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Police have a lot of leverage power.

Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”

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aaaaaaand they’ll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not… which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.

They used to, and they currently do too, but the current one isn’t meant to be an alternative to the like/dislike button like this portrays.

It’s most often in your feed, where occasionally it’ll show a video to you, then give you a tiny light blue box beneath it saying “how good of a recommendation is this” or something along those lines, then you rate it so they can both make the algorithm better overall, and fine-tune yours even if you don’t want to watch the video. (e.g. I might say “5 stars, this is a good recommendation,” but never watch it just because I don’t have the time. YouTube knows I like that topic now, just that I might not watch videos that are that long.)

but im very excited to see linux’s growth :)

Same here :)

the usa gov graph shows a daily stat.

The frequency of a stat doesn’t guarantee long-term assumptions. I could track linux market share every millisecond for a week, but that wouldn’t make it much more of a reliable stat than counting it daily for that week instead. The problem isn’t the frequency of the data, it’s the timeline, and the scale.

Linux has so few users relative to the other players in the market, and the data being collected is for such a relatively short timespan where any meaningful changes to the numbers are happening, that it can’t give you a good picture.

For example, if I start a club, and I gain an average of 10% more members every day for the first week, is it safe to assume nearly all of the people in the world will join my club because I currently have an exponential trend in my member count? Obviously not. I’m probably just pulling in people from my local community, and eventually I’ll have gotten most of the people in my area that are actually interested in joining. I have an exponential trend for now, but it’ll flatline in the next few weeks.

if u have any other websites that show linux stats lmk

I don’t, but the sources cited here are actually the ones I personally have already relied on for a bit now. They’re fairly accurate in their own ways. It’s reliable data, just not necessarily indicative of future trends.

there are also reasonings listed in the dropdown at the top of the article

They’re good reasons, but they still don’t do anything to actually validate the assumptions made in the graph. The reasoning is “Linux will probably grow because of x, y, and z… therefore this exact mathematical function is probably accurate”

They help support the theory that Linux marketshare will grow, which I personally do believe to be true, but they do nothing to actually guarantee any numbers. They could mean a 0.1% gain in marketshare per year, a 1% compounding gain, a temporary dip because of any unforseen world events that isn’t accounted for by that function, etc.

To bring it back to my previous analogy, it would be like if I said “all the people joining seem really invested in [club topic], are telling all their friends about it, and membership growth has been very steady, with more people joining over time through referrals from friends. This means I’ll probably see exponential growth”

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“This exact mathematical function proves I’ll have most people in the world in my club in 10 years”

Hopefully that all makes sense? Genuinely not trying to be confrontational at all, I just want to make sure you don’t get your hopes up because the graph looks like it’ll be guaranteed and then be disappointed if it’s not 😅

There really just isn’t enough data here to make those conclusions.

For example, here’s the Steam survey data plotted without the added estimated graph lines.

Mostly flat, slow trend upwards, slightly sharper increase more recently.

That could flatline again, curve back down, grow way slower, grow way faster, etc. There’s just not enough data there to predict the next 4X as long amount of time anywhere close to accurately.

This is really bad even just from the perspective of user behavior. Training people to scan QR codes from anything that looks like a captcha box is HORRIBLE for security.

“Thanks for scanning the code, just one more step! Please input your phone number, and type in the code you receive.”

Boom, account stolen.

This does seem to work with sandboxed Google Play Services on GrapheneOS btw.

I scanned the demo QR code on Google’s talk page about it with sandboxed Play Services enabled and it gave me a custom popup asking if I’d like to verify.

Only tangentially related, but… Trump Mobile claims they’ll offer telehealth?

and will be able to measure your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure, stress index, and more, all using… your phone’s camera? 😭

Edit: oh yeah and they changed the entire phone’s design again. It’s a COMPLETELY different phone 💀

Most AI models at this point won’t see significant gains from training on such a small sample of code.

You don’t need a whole corporation’s code to make a functional model, you need the whole world’s.

Adding a tiny bit of your own company’s code to the mix doesn’t really do anything to change the model much, so they generally won’t do it for that reason. Tons of training costs, the only benefit is that the model is very very very slightly fine tuned to kinda sorta produce code that’s maybe possibly a little more stylistically similar to yours.

It’s actually genuinely that simple.

Most browsers can automatically import from most other browsers.

For example, let’s say you install Firefox. It will give you the option to sync your bookmarks, credentials, saved autofill entries, extensions (if available on Firefox), and even your entire browsing history.

If you switch to a chromium-based browser like Brave, it won’t even have any trouble importing extensions, since unlike Firefox, it’ll support every single chrome-supported extension by default instead of requiring a new Firefox version to also have been made by the developer.

“I should base my surveys about human behavior solely on responses from non-human machines” said… someone, apparently? Damn. 💀

“b-b-but Amazon creates JOBS!! Jeff Bezos DESERVES that money!!!”

- Guy who doesn’t understand that jobs “created” by Amazon are jobs destroyed elsewhere by its monopoly

Fun entirely tangentially related fact, if you want a fun disposable email for random online services you’ll never use again, try https://www.sharklasers.com/ !

I initially thought this might be AI generated because it looked a little bit odd to me, but nope, seems to be real!

Here’s some other ones from NASA:

https://images.nasa.gov/details/ARC-1989-AC89-0437-9

https://images.nasa.gov/details/ARC-1989-AC89-0437-20

We can’t wait for that to happen, xitter needs to close the technology before the first image puts them in trouble.

That is why this bill imposes heavy fines. No company has good reason to operate a tool like this if every single nude generated can cost them half a million dollars each.

This bill isn’t a “you can do this but we’ll give you a slap on the wrist each time you do” bill, it’s a “if you build a tool like this and let it loose, your company is going bankrupt and we’re talking your life savings, so you’d better not”

Grok generated about 6,700 undressed images per hour.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-01-07/musks-grok-ai-generated-thousands-of-undressed-images-per-hour-on-x

That would be 3.35 BILLION dollars per hour if the maximum 500k fine was enforced for each.

(I’m citing the law, not the article)

There’s a few things that I think help prevent something like that from happening.

“Nudify” or “nudified” means the process by which: an image or video is altered or generated to depict an intimate part not depicted in an original unaltered image or video of an identifiable individual

“Intimate parts” includes the primary genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast of a human being.

So a reasonably sized bikini probably wouldn’t qualify, because it still covers intimate areas to some degree, but anything too skimpy would.

The prohibitions in subdivision 2 do not apply when the website, application, software, program, or other service requires the technical skill of a user to nudify an image or video.

So something like Photoshop wouldn’t qualify because you’d need the skills to actually edit images yourself.

I think this:

“No, see… My app is designed to show you what you look like in user-created outfits. Like a virtual closet mirror! What do you mean users are trying on tiny bikinis and clear cellophane dresses? How could I ever have planned for that?”

Would be prevented by this law, but with very good reason. Anyone developing a feature like that could very well simply develop a filter that can tell if too much of a sensitive area is being exposed that wasn’t previously there. If they put technical safeguards in place, and it takes reasonably large amounts of effort for a user to bypass, then the site wouldn’t be liable because it would require “technical skill of a user”.

A site like that can exist, and being able to digitally try on outfits is nice, but it shouldn’t be allowed to ignore the obvious consequences of not putting restrictions on how much skin can be shown.

Guys don’t downvote this it’s the same point I’m making it’s not a dig at people seeking abortions 😭

That medicine is Misoprostol, which is the key ingredient in the cards from my post, and is often one of two medicines used during abortion treatment. (though it can be used on its own, just with less effectiveness and a higher chance of complications)

Oh boy! Just at a time when RAM prices are going d- ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

For anyone wondering, miso powder + alcohol = paper cards that can induce abortions without looking like pills. Can be hidden inside a book, as a postcard, etc, looks identical to regular paper otherwise, then mailed without issue.

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/abortion-care/