IllNess @ IllNess @infosec.pub

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That's why the news that Grok is racist is true. The US government will be even more systematically racist now.

I commented a user's use of "rare". Then you did the same to my comment.

I didn't think how the initial poster use of the word "rare" meant to describe "a matter of popular practice, not difficulty." So I replied back to you.

When someone says "rare operating system", the word "rare" describes "operating system".

Here is the statement again:

Normal people either can’t afford these devices or don’t have time for all the hassle of installing and using a rare operating system on a phone.

In your sentence, "rare" is used to describe "it", a pronoun, which refers to the action "to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat".

Umm... I don't think that's right. I don't think you could ever buy a phone from Google with GrapheneOS.

Minimum wage in Spain is €1,300 per month. A Pixel 9a is under $500 and under €550 and currently on sale for $449 and €500. A couple of hundred can get you a Pixel 9. What exactly is a not obscenely price for a flagship phone to you?

And I don't even understand your second comment. People spend over an hour a day on social media alone.

So the normal person in Spain could buy this phone and the normal person in Spain does have the time to figure out how to install a "rare" operating system. A "rare" operating system that's free and easily copied.

This was also explained in the source I linked.

Interestingly, since the data is read twice, some unlicensed developers exploited that. They would have logo data for something other than Nintendo in the location the logo data was normally stored. So you could boot the Gameboy and see some other logo besides the Nintendo one. But, when the logo data was read again for validation, they would quickly change the logo data to the Nintendo logo. That way, the Nintendo logo was never technically reproduced on screen, yet the Gameboy would still boot. Even more genius if you ask me! Very few unlicensed games were released for the Gameboy (at least here in the states). Here’s the best list I could find of unlicensed games.

Thank you for the info.

I appreciate you took the time to correct me on this. I appreciate the information.

As for me saying copyright infringement, I thought it would've be trademark infringement since it is a trademarked logo but the blog post said copyright and they seem to have done their research so I went with that. I figured maybe the code itself for the Game Boy hardware and rom was copyrighted.

Here something I always thought was interesting about Nintendo and copyrights.

The Nintendo logo for the original Game Boy (the one that scrolls down) was a way to prevent unlicensed developers from releasing games on the Game Boy.

Games would not boot up if the Nintendo logo is not read on the cartridge and the ROM.

So for a developer to release a game on the Game Boy without Nintendo knowing, they would have to commit copyright infringement.

Source: Reverse Engineering the Gameboy Boot Screen (catskull.net)

The Game Boy was released in 1989, over 36 years ago. They used this same tactic on the Switch. They claim the prod keys, which are needed for Switch emulators, are copyrighted.

Well yeah! My uncle works for Nintendo!

Because people don't want to pay for shit content. Let's take pirating out of the equation. If I read a book I borrowed and I really like it, I would buy. If the content was trash then I wouldn't. Same goes if I watch a movie, listen to an album, or eat a microwavable burrito at a friend's or family member's house.

If you look at the history of releases of iPhone and Android Google apps, features usually come out on the iPhone first.

A couple of theories range from programming on iOS is easier to the iOS team is simply better.

They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.

California was 58.47% Dem to 38.33% Rep.

Only District of Columbia (90.28% to 6.47%), Maryland (62.62% to 34.08%), Massachusetts (61.22% to 36.02%), Hawaii (60.59% to 37.48%), and Vermont (63.83% to 32.32%) did better percentage wise.

California is still in the top 5 of the most Democratic states, even beating out New York (55.91% to 43.31%), Washington State (57.23% to 39.01%), and Illinois (54.37% to 43.47%).

If you look at the percentages, a lot of people voted for Trump everywhere. You can't just single out California for this.

Looks good on Lynx.

Thank you for your input. I think I'm gonna give another try.

Note for other readers, Traditional T9 is a keyboard available on F-Droid.

I tried Thumb-Key. Learning curve was really high. I instead went with Unexpected Keyboard, also no predictive text. I really enjoy using Unexpected Keyboard and I don't have to through a bunch of sub keyboards to look for a symbol. I rarely go to a different sub keyboard.

Do you type faster with Thumb-Key than a normal keyboard like GBoard? In your opinion, is it worth learning?

They have the code built in to their keyboard and their messaging app just in case you switch keyboards.

It would be easier looking in to their own internal company files or databases than to parse information from a website even if they are really good at that.

In April, Anthropic filed its opposition to the class certification motion, arguing that a copyright class relating to 5 million books is not manageable and that the questions are too distinct to be resolved in a class action.

I also like this one too. We stole so much content that you can't sue us. Naming too many pieces means it can't be a class action lawsuit.

Their AI and their quick answers, like taking Wikipedia articles, definitely steals content from creators.

But is this stealing content from creators? Or does Google have their own list of emojis with corresponding descriptions?

If it's the latter then I say it's fine. That's like complaining Duckduckgo's search result of a calculator takes away views from calculator.com. Calculator.com and emojipedia.org don't own the patent to online calculators or description of emojis with a copy function.