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After a point, does it matter? Even assuming that models can keep getting smarter indefinitely, it's not like you need to use the smartest model to get the job done. Moore's law is…

> Helpfully eSports players tend to have video captures of their gameplay, and most of these "undetectable" cheats are real obvious if you actually watch the footage. That catches …

No forced updates, no downgrade prohibition, no bootloader locking, kernel GPL compliance (with drivers that can be loaded in it, even if they are closed source), no remote attesta…

Google loves doing this. If you dare turn off Play Protect for example, you will be asked to turn it on every time you install or update anything. Never mind that you said no the l…

> I am happy my iPhone doesn't allow Meta to say "to use WhatsApp, you must install the MetaStore®, give it root and install it from there". I would not be happy with those restric…

This, or even sell "dev units" with the bootloader unlocked so that you explicitly have to accept the risk before purchasing the device. The problem though is that rooting by itsel…

A few years ago everyone that had ever used a computer knew what a file and a folder was and could move a document to an USB drive. Thanks to the efforts of Google to "simplify" sm…

Currently, no. But once (undetectable) OS modification is no longer possible, making the undecrypted media unreadable is just a few API restrictions away. In Android phones for exa…

The whole point of TPM is that the OS is not under the user control anymore. If you modify it thanks to remote attestation you can no longer prove that it is unmodified using the T…

Encrypted monitors can be countered by a high quality video camera mounted on a tripod behind your chair or on a wall or ceiling Expensive, yes, but at that point you're already sp…

Not having an automatic transmission means there are less ways in which a manufacturer can screw up your car's performance in the name of emissions. This is obviously less relevant…

- AI answers are much easier and faster to produce thus it's going to produce a lot more wrong answers by sheer volume. - AI answers are grammatically correct and verbose so it loo…

I don't know what you did wrong, but don't worry, I can be very creative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiL2AjOtjZI

But why spend so much time to make it worse? on_click() { if (last_one()) alert('You must keep at least one item selected.'); else actually_toggle_it_off(); } Simple. Does not need…

For projects where I can't trust that the people involved can deal with submodule bullshit correctly I just use these git aliases: box = !cd ${GIT_PREFIX:-.} && git config --get re…

Google Search also nags you for location access in the browser, at least in desktop.

I used uBlock's element picker to remove the modal and then added a custom rule to re-enable the scrollbar. Why this behavior is legal is beyond me. They do the same thing with Pla…

There are ways to solve this without killing off the ability to root phones if this was really about users' safety. You could for example make it so that phones could only be unloc…

> You could say the same about memory protection and isolation, and yet, here we are. While it also serves as a security mechanism the most important benefit of memory protection i…

Also those features are not limited to esoteric stuff that no one uses. You cannot, for example, move your own window in Wayland. If you have a multi-window application, like GIMP …

Like I said, just take a look at Android. If you don't have an approved ROM you cannot use banking apps. Or Netflix. Or play most gacha games. Riot Games's anti-cheat for Valorant …

BS why? Can a TPM not be used to remotely attest that you are running an unmodified OS and a TPM device that has been approved by the DRM implementer, before handing you an encrypt…

I would agree with that if most of the costs of YouTube were paying the creators, but my guess is they're not. If YouTube gives, for example, Vimeo the chance to become big enough …

They stay unprofitable forever individually but they stay on YouTube instead of making another video site popular, which on the whole is better for YouTube.