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caleb-allen commented on Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good kristofferbalintona.me/po... · Posted by u/harryday

PopePompus · 22 days ago

There is a third option (in addition to the native app and Termux) to get emacs running. The recently added (to at least Pixel phones) "Terminal" app runs a standard Debian distribution inside a VM. emacs can be installed there in exactly the same way it would be on any other Debian machine.

caleb-allen · 22 days ago

I started reddit.com/r/androidterminal for discussing this feature

caleb-allen commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ensocode · 3 months ago

In the beginning, I was really curious about ChatGPT—a tool that could save me from useless blogs, pushy products, and research roadblocks. Then it started asking follow-up questions, and I got a bit uneasy… where is this trying to take me? Now it feels like the goal is to pull me into a discussion, ultimately consulting me on what? Buy something? Think something? It’s sad to see something so promising turn into an annoying, social-network-like experience, just like so many technologies before. As with Facebook or Google products, maybe we’re not the happy users of free tech—we’re the product. Or am I completely off here? For me, there’s a clear boundary between me controlling a tool and a tool broadcasting at me.

caleb-allen · 3 months ago

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.

It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.

caleb-allen commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

caleb-allen · 3 months ago

And this is where I'm tapping out.

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them. The challenge, then, is to actually operate independent of the technology and the company.

caleb-allen commented on AI is propping up the US economy bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko

Matthyze · 4 months ago

A considerable group of people think AGI or even ASI is right around the corner

caleb-allen · 4 months ago

Sure, just as a considerable group of alchemists believed the recipe for gold was right around the corner

caleb-allen commented on Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web perplexity.ai/hub/blog/ag... · Posted by u/caleb-allen

caleb-allen · 4 months ago

Related discussion of the original Cloudflare post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

caleb-allen commented on Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... · Posted by u/derbOac

caleb-allen · 6 months ago

Of note from the "Acknowledgements" section:

> K.C. is a director of TdeltaS Ltd., a company spun out of the University of Oxford to develop products based on the science of ketone bodies in human nutrition.

caleb-allen commented on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode androidauthority.com/andr... · Posted by u/logic_node

assassinator42 · 7 months ago

Rumor is Samsung won't support Google's Linux Terminal (at least for their existing phones) since their Knox conflicts with the Android Virtualization Framework :-(.

Honestly I'd like to see Windows 11 running under this as well, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

caleb-allen · 7 months ago

Maybe it's possible anyways? Qualcomm was able to integrate their own hypervisor on top of AVF

Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 | Adding Third-Party Hypervisor to Android Virtualization Framework

https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1447/attachments/1...https://youtu.be/hLdUCrlheKg

caleb-allen commented on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode androidauthority.com/andr... · Posted by u/logic_node

enragedcacti · 7 months ago

Taking better advantage of a display is nice but imo the really exciting part of desktop mode is the planned integration with Google's Linux Terminal app (i.e. 1st party linux VM support). I have a Samsung DeX device and while you can get a basic dev environment working easily it can be really cumbersome to make it comfortable to use and integrate with your normal tablet workflow. Being able to install full-fat linux apps and run them in a window would be a complete game changer.

source for planned integration: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/392521081?utm_source=...

caleb-allen · 7 months ago

Plug for reddit.com/r/androidterminal !

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caleb-allen · 9 months ago

Article I. Section 8. of the US Constitution:

> The Congress shall have Power To [...] establish Post Offices and post Roads;

So any such change to the mail would be legislative