Haven’t read the article and have a limited knowledge of ai, but I wonder if they do this for reinforcement learning: So OSS PR responses can be used to label different weights and models. Using even more free labor to train their models.

Wouldn’t a byte be $2 if a bit was a quarter, or do you mean 2 bits are a quarter? Also i think you were right to use powers of 10 in your estimate. Article says kilobyte, not kibibyte. I really like what your conversion illustrates, I’m just tripping up on the details. I could be wrong-- commenting so someone can correct me if i am-- if a bit is a quarter, 69 Kilobytes would be $138,000

MWC 2026 announcement likely, but devices may not ship until 2027

Motorola is expected to formally announce the partnership [in March]. With MWC 2026 around the corner, the timing would make strategic sense.

In case others were wondering, MWC 2026 is March 2-5. So, hopefully we’ll have official verification by the end of the week.

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I can’t believe now we (Americans) have to pay for it with our tax dollars.

Windows Recall has re-entered the chat.

And before that, where did people think money-grubbing, morally-bankrupt billionaires vacuuming up all their data was going to lead? This was all but inevitable, especially when, without outrage-based engagement algorithms there is no President Trump. These scumbags prop each other up. Don’t give them a dime or let them profit off your attention.

How does one keep their system secure with pirating? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.

Wasn’t there a legal dispute around this that was trying to get them with tampering/destruction of evidence? Not sure if it’s foolproof.

If you do use GrapheneOS, quickly restarting the device means your pin is required before biometrics unlock is available. As I understand it – in the U.S. – law enforcement can legally compel you to unlock your phone with biometrics, but not a pin. Not that you can trust law enforcement to be law abiding, but at least it’s a stronger case in court.

“Naive” doesn’t sit right with me. Anyone can scrutinize LUKS, or BitLocker for that matter (via cryptsetup). Backdoors aren’t the issue here, even for MS Bitlocker. The issue, as stated in the article, is:

by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud

No need for a backdoor if you know you can get keys to the front door.

Even after seeing it, I was sure the iphone would fail. I thought, “Why would anyone use a crappy computer on a tiny screen instead of a laptop or desktop?”

It’s the data of what corners MS can cut to save more money than they lose when x number of users decide enough is enough.

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Not the commenter you replied to, but I change my XDG directory names to be lowercase and start with different letters. For example, Desktop, becomes “drop” (as in pick it up and put it somewhere else) and Downloads is a subdirectory dl. A program that would otherwise save to “Downloads” now saves to “~/drop/dl”. When I setup my machines I run a script including the line xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop" to update the XDG directory and I delete “Desketop”. So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here’s the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.

Also moved to codeberg in the process. Bonus

Yeah, a lot of people outside of linux think you have to use the command line to work on linux, but really it’s just an awesome, additional tool that then takes over a lot of gui stuff. It definitely helps when it’s your daily driver and you spend less time reading man pages and more time writing from memory and running snippets and aliases. [edit: fix grammer]

Title got my hopes up for Bezos. Guess this is better than nothing, though the damage is already done.

It’s easy-- if you install on a single drive. If you want home on a separate drive, encryption is not so easy, and you have to learn about cryptsetup, crypttab, etc. Quite a steep learning curve compared to the installer. I do hope distros provide better coverage of this in the future. Having home on a separate drive and encrypted is just good practice.

Bonus points for purchasing on bandcamp fridays (more money goes to the artists). Two left in 2025: Oct 3 and Dec 5.

Maybe, but if so, I bet it’s negligible. When it comes to discovery, there’s so many places I’d look for FOSS projects before going GH. Except maybe to check awesome-lists, but you don’t have to be on GH to be linked on one (and I’ve seen them popping up on Codeberg). GH’s design in general doesn’t seem to promote stumbling across new projects. Even if I’m wrong, one could always mirror on GH.

As for contributing, if someone is willing to go though the trouble to contribute, I’d hope they’d go through the trouble of signing up on a new platform. Maybe there’s a non-zero number of contributors who would not, and that’s an unacceptable for some projects. There’s also potential for more contributors if they trust a project is living FOSS principles and less at-risk of vender lock-in. The fosstodon thread shows people care about where a project lives. The arguments in favor of staying on GH seemed mostly inertia-based.