Regardless of the distribution, would it be possible to have a phone that can be simplified to include only the features you want? For example, I would only want a calendar, notes, a calculator, calls and messages. I wouldn’t want a browser, an app store or any other way to easily install them. Is this possible on a Linux mobile distro? Does it require a lot of work, like making a specific distro for it?

Linux feels like a great option for this because it can leave enough freedom to dumb down what you don't need while also keeping a big level of customization, not everyone needs are the same regarding to dumbphones

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/44631802

Fujitsu are motherfuckers.

What I recall from the warez scene decades past was that the latest games and apps were traded all over the place and always easy to get. But the sort of media where protectionism is the least justified (e.g. proprietary but gratis) was rare and hard to find, as it was generally less interesting.

When it comes to things like hardware drivers, these things should be more openly pirated. Would Fujitsu sue someone who pirates their hardware drivers? Unlikely, because the negative publicity would backfire and the embarrassment would cost them more.

Ironically, I cannot find the software of the OEM CD for a Fujitsu NAS.

Linux drivers generally

Targus makes an unofficial linux driver for their docking station. The driver is very much needed because the docking station embeds a graphics card that linux does not normally find. At the moment there is not much problem because Targus still distributes the driver. But what happens when they decide to stop? The Targus driver also has shitty packaging (a bash script with a blob embedded inside the script). WTF. In principle, this thing should be repackaged more properly for a distro like Debian (in a non-free repo). And it should be done before Targus decides to pull the plug on everyone.

There already is a non-free Debian repo for drivers. They have non-free licensing but the producers of them apparently permit distribution. What about drivers that need distribution without permission?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/59051926

L'exécutif, qui compte présenter rapidement une nouvelle loi logement, a annoncé jeudi le lancement d'un troisième programme national de rénovation urbaine.

Hello,

I've heard that Ubuntu may not fully prioritize user privacy and collects telemetry data. Could you please clarify:

Is this accurate? Are there Linux distributions that place a stronger emphasis on privacy?

Thank you 🙏🏼

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/28915273

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That marketing may have outstripped reality. Early reports from Mythos preview users including AWS and Mozilla indicate that while the model is very good and very fast at finding vulnerabilities, and requires less hands-on guidance from security engineers - making it a welcome time-saver for the human teams - it has yet to eclipse human security researchers.

"So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't," Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said, after revealing that Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. Then he added: "We also haven't seen any bugs that couldn't have been found by an elite human researcher." In other words, it's like adding an automated security researcher to your team. Not a zero-day machine that's too dangerous for the world.

I wonder if the above is possible. I support some people on steady and get some exclusive posts for that. I get them per Email and can read them on the steady website.

Steady has subscription-specific RSS feeds, but only for podcasts as it seems (which also are the only results in my web searches).

Is anyone doing what I'm looking for? Some proxy that reads the emails and offers an RSS feed? (I'd rather not expose my imap credentials to a tool just to read some posts at a different place). Something that scrapes steady?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67674748

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45976558

Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

Today’s game is Viva Piñata. I first brushed up with this game when I was younger and there was the demo on the 360. Being broke, all I could do was play the demo. Over. And over. And over again. I did the same thing with Minecraft too. It wasn’t until 2018 when I got an Xbox One that I actually got a chance to play this through Game Pass.

I’m starting to ramble, but the point is this game has some nostalgic value to me. I saw someone did a decomp of the sequel, but as that doesn’t run under Linux as far as I know I decided to play the PC port of the original.

I’ve started by naming my Whirlm’s. They’re all variations of Todd, with the O swapped out for another vowel. That is, at least until the 5th one. The population started quickly getting out of control and I couldn’t keep up. The Whirlms breed way too fast.

Besides that though they’ve been chill. A bit plain, but they’re calm and don’t hurt anyone so they can stay.

One specific memory I have of the demo is whacking Leafos with the shovel. Probably not a healthy activity for a growing child. I remember the first time we did it too many times and you’d get the shovel taken away. The game had no priority to the controller order so I’d turn on the second controller and try to steer it over to her while my sister was playing to get the shovel taken away. Just standard sibling drama.

Overall it’s not a super deep game. I like to check in every once in a while and see what’s going on. It’s not some hidden gem “stardew valley like” or something like that, but it’s definitely good to mess around and chill in for an evening. The game is practically abandoned, so if you know how to find a copy I totally suggest checking it out. Or the Decomp of its sequel if you use windows.

Information « réductrice », peu utile dans la plupart des cas, trop compliquée à obtenir… L’âge des personnes est de moins en moins mentionné dans les articles. Mais pourquoi les journalistes le délaissent ?

Si vous avez 40 min à perdre je recommande cette petite enquête présenté comme un road trip entre copains

Seems pretty clear Claude is winning this AI race

Anthropic's valuation now hovers at around $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, its CEO Kelly Rodriques told Business Insider. OpenAI's valuation on the platform is $880 billion, a slight uptick from its March funding round.

Since Anthropic and OpenAI are not yet public companies, the vast majority of investors are forced to buy via secondary markets, with existing stock in the companies sold by current or former employees or early investors. Neither company responded to a request for comment.

One Anthropic shareholder recently offered to unload shares at a $1.15 trillion valuation, according to Ken Sawyer, cofounder and managing partner at Saints Capital, a venture secondary firm.

A "very well known growth fund" offered to buy Anthropic shares at a $1.05 trillion valuation, Jesse Leimgruber, founder of OpenHome, posted on X this week.

"Absolutely wild," he said.

Some interested buyers have gotten more creative, offering to sell their home in exchange for Anthropic shares at a valuation above $800 billion.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63080598