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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • 'Dumbphones' Are Not Private

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  • IIRC there is at least one dumbphone that runs signal, https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/, but that's expensive and not something you'd usually get if you think dumbphones.

    But yeah, the point of having a dumbphone is not security or privacy, at least for me and most of the people I spoke with about it. The point is you have your phone as a backup emergency comms, and just learn not to use and rely on instant communication and internet access. Maybe an occasional "I'm running late" messages, but other than that, the point is you just wait until you get to a PC.

    And even for emergency comms, I had a dumbphone that can make a 4G hotspot, and had a GrapheneOS smarthphone without a sim or internet powered off in my bag. And if I needed to sort out anything, I just fired up a hotspot and turned on the second phone.

    The fact that it was annoying several steps was the point, so you do it only when absolutely neccessary, and eventually quickly learn not to do it. It has improved my life by a lot, getting rid of this "always online" addiction/reliance.

  • Deleting Files

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  • I discovered powertoys only recently, and it's a pretty cool set of tools. From color picker, tiling window manager to regex file renames or copy/paste tools, it has a lot of QoL features.

    If you have to be on windows, i.e due ro work, I recommend not sleeping on it.

  • The internal struggle

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  • I only found out about ODD recently, and it explains so much. It should be talked about more.

  • JetBrains blog: Better AI Depends on Better Data: We Need Your Help | The JetBrains Blog

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  • Once they started pushing the AI shit, I immediately unsubscribed and am sticking to my perpetual/fallback (or whatever is it called) license. I don't see any reason to continue paying for new versions and features, when most of those new features are AI related, and I slowly started transitioning into nvim.

    Also, I really hate the tone in which this blogpost is written. As if crying in a blog post changes anything about how extremely anti-consumer this move is. Fuck off, JetBrains.

  • Discord now has in-app ads for an AI company that you can't turn off easily. Fun.

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  • Nice, didn't know about that one. Looks good!

  • Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

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  • I assume that's what he meant with the "five steps behind". As in, not worse, but heading the same direction.

    I am an European, but I have to digress he kind of has a point (even though it was unnecesiarly condescending). It's definitely nowhere near as bad as in the US, and I think our political systems are a little bit more resistant to it than in the US, but alt-right rhetorics and parties are picking up way faster than I'd like.

    I mean, Slovakia is a recent and pretty terryfiing example.

  • Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

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  • We have two semester per year, do I assume correctly that your cost per quarter is paid 2-3 times per year? If so, damn.

  • If you're a House Flipper or PowerWash sicko you've gotta check out The Lift, a game about being a space-repairman in a spooky faux-Soviet research base

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  • I'd also add Hardspace Shipbreaker to the mix, a pretty fun game where you work at a sci-gi scrapyard and take apart ships, taking care not to explode in the process.

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  • I know almost nothing about the situation, and I vaguely know it's a geopolitical mess, but do I get it right that it's basically a situation that can be (in a very simplified methaphor) compared to a Police, that solves a hostage and an active shooter situation in a Hospital by first sieging and starving everyone involved, then shelling and leveling the building along with a school next door, and then capturing and torturing all involved that managed to survive, including the hospital staff and patients?

    This of course ignores the geopolitical aspect, but it's basically what's happening, no?

  • Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

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  • I'd say it's the other way around - you're paying extra for not consenting to tracking, so it's similar (and even worse) model that i.e Facebook has. There's no way the discount card discount is not factored in the normal price calculation, and I vager most shops are counting on the product not being sold for a bit until it's it's turn for a discount.

  • Isn't brave supposed to be "private"?

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  • How does IronFox compare to LibreWolf?

    Am dumb, missed the "for android" part.

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    Google appears poised to replace classic search with AI Mode, a move that could transform how users access information.

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  • I've been using Kagi for several years, before eventually switching to Ecosia once I got a second update newsletter from Kagi that focused solely on AI.

    Can I turn it off? Probably, but I refuse to give my money to a company that spends it on AI in any way, shape or form.

    Ecosia is at least a non-profit with a pretty good mesage, and while they have a gimmick "AI chat" tab (btw, "come chat with out [openai] chatbot and ask about how the be more energy netural and support ecology" is the most insanely cursed and out of touch sentence ever, what the fuck), I don't think there's an AI summary at least.

  • Help me understand if ChatControl could affect my P2P messaging app.

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  • The biggest step you can take is making sure that you are hosting the repo anonymously, and that it can not be linked to you (or anyone), so they can't go after you.

    Github probably isn't a good place for that, but I don't know if anonymous alternatives exist.

  • Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

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  • You can just host your own decentralized instance, right?

    Right?

  • Vibesort: GPT powered sorting using structured output

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  • I was toying around with an idea for a VCS that uses LLM as a compression method, where during pushes it just asks an LLM to describe what your diff contains (what changes it makes to what files), you push that summary to the origin, and when you pull it just plops that into another llm to reconstruct the files or make the file changes.

    If it wasn't such a waste of energy, I'd find that a pretty funny random side project. Would love to see the results.

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  • Wasn't it supposed to be decentralized?

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  • 60% of adults in US have digital assistants? I find that hard to beleive. Or is it 60% of people who use digital assistant, use it for the weather? (EDIT: it is the second option, mentioned in the graph) The graph does not have "I don't use an assistant" in it, and it's not mentioned anywhere in the article (tho I only skimmed it), so it's just a clickbait headline.

  • Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes'

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  • This, the internet is already filled with AI slop articles that by now make majority of what's posted here, and adding "OMG LOOK AT WHAT AI SAID" posts makes it even worse, and it's pretty difficult to make a blocking filter for.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Don't they already have your ID/details, assuming you paid them with your credit card?

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  • What the fuck? How is this not illegal? It's literally a scam.