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[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The European Union also exports a whole lot of stuff.

Last time I checked some estimates, the EU was supposedly emitting more CO2 for the stuff we export, than was emitted abroad for the stuff we import.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh but I know full well that ML can do wonders in many of these circumstances, my doubts were about LLMs specifically.

And my question was mostly an honest one. The chance of learning something that I really didn't expect, is worth the risk of being "that guy".

The main current application of LLM seems to be the production of gargantuan amounts of horseshit.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

use a LLM to chew through huge scientific datasets to search for correlations a human would never have noticed

Are LLMs really any good for something like that?

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 weeks ago

good old fashioned ~~tech~~ monopoly behavior

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

The communication protocol of these strap is fairly standard. My Garmin Instinct watch can use my Polar H10 just fine.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Suunto is actually Finnish. Now it's been bought by some Chinese holding.

Last time I checked I had not found any proof that this has really caused anything to move over to china (that wasn't already there anyway) but it may worth a second check.

For some people the property is enough to immediately disqualify the company.

Polar seems to even offer to repair or replace the battery on some models. I suspect that won't be cheap, but it shows they may not conceive their devices as disposable trash. Maybe.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find actual Bruges pretty Boring. Ghent or Antwerp FTW.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

They call it "affluenza"

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Why? It's pretty clear that Google is mostly done with users having choices, particularly indovidual users, and all the more so on Google-branded hardware.

Manifest V3, Play Integrity, the attempt of introducing Web Integrity. How many more examples do you need to see?

This seems like a perfectly logical decision in that direction.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think you're missing the point. If this is confirmed as a policy change, it's not GrapheneOS that's dead... It's the Pixel as a mod-friendly device. And of course GrapheneOS runs only on that.

So the first thing you need to ask yourself is what's the next best device. I have a Fairphone, I like it, they are extremely supportive of the community (so far as to help porting PostmarketOS on 10 years old phones). Then you decide which Android ROM is the best. CalyxOS for instance sounds pretty good.

Using a Fairphone does include a few compromises in terms of security compared to a Pixel. How important that is to you is something you'll have to decide.

For me it's pretty fine. If, like almost everyone around here, you are a human rights activist in Iran. Then maybe you should just keep running GrapheneOS on you Pixel with Android 15 for a few more years.

Hopefully within a couple years we sort this mess out, and a new reference device emerges with a hardware security features that are not too much of a step down from the Pixels.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

You could argue both ways.

On the one hand, it is of course a very good thing to use all parts of the animal you killed to the largest possible extent.

I mean, imagine killing an animal for food and then even only using the tastiest bits and throwing away the rest?

On the other hand, of course, having a market for these "waste products" potentially acts as a subsidy for the meat itself, encouraging its consumption.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know, Reiser is not a serial...

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