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FreakyT commented on Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/whatever3

malfist · 9 months ago

What happens when one of those updates bricks your battery so it only lasts an hour or so off charger?

FreakyT · 9 months ago

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, considering that this actually happened:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/google-pixel-4as-rui...

FreakyT commented on Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages 404media.co/mike-waltz-ac... · Posted by u/lurkersince2013

_heimdall · 9 months ago

It seems reasonable enough that the government may have built a forked version of signal with message archiving that meets documentation requirements.

If its an app they wanted kept under wraps, it will make the while Hegseth situation seem a lot more benign.

I use Molly Messenger on a secondary phone that doesn't have a SIM, its a fork of Signal with a few differences related to encryption at rest. It still works with normal signal users just fine, on the other end you can't tell I have a different client. If the government has a similarly forked version you could likely still accidentally invite the wrong user in from their normal Signal app and they wouldn't know you're on a forked version with government archiving features.

FreakyT · 9 months ago

Molly is great; I use it for the same purpose.

I find the Signal devs' attitude so frustrating; they deliberately disable the ability to use Signal in secondary device mode for phone-sized-devices, because they know the Correct Way To Use Signal™ is to only use it on one phone-sized-device.

FreakyT commented on Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/tosh

seydor · a year ago

People cannot normally invest in their competitors.

It's not unlikely that chinese products may be banned / tarriff'd

FreakyT · a year ago

There are non-Chinese open LLMs (Mistral, LLama, etc), so I don't think that explains it.

FreakyT commented on US Tests Explosive at Nuclear Site as Russia Revokes Ban on Atomic Weapons Tests bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Jerry2

tutfbhuf · 2 years ago

Disabling most is insufficient. All it takes is a few ICBMs hitting NY, LA, etc., and the calculation already becomes nonsensical. It would be intriguing, however, if it becomes possible in the future to intercept ICBMs during the launch phase using some kind of new technology. Even then, though, you would need to ensure a 100% success rate.

FreakyT · 2 years ago

> if it becomes possible in the future to intercept ICBMs during the launch phase using some kind of new technology

This was largely the concept of the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Star Wars) in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

FreakyT commented on Top Israel/Hamas misinformation spreaders use Elon Musk's paid "verification" arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/cannibalXxx

FreakyT · 2 years ago

It'd be weirder if they didn't, considering how much X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, prioritizes subscriber posts. The last time I checked my feed on X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, basically every surfaced reply was a paid user.

FreakyT commented on Air Rage Is Getting Worse, and Airlines Can't Fix It forbes.com/sites/marisaga... · Posted by u/my12parsecs

AlotOfReading · 2 years ago

I don't know how long you've been flying or what airlines you use, but the situation was very different pre-9/11. 2 checked bags and seat selections were free, you could walk/pick up family at the gate, and onerous security checkpoints weren't a thing. More importantly, seats had more room.

Sure, you had to read skymall instead of watching a movie during the flight, but tablets didn't exist yet so we didn't know better.

Qualitatively the situation is worse today, even if the difference is usually exaggerated.

FreakyT · 2 years ago

Parent comment asserted that "flying gets worse every year", which is a very different declaration than "flying got significantly worse after 9/11"

FreakyT commented on Air Rage Is Getting Worse, and Airlines Can't Fix It forbes.com/sites/marisaga... · Posted by u/my12parsecs

wly_cdgr · 2 years ago

Airlines are lying, bait-and-switching pieces of shit and the flying experience gets worse every year, so the only thing that's surprising is that there aren't way more of these incidents

FreakyT · 2 years ago

> the flying experience gets worse every year

People always say this, but I haven't seen any evidence that it's true. In my view, the flying experience at least in the US has actually gotten better over the last few years. United, for example, added free seatback IFEs. (About 10 or so years ago, you had to swipe a credit card to watch anything.)

FreakyT commented on BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent investors.biontech.de/new... · Posted by u/mpweiher

FreakyT · 5 years ago

That’d be really exciting if they managed to get a working Malaria vaccine out of this research. Would be useful in so many places.