I don’t know a single GenX who disagrees with the first statement. (I an on then Millennial edge, though, so could be bias)

I’ve always been a fan of

Not the brightest brick in the box.

Dont you mean sad libavcodec noises?

VLC, IPlayer, and FFMpeg are interfaces for libavcodec 😀

You’re probably right, and that’s why it is in quotes, but I figured if I can save some people from reading a “there’s no readon this is 12 screens long” article I would.

FWIW I dont use Gmail at all anyway.

How to “opt out”:

• Open Gmail desktop in browser
• Settings icon
• View all settings
• General tab
• Unchecked Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet

I do this with subscriptions. All for daytime browsing, Subscriptions for night.

Woa, healthy internet discourse. I like it. 😀

I would love to see a study where they ask a 2024 AI for business decisions around things that happened in 2025. How much you want to bet it already can?

This would be nice. Or something like an NSFW filter, so you can know a bot posted but ignore it unless you want to see it.

DNS doesn’t fail over, unfortunately.

Uhh no? Android is open source, from The Open Source Alliance. You’re conflating Google’s version of Android (Android + Google Mobile Services) with Android.

Android is Apache2 + GNU for the kernel. GMS is proprietary.

Huh?

Control of your phone does not equal Linux. Plenty of FOSS OS’s do that (including Android). And Android 16 brought Linux app support with GPU acceleration if you’re into that and want FreeCAD on your phone.

Android basically is a Linux phone, it’s a distro(ish).

It has a Linux kernel and a Linux-based OS wrapped around it. And just like you can compile FreeCAD for Debian or Arch, you can compile Fossify for Google Android, GrapheneOS, or LineageOS.

“Linux” phones in the sense you mean won’t be a “Debian” or “Arch”, they’ll be something else, just like Android.

Not to mention Apple decided to make passkeys Airdropable. Fun.

I worked on a cool projected called FedID: https://fedid.me/ that creates a distributed identifier (DID) out in the world, federated with AvtivityPub, and gives you a key you can sign in with via OpenID Connect. It allows the DID to have multiple keys for multiple devices, and delegate authority, so losing a device/failure is no big deal.

That being said, Web passkeys can be stored in password managers, just like passwords.

Yes, but in 12 months a Linux phone won’t even be close to where even 4 versions ago Android is. As long as Graphene (or Lineage, or Fairphone, plenty of models) keeps the security updates covered, there are good options out there.

True, but what I’m saying is there is an open model. If another community of devs wan’t a “Linux-based mobile OS”, they can fork AOSP like Graphene did. IE complain about Google, not Android.

Graphene works. No tracking, tons of FOSS and commercial apps, it just lacks some banking apps. One gap, vs all that exist between now and another Linux phone.

LineageOS is another option for other phones, also far ahead of other Linux ideas.

Isn’t the first just AOSP? GrapheneOS ships Google free.

+ aliases are convenience aliases only. They are often stripped from ID datasets. Better to use a real alias.

In the Monday announcement, OpenAI claims the recently updated version of GPT-5 responds with “desirable responses” to mental health issues roughly 65% more than the previous version. On an evaluation testing AI responses around suicidal conversations, OpenAI says its new GPT-5 model is 91% compliant with the company’s desired behaviors, compared to 77% for the previous GPT‑5 model.

I don’t particularly like OpenAI, and i know they wouldn’t release the affected persons numbers (not quoted, but discussed ib the linked article) if percentages were not improving, but cudos to whomever is there tracking this data and lobbying internally to become more transparent about it.