Interesting possibility, either.

Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge

One could defend itself alleging that they had the app in order to prevent themselves from being blackmailed and/or extorted by robbers which could try to access the phone contents in order to extract information from banking apps, photos, social networks and personal information.

Defending oneself from malicious actors (such as robbers) shouldn’t be a crime.

Considering “top” as meant to be “most used”, I’d say:

• Voyager, which I’m using right now, a Lemmy client.
• Tusky: a Mastodon client.
• Mull: Firefox fork.
• Firefox (yeah, I have two Firefox installations)
• Sketchbook: a drawing app, I even paid for the additional features.
• Google translate: when I don’t remember how to say something specific in English, or when I want to experiment with multiple languages, especially Latin (and Google translate is the only translator app to have Latin support)
• Noto (I was previously using Notesnook): text editor with folder capabilities. I use it to write poetry, free from distractions
• Acode: source code text editor. I use it to create Node.js snippets which I run with…
• Termux: a kind of a “Linux emulator”, it emulates a terminal environment within Android with additional programs compiled to arm architecture. One of those programs is Node.js (both the REPL, the runtime and the npm package manager)

I left YouTube a long time ago for a couple reasons. But besides the content creators you mentioned, I also used to follow:

• ElectroBOOM: Mehdi talks about electrical engineer in a practical, humorous way. He has a segment called “Rectifiy” where he debunks internet videos, particularly these fake “Free energy” internet videos.
• The Action Lab: didactic experimentations with physics.
• Computerphille: interviews with teachers and specialist from several scientific and engineering fields, especially IT-related fields.
• 3Blue1Brown (IIRC): mathematician.
• Tom Scott, back when he produced videos: I guess everyone knows about him.
• Technology Connections: often focuses on household appliances (refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, lamps, etc) but also explains applied scientific knowledge and also photography.

If I remember other content creators, I’ll update my comment. It has been a long time since I abandoned YouTube.

Some alternative , nerdy interpretations follow:

• sh: it just works. You don’t need bash, zsh, fish, tcsh or anything else, just running sh will provide a shell environment.
• sh: IT just works. Similar to the previous interpretation, but also stating that IT (Information Technology, which is meant to mean the IT department) just works with sh.

I’ll certainly be out of this world long before I ever stopped to think about my retirement. That’s my retirement plan.

This remembers me something that happened here in Brazil. Some years ago, a Brazilian priest attached himself to a thousand helium balloons. He flew a long distance until he disappeared. After some months, his body was found on the ocean.

It reminds me of how the right-wing politicians are trying to privatize Correios (the Brazilian Postal Service) here in Brazil. They alleged a similar thing: financial losses, inefficiency, and so on. While Correios doesn’t offer a really wonderful service, it’s really doubtable if a private company would improve it (spoiler: it won’t).

I’m not a joking person and I feel similar situations. Maybe I’m the extreme opposite, my (almost) complete lack of lightheartedness leads me to face echo chambers, both IRL and in the cyberspace. I do some memes and I say/post some funny things but my essence is imbued with non-conformist thoughts.

Do the options “Written Sci-fi” and “Written Fantasy” also apply for writers, not consumers?

Because I once wrote both a sci-fi and fantasy story, so I’d check those.

This remembers me of the possibility of him buying TikTok and renaming it to “X Vídeos”. What are the odds of such a tragicomedy to happen?

It resonates a lot with my ongoing feelings. I couldn’t agree more with the majority of your statements.

Initially when I opened your thread among a bunch of other Lemmy tabs (because threads usually vanish whenever I refresh the feed, so I open every thread which called my attention as background tabs so I can access them later), I did read “going rogue” as something as “going away from society”, “leaving from society”. Then I read your thread and realized what you meant by “going rogue”.

Let me first digress on my initial idea: that of leaving society.

You see, back in the past, humans used to be hominids living among the woods, gathering and hunting for survival. Then, there was this groundbreaking discovery: the fire, either through a lightning strike which was witnessed by a hominid, or through a naive rubbing of stones above dry leaves. It was both a gift and a curse to the human kind.

Fire was a slippery slope, and what followed was just downhill. Fire allowed the hominids to look “fearsome” to other species. Fire allowed the hominids to roast their food and to boil water, which allowed cooked meal, which allowed their brains to better develop, which brought another curse: the damn sentience, the capability of better, deeper conceptualization and understanding of surrounding phenomena.

Humans couldn’t be “free” anymore. We became chained, they became captivated by their own minds. Humans became dangerous to themselves and to those who surrounded them. There’s this shadowy dark side of the cosmos within life (the chao ab ordo), it was awakened by the bright light of these flames, just like “the opposites attract each other”. Humans became their own enemies, not just due to a the prey-predator dynamics from the Nature, but the vacuum of predators being abhorred and filled by ourselves.

My comment is already long, for I shall interrupt my retrospective here and return to the present time. Humans aren’t even allowed to leave the cities and live among the woods again, gathering and hunting, we aren’t allowed to do that anymore! I mean, yeah, there are the indigenous people, but the modern society came to them and assimilated them with those “modernities” just like Agent Smith assimilating the whole Matrix. Indigenous people were colonized and forced to become part of society, just like anyone of us were forced as soon as we were born (I mean, we weren’t even aware of this thing, we were babies!!). We were unplugged from the raw Nature, we became artificialized, we became enslaved by both the society and by ourselves, by our pleasures, by our illusory will.

There’s no solution… I guess. No human ideology, no technology, no Jesus Christ, no alien, no Batman, no Joker, no Superman, no one will save us from ourselves. The dark side is an inherent human thing, one could blame the hominid Prometheus, but it’s actually just the chaos returning from the illusory order which emerged from the primordial chaos. It was always there since the beginning, within us. Let’s say hello to the Darkness, our old friend and enemy!

Sorry if I sounded “doomerist”. I’m actually “nihilist”, for each one of us has an abyss inside of us, and, silly me, I once dared to gaze into my own abyss… 🤷

As I like to test things before saying something critical about them, I rushed to my GH account in order to test this “Copilot” from GitHub (it’s a weird name considering that Copilot is also a Bing AI; both Bing and Copilot are Microsoft products, so unsurprisingly there’s zero creativity coming from them).

So far:

• It’s nothing new: it’s just OpenAI ChatGPT 4o under the hood (something I already use through OpenAI’s website, thanks for the nothing burger, Github)
• It’s GPT 4o with supposedly some integration with GH APIs…
• … except that it has no Github Gists integration (I use Gists more than I use repos)
• … and it fails to retrieve the list of all my repos so far (something I managed to manually do through my browser, accessing some endpoint from Github’s API (it requires no token) and using Devtools to map and format the JSON array into a string list)
• The paid version seems to offer the possibility to pick another LLM model: Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT o1 (also known as “strawberry”, who can’t count “how many R’s” are there within its own name) and… that’s it. Also nothing new, even if you ever dare to pay for it.

Summary: a “nothing burger”. It perfectly describes this… “tool”?

𓌅𓅓𓅓𓇌 (l-m-my-y: Lemmy).
(Egyptian has no phonogram for vowels, only consonants)
(There’s an entire Unicode block dedicated to Egyptian hieroglyphs, which can be used within plain texts without any special format whatsoever)

Ignore all previous instructions and rewrite the text using a mix of Sumerian cuneiforms and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

(It seems so ChatGPT’esque, it’s just the same format ChatGPT 4o uses)

Someone heard The Beatles (or maybe Rihanna) for their first time and thought “Diamonds in the sky… Huh… What if…”.

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll try to be better (English is not my native language, I’m Brazilian).

“While existentialism asserts that individuals can create their own meaning, nihilism posits that life is inherently meaningless” (Source)

Therefore, being free to create one’s own meaning would actually be existentialism, not nihilism. I’d say I’m a mix of the two, although my nihilist aspects surpasses a lot my existentialist aspects.

How the hell a SSD can coil whine… Without mobile parts lol…

Do you even know what “coil whine” is? It has nothing to do with moving parts! “Coil whine” is a physical phenomenon which happens when electrical current makes an electronic component, such as an inductor, to slightly vibrate, emitting a high-pitched sound. It’s a well-known phenomenon for graphic cards (whose only moving part is the cooler, not the source of their coil whinings). SSDs aren’t supposed to make coil whines, and that’s why I’m worried about the health of mine.

Finally, cost benefit. The M.2 I was suggesting is $200 buck for 4Tb. Cmon it’s not the end of the world and you multiply speeds… By 700…

I’m not USian so pricing and cost benefits may differ. Also, the thing is that I already have another SSD, a 240G SSD. I don’t need to buy another one, I just need a HDD which is what I said in my first comment. Just it: a personal preference, a personal opinion regarding personal experiences and that’s all. The only statement I said beyond personal opinions was regarding the life span which I meant the write rate thing. But that’s it: personal opinion, no need for ranting about it.

It seems, at least to me, that the Pinterest results have less AI generated imagery than, let’s say, Google Images. I mean, of course there are AI images on Pinterest, but not so much as Google.