There is a high amount of em dashes, and it reads as ai.

Look - as someone who is probably on the spectrum - I resemble this comment.

Because reading articles is hard, better to blindly trust a headline and summary comment. People on Lemmy wouldn’t lie to me, would they?

Use it? The US invented it. The US has historically funded it as part of their human rights initiatives. Like I said:

Also many of the sponsored projects help people circumvent authoritarian government overreach, which is something that until recently has been considered “good” for the US. The more freely information can flow the harder it is for authoritarian regimes to exert control.

Given the nature of the Tor network, it’s likely any “official” use within the US government would probably involve things like communicating with people working undercover / informants, etc., and not be something broadly discussed.

If US uses FOSS software in its operations (it does, everyone does) it has a vested interest in keeping these projects alive.

Also many of the sponsored projects help people circumvent authoritarian government overreach, which is something that until recently has been considered “good” for the US. The more freely information can flow the harder it is for authoritarian regimes to exert control.

How many websites do you browse with links to truly illegal content?

If you live in a country with truly abysmal human rights, definitely don’t bother with this plugin, but in most cases you should be fine on the illegal side.

Even if somehow the website you’re browsing has some super sketchy ad to buyillegaldrugshere.com or whatever, to get in trouble with the law in most civilized places you’d have to actually buy the illegal drugs, not just ping the illegal drugs IP. Especially since you can pretty easily prove to a judge that your system fetches ad links automatically and without further engagement.

Not saying it can’t happen, just that it’s really unlikely you would be served an ad for something so illegal just clicking on it is a liability. The literally only case I can think of coming close is CSAM, but even then, if you’re regularly browsing websites that advertise CSAM, maybe find other websites to occupy your time? And I can just about guarantee any website serving CSAM ads is already doing illegal shit, so you should probably be more worried about that than an ad-click…

Came over during the great 3rd party app API debacle. It didn’t even make the list. Am I old now?

How many GB of RAM should I have on my phone to ensure Gemini never runs?

Ahh yes, consolidation and centralization, core pillars of the FOSS movement.

Yay for team blank screen… I think?

Libby is able to sync with your kindle, and then you just choose “send to Kindle” on your phone when checking a book out and the book will appear in your Kindle library.

https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6017.htm

If you have a Kindle, this is 100% the best way to read books.

The folks over at XDA have rooted the original Hibreak and are actively working on trying to reverse engineer the display drivers so they can install LineageOS. The person working on it right now has a good track record with other e-ink phones.

I wouldn’t pull any triggers until it’s released, but worth watching that activity.

ETA: https://xdaforums.com/t/bigme-hibreak-root-mediatek-6765.4697830/page-7

Domains are cheap, buy one and then you can jump between whatever services aren’t caught up in the outrage of the moment.

I’m on fedora 41 and gaming is almost perfect on it, the final hurdles are some VRR

Variable Refresh Rate - synchronizing your monitor’s refresh rate with your computer’s output, yielding a potentially smoother image and, for portable gamers, better battery life. This is a key feature of “Freesync” monitors, etc.

refinements and HDR.

High Dynamic Range - increase in the variability of light levels achievable in a scene, allowing monitors to better approach the dynamic light levels one would experience IRL (In Real Life). This is a key feature of most new displays, especially higher-end OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes, a type of display technology where pixels are individually lit)

These are supposedly coming in f42

Fedora 42 - the 42ndiest version of Fedora.

so I’d rather not wait god knows how long on Debian for these features to show up. However once the features arrive and I run into issues with F42,

Fedora 42 - the 42ndiest version of Fedora.

I’ll consider Deb.

Not an acronym, but abbreviation for Debian. Or perhaps OP lives in a Hallmark movie and Deb is the girl who has always been by their side, but they’ve never considered as a romantic partner… Until now…

Except I just uninstalled Mint’s default Firefox because whatever additional theming they did to my boy fucked up the right click context menu. FF is now flatpak.

I’ve put like 1000 hours each into Stardew Valley and Rimworld. Not a single ray traced, no advanced boob physics, just good fun.

Wait, is it sitting or standing?

Where does your scale go? All I have is drawers!

My guess, without reading the article, is that they will just require input apps on the Play Store targeting Android 16 with AI features to respect some sort of allowAIInput = false flag

I’d wager side-loading and 3rd party app store apps will be ignored, but those apps will probably do it anyways to keep their Play Store releases.

Didn’t you see? This is XR, totally different.

Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes on the daydream was a next level of fun with friends. Sad it was abandoned so rudely.