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shlip
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- shlip parentHave you been hibernating since january 2025 ? You're living in a dictatorship now, that's why.
- > Root had been toying with the 8,000 or so members who signed up for the site by tricking them into conversations with AI chatbots.
> Root set up a website, okstupid.lol, to host a map showing the location of each user, as well as the biography that they used on the dating site and any photos and other details they uploaded.
- It's not clear if the app was removed AND their account terminated, or if the account was terminated, and the app disappeared from the store as a consequence ?
Looks like LocalDevVPN is next then... ?
For those wondering, StikDebug is "An on-device debugger/JIT enabler for iOS versions 17.4+, powered by idevice."
- This must be infuriating:
> You spend a lifetime mastering a language, adhering to its formal rules with greater diligence than most native speakers, and for this, a machine built an ocean away calls you a fake.
This is :
> humanity is now defined by the presence of casual errors, American-centric colloquialisms, and a certain informal, conversational rhythm
And once you start noticing the 'threes', it's fun also.
- JFTC's full 'Mobile Software Competition Act Guidelines' are available here : https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/MSCA_Guidelines_tentative_transl...
Curious to see how Apple and Google are going to circumvent this.
- Yup, from the Apple TV article linked in the article[1]:
> According to its privacy policy, the company gathers usage data, such as “data about your activity on and use of” Apple offerings, including “app launches within our services…; browsing history; search history; [and] product interaction.” [...] transaction information, account information (“including email address, devices registered, account status, and age”), device information (including serial number and browser type), contact information (including physical address and phone number), and payment information (including bank details).
Yeah, sure, that's privacy, Ars.
[1]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-t...
- Every time I see an article on HN about a "smart" device doing shitty things, my first thought is why would someone (especially from this crowd, who's supposed to be enlightened about the state of enshittification of tech) buy any IoS device in the first place ?
What good could you expect from an appliance that's permanently communicating with its non-giving a f*ck about users, profit driven, immoral and unethical mothership ? Would you really expect your life to be better after buying such a product ?
- TLDR; Every chipmakers jumped the AI frenzy bandwagon and stopped producing regular chips.
> It shows industry efforts to meet voracious appetite for advanced chips — driven by Nvidia and tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Alibaba — created a dual bind: Chipmakers still can’t produce enough high-end semiconductors for the AI race, yet their tilt away from traditional memory products is choking supply to smartphones, PCs and consumer electronics. Some are now hurrying to course-correct.
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- > AI systems exist to reinforce and strengthen existing structures of power and violence.
Exactly. You can see that with the proliferation of chickenized reverse centaurs[1] in all kinds of jobs. Getting rid of the free-willed human in the loop is the aim now that bosses/stakeholders have seen the light.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenize...
- Just to be clear about what is really happening right now;
There were three articles from newspapers (Le Figaro, Le Parisien) known for their rightist, pro-cops, opinions, and owned by billionaires (LVMH/Arnault, Dassault). In those articles, GrapheneOS is associated with bad actors purpotedly using it as a way to obfuscate their activities.
A comment was made by Johanna Brousse, Chief of French Cybercrime Unit, stating she would not refrain from pursuing the publishers if links were found with a criminal organization and they refused to cooperate with the justice system.
Another claim from a police investigator equates GrapheneOS usage to illegal activity.
- No problems :) The full "Le parisien" article is available here FWIW:
https://archive.ph/20251124161701/https://www.leparisien.fr/...
- I think you meant https://mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature/115581775965025042 instead of a link to "Le Parisien", which is not a non profit, but a newspaper owned by LVMH/Bernard Arnault, and known for having rightist opinions.
- M$ is consistent with its trend to f* up one version every two releases ; 98, ME, Vista, 8...
Logically, the next version should be "good" (even though it takes some work to unbloat 10).
Relevant ? https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45959795
- Nice idea, but it does not work without JS. It's baffling to me that more and more sites use this (dark?) pattern of requiring JS just to display links.
EDIT: Well I was too quick, it partially works, you can click the grey "source" link on white bg for each article. Why not make the whole div a link instead ?
The sorting menus on top of the page are not working without JS though.
- Might seem obvious to some, but after trying for half an hour for llama.cpp/gemma3-1b to correctly tell me how many 11mm tall sugar cubes I should stack to get to the moon (the model insisted that 11 mm == 0.011 km for its calculations), this might shed a light on why this seemingly easy task is not for LLMs.
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- clickbait-free title : Poor maintenance, extreme-weather, rising costs of parts explain US electricity price rise
https://archive.ph/20251026040519/https://www.washingtonpost...
- There was an article not long ago about using Apple Configurator to dumb down an iphone : https://stopa.io/post/297
Maybe this could be handy.