@elebertus @travellator2 Huh. Are you using the Nouveau graphics driver? I'm on Sway too.

I just got an email from with subject line "You’re now using Gemini on web", detailing unclearly how they may be using my data (without my consent, I did NOT opt-in).

That subject line is so offensive.

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Some quotes from this article. It's longer than it feels to read, and is worth your time if you're into .

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Now? We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door. Some poor bastard, born to be great, is going to get told to "review this AI-generated patchset" for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The terminal will become a spreadsheet. The debugger a coffin."

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"Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were *artists*. They wrote code like jazz musicians - full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.
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"The thing I hate the most about AI and it's ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul... Brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots."

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"You want real connection to code? You *earn* that. You dig in. You wrestle with segfaults at 3 in the morning. You pace your apartment muttering about pointer arithmetic. [...] You write your own damn notes instead of snapping lecture slides and pretending it counts. When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. [...] You don’t *know* your code. You’re babysitting it." ~ deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusio (asterisks inserted for italicization)

I think it's time I make the jump away from . But I could do with some help on what to do... ack!
I actually have a bunch of parts around to put together a chunky -based phone. I'll just need a small (USB?) modem first... can anyone help?

arstechnica.com/security/2025/
social.librem.one/@golemwire/1

@arstechnica I think it's time I make the jump away from Android.

@btp Oh hey @rl_dane , fitting reply to run into you again XD
I was gonna say something like "Or really, <anything> on a Windows machine is a pain in the <anything>" but everyone here seems to have the same idea :)

@kottke In the public view, "concentration camp" is associated with cruelty such as torture (c.f. Nazi Germany).

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