Judge checks bank account*

FTFY

You are disregarding that the bullet text inscriptions are common alt-right memes? That the suspected killer is from a conservative family upbringing?

Or you don't believe those inscriptions have nothing to do with the alt-right movements? That the conservative family is also to be disregarded?

Now about more evidence of participation of the killer in alt-right movements, or other links, you can be damn sure the current US administration is not really intereesting in making any of that public anymore, since it goes against the current administration propaganda. If it was some "leftist" you can be damn sure there would be a deep investigation into the killers electronics, internet activity, and etc, to find other "leftists" and politicians to associate with him and ALL that would be publicized by Donald Trump himself.

I'm not from the USA, neither an English native speaker, but is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic? I find Trump totally repulsive, however I can understand his "charism" that attracts people to vote for him when he's there mumbling his rampts and narcistic histories. So far, since 2025, that I can remember, anytime I saw any video of Peter Hegseth speaking he seems to have the same charism as a door.

This, would, of course, be important for a presidential candidate If there is any "democracy" left during the election time, since Trump's popularity is decreasing, his government does not seem too promising on having "good results" to show when the election time comes, therefore the transfer of charism and therefore votes that Trump would be able to execute would be limited, and the new candidate would have to work on his own.

Given the current state of affairs, as an external observator and not too familiar with USA real politics dynamics, I find it's easier for Trump and republicans to continue the rampamt breaking of laws and just really push for a 3rd term, as he's been publicly "teasing" since his 2024 campaign...

P.S.: Just to finish up, there's also the fact that Trump is old as f*, and seems to be becoming more senile by the minute (i.e.: his almost at the age his dad was diagnoses with dementia iirc), so maybe the thing is they would just be forced to move on from him and the "3rd term" thing would really just not come to fruition due to bad timing (Trump going full demented, dying, etc...). Or maybe if his popularity keeps going down, who knows if the democracts can obtain any majority in the midterm elections and put up an impeachment on both houses this time, this would also chance the outlook of things and force the republicans to choose a new candidate sooner than later.

Being honest, there's still a long way to go here. Next year's elections will be very important for Brazil. But, 4 years of Trump, then 4 years of Bolsonaro, then Trump again now, that's a lot of damage, and some people that I don't see leaving the cult. Access to bias confirming "news" channels (mostly through social networks, there are plenty propaganda groups in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and lately TikTok, and also YouTube Channels) makes some people seem to be living in a different universe.

With tech companies profiting lots of political "controversy", US big tech companies having a big predominance in Brazil, and also tech companies being used as a state political discourse dominance weapon we are pretty much at their mercy. META can definetly skew elections to a candidate of their own, or to the "least damaging" candidate to their interests, and there's no way for the Brazilian governement, be it executive body, justice system, or congress to do anything about it. So the tendency is to everytime more and more legislators to be sided with the tech companies objectives, which ARE ALL FOREIGN companies, and that IS definetly very detrimental for any kind of actual democracy.

And, of course, the current tech companies aligned legislators, and most proeminent "right wing" prospects for presidential run next year, are all sided with Bolsonaro (that, for me, makes all of them extreme right wing candidates) because that guarantees them only chance to having an actual significant amount of votes, since hardcore Bolsonaro supporters makes at least 20-30% of the population. All those candidates basically have pledged to give Bolsonaro an amnesty, and current Bolsonaro supporters in the congress are trying eveyday to passando new laws to favor him too (and remembering that most supreme court judges have already declared that an amnesty for the coup attempt would be unconstitutional), however the next president will also be able to appoint 3 other judges for the supreme court, and Bolsonaro has currently appointed two of the 11 judges, that could give Bolsonaro a chance of having an amnesty either by the president or the congress.

TL;DR: There's still a lot of shit to be done here, and the right wing extremist wave is definetly not going away easily.

It's almost impossible for any of those to suceed beyond being niche because its not viable to run against the economics of scale and the practicality of the corporate solutions provided by the Big Techs companies in capitalist countries.

Believe me, I've tried to talk to real people about the dangers of sending data to a single company like Google (Alphabet) or Facebook (Meta) and depending on that for media comsumption, how it can and how it's really used to manipulate public opinion on countries... The fact is that for non-tech and non-privacy minded people (which I'd sure Must be 99.9% of the population) they really don't seem to care, they just wanna a "free" service that they turn on the TV and there are the videos of their "influencers" or YouTube channels to watch, on YouTube I really hate how it shoves ads like there's no tomorrow nowadays every 5 minutes, but I also understand there's a cost to run their business, I, myself, if were to pay for similar service provided without ads I'd pretty sure the YouTube Premium offering would still being a bargain since Google's infractucture and running costs are really optimized.

So yeah, I really don't believe any capitalist country can compete with the Big Techs companies, they are probably deeply rooted into common user behavior in all capitalist country, in the capitalist "democracies" it's impossible to lobby against them in privacy concerns since they can easily sway public opinion in their favor with invisible chances to their content delivery, so anyone trying would have to have a lot of resources to do so (a popular movement without money funding in a capitalist society is basically doomed, theres a very pow chance to suceed imo) and any national alternative, or any actual alternative to their services is almost impossible to suceed since they already have their economy of scale set up with minimal costs and they can also run years on and on with a loss untill any competition does due to being unable to compete with their lower artificial prices.

If you kill a murderer, the number of murderers in the world remains the same...

Lmfao, you really cannot be serious with this kind of reasoning, right?

If you are serious, here's an equally as ingenuous counter argument:

• If you kill two murderers or more you will have effectively reduced the number of murderers in the world...

Yes, but most of the paid "LLMs" are not actually just LLMs, they have specific aritimetic modules that end up being activated for most math questions that actual LLMs suck at, however are pretty easy for arithmetic modules, like simple calculations, unit conversions, etc...

So yeah, any edge "LLM" tool currently will always get the original question asked here CORRECT even on the free tiers, you can test it yourself on Google Search itself in "AI mode", on ChatGPT, or DeepSeek...

So you are technically correctly in saying that LLMs suck and cannot be trusted for math in almost any case. However you are wrong on implying that ChatGPT, or other commercial models are just LLMs, they are not.

P.S.: I'm not condoning the use of AI to resolve math related questiona, nor saying that their replies should be trusted, just stating the fact that actual "AI" products use more than just a large language model to generate their responses, and for math related questions most "AI" today will get arithmetic question answered correctly NOT DEPENDING on having training for the exact questiona being asked since they can identify a math arithmetic question being asked and instead of trying to fully generate the answer with the model itself, which would lack the training data to be able to process such wide range of possible question, they generate placeholders internally and let a arithmetic like module do the calculations, which take negligible processing power to be cacoulated by CPUs.

Because that's exacly how marketing works... And, also, surely business only sell what the market is already being used to buy...

You can manufacture almost any demand if you are large enough...

Just look at latest example of Apple iPhone. Pretty sure that before 2020 you would say that "people don't like colors on iPhones", but it just so happened there was not even a choice for colors... Go ask around iPhone users nowadays what is their preferred iPhone color... Pretty sure colored iPhones will be one of their preferred in more than 33% of the instances. You can't say that a negligible marketshare.

About #2: you have any suggestion on how you could achieve that and still be federated?

It seem like you would need a central "oficial" instance that defines who is the "real" AskLemmy, etc...

But yeah, I really want to hear if you have ideas on how achieve this and maintain it as a federation.

And your point here being...?

Are you implying that currency is a product of capitalism or that currency only exists under capitalist societies?

Lol, I'm no historian but I almost sure that currency has existed in basically all big societies way before capitalism was a thing...

There are many tiers of private information.

You can definetly collect a lot of useful telemetry data without collecting any of the, lets say, "most sensitive" private information.

Just to exemplify:

• you can collect telemetry on the most acessed features of a software and associate it with their location: whilst collecting their location you can definetly choose between having the person's specific location (GPS coordinates with a few meters of accuracy) or their broad location (i.e.: their city, state, or country).

  • with the broad location you can have insights on how users of your software behave per region and plan accordinly actions or those regions.

Collecting someones specific location is definetly way more sensitive than their broad location...

And the full content of all textual documents a person generates has a very high chance of containing of their most sensitive private information...

You don't. KeePass databases can be easily shared totally offline.

However, it all depends on "how easy" you want the sync to happen...

There are many ways to "sync" KeePass databases, basically you just have to copy password database among the devices, which can be done totally offline.

• HARD - Manually copy the KeePass database to the devices
  • Can be accomplished via any Network connection or USB cable connection
• EASIER - Put the database on any file sharing service that's available on your devices, and sync that
  • The file sharing service can be available on the internet (Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud...), but it also works with any file sharing service that's not connected to the internet (e.g.: local only Nextcloud server, or not even that, using Syncthing if that's your thing..., which would not even require a local server)

So, I'll just give one example.

If you have 2 devices:

• Linux PC
• Android Phone

You can use KeePassXC on the Linux PC, and KeePassDX on the Android Phone, and have a copy of your kdbx file (the encrypted database) on each device, manually copying the newer version whenever there are changes on them.

Issues that might happen: consistency between the files in case you make changes to both databases and forgot to sync manually previously. There's no easy way to handle this currently afaik if you are doing manual syncs... I'd suggest maintaining one of the databases as "kinda read only", not performing edits on it unless you can immediately copy it to the other one.

You can do the same thing above, but instead of manually copying the files among the devices you can use Syncthing... Or if you have a local Nextcloud server, you can use that to share the files, which is pretty easy to use to ensure consistency if you are using KeePassXC and KeePassDX, since if you open the database on Android using KeePassXC directly to the "file system" that links to the Nextcloud folder, it will always automatically retrieve the newest version to your device if there has been any change and if your local Nextcloud server is reachable, otherwise it just uses the local cache, and you will know it's using the local cache and was not able to sync.

Speaking as a brazilian resident, the law will not be enforced. No such laws are ever enforced here. Everybody openly pirates everything, people sell retro gaming systems preloaded with thousands of ROMs openly online and in physical shops, and the government doesn’t even have 1% of the surveillance infrastructure needed to make enforcement attractive. The law is just electoral posturing and lip service to please evangelical idiots… but I repeat myself.

The law will most likely be enforced where it matters: smartphones from companies that "manufacture" them in Brazil (which is like 90% of market share of smartphones in Brazil).

So both Android and iOS will most likely start requiring some official ID to be provided or facial recognition to setup the device and/or to access both Play Store or App Store, which yeah, seems a bit concerning.

Also, if you read the law: https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2025/lei/L15211.htm, or in this PDF in English: https://www.gov.br/mdh/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/novembro/brasil-apresenta-avancos-em-seguranca-digital-da-infancia-e-lanca-eca-digital-em-ingles-durante-cupula-social-do-g20-na-africa-do-sul/eca-digital-ing-v2.pdf?ref=itsfoss.com, you can see the only thing an operating system (that does not come with under 18 age improper content, like pornographic content, in it's installation media) really needs to implement is a self-declaration of being "age appropriate" to use the system, otherwise deny the installation of the OS.

Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:

I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);

II – permitir que os pais ou responsáveis legais configurem mecanismos de supervisão parental voluntários e supervisionem, de forma ativa, o acesso de crianças e de adolescentes a aplicativos e conteúdos; e

III – possibilitar, por meio de Interface de Programação de Aplicações (Application Programming Interface – API) segura e pautada pela proteção da privacidade desde o padrão, o fornecimento de sinal de idade aos provedores de aplicações de internet, exclusivamente para o cumprimento das finalidades desta Lei e com salvaguardas técnicas adequadas.

§ 1º O fornecimento de sinal de idade por meio de APIs deverá observar o princípio da minimização de dados, vedado qualquer compartilhamento contínuo, automatizado e irrestrito de dados pessoais de crianças e de adolescentes.

§ 2º A autorização para download de aplicativos por crianças e adolescentes dependerá de consentimento livre e informado dos pais ou responsáveis legais, prestado nos termos da legislação vigente, respeitada a autonomia progressiva, vedada a presunção de autorização na hipótese de ausência de manifestação dos pais ou responsáveis legais.

§ 3º Ato do Poder Executivo regulamentará os requisitos mínimos de transparência, de segurança e de interoperabilidade para os mecanismos de aferição de idade e de supervisão parental adotados pelos sistemas operacionais e pelas lojas de aplicativos.

The part where the operating system must implement age verification is here:

Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:

I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);

Which has been officially translated in the PDF to :

Art. 12. Providers of internet application stores and terminal operating systems shall:

I – take proportional, auditable, and technically secure measures to ascertain the age or age range of users, subject to the principles provided for in Art. 6 of Law No. 13,709, of August 14, 2018 (Brazilian Data Protection Law);

The II there, that states:

II – allow parents or legal guardians to configure voluntary parental supervision mechanisms and to actively supervise the access of children and adolescents to applications and content; and

Is totally optional, there's no way any judge in Brazil could enforce that as mandatory to be implemented in all OSes and punish any OS that denies installation for under 18 age citizens of Brazil and does not provide such parental supervision mechanisms.

Now, for any digital media or computer application that either contains or provides direct access to age restricted content from the internet I suppose article 9 applies:

Art. 9º Os fornecedores de produtos ou serviços de tecnologia da informação que disponibilizarem conteúdo, produto ou serviço cuja oferta ou acesso seja impróprio, inadequado ou proibido para menores de 18 (dezoito) anos de idade deverão adotar medidas eficazes para impedir o seu acesso por crianças e adolescentes no âmbito de seus serviços e produtos.

§ 1º Para dar efetividade ao disposto no caput, deverão ser adotados mecanismos confiáveis de verificação de idade a cada acesso do usuário ao conteúdo, produto ou serviço de que trata o caput deste artigo, vedada a autodeclaração.

§ 2º Para os fins desta Lei, consideram-se impróprios ou inadequados para crianças e adolescentes os produtos, serviços ou conteúdos de tecnologia da informação que contenham material pornográfico, ou quaisquer outros vedados pela legislação vigente.

§ 3º Os provedores de aplicações de internet que disponibilizarem conteúdo pornográfico deverão impedir a criação de contas ou de perfis por crianças e adolescentes no âmbito de seus serviços.

So, yeah, if you are providing an operating system that itself comes with any age restricted content as Brazilian law stipulates (such as pornographic content), I think self-reporting of age would be damned insufficient due to § 1º there:

Art. 9. Providers of information technology products or services that make available content, products, or services whose offer or access is improper, inadequate, or prohibited for persons under 18 (eighteen) years of age shall adopt effective measures to prevent their access by children and adolescents within the scope of their services and products.

§ 1. To effectuate the provision of the caput, reliable age verification mechanisms shall be adopted for each user access to the content, product, or service referred to in the caput of this article, with self-declaration being prohibited

If there's anything I'm missing here please point out.

Just as a referenced for "second brain" local apps I suggest to look at dendron. Dendron is no longer being maintained but it still works and I use it for my notes since I adopted it a few year ago, it's pretty great for programmers since it works on top of VS Code.

I completely get you, man.

During a "AI traning" my job enlisted me, the instrutor, someone with apparently high technical knowledge of software systems and development, design patterns, with years of experience and supposedly familiar with using CLIs and Linux shell commands wanted to create a symlink to a file and instead of typing up the command, or if he did not remember it, just quickly looking up on a usual search or even a LLM powered search which command to use to archieve it, he wrote up on his Claude Code terminal "create a symbolic link from X to Y"...

The Claude Code agent of course performed the action correctly, however the amount of processing power wasted to execute some basic action of his job, which is executing a command correctly, was all left for the "AI" agent to do because it was "easier".

I see plenty space to upgrade on battery relates masters, more deficiente processors would certainly allow that, whilst also enabling the deck to be used in 4K screens whilst docked with an actual decent performance and graphics.

Type N (Brazil's plug) in the image is also inset.

It was definitely making use of the content, and not just my prompt.

...

Ok, being simplistic about the actual workings: anything a LLM outputs is based only in the training data or the prompt, a LLM does not "create" anything.

I really doubt your blog is statistically significant enough represented in the training data, therefore I can only assume that yes, your blog post URL referenced was web scrapped by ChatGPT and, and any other URLs linked by this main URL that the scrapped deemed significant to the prompt, and all that text was in fact added to the full internal prompt that was processed by the actual LLM.

This just proves you are not the average user of YouTube...

The average user of YouTube user either their TV app or their official mobile app, not the website.

Me too, I also use adblockers when accessing it via the website in my computer, however when I'm watching things on living room I have to use the official apps.

So yeah, most users suffer with their ads because it's easier to use the official apps.

YouTube app already comes installed in most Smart TVs, already comes installed in almost all Android phones (which is majority of the marketshare worldwide)...

It certainly is, my lemmy instance only allows users to post after they take down a tree.

So, one tree less in the world right now due to this post. ☹️