Samsung Throws Its Support Behind Digital ID
The angling towards digital ID is real. I’m reminded of Mexico where you have to submit to biometric scans to keep your cell phone number. Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which…
Jason
AI + Rust = More Backdoors
This is a good roundup on why this is dangerous, and why the cult of Rust is a problem. And you’d have to think this is the reason the tech megacorps are rewriting so much code in Rust beyond just…
IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era
IBM and Red Hat have been involved in hijacking projects to kill them in favor of their versions, e.g. X.Org for Wayland… So no thank you. But it is telling that they’re putting this much money and resources into this…
Cash Drain On Americans’ Savings Accounts Nears Great Recession Levels
And we’re looking at things to get a lot worse with inflation, money printing… And possibly something along the lines of the Great Depression as there might be a global monetary reset nations have been stacking gold for. By…
Open Source Projects Banning AI, From QEMU to NetBSD
We could see this coming, and it’s wonderful to see. I’m with the Zig programming language in banning even the discussion of LLMs, and pointing out the errors they’re famous for, downplayed as ‘hallucinations’.
Omarchy Linux 4 Mostly Written by AI
I’ve encountered problems with some crypto Android wallets because they use vibe coding consistently adding bugs. This could come down to the coders ability to review the AI code, which I believe even if skilled enough, are they doing a…
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30.5% After Google AI Search Overhaul
Google really risked it to promote AI search, and people are not happy. And there are more privacy options, Qwant, Metager, SwissCows…. Personally, I don’t trust DuckDuckGo because of the deal they did with Microsoft in the past, plus large…
California’s New Age-Verification Bill Frees Linux But Expands Age Tracking to the Open Web
This is a sneaky way to drive things towards digital ID, as they’ll make things such a mess that when you throw in some significant false flag cyberattacks, people will accept it? The UK has been more direct in pushing…
Rapid Rise of Red-meat Allergies a “Ticking” Time Bomb
There are a lot of reports that tick numbers are up and possibly being dispersed. I have posts on how Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome are probably lab created experiments, and the telling bit of research is they’ve already created…
Flatpak 2: Rust Re-write, Requiring Wayland & Systemd
The Linux Foundation is a captured entity by the Linux tech megacorps in the space, so read this as where they’re trying to take things, Systemd requirement for age verification, and Wayland, the replacement for X11 they were trying to…
Organic Maps and Bitwarden
These are good interviews with people working on projects I use, with some good information. And both of these projects can be added on Android with F-Droid, though you have to add the Bitwarden repo link. The advantage with Bitwarden…
Even Google Warns Canada Bill C-22 Creates Surveillance Backdoors
Joining the UK in trying to accelerate the surveillance state is another crown property, Canada. Canada is also sneakily trying to do away with property rights, so they’re really heading towards a dystopia. Canadians who have the means should really…