This one is Crosspoint compatible already. Must be ESP32-S3?

Nice, front light, 3.97", SD Card, Crosspoint compatible, cheap(ish). Lots to like.

I’m starting to say vibe code is write only.

Like they used to say about Perl, indistinguishable from line noise.

Basically unmaintainable without super strict coding conventions, submitters taking personal responsibility, a strong, well thought out overarching architecture, and most importantly, someone with a great knowledge of the project to approve merges. Vibe coded forks to add one or two features have none of that.

This is why GitHub is littered with slop projects that haven’t been touched since they were made. This is why an ungodly amount of technical debt is accruing as managers with a hard on for lines of code or ‘features’ force devs to unwisely use AI coding tools all the time. There will be a reckoning, and it’s not far off.

Real enough language, just a fucking awful one to my first language C brain, I enjoy it as much as forcing Word to format somewhat sensibly (i.e. I never invested the time to get good). I’ll use it the bare minimum to get a job done that it does best. Then again I feel the same way about javascript, but Python is fine. However, if you’re gendering code you’re at best a bloody idiot and probably a misogynistic asshole.

Most welcome, have fun.

Image is 270MB, under 1MB in its volume.

Damn I miss quotes being respected.

Happy local user for a couple of years now, you can pipe it through a VPN with gluetun for extra fun. Super lightweight, run it on my T580 laptop. Doesn’t fix the enshittified web, but at least you can blacklist the worst of it, along with many other tricks.

The scary thing to me is that it was claimed to be the ‘AI crawler’ that did the breach. Those fuckers have been driving up the cost of running every website, have zero respect for a robots.txt file and just keep hammering the internet in general.

Now it appears they also have some sort of breaching capability, or the Medicare statistics site and others have a bad hole that allowed the crawler to walk its way in. I hope it’s the latter, bad as that is, because the former indicates they’re hooking up red team (hacking) agents to their fucking web crawler. Greedy, data hoovering, assholes.

ETA: The Guardian article reports Albanese as saying

the agent had accessed “public and non-public files within the portal” and, in order to do this, “engaged in writing files as well to the internal server”.

which is not crawler behaviour, it’s definitely breaching.

That should be straight up criminal behaviour, at the very least criminal negligence, probably significantly worse, whatever hacking for hire is in the targeted country. As is scarily becoming usual ‘an agent did it’ is being treated as a get out of jail free card, freeing them of responsibility. Those who control it need to be criminally accountable. Even if it is an OpenAI client (person) deliberately breaching their guardrails (Barbossa: “The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”), the company is an accomplice.

Older ThinkPads have that, my T440p has three drives, one easily swappable where the DVD was and one NVMe in the WWAN slot (actually the fastest), great for hopping. For the T480 you can do the WWAN NVMe trick, or use an external TB3 drive (enclosure maybe), which is fast enough to play around.

Yup, also likely first against the wall now NVIDIA is in charge.

ETA: search heretic

Nah, it’s in the name, Large Language Models, what gets marketed as ‘AI’, are trained on text. That’s why they’re ripping up secondhand books (and copyright law, but that never stopped them) at the moment. No one has really cracked Large Vision Model yet, although there are some primitive versions being attempted in robotics, mostly they translate to text, which is why general purpose robots aren’t a thing yet.

Uh, it literally says the RBA had required “the maximum a card issuer can charge a small businesses for each payment drops from 0.80% to 0.30% of the transaction”. The vendor is better off, the aggregators and issuers are the ones footing the bill. The card owner will likely lose rewards and get higher fees so the bloodsuckers can keep the same (or better) bottom line. Watch for changes in your terms.

And the anonymous internet gets another nail in the coffin. Endgame is every comment identifiable and legally (unlike state intelligence agencies) actionable against you, and the chilling effect that will have on free speech, communication, and organization.

Hail the rise of techno fascism, the entire internet will be facebook.

Can they not palm it off on the corpos to do for them? The states already have the identification apparatus, they should step up and provide age verification services. Meta and Steam do not need my photo ID, just that I’m over 18. If we can’t have freedom, at least minimize the harm.

I tend to just look at the comments first here for anything even slightly questionable. Seems like some of the dumbed down shit does actual brain damage to read.

Smartwatch: Garmin (Fenix 6 gen and above if you want sleep monitoring) with gadgetbridge on android (preferably GrapheneOS) and selfhosted Endurain. Seeing as this is c/Selfhosted you can also roll your own dashboards with Grafana.

You’re thinking Garmin, really? Privacy? Actually Garmin’s T&Cs are IMO the best of the big names privacy wise, especially if you’re in the EU, but they’re publicly traded and subject to the ‘I have altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further’ changing terms at their whim, or just getting bought out and drained dry.

You know what’s better than OK T&Cs? Not giving them any data at all. On gOS I can pull the network permissions for Garmin Connect and still use it to set up the watch, do custom activities and so forth. When finished disable it and enable GadgetBridge. If you want watch faces do that with Connect IQ and then uninstall. Without gOS it’s just a little clunkier, but GB will pull the files off the watch so that when you fire up Connect there’s not data to report. If you didn’t make an account there’s nowhere for it to go anyway.

There are other gadgetbridge compatible devices but none with the build quality, feature set and quality health data. It’s been running for GB for more than a year and they haven’t sicced their lawyers on it.

Also, given their spectacular battery lift (14-20 days or so without hammering music or GPS), 500 charges for the battery to decay takes 10 years+, so secondhand ones are good value. The battery can even be replaced fairly easily (4 screws and a bit of glue), although you might not want to go diving afterwards.

You can also just connect it via USB and use any software that handles GPX etc. files.

For privacy, probably better than Brax, worse than GrapheneOS at the moment. Should be possible to harden Jolla, but at the moment there’s no turnkey Linux phone that’s secure and privacy respecting of which I am aware. Fairphone 5/6 with PostmarketOS is coming along nicely as I understand, battery life notwithstanding.

Fine, whatever. Bloody humans, I don’t know…

Flock does pattern recognition, a quite old piece of machine learning. Nothing to do with training a large language model or other ‘AI’ model.

Likely plan B is fork AOSP and crossport security fixes, such features as Google deigns to put in AOSP and so forth. They can do that at any time they choose, may as well wring as much work out of the big G as possible, later is better. Remember their focus is security, it just happens to benefit privacy as well.

Here’s hoping they can hang on long enough that there’s a viable hardened Linux phone to take the role.