Star Wars fan. Bottles on the right are the Millinium Falcon.

Also a Star Wars fan. The bottles on the right are the Millinium Falcon.

Other way around, sir.

Imagine you have a hobby. You get really good at it, and somehow, the hobby pays for itself. You get to quit work and just do your hobby every day.

Imagine your hobby is hiking.

Takeaway: Filevine sounds like a good company.

I love the phrase “data is encrypted at rest.”

Having worked with a lot of medical data, the rules are simple:

• Encrypt at rest
• Rest is when the database is off
• Never turn off the database

While true, what actually happened was interesting. Algorithm’s are not inherently bad, afterall.

At some point, someone wrote a rule to verify DSO against other tech companies, and trigger an automated short position to correct the market changed from an earnings call.

To me, that’s pretty cool. This wasn’t magic LLM AI, this was a smart engineer that programmed a system to discover problems as they arose.

I used to be this way, now I just don’t care. If I’m interesting enough to watch, have fun.

Perhaps that’s backwards. Maybe women make batter CEOs, so AI parody of failure doesn’t apply as strictly.

This whole thread was great, but this, this got me.

It’s now over 9K. Nice job.

You’re probably right, and that’s why it is in quotes, but I figured if I can save some people from reading a “there’s no readon this is 12 screens long” article I would.

FWIW I dont use Gmail at all anyway.

How to “opt out”:

• Open Gmail desktop in browser
• Settings icon
• View all settings
• General tab
• Unchecked Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet

I would love to see a study where they ask a 2024 AI for business decisions around things that happened in 2025. How much you want to bet it already can?

Uhh no? Android is open source, from The Open Source Alliance. You’re conflating Google’s version of Android (Android + Google Mobile Services) with Android.

Android is Apache2 + GNU for the kernel. GMS is proprietary.

Huh?

Control of your phone does not equal Linux. Plenty of FOSS OS’s do that (including Android). And Android 16 brought Linux app support with GPU acceleration if you’re into that and want FreeCAD on your phone.

Android basically is a Linux phone, it’s a distro(ish).

It has a Linux kernel and a Linux-based OS wrapped around it. And just like you can compile FreeCAD for Debian or Arch, you can compile Fossify for Google Android, GrapheneOS, or LineageOS.

“Linux” phones in the sense you mean won’t be a “Debian” or “Arch”, they’ll be something else, just like Android.

Not to mention Apple decided to make passkeys Airdropable. Fun.

I worked on a cool projected called FedID: https://fedid.me/ that creates a distributed identifier (DID) out in the world, federated with AvtivityPub, and gives you a key you can sign in with via OpenID Connect. It allows the DID to have multiple keys for multiple devices, and delegate authority, so losing a device/failure is no big deal.

That being said, Web passkeys can be stored in password managers, just like passwords.

Yes, but in 12 months a Linux phone won’t even be close to where even 4 versions ago Android is. As long as Graphene (or Lineage, or Fairphone, plenty of models) keeps the security updates covered, there are good options out there.

True, but what I’m saying is there is an open model. If another community of devs wan’t a “Linux-based mobile OS”, they can fork AOSP like Graphene did. IE complain about Google, not Android.

Graphene works. No tracking, tons of FOSS and commercial apps, it just lacks some banking apps. One gap, vs all that exist between now and another Linux phone.

LineageOS is another option for other phones, also far ahead of other Linux ideas.