Outrageous, and unfortunately not surprising given who we're dealing with here.
I have a question. When we talk about how big tech colludes with Trump, we naturally tend to focus on leadership. But someone is writing the code for all the surveillance tracking, and I don't think I've seen anyone focus on the moral responsibilites that comes with being a developer.
I don't mean naming and shaming, I mean instilling hope that they have power to make a difference.
The teacher's protest in Norway during WW2 made Quisling say "you teachers have destroyed everything for me".
Very interesting read on tatemae and honne, thanks for the link. Always love it when I discover that some culture has a word for a familiar concept/thing
UI in Sailfish OS is okay. Takes a bit getting used to, but it is clear that they want this to be noob-friendly - you don't get lost in endless settings menus and advanced options, for example. The navigation itself is neat and tidy.
A weird UX-decision is to rely on gestures even when there are acres of available real estate on the screen for a simple button. The Clock/timer-app for example.
Keet (my main messaging app) works! Messages, file sharing, calls, etc, works as expected. Only thing missing is notifications. Trying to fiddle w microg, but it's a lot of steps.
my old laptop😅 and a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad. If it is not too noisy and performs well enough, I might make that a dedicated tv device (but then I will have to buy a new laptop lol, I've been drooling on framework for a while).
Alternatively one of the n150 options, like you say. In which case I can update this post
Thinking of ways to make it more friendly for my SO and guests coming to visit or babysit etc, who are not used to linux (gnome). Any tips there?
Top of mind is auto open browser on startup with fixed tabs for relevant streaming services. But could also be a simple wrapper of some kind, with UI similar to kodi, plex, jellyfin etc - but for accessing content on web.
Thanks for the tip! I actually have an old intel celeron running as a server in the basement, so the bare minimum for this is playing media from the network. But, being able to play simple games could also be fun, so have to think about that one for a bit!
I wouldn't even call it a bug. It's doing exactly as it is trained to do - guess the next word based on training data. If it has no concept of truth/falsehood, how can falsehoods be bugs?
I'm not an economist, but I know that ppl only invest in stocks if they think it will be worth more tomorrow than today.
As long as people are convinced that this tech will result in AGI someday, they will keep investing.
And the gameplan for convincing people is not to build not tech that is as useful as possible, as good at fact-checking as possible - but as human-like as possible. The more people anthropormorphize LLMs, the more it seems like it can do stuff it actually can't (reason, understand, empathize, etc).
OpenAI, Anthropic and others exploit this to the fullest. And I think breaking that spell is key.
I Norway there was a watershed moment in this question a couple of years ago.
Young adults (students) had always reported being more happy than older people (retired), on average.
Then, abt five years ago, this flipped! The older, retired people reported being more happy than young adults.
I'll see if I can find the link