Imo, Graphene wants to be a "Google certified" ROM OEM, they don't make devices but software. A good and secure ROM for sure but they're still begging them for Play Integrity[1] and "sandboxing" GMS isn't fighting Google.
[1] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112878070618462132
Readit Newshollow-moe commented on I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS jonashietala.se/blog/2025... · Posted by u/lawn
They saw Apple getting away with notarization under the DMA so they're doing the same.
I must admit the mass demotivation strategy is working really well. Seeing this kind of news every single day, affecting you directly and not even being able to do anything
hollow-moe commented on Walmart says tariff costs are rising 'each week' and will continue npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
Walmart should invest in eink pricetags, more and more shops have them here in France. Eventually allows them to increase the price of items throughout the day without having to manually re-tag
DMCA only applies to hosted content and we've established that LLM aren't hosting copyrighted content as there is significant transformation which you would otherwise need to prove yourself by training and replicating their entire model.
There is no legal recourse here, if you don't want AI crawlers accessing your content 1) put it behind a paywall 2) remove from public access
I'm not talking about the output of the LLM here. DMCA is an overreaching law. Here i'm talking about its provisions for access controls and "digital locks", i am not a lawyer but i'm fairly sure you could find some way to categorize Anubis/another software as a digital lock and then sue them on that basis.
Really looks like the last solution is a legal one, using the DMCA against them using the digital protection or access control circumvention clause or smth.
hollow-moe commented on Managing time shiftable devices (2024) bitsandtheorems.com/manag... · Posted by u/Knaapje
For sure, that sounds very doable, though there are still some hurdles, like why would a consumer partake in that scheme? There has to be some reward for offering flexible consumption of energy for grid stability. There also needs to be a controller/arbiter that does the scheduling.
Economic incentives, we already have a system of low/high hours with different prices to motivate people to run their big appliances at times of low usage. There's usually a window during the day and another in the middle of the night. But why implement this whole system when OEMs already connect their devices to your wifi and can force you to use an app to setup custom running times...
hollow-moe commented on Managing time shiftable devices (2024) bitsandtheorems.com/manag... · Posted by u/Knaapje
In France we had the controversial deployment of the smart electric meter Linky, sending regular consumption and telemetry data via CPL through the grid to Enedis and downloading updates. Now I'm wondering why wouldn't there be a local "broadcast" of the state of the local grid to the Linky and then it could send data again with cpl in a known standard to appliances so they can start when the grid is low usage no internet required ?
hollow-moe commented on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine solarshades.club/p/dispat... · Posted by u/notarobot123
The bigger problem is that kids can just hand write an essay that an AI gave them.
I teach at a university and I just scale my homework assignments until they reach or exceed sightly the amount of work I expect a student to be able to do with AI. Before I would give them a problem set. Next semester homeworks will be more like entire projects.
then you're discriminating against students not using AI. I for sure know I really would be depressed to be asked for a huge pile of work I'll do myself when other will just cheat and have free time to do something else work on interesting projects or see friends whatever.
hollow-moe commented on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles social.numerique.gouv.fr/... · Posted by u/bzg
Big smokescreen, they only open the most trivial software. "France Identité" the virtual ID card has been closed source since day 1 and also happens to use Play Integrity.
hollow-moe commented on Google reverses course after blocking Nextcloud Files app neowin.net/news/google-re... · Posted by u/bundie
They won't directly "mandate" the use of Playstore since it would be an obvious abuse of monopoly to regulators.
Unlike what they did to NextCloud? Unlike what Apple does?
They didn't force Nextcloud to distribute through PlayStore, and Apple is under scrutiny for malicious compliance on allowing third party stores in Europe