Signal Messenger’s video chat works pretty good

disposable vapes have a lithium ion battery and usb c port for charging… it’s not hard to turn one into a battery pack for something else that took batteries, like a flashlight

wait til they find out about cellphone cameras and the 1,000 other video glasses companies

isn’t making the minimally harmful choice always ethical?
i think it’s about morality than ethics but ethics and economics (ironically) used to be connected, and part of the same discipline. Economics being quantifiable theories, and ethics being unquantifiable.
In this case, you could easily say any genocide is infinitely bad. So comparing one genocide to two genocides isn’t really possible… it’s an unquantifiable loss.
however in this case, in the captured system where two parties are pretty much the only possible winner, we can make an ethical argument for voting for the “lesser genocide”, but really only because they’re both propping up the same genocidal regime, but one is much more into it, wants to develop buildings where the people were, as well as wage other genocides.
besides, it’s much better to be able to protest without being labeled a terrorist and disappeared to some secret, third world torture prison (like cecot and liberia).
it’s really hard to think of a worse president.
i don’t see how “i want to stop this genocide and others” translates into “a little genocide is okay”. Or normalizing genocide…
i remember shortly before they switched from biden to harris, harris released a statement about protestors calling them all antisemitic and completely ignoring what they were actually protesting, and i hate her with all of my heart for that.
but she never wanted to arrest them and deport them to a foreign torture prison for life.

even in math, some infinities are greater than others. I’ve seen interviews with palestinians that said they’d prefer Harris for the same reasons.

like if someone said they’ll either shoot you or stab you and you get to choose, you wouldn’t say nothing because that makes a little bit of stabbing okay.

you need to fully be able to program to work with these things, in my experience.
you have to explain what you want very specifically, in precise programming terms.

i tried a preview of chatgpt codex and it’s working better than my free version of claude, but codex creates a whole virtual programming environment, you have to connect it to a github repository, then it spins up an instance with tools you include and actually tests the code and fixes bugs before sending it back to you.
but you still need to be able to find the bugs and fix them yourself.

oh and i think they work best with python, but i’ve also used ruby and dart and it’s decent.
it’s kinda like a power tool, it’ll definitely help you a lot to fix a car but if you can’t do it with wrenches it won’t help very much.

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Show me an example

lol, no.

if you disable message previews in the app, those messages are never decrypted and put into the notification stack, and can’t be backed up in icloud. Which should also be disabled.

the security implications of turning on messages previews is pretty obvious, and they are also mentioned in the app.

if you have message previews popping up on your lock screen of your terrorism plans, then you’re a fucking idiot.
if you glamourize the massacre at waco texas, then you’re a fucking idiot (they really did).
if you spend months planning a bombing and ZERO minutes planning opsec, then you’re a fucking idiot.
either this whole thing is a fake terror plot manufactured by the government, or they’re fucking idiots… or maybe a nifty combination.
Signal messenger provides bulletproof end to end encryption, but all pipes leak at both ends.

several people compared it’s caffeine content to coffee, try to keep up

FUD, btw.
enabling message previews was always a security vulnerability with signal.
letting iCloud back up your phone is a security vulnerability… signal can only control what goes on in their app, they could never control the rest of the phone.
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have you read anything about this case? they were _ complete idiots_ cosplaying as revolutionaries, planning on making a bomb and becoming terrorists.
They were idiots with terrible opsec, and probably would’ve never gone further than talking shit and making one pipe bomb in the desert.
you can either learn from their lack of OpSec, or just scream fud and all electronics are bad, and sit alone writing on paper and refusing to use the internet, just like they want you to do.

doubt you have any idea how any of this works and just default to “all electronics are bad”!
even though you’re using a phone right now.
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just lazy

several people, that’s who.
ACTUAL point is, there’s a lot of things in there other than caffeine, come on

Ingredients: Carbonated Water, Citric Acid, Taurine, Sodium Citrate, L-Theanine, Caffeine, Sucralose, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Gum Arabic, L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, Panax Ginseng Root Extract, Acesulfame Potassium, Niacinamide (Vitamin B-3), Inositol, Glucuronolactone, D-Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Salt, Natural Flavor, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Guarana Seed Extract, D-Biotin, Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B-12).

a lot of those ingredients aren’t in coffee

i saw the Challenger shuttle explode in person… my elementary school used to have a recess to watch the shuttles every time they launched.
however, the idea of Windows in space is terrifying.

you just need to turn off message previews in notifications then… and disable siri

yeah it’s always risky watching beloved childhood movies. With you be flooded with nostalgia or ruin a special memory?
Beetlejuice was a family classic for me growing up… we only had a few VHS’s and that was one so we rewatched it 1,000,000 times.

Bettlejuice 2 sucked but it did manage to milk a couple drops out of my nostalgia gland.

well you know what i always say, there are plenty of fish in the tree.

well i wouldn’t consider a fish at all if i need something that can climb a tree

that’s generally true but it over simplifies it a lot. it wouldn’t accept any of my claims until i provided links to it.
stuff like, “there are only unverified claims of attempts to deport people to cecot. if that had happened, there would be a lot of outrage and news articles. it would be illegal for the us to deport people to foreign prisons”

so, outright denying each one of my claims that it adds up to fascism, until i went through the entire checklist of what defines fascism, with multiple sources… it took about a half hour.

that then becomes training data and sources for the overall LLM, and will influence future conversations… with chuds who believe chatGPT is god, and who can’t provide reasonable negations to well sourced claims.

i had a similar back and forth with Claude, now it’s defining trump as authoritarian without any further evidence required.

llm’s have gotten a lot more complicated in recent years… they’re now little stacks of multiple neural networks working together to fix each other’s mistakes and whatnot.

i think we’re getting closer to Immanuel Kant‘s model of consciousness.

i find the AI Futures Project to have some pretty interesting ideas on where we’re headed
(70% of all humans dead in 5 years)

Linux phone, open for customization… it was brilliant… kinda….
fuck anything related to Java though