looks nice

DEX is actually pretty good when used with a keyboard and external monitor. I also dont love thr Samsung walled garden, but I end up buying their products because I use my phones for several years at a time before replacing them so top end hardware specs are a priority and especially cameras.

I would go Sony but the data band support in the US is incomplete, and I can’t get caught out by poor cell service while traveling.

I am considering going Pixel next but Graphene hasn’t been announced for Pixel 10 yet so I’m a bit on the fence, I guess I could buy an older model and give it a try wifi only for a bit to see how I like it.

Nice, I dont use Peertube as often as I’d like because I haven’t found the right creators for me. Good to know they already have this, should be an example to the rest of the platforms

A lot of the issue with foldable is the non-standard aspect ratio. This gets to a standard tablet aspect ratio, so should run out of the box with most apps without additional modification.

Also DEX support on-device means it can run fully windowed applications and use mouse and keyboard natively, which is a big boost in functionality for productivity applications.

Client side support for a tipping link (Koffee, Patreon, crypto wallet, whatever the user’s choice is) that is built in to the UI would go a long way.

Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.

If I’m reading(skimming) the documentation right, it seems like anyone who can pass the challenge can download the full node and see the full record of interactions. IPFS is not a perfect privacy network, so user accounts can in theory be traced back.

So basically as with Fedi instances it is fully on the Node host to set who can get in based on the challenge, and what is hosted there is their liability. Only difference is Plebbit allows any user to spin up a new instance/community node ad-hoc and they aren’t responsible for maintaining infrastructure beyond what is required seed the nodes they host.

Is that right? I’m not sure but hopefully someone better in the know will correct me if not.

I wish projects like this would offer simple “security profile” settings that would allow you to batch change the relevant settings between the most common suggested settings for different usecases.

Just “General use” and “Privacy” profiles would go a long way.

What would it take for a fork of Firefox to become the main branch one must wonder? I know I switched to LibreWolf and IronFox when this all started, not FireFox. Now I’m hearing WaterFox works on the platforms I use (is it as good?)

Neither of these projects are doing core feature development on the browser engine though, as far as I can tell. I guess what it would take is a heap of cash for them to really compete.

I see LadyBird and the grumbles about their sponsors, but at least they are really doing work from the core rather than modding.

Australia is leading the way, multiple EU nations have stated interest/intent: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/these-nations-might-ban-social-media-for-teenagers/story

Ranked-Choice voting can be used for multi-seat elections as well, essentially voter ranks the top x candidates from the full pool. After the first seat is selected the tally continues by removing the first seat name from the pool to appoint the second seat.

I am from the US in a city where we have rank choice local elections, so “strong party” style elections where you vote for a party not a candidate seem frankly wildly unaccountable. I see no advantage to this system for the voters over individual candidates.

Ranked Choice ftw.

not today Swiper, not today

I’ve been using IronFox and like it, how does it compare to WaterFox?

You are vastly underestimating the youths current addiction to social media. Take it away and you will see some rapid pursuit of novelty.

I’m ok with both, but prefer co-ops because the members get direct voting on large decisions by default, rather than a proxy vote via an appointed government worker who answers to the municipal government.

That said, there is no reason these can’t be one and the same, the local government could fund the establishment of a regional co-op and maintain audit and some other limited authority over it.

I also support long-distance fiber infrastructure being built and maintained by worker’s co-ops that would then get paid for service by the regional ISPs. Worker members would be highly motivated to maintain good uptime, and hiring/training members who live local to the fiber lines in remote regions would be possible with the incentive of worker ownership. Once built it is a long term maintenance and security business with steady return, perfect for a worker’s co-op that could be financed with private capital at decent ROI.

Eh, recent studies show some implicit bias in some of the best Chinese models, mostly when it comes to software dev stuff so less relevant here. Not the hugest deal for this kind of projected either way, but it would be good to know if they are using those vs say Llama, or yes just building a front end fine tune for a closed model.

In my dumb naive optimistic brain bridges are the perfect kind of software to be automatically developed, revised, tested, and updated by AI agents.

Two sets of rules with written documentation (API), translate request from one to the other, validate message sent and message received, if not revise and test again.

Realistically, I know this would likely hit a brick wall quickly, but it sure seems like if AI driven software development is getting actually practical this type of thing should be on the easier end of the spectrum of possibilities.

I notice it doesnt say what model Socialism AI is built on top of, I’m guessing one of the Chinese models fine tuned?

ISPs should be regional users cooperatives everywhere. Rural areas in the US have local ISPs structured this way, but corporate ISPs have been trying to use regulation to make them illegal in normal service areas, which is disgusting.

I predict that point to point private fiber (currently used by high speed traders) will become more and more prevalent as issues with AI impersonation and spoofing become more prevalent, we should use this infrastructure drive to push linking co-op and public mesh networks using the same long-run conduit.