Cool. But, which repair centre has the contract for bricked phones. In Europe only one place has the vendor key thing if you fuck up while flashing the device, they won’t let users or other repair places have it so I assume it works the same in the US.

If I needed a new phone, I might get one of these. Repairable phones are cool.

Spoke too soon. Two spam calls this morning.

I’m very pleased and have been waiting years for this. The way I understand it is that they’re making marketing calls explicitly opt-in, and easy to opt-out of. The non-stop calls from marketing agents stopped on July 27 for me.

There was also another change about hidden numbers that happened not too long ago which reduced the number of calls by one or two per day.

There is a list of numbers depending on your region that were registered marketing numbers. I had a filter for those, but I don’t think I’ll need it anymore. Any number starting with 0162, 0163, 0270, 0271, 0377, 0378, 0424, 0425, 0568, 0569, 0948 or 0949 was spam so it was easy to filter.

The punishment will be interesting to see. There are plenty of ways to report spam. Back in 2007 they said the French would never stop smoking in public places, and they did and a few people got fined for testing what would happen. Same thing will happen with this.

Edit: it is $87,000 per call. Damn.

I was thinking about a shooting that happened in Norway. Some of the children called their parents. It didn’t stop anything horrible from happening, but they left the world knowing they were loved.

I think this is a tough one to weigh in on depending where you come from. If I lived somewhere where the news talked about school shootings a lot, I might want my child to have a phone.

Go after the companies making addictive applications instead.

Hpw do you run ads for child abuse?

Instagram has been profiting off paid adverts that promote CSAM in India

OK…

How did we get here?

Earlier this year, Meta announced it was trying to reduce its reliance on third party human moderators by — you guessed it — switching to AI.

That’s what they said would happen…

How bad is it?

The videos promote child abuse and invite you to join a Telegram group to have access to it. So, that’s bad, and also sounds like a honeypot.

Of course he did. I think he used to joke about it, wasn’t that a thing? Or maybe it was his brother.

Just use the link to the Mastodon post. That site is junk.

This is Bubble-101. Before the thing exists, imagine the future…

threatening that another country will get there first combined with pure players like Nvidia, the uncertainty of whether or not it could be a good investment and being able to convince governments and investors to pump money into it.

If AGI ever becomes what they are promising, everything after 2022 should be a case study for marketing and communications students because they are doing a piss-poor job inspiring confidence and just sound like grifters.

Oh for sure, they can be aggravating but I haven’t watched any of their vids in over a year. I wouldn’t take their advice the same as how I wouldn’t want anyone to take my advice. Just because someone says they work in IT doesn’t mean they do, right? I used to work in a pharmacy and people would ask me for medical advice when they saw me in town, but I didn’t work in the dispensary. I knew the answer to their question, but I was not going to risk it.

I was about to watch when I realized who it was. To be honest, many of the Linux YouTubers have turned me off for different reasons, but I never enjoyed this guy’s videos and I’m not the only one…

I guess I should watch this to give a decent opinion. Other distros are just as political and decisions reflect their stance (like how Alpine doesn’t include Xlibre for reasons). As it stands, I’m fine with that.

I am unaware of the particularities surrounding the Debian situation, so I’ll still need to play catch up.