why are you so interested in logs? are you like a lumberjack?

I’m afraid these are the people running the world

You can always dry them. Allegedly you can freeze them if you cook/steam them beforehand, but I have never tried that.

in terms of camera innovation, the only thing I want is a flagship with no camera bump…

this meme was last true 20 years ago

Yup, I always wonder why phones don’t have camera covers built in, like modern laptops do. Rethorically speaking… I know why they don’t.

You could probably build a live mm resolution 3D map of every large city with all those smartphone cameras.

If it were up to me, I’d regulate these into high hell.

1. Mandatory camera covers
2. Mandatory really obvious recording lights, recording sounds
3. Auto-removing anyone from the camera feed that hasn’t explicitly agreed to appear on your camera. And replacing them with a black box.
4. Geofencing to disable the camera near any place that hasn’t explicitly opted-in, as well as removing the place from a recording at any distance.

All as tamper proof hardware features. And make it a felony to modify them to remove these safeguards.

Too hard to implement? Good

I would love it, if AI was only used for useful things, like translation, spelling correction, sorting my photos, Plant/Object ID, actual useful SST, doing Google’s old job of actually finding the information I want in the sea of SEO garbage or badly written product descriptions.

But no, I already know it’ll primarily be used to spy on you better while draining your battery. At least with all the past spying you knew the data processing isn’t THAT advanced. But with AI it’ll be like having a literal spy following you around at all times.

And from the state of existing models that are small enough to run on a phone, it’ll still be years until they are actually reliable enough to be useful.

Maybe if they make a watch with a camera cover and a laser that draws a little box around what it can see and it all runs locally, then I might be interested.

Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.

Not a fan of the idea of everyone pointing AI powered cameras at me all the time, like with this weird pin or smart glasses.

Such products should have a legally mandated camera cover, microphone shutoff and a REALLY OBVIOUS tell to everyone around you if you are using the camera or mic.

Bonus points if it screams a really loud “PERVERT” alarm if you’re doing something creepy.

If only that was true for smartphones too…

It is kind of interesting how open machine learning already is without much explicit advocacy for it.

It’s the only field I can think of where the open version is just a few months behind SOTA in all of IT.

Open training pipelines and open data are the only aspects that could still use improvements in ML, but there are plenty of projects that are near-SOTA and fully open.

ML is extremely open compared to consumer mobile or desktop apps that are always ~10 years behind SOTA

reminds me of this bit:

“not only will america go to your country and kill all your people but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”

They wanted to be able to call it Windows X for religious reasons but then decided it was too obvious a tell. ☯️🔺x🔻☤

Elon on the other Hand is not that thoughtful.

Congratulations 🤠🥾er

lmao I thought it was a PSA against cars

There is nothing that bugs me more than the intentional enshittification of mobile websites/apps.

I don’t want all your shitty apps.

Why do I need an app on mobile, but the website works fine in desktop mode?

Why do mobile browsers even allow shitty sites like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest to forbid you to save images.

I wouldn’t even care, if every second image search result wasn’t one of these horrible sites.

I think you are looking at work horse distros, like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc… That by now are heavily used for productive work, not personal use. So they favor stability and minor quality of life improvements over shiny new updates.

There’s plenty shiny new cutting edge distros out there that are innovating, e.g. Nix, Silverblue, VanillaOS, all the container focused ones CoreOS, Container OS, Flatcar Container Linux and probably dozens more newer ones I am not aware of .

oh that is very neato, if I do say so myself

Off-topic: That website is so nice. I’ve never seen any mobile site load that fast and look as nice

well well well, the archiver becomes the archivee

Probably because 3rd party app stores can’t install apps like the play store can. you need a rooted phone or flash them as a system app to get the same functionality as Play Store. which isn’t something your average Joe will do.

On a normal unmodified phone you have to manually confirm each app you want to install. so no auto-updates in the background etc.