Phone manufacturers don't release drivers, leaving phones in a state of either it works with generic drivers (almost never works 100%) or someone needs to make a custom driver (a lot of work) so we end up in a situation where every new phone would need a full team working on it for weeks/months just to make Linux support it, so it rarely happens. and when it does, by the time you reach full functionality, the phone is already outdated.

With computers this doesn't happen as they are essentially modular (being built from mostly a combination of off the shelf parts) where each part already has a driver (often even contributed by tge manufacturer) while phones are almot completely custom, with each model having custom parts that are often completely unique to it.

Microwave

You are mistaken. Sure, bitcoin is like that, but there are alternatives.

Monero is private and anonymous, and its not the only one.

Not that I am a stunt person, but as far as I know:

• training (there are ways to fall that are more controlled and less harmful)
• hidden safety gear (thick clothing, hidden protection)
• hidden set safety (fake floors that are soft, mattresses that are removed in post, etc)
• and finally, getting actually hurt, a lot... All stunt people get hurt often, it is an actually dangerous job

Aah, the classic "bankruptcy" alarm mode

Credit cards were a terrible mistake. digitizing money is a good idea but how did we go from cash (mostly anonymous and peer to peer) to credit cards (completely centralized, identity based, monetized for-profit platform)

I hope one day to see governments make a jump to crypto and save us all from this shit (no, not btc or shitcoins)

Two party system is terrible and both options are ridiculously bad, but you are crazy if you think that they are the same.

Should we break the system and make a new one? Yes. Will you do anything like that? For 99% of people the answer is no.

So if you are doing nothing to change the system, at the very least you should do what you can within the system (ie voting)

Anyone who says "both sides are terrible so why bother" but does nothing except online bitching, is just letting the people who are voting decide the future for them. If you are doing nothing to fight the system, at the very least use your rights within the system to choose the least awful option.

Agreed, but also, this is on the open internet, so always assume that all of this data is going to these corporations anyway

Today with models like gemma4, you could literally do this on basically any hardware, but for text moderation ypu don't even need LLMs, we have ML models that do text moderation perfectly fine and run 10x faster

Wthout going into the issue itself, it is such a ridiculous waste to use an llm for something that a far simpler model could do like 100x faster and locally for essentially free...

Just search for "machine learning text moderation" and you will find all kinds of options. Not to talk about the fact that a simple 4B LLM could do this as well.

One thing I really hate is how LLMs have completely overshadowed the entire ML/AI field and people just use them for everything.

Using a trillion parameter LLM model for basic text moderation is like using a gaming rig to play candy crush.

• .md
• .tar
• .gz
• .iso
• .lnk
• .txt
• .exe
• .mp4
• .mp3
• .jpg
• .png

I want to watch the world burn like it did on the creation of the .zip TLD

The classic "you are too dumb to choose" if only education was a thing...

We are at a time where governments and corporations actively dumb things down until they can make this excuse, instead of actually doing what is right for the people, which is investing in education and treating people as intelligent and autonomous beings.