Yes. Waydroid is very nice. What do you use it for? I’ve come to the realization I don’t really need a lot of Android apps on my laptop, I have good Linux software for 99.9% of the stuff I do. So Waydroid mostly sits there, unused, while I use a regular Linux messenger client and Google Maps on the website.

Is this just your personal opinion? Or did any expert have a look at it and analyze the video? Surely there must be some third-party fact-check out there?! I mean not that TRT is a trustworthy news outlet to begin with. But it’d be nice to cite some source, not just do wild speculation.

Reportedly, this training of bots is a thing of the past. Google used to do this, make people put in the street numbers from Street View or blurred words from book scans. But from what I read this isn’t really necessary any more, AI and computer vision got better and what we see these days is just wasted effort, it doesn’t contribute to anything except tell if you’re able to solve the challenge and how you move your mouse while doing it. I wonder why they still do all the zebra crossings and motorcycles and fire hydrants, though. Looks like a synthetic dataset to me, because pictures repeat on a regular basis and they’re not that hard… I’d certainly expect less repeating pictures and more occlusion and weird ones if this was training for something.

Is there any tool to make this easy and back up the app data, wifi credentials, settings, calendar etc? Or do you just copy the files you’re able to access with the file manager?

And most news agencies seem to be aware of it. Most articles I read compare pictures from today to one year before, or two years. And that also aligns with how it’s almost exactly 2 years now… Comparing late summer to winter is a bit stupid (and probably a deliberate choice to mislead?), I can see the destruction, but it’s really hard to make sense of it due to the required knowledge about the seasons and what happened to water and agriculture there, and the resolution of the video.

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Guess they’d have to click on it first.

Wtf? I hope my commandline version of PlatformIO doesn’t do annoying things like that.

Well, diversity is the central idea behind the entire Fediverse… We get many different perspectives on the same content. That includes many individual instances and individual software. The opposite of that would be no diversity. One platform and one software, like Reddit or Facebook or most big commercial services. And we have projects in between, both federated and non-federated, even crypto-based, which combine many aspects into one platform.

I think we need to answer the question first, whether this is even fixable. And if making it more efficient or smooth/fluid is going to help a lot with addiction. I mean you might as well just get more efficient with your addiction… I think that’s why some concepts are more radical. People often suggest to make some clean cut at some point. And throw overboard old behaviour or replace it with something fundamentally different… Like chewing gum instead of cigarettes. No one recommends you’d switch to a different just slightly healthier brand.

I don’t think this is necessarily connected to AI agents. You need something that’s boring, doesn’t provide constant dopamine hits, so there can’t be endless content or a new interaction opportunity every few minutes. And maybe something to keep you aware of your goals, like put the phone away and read a long-form article in the weekend edition of the newspaper instead. Or practice your music instrument so you’re going to be able to play it by the end of the year… Or have real-life social interactions instead of internet ones. This might be done with an AI agent or without.

I suppose there are several ways to do a half-assed job as well. Idk. Common advice I’ve seen to make a regular phone less addicting is: switch the display to greyscale mode, put it on DND and uninstall as many apps as possible. Especially everything “social” and the news as well. And avoid push notifications. Instead, deliberately do it at your convenience, like check for mails and messages twice a day and not have it envelop you in between and all day.

I don’t see how that post would be a good example to advocate for the approach. It has 23 comments, quite average compared to other posts. So it’d still end up with a similar ranking…

Oh, hey! I suppose technically you’re on MBin? But yeah, now that I’m aware… I regularly see kbin.earth pop up somewhere.

Btw, this is a very old article. PieFed is lightyears ahead from where it was one and a half years ago. KBin ceased to exist. (Edit: And is continued with MBin now.) And I didn’t follow Lemmy’s development so I can make any statement there.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Or just the average sense of impending doom?

Seems it caught up a bit since. Now some posts from more than 2h ago are there. But “/api/v3/federated_instances” on LW still reports it’s something like 10h behind.

Is thus necessarily the receivers fault? I mean if LW builds up a queue of content to federate out, that could be blamed either on lemmy.world or on sh.itjust.works ?

Yes. Though I think predictive policing is directly ethically wrong. I mean first of all there is no such thing as a thought crime. So I think you can’t make people suffer consequences before they did anything. And it comes with consequences. If you’re living in a poor neighborhood or you have darker skin color or have some records in their databases, for whatever reason… Life will become difficult. And you might not be able to live up to your potential any more. Possibly lots of people won’t. Also mistakes will happen and we have to find a way to minimize the amount of innocent people in jail. Or you might want to become politically active. But then you can’t because that’s going to mess with your job and life. And you can ask these people today how fair the system is to them.

And I’m not sure if it’s a slippery slope either. I mean we have China with a social score system. And several other countries with prevalent surveillance. And we know since Snowden that the US also keeps large databases about all of us. It’s already there.

I think it’s more a salami swindle. In the early days, the internet was relatively free, then we had a corporate takeover. And more recently governments are actually cracking down and we don’t have Pornhub in Texas anymore. The UK is also very eager to restrict freedom, porn and unwanted things. Several smaller forums hosted in the UK were killed last year by the new laws. I had occasionally used some of them. Now they’re gone. Then they want your Social media accounts at the borders these days and small amount of people get sent back home for exercising free speech. Also small things increased like someone wanting to pat me down and look inside my bag before I visit an evening show. I cant take my swiss army knife to some locations any more and 5-10years ago that thing was constantly in my bagpack. Surveillance cameras are getting more and more, and does it make crime actually go down? Or is is just a thing in itself? Private companies do the same. I can barely use a messenger these days without revealing my phone number and letting them track me forever. Google gets embedded deeper in all our devices and lifes each day and of course they don’t necessarily want a dystopia… But they definitely want to manipulate you. That’s kind of the core of advertising.

I definitely feel some of the consequences. Some of the changes happened for valid reasons. Some didn’t. And I don’t think “Predictive policing is here whether we like it or not”… It’s a choice… Just because technology exists, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to use it. That’s a fallacy as well.

And then we have Palantir and the arms industry. And I don’t think that’s much of a slippery slope anymore. These systems already decide on some abstract and intransparent intelligence if a potential terrorist is worth murdering 30 or 80 woman and children in the process, and that indeed sounds pretty dystopian to me. But nonethess, exactly that was used to kill a good amount of people fairly recently. Until they took the more wholesome approach to level the entire place… I’m not saying war is easy or there’s a right way to wage war. But I don’t think technology like that is justifiable when used like that.

I think policing is a complex issue. And the US for example has almost ten times the homicide rate of the average European country. They have a lot of gang violence, school-schootings and everything is more extreme in the USA, for the better or the worse. I’d say it’s likely a comprehensive approach. Police needs equipment and good training. They need to be staffed. They also need good guidelines and strict oversight. We can’t have bad people or power abuse. And lawmakers and courts need to facilitate an environment in which things go into the right direction. Everything from the local to the national level. Then society has to agree to pull in the same direction. And it’s kind of an investment into all kinds of things. That will certainly pay off later, big time. But includes things like invest in healtcare for mentally ill people, invest in integration with immigrants. And invest in the proper solution for online crime. And then there’s neoliberalism and our overall concept of a society we want to live in. Of course people are more likely to commit crimes if they’re miserable or hungry or don’t have anything to lose. So we need a society where everyone has some decent living conditions, also feels alright and is integrated into society in some form. And for me it also includes some fairness and individual freedom.
I’d say it’s solvable. I mean not a 100% “perfect” world, but we can have a look at different countries and see how they do things and what it does to them. And there will always be crime, and always room for improvement.

Ah, thanks. And are those people then connected to the same network and can follow each other, or are those entirely seperate? Pardon my lack of knowledge about Bluesky and ATProto.

The Pixel devices certainly lost some of their appeal lately with Google cutting down on the superb GrapheneOS support we had up until now. And they’re now missing the device-trees and so on and more recently Google has shifted development to not be transparent to the public any more until a new version gets properly released. So updates will be more difficult and won’t happen as instantly as we had them in the past.