Samsung hardware

Fairphone sustainability / repairability

Pixel / GrapheneOS privacy

Chinese prices

Dream phone of mine.

Wait ... EndeavourOS? That's arch linux, a PC operating system. Did you confuse something?

I get the appeal of this, but I feel this is part of a broader problem of relying on AI for problems that already have elegant, simple solutions. Like relying on LLM's to tell you what was the last google doc that you viewed is just not sustainable and creates bad habits. Soon people will ask what was the last tab I was just in, instead of using a keyboard shortcut and or having proper tab management.

Imagine using it for your code editor, instead of using the built-in functionality of jump-lists, marks, fuzzy finders and so on.... Or switching to an editor that has these things. What file was I just in? Where did I just write this function?

"When asked, the AI even double checks if the document was shared in a group chat with his coworkers."

How about learning to just use search?

Would love to see them offer a flagship phone. I usually prefer to buy the best thing available at the time and then forget about phones for the next 5 or so years. Ideally also would be great if they were to focus harder on privacy and eventually I could install GrapheneOS on them, but that's not happening either :(

Waiting for some Cortecs provider to make it available.... I use these small models usually without thinking. Don't feel like thinking helps a lot; if you need thinking maybe just use a slightly more powerful model IMO.

There's a saying : "Where there's a will, there's a way"

Big tech are using every trick in their book to circumvent regulations and to continue building data centers despite local community disapproval over noise, pollution and a myriad of other problems...

Of course, since data centers are (according to the DOJ), "a matter of national, economic, and energy security", doesn't matter even if they are ran by illegal gas turbines.

And they're not so small

Also, this consideration for others property.... man it would have been nice to have had it when the US was building highways through black communities...

BUT HOW WATCH YUTUBE?

There's something about Bluesky I just don't quite like. I have an account, sometimes (rarely) I use it. But for example today I wanted to share a short video with a friend. I send him the link - "only logged in users can see this post (OP himself set this option)" ok, weird but let me download the vid and send him - "nope can't do that"

They literally added some frontend bullshit to not allow you to download a freaking video. When you Inspect it with developer tools it shows a button... If you try saving it with right clicking it will save the thumbnail instead... I know there are probably easy-ish workarounds but this sort of instagram closedness pisses me off.

Meanwhile in Mastodon I right click and save video as....

I also don't like the underlying complexity of how decentralization is supposed to work there. That being said, if the choice is between twitter, threads or bluesky, please use bluesky.

I prefer Mastodon, though.

They make more money selling cars. Think of how many cars are needed now that everyone needs their own personal one vs trains where 1 can transport hundreds of people.

And for the camera roll problem. I use Ente Photos and the app has that. You can select a range of photos and tap “guest mode”. Then trying to scroll outside the selected photos requires to unlock the phone.

Good to know. I use Fossify Gallery, don't think they have this.

this is why i recommend everyone going into software use linux and open source as much as possible

then you naturally find projects to contribute to

I kinda agree with his points that:

Currently, using local models on average consumer hardware is not really feasible. The math of building your own powerful lab to run these models just doesn't work out no matter what way you look at it... just look at PC component prices, factor in the electricity and so on....

People will generally go for the new shiny, powerful thing (that's what drives our economic system, after all).

Data center inference will always be more efficient.

I would also add that people are not tech savvy enough and or lazy to go through the hassle of setting up a local model.

So I do think running a model locally will continue being a niche unless some serious advances will be made in them.

It's important to note that even though running a local model might not make sense today, that doesn't mean we have to be stuck with large, proprietary USA models. Through something like Cortecs you can use small, open-weight models like GPT 20B, Gemma 4 26B, Qwen 9B and so on ... They're dirt cheap, some providers have environmentally clean data centers, strict privacy policy, etc.

Not to mention what they do to wildlife that more and more these days get isolated by these roads. Why aren't they forced to build bridges for wildlife when building a road? Simply not a priority.

Thanks for letting us know!

One thing that I don't understand is:

On July 7 there was a vote for this urgent vote to take place. 303 were against, 331 were for, (- 28 people) (so it passed)

Today (July 9th) the actual vote for this law took part. 314 were against, 276 were for (+38) (yet still passed).

Please tell me why MEP's voted for this urgent vote to take place and then later (on July 9th) voted against it ?? Were they misled or something?

Yeah it was funny to read :

“Based on the limited nature of the customer information believed to be involved, we determined that individual notifications were not warranted under applicable privacy laws,” the Suno spokesperson added.

But then (talking about the hacker):

They said they also accessed Suno’s customer list, which included customers’ emails and/or phone numbers and Stripe payment details, depending on what they used to login. The hacker provided a sample of some of the customers, some of whom confirmed to 404 Media they had used their phone number to sign up for Suno and said they were never notified of a breach.

I guess email address, phone and payment details don't matter enough to notify people.

My browser clears all cookies from Reddit when I close it down. And every time I go to the new Reddit site, it auto logs me in with my Google account. In some other sites there's the annoying "log in with google account" popup at the top; it doesn't do anything if you don't click to log in. But Reddit doesn't ask. Just says: "Logging you in" and you can click cancel if you're fast enough.

They even auto create you an account if they do this for the first time.

Awhile ago they were also experimenting forcing mobile users to use the app

And now they're also rolling out age verification in the EU (just got an email yesterday). One of the ways to verify your age is with Persona which Discord also tried to use and got a lot of backslash.

Eye roll 🙄

old.reddit.com on mobile is a bit rough but otherwise yeah

By the way here are the results of the votes:

July 7th: https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=195338&country=&eugroup=

July 9: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775