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by purpleidea 5d ago
(I will try this as soon as there is a package in Fedora... That's my personal subjective bar to choosing a new EDITOR. But I definitely hope this succeeds, I'm a fan so far.)
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by purpleidea 7d ago
> Motorola Mobility (Lenovo) isn't providing us with funding. If you made a strong public commitment to making sure everything in GrapheneOS was strong copyleft, would they still partner with you? (FWIW, I think it's great what
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by purpleidea 7d ago
> We have a list of formal sponsors at https://grapheneos.org/sponsors which are 4 server companies sponsoring dedicated servers, a GeoIP database company giving us sponsored access to the downloadable database and a VPN
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by purpleidea 7d ago
> Software doesn't need any protection. People want protection. Correct, people want protection for the hard labour they put into doing something good (writing software) for the world, and to not have it co-opted for individual prof
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by purpleidea 8d ago
> people complained about my choice of MPLv2, eventually someone started a competing library with a permissive licence and everybody jumped on it Just because you choose copyleft (even weak copyleft like MPLv2) doesn't mean your pro
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by purpleidea 8d ago
You're conflating what "Free Software" means and what Copyleft means. In any case, they both need protection from people like you who want to take it and benefit for free, without having to give anything back. Copyleft was de
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by purpleidea 8d ago
My personal website: https://purpleidea.com/ has been DMCA'ed by some scammer and I still haven't gotten it back out. Google ignores the counter notices, and who knows where else the scammer (masquerading as a leg
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by purpleidea 8d ago
Don't fall for this trap! GrapheneOS leadership is very against Copyleft, probably to cater to it's corporate sponsors, and copyright is really the only thing that protects Free Software at all. Proprietary software can be kept se
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by purpleidea 9d ago
I was reading through it and figured it had to be AI generated... But ... it's not? This email from billg is unhinged! Hilarious though.
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by purpleidea 10d ago
In Canada, we wear steel-toe, steel-shank safety boots, and we're kind of required to keep them on. We surely give them a good clunk to get rid of mud or snow, particularly in the winter, and we try to wipe our feet as much as possible
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by purpleidea 12d ago
Nobody wants a proprietary TUI. We still use claude because the model pricing is way better, but that will eventually change. Bob has a hard lesson ahead of it.
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by purpleidea 15d ago
They've nerfed a bunch of models, especially Opus 5. Nobody knows why, but overall things have gone downhill significantly.
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by purpleidea 15d ago
I notably had an issue that it wouldn't work on a "remote execution" (running a command over SSH) coding problem until I did a sed to remove the word "execution". Incredibly dumb. I'm not doing any murders. Eas
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by purpleidea 15d ago
> Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) Sounds like some serious nonsense. "Tell me you want the government to retain access to my data without saying it explicitly."
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by purpleidea 24d ago
In case you haven't heard, the government is cloning everyone's phones. In theory our hardware and software would protect us, but in practice the phone companies keep it proprietary enough and with enough backdoors and bug doors
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by purpleidea 24d ago
For most users, Kubernetes has added complexity and cost, but not value. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we start thinking about how things should be built. Whether or not you have LLMs has nothing to do with that. The LLM will hap
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by purpleidea 24d ago
I have noticed very serious degradation in performance from Anthropic. I've switched away from Opus 5, but 4.8 is still much worse than how it was before Fable came out. It's constantly making what seems like obvious mistakes... I
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by purpleidea 26d ago
I think the feature we all want in light of this is a simple backup+restore which uses a users SSHD server somewhere so you can wipe completely before travelling and then restore completely when safe again. Would obviously want it to also b
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by purpleidea 28d ago
This person was public on the recent nist list against hybrid solutions. I simply don't understand why they would oppose the safer option. Yes I've read the mailing list, it just all seems quite suspicious.
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by purpleidea 28d ago
Be careful as changing some of the advanced options can brick your machine. On the other hand, on some machines you can disable Intel ME spyware this way! Nice stop gap until we have a fully open source BIOS everywhere.
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How to enter advanced BIOS options on many Lenovo thinkpads(old.reddit.com)
3 points by purpleidea 28d ago|1 comments
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by purpleidea 29d ago
I actually did read the whole thing. Read what the journalist said... You can't call and cancel someone's hotel reservation on their behalf. That's super sketch.
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by purpleidea 29d ago
Why is this flagged? Impersonation is a big deal :/
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by purpleidea 1mo ago
Yikes! I see this too: <script type="module" src=" https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v4513226... " integrity="sha512-ZE9pZaUXND66v380QUtch/5sE9tPFh2zg45pR2PB0CVkCtOREv2A
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by purpleidea 1mo ago
I've been following closely and have been both very impressed with what they're building but also very disappointed. They have a great vision for a seamless hardware project, but completely missed the point of what the software au
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by purpleidea 2mo ago
I would pay significantly more to use these models if there was a legal contract that guaranteed they weren't ever terfing them and some way to prove that.
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by purpleidea 2mo ago
I assumed (perhaps incorrectly, but it was a guess since I never dug into it) that less used "hot pockets" of previous inference gradually got more stale as time went on, and the conversation went elsewhere and didn't need th
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by purpleidea 2mo ago
Imagine getting free tokens from OpenAI and the special flag on your account that tells it to "never nerf you" ? To be clear, I've had some great success using these tools, they're amazing, but it's also very obviou
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by purpleidea 2mo ago
This only makes sense if the underlying thing that gets exposed after you put in the password is a block device... I'd want to then be able to have that encrypted with LUKS myself, I don't want to rely on this homebrew stuff.
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by purpleidea 2mo ago
What a badly written article. How could you leave out the N900 and the development history that came before it? If it wasn't for Elop and Microsoft, Nokia could have dominated and we wouldn't be stuck with mostly proprietary phone

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