It seems very unlikely to me that the model itself has a list of banned words, and much more likely that a purported list is hallucinated.

If they did want to have a simple list like that, it would probably go in the harness rather than the model, and the model wouldn’t have been trained on it, nor would a reasonably designed harness provide it to the model. Legitimate use cases, such as asking the model for a list of abusive words for use as a first pass in a filtering system could get tripped up.

As a test, I asked Perplexity to generate such a list. It did a bad job, including such words as abuse, hate, and threat which are far more likely to be innocuous than abusive. It did also include some highly offensive slurs that one would expect on any banned words list.

A judge can’t make laws. Higher courts can set precedents about how existing laws are interpreted,but that isn’t happening here. The judgment will be specific to Meta.

Yeah, now every “desktop app” is a shitty website that bundles its own copy of chromium. Progress!

“It’s a piece of shit, it’s unusable” like the guy in the video says.

He doesn’t say anything like that. He points out the notice it shows on first use saying it’s unfinished and soliciting bug reports, then ends by acknowledging they’re working for free and it’s a work in progress. Despite the comedic tone, that’s an accurate assessment; PostmarketOS is currently suitable for hobbyists and developers only.

In the middle he tries several times to make a phone call and never succeeds. If anybody is treating this as a serious review to decide whether they should use the same setup around the time the video was published, “unusable” might indeed be a reasonable conclusion, assuming they want to make phone calls on their phone.

People shouldn’t joke about Linux phones because somebody might not get the joke?

On the other hand, there’s a truth underlying the joke: Linux phones are only really ready for a narrow set of users. I say that as a partial member of that set: I have PostmarketOS installed on a phone. It’s fun to play with, but I wouldn’t like to use it an my main phone yet. I hope it gets there some day.

The intention is to mock everything in tech. He mostly mocks big tech, but nothing is immune.

The channel description says

SAMTIME is probably the only channel on the internet not smelling the farts of the big tech companies! From Apple to Samsung, Huawei to OnePlus, we make fun of everyone and tell it like it is (aaand maybe exaggerate just a little if it’s funny).

and that seems about right from the handful of videos I’ve watched. He spends a lot more time mocking big tech firms than poking fun at Linux.

Android was out for at least five years before Safetynet was a thing. I’m surprised people weren’t louder in their objections to that then.

He’s a comedian. His videos aren’t meant to be taken seriously.

adb sideload is for installing an OS or OS update. The command to install an app is adb install.

Based on a quick web search, staff can only remove people temporarily for rule violations; it takes a court order to get a long-term ban from the NYC subway.

Sounds like a decentralized encrypted messaging platform is needed.

Decentralized probably isn’t desirable for this use case; self-hosted is. When designing something for that purpose based on a decentralized protocol like Matrix, it’s probably desirable to mandate that the most sensitive conversations take place using a server with decentralization disabled and a client restricted to using only that server.

Do you need a recommendation for an adblocker?

An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.

You’re not wrong, and an open option might be an improvement over the current situation. On the other hand, it might encourage broader use of remote attestation.

I’m mostly disappointed that there’s no meaningful organized opposition. When Microsoft first proposed adding remote attestation to Windows, the New York Times called it out as oppressive. Now it seems like only hardcore open source nerds care, and I think the tech community should be doing better.

I don’t like it. Remote attestation is a violation of the user’s right to control over their own devices. We should be pushing to eliminate it, not expand its use.

Anyone who was publishing to FDroid already is not going to be annoyed about the 24 hour scare screen for users.

Bullshit.

It’s hard enough to get people to step outside the Play Store ecosystem. Any additional friction will greatly reduce the number who do, and the combination of a reboot and a long waiting period is a lot of friction for the average person.

A lot of network, banking, and telephony protocols historically rely on trusting that there are no bad actors in the chain. Technology has added more links to the chain increasing the opportunities for bad actors to tap into it.

Their wish to break the first rule of network security (you can’t trust the client) shouldn’t be everyone else’s problem.

could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware

Decreasing the cost of using a resource almost always results in more use of that resource.

Laboratory tests showed the devices could reliably endure tens of thousands of switching cycles

That’s not very many when GPUs perform trillions of operations per second.

I’ve tried it, and only ran into a couple apps that wouldn’t work with MicroG. I won’t pretend it’s painless, but it’s workable for someone with sufficient motivation.