Prodigy Corp. is pretty trendy at the moment. /s

hard data

Have you ever met management? /s

FWIW it’s basically peanuts for this kind of industry. Even $1 would be too much though.

Can’t wait for this to be generalized so that Easy Anti-Cheat or PunkBuster tell EA or Bethesda to lock your GPU because their faulty launcher detected you tried to play offline twice.

Initially preventing “bad guys” (really big quotes here) to do “bag things” (AFAICT it’s mostly lame LLMs, not actual dangerous military stuff, which for those they actually already have supercomputers allocated) sounds like a good idea… until it inexorably tricky down (unlike money and power) to citizens worldwide.

I don’t think remotely control CPUs or GPUs can end well for citizens. It won’t be PC as in Personal Computer, rather remotely controlled terminals for whomever is in power.

why cell phones don’t authenticate the towers they connect to.

I believe it’s because they assume it’s not necessary because it was until now

• prohibitively expensive, but now a “tower” is less than 2k EUR e.g. https://www.crowdsupply.com/ukama/ukama
• prohibitively complex, see above, namely you don’t need to be a TelCo engineer to get it going
• probably illegal, namely you needed (and I bet still need in most places) wireless band allocation before you could deploy anything

… so I imagine there was no authentication because there was no practical threat beside few “fun” examples in CCC or DEF Con.

Who in the EU wants a US car

Bunch of people according to most EU capitals where one can see, sadly, plenty of Swatzicars.

move somewhere I can get around with just a bicycle.

So… FWIW that’d be Brussels and I bet most European cities. By bike you can get your food in, get to the nearby Brico to fix pretty much anything in your house, get deliveries with national post service, but you can cycle all the way to the airport (if somehow you don’t want to use the train), park there and get… well pretty much anywhere else in the World.

There were and still are into quantum computing.

They are absolute champions of tech-washing and green-washing.

It’s literally anything to say, do and spending money on to make people forget that their core business is actually advertising.

Precisely https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jun/27/tony-cox-epidemiology-risk-assessment-chatgpt-ai

Starting to look like the biggest f*cking corner humanity ever faced.

conjure up an email summary within seconds that can shave off up to 5 whole minutes

… but can it? Like actually, can one do that?

Sure an LLM can generate something akin to a summary. It will look like it’s getting some of the points in a different form… but did it get the actual gist of it? Did it skip anything meaningful that once ignore will have far reaching consequences?

So yes sure an LLM can generate shorter text related to what was said during the meeting but if there is limited confidence in the accuracy and no responsibility, unlike somebody who would take notes and summarize potentially facing negative consequences, then wouldn’t the reliance on such a tool create more risk?

Well this next example isn’t about phones but e-bikes. Unfortunately unwise me bought a fancy designer bike made by a national startup (CowBoy, to name and shame them) and I’m now stuck with a fancy metal frame on wheels because the belt is not in stock. Ordered in February, supposed to arrive 60 days later, I’m still waiting, not even an email received, nothing in now late June.

So… yes my next e-bike will be very VERY boring, in the sense of relying on built that have easy to source replacement part.

Yes, it did take few a first relatively large mistake (even though I did use that bike daily for years already) but that’s what I meant by “only work once”. You try, make painful mistake, don’t repeat.

you might be able to get a replacement battery for your 200€ phone, but having to pay 200€ for it.

On the assumption that consumers are somehow rational and have some memory, that “trick” only work once.

Next time a consumer get stuck with a practically irreplaceable battery because it’s too expensive from a company, they will look at other companies selling equivalent products, AND how much they are charging for batteries. I also imagine a business of spare parts because just having to give the right data, e.g. specifications like cell, module, pack, C-rate, E-rate, SOC, DOD, voltage, capacity, energy, cycle life, but also connectors and just size, will probably open up dedicated spare part vendors.

Interesting times, pardon the pun.

Actually… if you flip it…

So I’d rather argue that hammer can even screw screws.

I think you are thinking of Collabora Online, not Collabora Office and surely not Collabora the company.

“We won’t get any closer to the goal if we don’t start.”

such a great line, yes, just take a step! Even if it’s hard, you will learn something but if you don’t try, you won’t.

Like what?

If Collabora has extra features they do not think they need, relying on the lowest dependencies seems like the most reliable and fair choice.

This isn’t what you asked for but… maybe you have one already?

My phone has an ARM processor and I can use my BT keyboard (Corne-ish Zen) with it.

Edit: alternatively the PinePhone also has a battery+keyboard case but I admit I don’t exactly love typing on it.

Scam and grift at unreal scale. Sad and worried but not even surprised. Altman is literally doing the exact opposite he promised from the start. It’s not about safety, it’s all about money and power.