I’ve never seen a roadmap

Neither have I, sounds like a good project in itself if it doesn’t exist. ‘Drivers for xyz, reverse engineering something’ is part of the problem, phones usually (nearly always best I understand) have proprietary blobs of firmware to a greater or lesser degree and it’s a moving target different between manufacturers and most often models. Qualcomm modems are particularly egregious for patent reasons. US trade deal enforced global DMCA laws make reverse engineering legally tricky. Hence the desire for linux specific hardware platforms.

I get (and share) the purist hate on saOS’s non OSS UI, but to get linux phones up and running you need app support₁ and market adoption (people buying phones) to make it a viable switch from the walled gardens for more people to use it, to get more hardware made and so on. Chicken and egg deal, bootstrapping. As such anything that gets people in front of linux phones should be embraced at this point, as long as it can run linux native code₂ . When the snowball is rolling, then push for full OSS.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good (enough for now).

1: There’s plenty of linux apps but few are designed for small touchscreens. Android emulation often takes us back to non open source anyway, even as it helps adoption.

2: and preferably can be re-flashed with something better later, which is becoming rare as bootloaders get locked down.

Totally, assuming of course it’s a business class laptop (indeed if it’s a thinkpad or similar most anyone can grab a $50 screen from China, find a yt tutorial and have a go themselves with a fair chance of success). On the other hand if it’s a glued together ultra thin consumer POS, it’s likely more than it’s worth to get it fixed.

Banger of a song.

Afterwards, “economy in a recession” is synonymous to “free buffet” to those at the reins.

Not at all wrong, but there’s only so much blood parasites can suck before the host dies (and with luck kills the parasites, and / or sends a strong signal to everybody else to get their infestations eradicated, or at the very least under control), and that host is already hurting bad.

Perhaps I’m being optimistic, but a collapse of the likely magnitude could be that straw, or maybe it’ll just be the back of US influence that breaks.

The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition.

Mobster voice: Sure would be a pity if the monetization potential of those 2 huge IPOs (3 if you count SpaceX with xAI deadweight rolled in) went boom when that’s all that’s holding your economy out of recession (depression depending on how they cook the books).

Fuck Zuck, the cuck that sucks.

Yup, easy peasy. And if you really want AI deep research, how about plugging it into your own local LLM with Vane

damage that will take decades to undo.

Extremely unlikely to ever be undone IMO, decades may as well be never. Otherwise, agreed.

Interesting to speculate how many of these are “Bullshit Jobs”, which arguably are the only ones AI is capable of replacing. While this may suck in the short term (especially for USians and others without a decent social security net), in the long run it may lead to more fulfilling work.

And that (obviously) is the low hanging fruit. We end up with a more secure kernel, and these filter in at a manageable rate and the bar raises. Pretty damn good scenario IMO.

Closed source is going to have a much worse time.

He profits just fine. The companies not so much.

Except NVIDIA, they’re making shovels and shitloads and he probably gets something under the table from them too.

Sounds good. Bonus points for getting it in the media.

You can search specifically for smart glasses, e.g. the aptly named Nearby Glasses

Also, you likely can’t fine them, but you can make them think about it.

Its a little bit like having a really competent security researcher go deep through your complete codebase just really fast and with improved recall.

I doubt that, more of a force multiplier for security researchers at this stage (perhaps always for LLMs without an architecture leap) IMO. Otherwise I generally agree. It’s responsible to take this approach perhaps, but mostly marketing. Still let’s not kid ourselves it isn’t happening at scale already. Plenty of open weights models can also force multiply a competent security researcher, either black or white hat. Mythos isn’t a quantum leap or anything, just 4.7.

Anybody working with software knows marketing people promise the world and understand nothing. Pretty sure they just heard “black magic” and ran with it.

Heh, yup.

Glasshole the term needs to make a significant comeback. Normalize shunning, put up signs on bathrooms and anywhere else you can with

“‘Smart’ glasses forbidden. Fines applicable. Bluetooth detection active.” and perhaps "This means you Glasshole ! "

whether such detection is active is moot, make the bastards as nervous as they should be. A (dummy) camera on the outside of the door should complete the illusion. Make them feel like perverts.

Non consensual filming should be unacceptable, but that’s a whole other fight.

Shocker. Just another excuse to fire higher paid workers, point at a line going up (until it doesn’t), say AI a lot, and then hire lower paid workers for the same (or worse now fighting AI in some cases) job.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

They’ve copied gOS’s homework one hell of a lot. They clearly don’t want to do so here.

Also https://thetvdb.com/

In the absence of a good option, “less bad” will have to do.

Semantically equivalent, but not the same. Especially emotionally, which humans are prone to be. Context, and matrix, matter.