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ponorin commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ponorin · 3 months ago

Fluoxetine is one of two medicines listed in WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for the treatment of depression since 2007 (use of other SSRIs are also allowed)[1]. The listing means it has proven to be safe and effective enough that WHO believes it should be readily available in every healthcare system. You will need much more than a Wikipedia article listing side effects for the entire drug class, without incidence rate, to convince people these drugs aren't what they seem.

Also relevant to this article, WHO since 2023 does not recommend Fluoxetine (or any antidepressants) for children younger than 12 years[2].

[1]: https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/17642505-ecd...

[2]: https://list.essentialmeds.org/recommendations/313

ponorin commented on Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom androidauthority.com/why-... · Posted by u/pabs3

ponorin · 7 months ago

GrapheneOS lost me on PR. For every updates they post on their social media there's guaranteed to be a rant about how other projects are doing things Wrong. They talk down on any and every security- and privacy-related projects (or open-source projects in general) if they align even slightly out of line according to their idea of security and privacy, regardless of their own merit. Dig even deeper they also like throwing around the word "slander" and "attack" without backing it up. In fact I am certain I will be greeted with a friendly wall of text by somebody from GOS in this very thread sooner rather than later.

GrapheneOS is the most secure, arguably most private, hell the most feature-complete, user-friendly custom ROM (but they also hate the word "custom ROM") out there. I've imported a Pixel, because it wasn't available in my country, just to use GOS. So it is deeply frustrating that they are doing things the way they do. Hubris is their longest-standing, "wontfix"-labelled vulnerability.

ponorin commented on How to Network as an Introvert aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-... · Posted by u/agcat

mzajc · 7 months ago

Between the structure, the doubly-phrased headings, the machine generated picture, and regrettably the em dashes, this really reads like LLM slop. If I'm wrong, I apologize, but if that's the case, please just hand out the prompt instead next time.

ponorin · 7 months ago

The image indeed gives me a strong AI vibe, in particular the "Ghibli update." It's getting really hard to uncloak it by the day but those drab colours instantly throw me off.

(For the "real artists also can draw like that" crowd I don't think the OP is an artist and it has no credits.)

ponorin commented on Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux ostechnix.com/why-flatpak... · Posted by u/dxs

jasonpeacock · 9 months ago

The article mentions that Flatpack is not suitable for servers because it uses desktop features.

Does anyone know what those features are or have more details?

Linux generally draws a thin line between server and desktop, having “desktop only” dependencies is unusual less it’s something like needing the KDE or Gnome GUI libraries?

ponorin · 9 months ago

It assumes that you have a DE running and depends on features like D-Bus. So it's not designed to run headless except for building flatpak packages.

ponorin commented on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why? thefoggiest.dev/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/ingve

Tepix · 10 months ago

Which one of the four freedoms is not met by AOSP?

Don‘t Linux phones also rely on binary blobs?

ponorin · 10 months ago

My bad - I forgot that Free Software need not be copyleft. The point on Android still stands tho, and the freedoms on AOSP are decresing by the day as well.

ponorin commented on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why? thefoggiest.dev/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/ingve

quotemstr · 10 months ago

It still makes zero sense to take the XDG/dbus/whatever stack and make it run on a phone, suboptimally, when AOSP is right there and has already solved all the thousands of integration issues you'll run into --- plus, it's already free software.

NIH is the only rationale for the "Linux" phone thing and it's why it will be forever fringe. People working on "Linux" phones as anything more than a diversion (why not play Factorio instead?) are wasting their time.

ponorin · 10 months ago

> it's already free software

I'd just like to interject here for a moment. The word Free Software has a specific meaning that AOSP does not meet. The only component of AOSF that is Free Software is the Kernel, due to GPL, and aside from low-level Android-specific modules such as binder there's no secret sauce in Android kernels; even the vendor modifications are mostly gutted out in favour of Project Treble and GKI. Everything else is only Open Source and not Free Software, and even then developed privately and only published upon release. Because nobody releases a pure AOSP phone (Google Play Services alone changes the OS behaviour dramatically, punching through all the usual app sandboxes) and the source code for the modification, it's effectively proprietary with open source components.

ponorin commented on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/namanyayg

dheera · 10 months ago

They should really implement a dual user / dual password system to combat those countries.

If you enter password 1 it goes into your normal account, if you enter password 2 it goes into another user account with a burner environment where you can install a few token commonly used apps for plausible deniability.

The existence of password 2 should be optional and you should not be able to tell if the system has one or two passwords configured.

ponorin · 10 months ago

You can either use: separate user accounts (needs context switching) or a new private space feature. Private space was introduced with Android 15 and can hide its existence (from the launcher).

ponorin commented on Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit lesswrong.com/posts/4mvph... · Posted by u/paulpauper

gundmc · 10 months ago

This was published the day before Gemini 2.5 was released. I'd be interested if they see any difference with that model. Anecdotally, that is the first model that really made me go wow and made a big difference for my productivity.

ponorin · 10 months ago

There's somehow this belief that "newer models will disprove <insert LLM criticism here>" despite the "newer" models being... just a scaled-up version of a previous model, or some anciliary features tacked on. An LLM is an LLM is an LLM: I'll believe it when I see otherwise.

ponorin commented on Gumroad’s source is available github.com/antiwork/gumro... · Posted by u/philipjoubert

ponorin · 10 months ago

> The source is open. It can be seen, edited, run yourself.

I can also take and eat food from the supermarket without paying. I just have to pay later in multiples, get jailed, or both. Or not.