So let's vote them out
Cute that you think there will be an election. Why do you think have all controlling and independent agencies that are part of the election process or cybersecurity been removed in the first week via executive orders?
Readit Newsh4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him electrek.co/2025/08/25/sc... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
For once Fairphone never updating their phones will work in our favor! If Google roll sthis out in early 2026, anyone with a Fairphone can rest easy that they won't receive that version of the operating system until mid-2028 at least.
Fairphones are also LineageOS and postmarketOS compatible, both options are without tracking and without Google's mandated policies.
LineageOS without gapps is really usable if you set aside the "big" social media apps. WhatsApp can be sourced from their website as an APK. The social apps like facebook, instagram, snap, tiktok and others all require Google Play's tracking services (aka gapps).
For YouTube there's multiple better alternative open source apps available, and mastodon, amethyst and the fediverse apps on f-droid are far superior in terms of performance to the Google Store alternatives.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit currentaffairs.org/news/w... · Posted by u/Improvement
> "fighting the good fight"
Well certainly currentaffairs isn't unless the good fight is platforming genocide deniers like Noam Chomsky. Or complaining that the US is undermining Russia's power too much. Or advocating for Ukraine to give up land to Russia to end the war.
Thinking that there is such a thing as an infallible hero or idol is a fool's belief. Noam Chomsky can be right in some parts, and wrong in some other parts. Everybody is, that's kind of the point of our species.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit currentaffairs.org/news/w... · Posted by u/Improvement
I see everything turning to shit. It's the collapse of society. We've seen that no one is out there protecting us and "fighting the good fight".
We had a good run.
What about the Antichrist guy that allegedly took down 4chan because they came after him/her?
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy? · Posted by u/cmcy
Go outside, touch grass and trees.
The internet, smartphones, social media, all want your attention by bombarding you with information. Too much information to process.
You need to go outside in nature, go hiking, do some sports outside, read a book, have a picnic.
Everything in life is about balance, even with technology consumption.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever mavericksforever.com/... · Posted by u/Wowfunhappy
You call that insane quality? I took a five second look at the GitHub page and I already noticed that the spacing between the three traffic light buttons is wrong. It immediately felt off.
Great! Go make a pull request, that's the power of open source.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever mavericksforever.com/... · Posted by u/Wowfunhappy
The MacBook Air mentioned (2014) will install Mavericks when booted into recovery mode anyway (unless you use Option-Command-R which will give you the newest compatible version which is Big Sur).
I did that a few days ago and I agree, it’s quite snappy! Missing certificates can also be installed manually (e.g. from the curl CA bundle), but even then TLS 1.3 support is lacking in most apps which breaks a lot of stuff without the suggested proxy.
A lot of MacPorts ports also do not build sadly.
The look is so much better than current macOS.
Regarding SSL: just make sure you are using macOS 10.9.3, earlier versions (all of them, and I mean, all since the 80s) never had a working SSL implementation.
For more, read about the GOTO FAIL bug: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2014-1266
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h4ck_th3_pl4n3t commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
I have a feeling that you believe "translation, grammar, and tone-shifting" works but "code generation sucks" for LLMs because you're good at coding and hence you see its flaws, and you're not in the business of doing translation etc.
Pretty sure if you're going to use LLMs for translating anything non-trivial, you'd have to carefully review the outputs, just like if you're using LLMs to write code.
By definition, transformers can never exceed average.
That is the thing, and what companies pushing LLMs don't seem to realize yet.
Even in airplane mode?
I dare you to do the following:
Charge phone to full 100%. Turn it off.
Put it into a faraday cage, e.g. a steel box, for 7 days.
Take it out again and wonder why the battery is empty.
(The faraday cage has the effect of making the modem have to switch bands constantly, which costs more electricity than sleep mode in LTE)