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Comment · 13 hours ago
What is the bus factor for AI generated code ?
Comment · 13 hours ago
I think that juniper learnt from Cisco's mistakes while Cisco is stuck with their config command structure as they decided to chase backward compatibility and familiarity across products.
Comment · 6 days ago
I don't remember advocating digital detox anywhere. Are you mistaking me for someone else?

But I do advocate pretty strongly for open phones because they are becoming indispensable for leading a normal life without becoming a digital hermit.

They should be either open and indispensable or closed and dispensable, not indispensable and closed at the same time.

Comment · 6 days ago
Copyright laws are real for the purpose of calculating cost because humans and other non AI business are still bound and limited by them.
Comment · 6 days ago
Is it actually proven that TVs are sold below cost or is it just a conjecture to justify the ads.
Comment · 6 days ago
Without an account, they don't even allow installs from galaxy store. So their default apps and their security updates are probably contingent on having an account now.

Not much different from playstore but that is also a problem.

Comment · 6 days ago
The note taking genre of opensource apps is saturated with many options but most of them are electron based.

I was hoping that someone with enough motivation and money for tokens would come up with a non-electron option that is similar to onenote, with free form note placement and handwritten notes.

Basically I wish there is an opensource app having good feature parity with OneNote. Thats a good benchmark to have.

Comment · 6 days ago
> AI is taking jobs, tipping toeing around it isn't the best thing. It needs to be said, and then what next needs to be figured out

If we think about it, AI can be seen as dumping cheap products below cost and disrupting the domestic market.

I mean the real cost of production is unknown due to skirting of copyright laws in many cases and even if we discount that, it is well known that AI is being pushed far below the actual costs for providers. There are disruptive technologies, yes but this is not the same if the real cost is hidden or deferred and it doesn't compare with horses/cars or whatever analogy that comes up often.

In the physical world, this is called dumping isn't it? Just because tech is involved it doesn't change the fact. Countries already have anti dumping laws.

Comment · 6 days ago
Don't we primarily rely on trickle down economics.

What percentage of the earnings of influencers flows back into the economy as part of production costs instead of small percentage as spending or sitting as wealth in banks.

Comment · 6 days ago
The need for you to do banking, and employees do MFA on a phone and thinking that doing requires a secure and closed phone is again a spillover of offloading costs to users.

We did have hardware tokens for corporate logins and banking needs.

There is no real reason why an open phone cannot be secure for sensitive applications.

Comment · 6 days ago
> I don’t trust myself to secure an open phone and I do this kind of thing for a living

> Not everyone’s life is your life. Not everyone living not your life is doing it wrong.

The irony.

Comment · 7 days ago
IIRC, Samsung OneUI updates for the past one year have been removing the unlock option even from the devices that supported it.
Comment · 7 days ago
Lumping consumer devices with the need for secure business devices and often offloading that to personal devices is the problem.

I wish they stop finding ways to lock down the device in the name of security and/or release different SKUs for the more secure use cases, provided by the organizations themselves if they deem it necessary.

Comment · 7 days ago
With ad served malware, this wouldn't be the first time though :)
Comment · 9 days ago
If the data was not "stolen", then asking them to delete is also not "recovery".

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