hopepill:
a friend of mine has an iphone
he now runs gemma4-2B LLM on his phone, locally
light at the end of the tunnel

well fuck me i guess

China's Approach to AI Anthropomorphism
https://www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/chinas-approach-to-ai-anthropomorphism

https://archive.vn/BtWvn

#governance #law #bigtech

Remembered about this site:
https://browserleaks.com/

You can check how many things from your browser alone can be fingerprinted by sites. A VPN or a VM not protect you. You are compromised simply by clicking on a link. (Well, even if not compromised, you'll still be fingerprinted).

Sites can even know stuff like what's your time-format on your device, your system kernel type, what IP you are coming from (if it's corporate, it is VPN), what's your screen resolution size - etc.

Stands to remind that the best deal with this we got is to use QubesOS or TailsOS (not as good) for secure access to any network - but still, you can get fingerprinted.

crazy idea:
use AI to write all the automations you'll ever need

And it happened again
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/here-we-go-again-ai-deletes-entire-company-database-and-all-backups-in-9-seconds-then-cheerfully-admits-i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given/

AI is a slot machine.

Learn to solve your own problems before deciding to press the slot machine again and again.

Learn how infra works, learn how to code, learn to do system administration.

Chinese AI is groyping

DeepSeek’s V4 Launch was Postponed as Company Prioritized Domestic Chip Integration
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-26/deepseek-v4-delay-shows-shift-to-china-chips-cctv-account-says

https://archive.vn/coiOF

Big Chinese tech firms scramble to secure Huawei AI chips after DeepSeek V4 launch, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/big-chinese-tech-firms-scramble-secure-huawei-ai-chips-after-deepseek-v4-launch-2026-04-29/

#bigtech #tech

How many of you read privacy policy of applications that you use?

Guys, please read privacy policy... Please remember that most of the american/european sites do not have obligation to respond to India Gov, however, Interpol can still ask and get stuff from them through a subpoena.

Try to use FOSS applications as much as possible, and try to keep you data local as much as possible. There is zero real long term benefit for storing data on the cloud.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

https://archive.vn/bOdA8

#bigtech #environment

To debloat brave browser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cKFliWW6Q

Browser Suggestions:
1. LibreWolf
2. Brave Browser (brave origin, if you wanna pay for that)

LibreWolf is FOSS, but Brave Browser does spoofing - make a choice

VPN Suggestions:
1. Tor (but risky)
2. Mullvad (takes monero, takes cash too, make a choice)
3. Ideally, run your own servers in different clouds, get encrypted storage + regular log clearance, run via Tailscale Exit Nodes [Docs: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/exit-nodes]

(if you want to avoid tailscale, look into headscale, same, but FOSS)

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/

https://archive.vn/BRxp7

#media #bigtech #geopolitics

A general white pill:

If you are in IT, or any tech adjacent sectors - don't worry about AI. Learn about it, try to integrate it into work, so that your corporate overlords will stay joyous. But also remember that all the AI providers big-names are still struggling for compute, and haven't reached their "peak" yet.

I'm seeing people get into token-gambling a lot, they now become brainless bots, just asking their AI Agent for every single task. So much so, they can't even read long texts and comprehend it anymore - and inadvertently ask AI to summarize it for them.

Use this to your advantage, stay sharp, keep your mind malleable. There will come a time when your ability to process information will be needed, especially when talking to people.

https://browser.lol/en

cool tool shared by one nastaliq enjoyer fren from CRT group chat