Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table

All dumbphones are niche (luxury) devices, usually developed by a small team and manufactured in low-volume batches. Companies like Light are not offsetting development and manufacturing costs by selling you subscription services and serving ads. They’ve got a bona fide incentive to keep you as a customer by providing exceptional hardware and software. But everyone’s definition of what’s worth it varies, so only you can decide ;)

Check out the Light Phone III. It has everything you requested. I’ve got Light Phone II, and I love it.

It’ll be interesting to see what people have to say about this new Pi when it ships. I would think most people looking to use a Pi as a desktop would go for the 400/500 series.

It’s awesome to see a project written with Zig!

I also use Homebank, and it’s more than enough for my needs as a single guy

The image-to-text model is impressive. I could see it being useful for smart search of your library, allowing users to find photos with a high-level description.

I’m not sure why it’s being reported on as though the technology is a privacy or security threat, though. If you’ve given a storage provider access to your photos anyway, using a vision model isn’t going to give them anything extra.

That said, I do love self-hosted photo solutions like Immich and Ente. Hope they continue to grow.

Google Glass finally making a comeback?

macOS, ChromeOS, SteamOS, AWS, Samsung Tizen, literally any embedded device, …

In general I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I think the broader issue is media literacy. When the Internet came about, people had similar reservations about the quality of information, and most of us learned in school how to find quality information online.

LLMs are a tool, and people need to learn how to use them correctly and responsibly. I’ve been using Perplexity.AI as a search engine for a while now, and I think they’re taking the right approach. It employs LLMs at different stages to parse your query, perform web searches on your behalf, and summarize findings. It provides in-text citations as well, which is an opportunity for a media-literate person to confirm the validity of anything important.

Amnesty International provides a FOSS tool to check your mobile backups for traces of the Pegasus Spyware. I’d trust that over a sketchy proprietary app. Link: https://docs.mvt.re.

My thoughts exactly… If there’s a FOSS tool to check, then we’d be talking.

“A quick peek behind the curtain”

Whether the new Apple Intelligence features are useful depends on who you ask. But I do greatly appreciate that inference is performed on-device. I think that’s a step in the right direction.

No thank you

I watched “Buy Now!” last night. The editing was a bit campy, but overall it was interesting. I appreciated seeing both iFixit and Framework being represented!

Human-generated slop has been flooding Medium since forever

Thou shalt not browse The Internet

I’ve been using Zen Browser on macOS and Linux for a few months now. It’s a great browser experience, and I hope it gains traction. One thing it currently lacks that I’d like to see is a tab group feature like Chrome.

Nope. Snowflake has been around for a while. I’ve been running my node for at least a year now