're not searching Twitter you're wasting time on it while it makes you angrier and angrier and more frightened and more upset. You're not enjoying yourself but you can't stop because the algorithm has trapped you and you know this and you know you ought to just uninstall the app but you find yourself uninstalling it and then going back to it for another hit off the pipe.

The point is that sites like Twitter and Facebook use complex algorithms to take advantage of people with a variety of problems. It would be one thing if they were offering them something positive and good but all they give a shit about is the next engagement and the next opportunity to serve up and advertisement or the slurp up some data they can resell. They are more than happy to help you feel horrified and miserable as long as you're generating revenue for them in some capacity.

There's a bunch of neurodivergent people out there who know that they're being manipulated and they would be interested in a device like this because it makes it harder for them to fall off the wagon and reinstall the app. But the app shouldn't be allowed to be that addictive and destructive in the first place.

It's literally one group of ghouls profiting off of people's misery and another group of ghouls selling a potential solution to the first group. That's what sucks. And that's why it's peak capitalism

I just buy my phones directly and throw a Sim in them so I can uninstall anything I want.

I remember years ago I had one of the old Huawei ascend phones which was the first really cheap Android. It could just barely run angry birds and that was a big selling point. I didn't care about angry birds but it was nice to have a cheap Android phone back then but it barely had enough storage to run the operating system and I remember being pretty pissed off that some stupid bubble bubble clone was marked as a system app and could not be uninstalled. So I couldn't remove it to save space.

Can I install /etc/hosts on Android and block social media, AI, trackers, and ads? Because that seems more convenient than spending $500 on a phone.

It has been for some time. That's why I said Chrome is the default.

From what I can tell Chrome will use less ram if you are someone who uses 1 to 10 tabs. The kind of lunatics around here the keep 100+ tabs open at all times are going to benefit from Firefox. It's a difference in design philosophy. Chrome is catering to the more average user that isn't going to keep a shitload of tabs open. I don't understand why people keep all this tabs open you can't possibly use them all and 90% of websites are going to figure out that you haven't been on that tab in a while and reloaded anyway. But I guess you do you. I know it really bothers people to have their tabs fucked with

You know that the industry is hurting.

To see commodore or the husk that is commodore taking advantage of people who have mental issues when those people with the mental issues are looking for something like this because another company is taking advantage of them.

There's just something uniquely fucked up about a clearly substandard product that exists specifically to cater to someone who can't just uninstall Facebook and twitter, and again I am not blaming people for that Lord knows I have my own mental issues as my detractors will no doubt a test to. But there's something really fucked up about selling what's very obviously a $150 device, I mean for fuck sakes it's a cheap Media tech phone with a cheap display, and charging a premium because the phone blocks apps that the person buying it knows they can be tricked into installing even though those apps make their lives objectively worse.

It's also possible that this is going to get marketed to kids but again you have a bunch of people doing a fucked up thing and another bunch of people selling a product to solve the problem caused by the first fucked up thing. How about we just don't do the fucked up things in the first place?

It really is peak capitalism though I'll give them that. One group of capitalists Selling me a substandard solution to a problem created by another group of capitalists.

I’m still waiting for my $39,999 cybertruck that was announced in 2019. Or fully self driving semi, or (fill in the blank)

Who's afraid, middle cow and?

My only hope is that it is at night, some of these things might be interesting if it happens right after it gets dark. Tequila and popcorn FTW.

Doge wasn't all him. It was just project 2025. And he didn't make big decisions, he made stupid and easy ones to kill children in exchange for tax cuts that made him a trillionaire.

In the real world he has teams of people whose job it to prevent him from making decisions at his companies.

What possible motive would Ukraine have to fuck with a poorly maintained linux distribution?