They likely wont specify 100k people or 10% of population or whatever email/petition but it at least records the requirement that other OSes exist and requires a process to support

Once Google feels like there is sufficient stability and compatibility with hardened memory allocator and tagged memory (and when they can get Qualcomm to support it across their range), they will make harder, until impossible, for Graphene.

An old article [1] but:

> Google’s Android—and [Open Handset Alliance] members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google approved devices

So to compete you'd have to create a compatible Google Play Services as well as find a supporting manufacturer. Samsung managed their own competing apps and store [2] for a while along with Tizen, likely for leverage or theoretical pivot. But has since dropped that effort.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/google-bought-of...

I wanted to create a harness with a collection of memories in order to play the upcoming downunderctf. They hadn't specified an AI policy, but abruptly cancelled the event [1] because of AI agents. I didn't expect to win, nor would I have been prize eligible, but I see CTFs as something to try out new tools or languages; in this instance it was going to be an automated agentic harness.

An AI harness recently won BsidesSF [2]

The only two it hasn't been able to do is overthewire's manpage5 which according to the status page has a solution. And drifter3 which I don't know if it currently has valid a solution. (Vortex13 and formulaone3 currently don't have valid solutions).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag_(cybersecurit...

[1] https://xcancel.com/DownUnderCTF/status/2062802249173356753#...

[2] https://github.com/verialabs/ctf-agent

The godly person, doing no wrong, that through unfortunate circumstances, is brought before the court does not advance our understanding of a law.

It's the messiest case, by unscrupulous persons, in unconscionable circumstances that ultimately decide if the execution of that law gives the public more or less rights than on initial interpretation.

One day a crew turns up and starts jack hammering away a gangway. Its technically now two buildings; one of them is still unfinished and empty, the other has now been finished and is up for rent.

In terms of my utility I would prefer things renovated, changed, or rented out to funky things than have ghastly empty buildings

If the land isnt being used efficiently the owning entity should fail and a new productive use made.

Whether thats tearing it down for the public to get better use of the land; rerouting roads, community swimming pool, park etc. Replacing with a more economic building; factory, stadium, appartments (zoning not withstanding). Or a more productive entity getting use of it.

Bagholders being entrenched and protected are becoming a weight around the neck

https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

c.f. Kim Dotcom

Scale is what matters.

Being in public and being incidently recorded or photographed by a set of separate, independent recorders is substantially different than an all seeing panopticon, controlled one entity who can collate, analyse, track, trace through time (maybe years back).

It's not you who determines guilt. And surveillance is more likely to be used against you for minor asinine things (if only to justify its own existence), than used for you in major incidents it is claimed to be installed for.

Would this company permit an employee taking 3 months unpaid leave to provisional hire somewhere else and have free choice whether they stay or go at the end of it.

Previous positions need to go through the process again merely to arrive at the bottom of thebl ladder

Whereas IT/Ops/developers see themselves as artisinal, free thinking, intellectual beings. Where skill is related to shortcuts, hacks, and thinking outside the box compared to following process

So their strategy now is to try get as much raw content for their inference. You're being "paid", via discount, for your use

Publish all the generated content into a data source, think open crawl, so open sourced models (open training not just weights) could use it as input.