Netflix has already experimented with putting original games behind a monthly subscription and then killing the games.

I can see other companies trying this too.

Quick, another fix of the LLMs! Let’s not think about what the downtime means for the industry.

It is an argument against the false comparison I was responding to, no more. Although the fact AI companies can’t seem to create a profitable or finished product even with subsidies, points to other issues I have not addressed

It’s unfortunate this Wired article is incurious; it doesn’t go into much detail about the other side of Micay. Yes, he’s a technological genius, and he’s had his fair share of unwarranted reactions, but he was often the aggressor in many online disputes. For example, article mentions this:

Open source advocacy groups like the Guardian Project, as well as the Google Play store alternative F-Droid, started inquiring about partnerships. In 2018, CopperheadOS was featured in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

But they don’t mention that a few years later, Micay was accusing F-Droid developers of carrying out a coordinated attack on him. And accusing Reddit moderators of being complicit. And attacking Louis Rossman, a project supporter.

Wired barely touches this, failing to even mention Rossman or interrogate whether the exposés (what a choice of word) were true or now.

In turn, users fought back. A couple people made videos “exposing” their private conversations with Micay; others made a show of deleting GrapheneOS. The GrapheneOS team itself was accused of going after competing projects and dissenting parties.

We can see GrapheneOS’ team, or at least its most prominent member, was indeed going after competing projects. No need to dilute that point, Wired.

Frankly, when I see public-facing evidence of Micay attacking others for no good reason, it makes it harder for me to believe that Micay has accurately represented his beef with Donaldson.

Edit: apparently Daniel Micay feels very differently about the Wired story than I do.

WIRED has published an article about GrapheneOS with a history of the project nearly entirely based on fabrications from James Donaldson. Donaldson has spent the past 8 years trying to destroy GrapheneOS and the life of the project’s founder, Daniel Micay. Donaldson has heavily engaged in fabrications with an ever changing story about the history of the project… Their claims have been thoroughly debunked [where?] at this point and are primarily an issue in the form of an extreme level of fabrications and harassment they started which is carried on without them. James Donaldson has been thoroughly proven to be a serial fabricator, scammer and thief. Despite this, WIRED listened to his tall tales and presented it as a history of GrapheneOS. We weren’t given an opportunity to provide an actual history of the project based in fact as we were led to believe it wasn’t a major part of the article and were barely asked about it.

Edit 2: Micay calls on his community to “oppose” critics on forums.

many of the usual suspects are attacking GrapheneOS and our team with fabrications.

Who?

These attacks should be opposed instead of letting a vocal minority dominate the narrative by investing substantial time in lying about GrapheneOS.

This is good and healthy behavior

Huh.

I was talking about a false dichotomy (before the person I replied to edited their comment to save face)

what are you talking about

Seriously?

One is a deterministic machine on your desk, that you own, to do stuff at your desk.

The other is a nondeterministic thing somewhere else, that you don’t own, to do stuff at your desk.

And you can sell at least one shovel to somebody digging themselves into a hole

The phone in question is the HMD Skyline, which gets a 9/10 on iFixit (and is a 0/10 on the software side, which they conveniently left out)

I’ll live without it and probably trade in the repairable phone (lol) but it really is a bummer

Samsung has their own proprietary Camera app, and its own proprietary Gallery app. The Google issue probably doesn’t apply to you, but even though they’re better than Google options, you’re still locked in too.

Your mileage may vary depending on the third-party cellphone manufacturer, but everything I’ve seen (Google or Samsung based) has been locked in and paired on an OS that was once beloved for having interchangeable components.

I tried this and a recommended fork just now, but I don’t think you can use it unless you fully remove the default provider first. I have a locked phone and I think that makes it impossible for me

The more offensive part is, Google Photos is not only the default image viewer on (Google’s) Android, but (Google’s) Camera app will only open pictures in it too. So it’s cloud crap that’s also literally programmed into a lot of people’s cameras.

Does it matter if you don’t update? I imagine they already have it on their servers, which is where I imagine the photos are mostly processed.

Here’s to hoping that repairability includes software… This time.

I’m not saying there’s anything untoward here, but at what point do we start looking at these partnerships and start to wonder if it affects the repairability ratings?

HMD partnered with iFixit and created a very repairable phone… Except in the software realm, where the bootloader is locked, it’s still on Android 15, and allegedly the next major update will be its last (giving it a shorter security shelf life than a glued-up Samsung).

Don’t worry, they’ve definitely hitched their horse on the right Next Big Thing this time!

I can’t believe the company resuscitated a 40-year-old chip plant - with a CEO who similarly looks like he was frozen in a block of ice since the 80s - and are selling out new wafers to help such a confused industry. Neat if it works, I guess, but it’s a shame these innovations aren’t passing down to users (unless somehow, less energy turns into less usage and less taxpayer subsidization, but usually efficiency increases just go the other way).

The last sentence is a little scary to me, not because it’s a bad thing, but because it’s probably catnip to scammers/AI generators. I hope they can do a good job of detecting it and keeping those scammers at bay, and not paying them for unaware listeners’ mistakes

It’s a rare channel because not only are the videos pretty simple and straightforward, the host is also extremely knowledgeable about the topics. Look for anybody else who’s familiar with the differences of the for-profit/non-profit links with companies like Mozilla and Proton. I don’t think you’ll find them in many places.