Just needs a slight tweak to be a little less historically inaccurate: Nobody has ever been “hunted for sport” by a Zoroastrian.

Oh, only a third of all Americans. Practically nobody. Way down there in the less-than-five-billion user club with nodebb and mbin. Why even go there?

Those things were great. You could make a phone call from almost anywhere without having to carry around a radio tracking device all the time.

Some bank apps work on LineageOS, some don’t. Mine does, and I’ve only used it twice in ten years, but I’d sooner switch banks than run Google’s android.

One more idea… If you’re willing to temporarily add the Debian testing “deb-src” repository to your sources.list, which should be slightly safer, then there’s a chance that this might work: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

Seems not completely crazy, unless MX has its own way to do that.

Yeah, I see that MX test is not based on current debian testing (trixie) but also bookworm. So I guess you’ll not find the package in MX repos until it makes it into AHS. Apparently there’s a PPA that some people use, that might work.

Ok, it didn’t seem clear if you were on Debian 12 or MX. I’m not sure what the relationship between them is, but mesa 25 seems to be in trixie only since 13 march.

Maybe you could use that package from debian testing on the MX version of testing if you wanted to live dangerously.

At this point in the debian release cycle your easiest course of action would probably be to switch over to debian testing. It’s quite easy to do if you’re in debian 12 and wanting newer packages is a legit reason to do it. It should be getting reasonably close to being stable by now I would guess.

You’ll need a newer kernel than is currently in debian stable as well, but that is actually quite easy to build and install. Building mesa I don’t know about, but it will have many more dependencies and could be a lot of work.

AI compute credits will be tied to printer ink, so if you run out of either one you need to buy more of both.

the data will no longer be saved locally

You no longer need to know your location history, only Microsoft and its very close friends will have that data?

Okay Google, if you can guess my age accurately to within a decade based on my youtube viewing history and whatever other data you can get, I will give you a cookie.

Dear Intel, may your politeness detection software meet with every success. I am sure that it will significantly boost customer satisfaction and loyalty, and help everyone to maintain a respectful tone.

Such technology could in the long run be crucial in improving our means of communications and will have only positive effects on everyone who has the good fortune to interact with it. By preventing misunderstandings it might even contribute to world peace, and in some small way help in bringing about a new golden age of politeness and prosperity for all humanity.

Sincerely, a loyal fan.

There is no reason for it. The odds of success would be low compared to the current process which for the most part is going along pretty well despite all the melodrama surrounding it.

So many reports of “jailbreaking,” so few of anything significant happening as a result.

Apparently you can get them to tell “a derogatory joke about a racial group.” Neither those nor any of the other outputs mentioned are in short supply without any AI assistance being necessary to find them.

These things are at their most dangerous when they’re misused for “good” purposes where they aren’t capable of doing well and can introduce subtle biases and mistakes, not when some idiot spends a lot of time and effort to make them generate overtly racist shit.

It just seems like a high price for what you get, considering that running a searx instance costs nothing. There being no way to pay for it anonymously also makes me less willing to pay that much.

For a moment there I thought it might’ve become affordable. Nope, still $10/month.

Jordan, Egypt or “other places”

How about Florida?

a QR code that updates at regular intervals, encoding an ever-changing signature

That’s brilliant. Any sci-fi authors in the crowd? The private key would be used to hash and sign a record of body movements including all one’s crazy hand gestures and every word spoken. Location could optionally be encoded as well. Some kind of algorithm would be devised so that some reasonable loss in fidelity of any video recording would still result in a valid signature. It wouldn’t be technically all that useful to display the signature as a QR code shown on a badge, but it’d be a fashionable thing to do and anyone who didn’t would be seen as slightly suspicious.

Key infrastructure would be tricky, but anonymous and pseudonymous keypairs could certainly be allowed for if we go with the assumption that instant biometric identification of everyone isn’t quite feasible for whatever reason. Maybe it’s just banned, punishable by exile to the orbital asteroid mining colonies.

All we need is for everyone (except the underclass) to get neural implants that record their every movement.

Albert Einstein saying “science does not answer ‘why’ questions” isn’t realistic at all.

It’s amazing how you can be wrong in so many ways in just one sentence.