Executive Summary: run Linux
Until EU forbids you to like they plan in 2027.
Please elaborate?
What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
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Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#292I hate to be the old guy yelling at the clouds, but was an LLM used to write parts of this? > Apple sold the walled garden as a feature. It wasn’t ashamed or hiding the fact—it was proud of it... The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point. Please, write as a human, I promise you it's good enough. I'd much rather read something that's a bit clunky but human written than something that…
LLMs only know how to use emdashes, semicolons, and ellipses because human writers used them first. The way I see it, a large part of "respecting yourself as a writer" in current year is not letting the mere existence of LLMs change how you write, just because a bunch of people have latched onto cheap signals like the presence of certain punctuation as a hallmark of LLM output. I don't really think an LLM wrote this,…
It's not the semicolons or em dashes but the textual content that struck me as weird.
> The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point.
Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown.
To be clear, I think most of the text in that article was human written. I have absolutely no issues with em dashes or other humane figures of speech that LLMs have unsurprisingly picked up on.
But it was a few paragraphs here and there (like the example I gave) that felt odd and just out of place.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
And by "people" we mean Hollywood. A great deal of this was created to enable DRM, then exploited for other purposes. For instance, it's illegal (by contract) to let a device without Secure Boot play a 4K stream from any mainstream studio. This is why Windows requires Secure Boot.
> This is why Windows requires Secure Boot. No it isn't, and no it doesn't.
Elaborate?
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until EU forbids you to like they plan in 2027.
Please elaborate?
EU law 2014/53/EU imposes new cybersecurity requirements on device manufacturers like Samsung. They must ensure that the devices they sell in Europe block the installation of unauthorized software and only run signed and approved ROMs.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#295I hate to be the old guy yelling at the clouds, but was an LLM used to write parts of this? > Apple sold the walled garden as a feature. It wasn’t ashamed or hiding the fact—it was proud of it... The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point. Please, write as a human, I promise you it's good enough. I'd much rather read something that's a bit clunky but human written than something that…
I genuinely don't get what the issue is here.
It's just a bit jarring to read something that appears to be LLM written when you're assuming it's all human written. Though I do agree it's possible it's human written... It's just that the other paragraphs read nothing like that para.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
But I don't want to run a banking "app" on my computer. I am happy to use a browser on my computer to log into my bank's website.
If nobody participates in government, the banks and entertainment industry will get whatever they want, which is to lock down your computer into a portable kiosk
why the hell would the entertainment industry gaf about what i do with my computer? moments away form complaining about jews
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Roms face a different problem: bootloader locking. Is that a problem these days? It was over a decade ago that I last needed to jailbreak a phone, nowadays it’s just "I’d like to unlock" "Ok".
That’s possible on very few phones these days. Only a handful of OEMs still ship phones that can be bootloader unlocked at all (at least in the US), and even several of THOSE require phoning home to the OEM to get an IMEI-dependent unlock key to pass to fastboot. Source: 7 years of running deGoogled Android phones and 11 years of running ROM’d Android phones before recently moving to iOS and giving up.
Just found this [0] in another thread. Some few allow no unlocks, most allow them under certain circumstances. Some few without a waiting period or additional sacrifices.
So not as great as I thought, but also not as bad as you made it seem ;)
[0]: https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
If nobody participates in government, the banks and entertainment industry will get whatever they want, which is to lock down your computer into a portable kiosk
why the hell would the entertainment industry gaf about what i do with my computer? moments away form complaining about jews
> why the hell would the entertainment industry gaf about what i do with my computer?
Piracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine
They can't stop it, likely never will but they do keep fighting it.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#299It's important to understand that we could genuinely lose general purpose computing. I don't think it's in serious danger at the moment, but we've been in the midst of a slide in that direction for the last 10-15 years. Part of it is mobile phones, part of it is TPM, part of it is market forces. The latest turn is strictly political. We've really foolishly built the technology necessary for authoritarianism just a fe…
I think it is unfortunate how many resources are put into making things secure with TPM's and how little resource is put into basically having secure and simple sandboxing... All I really want is a computer that allows me to fully control the permissions and filesystem access of all the programs that I manually install on my system. Almost every program (in my case) needs 0 filesystem access outside of what it instal…
if you are working with Linux, then using flatseal, you can configure permissions for flatpack applications.
In which folders it can hide, which data to access, and which hardware resources to use.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#300It's important to understand that we could genuinely lose general purpose computing. I don't think it's in serious danger at the moment, but we've been in the midst of a slide in that direction for the last 10-15 years. Part of it is mobile phones, part of it is TPM, part of it is market forces. The latest turn is strictly political. We've really foolishly built the technology necessary for authoritarianism just a fe…
I think it is unfortunate how many resources are put into making things secure with TPM's and how little resource is put into basically having secure and simple sandboxing... All I really want is a computer that allows me to fully control the permissions and filesystem access of all the programs that I manually install on my system. Almost every program (in my case) needs 0 filesystem access outside of what it instal…
Capability-based security and the principle of least privilege/authority...they become more relevant by the day.