They do still make dumbphones. It takes a bit of looking, but they're there.
https://www.bestproducts.com/tech/electronics/g60343009/best-dumb-phones/ has a few examples (I have nothing to do with this site, just found it by a simple web search)
@scuttlebutt
There is nothing that screams more 'pizza' than pepperoni.
Everything else is just 'I'm trying but I can't quite get there'
Which jurisdiction?
I know someone who wrote a book on that, from Belgium. Dunno whether that's helpful though.
I should add:
Obviously a part of why it only took half a day was because I didn't care about having a smooth, polished experience. I could have spent a lot more time fine tuning the config.
It served its purpose, which was to get a laugh from the guy, and it was 100% functional from the physical CD which we gave him at the goodbye party, but it was a bit rough around the edges. With a few more days I could have fixed that, but there was no point, obviously.
Debian has a tool called 'live-build' it's used for creating the official live images and can be configured quite easily for creating custom ones.
I once used it to create a prank 'distribution' as a gift for someone who was leaving a job and which did all the things he had been railing about what we shouldn't do in our software for Linux distributions. Took me half a day to do, most of that was writing the script that it would start at boot time.
re: password manager PSA (keepassxc)
OK. I see what you mean. It's a risk, though I don't see it as likely as you seem to think.
IME, reviewing code is faster than writing it from scratch. This applies whether the code is generated or submitted. Whether that happens is the more interesting question, rather than whether LLMs are used, IMO
Corruption bugs are always possible, LLMs may increase the risk but they don't introduce it. You need backups of your vault regardless.
password manager PSA (keepassxc)
How is it different from allowing pull requests from rando's on the internet?
Using LLMs for coding has some ecological, legal, and ethical repercussions, but as long as you review the generated code properly the same way you're supposed to review code from 3rd parties, *security* should not be an issue, in my view.
Am I missing something?
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."
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"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
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He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
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Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being \"economically banned across most of the planet,\" including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
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Some of them will, yes. Not all of them. This will still be a positive outcome.
"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"
Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.
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3k boost edit: everyone who said a variant of "why should I pay" is right, but the world is wrong.
... Except that ed25519 isn't ECDSA, it's EdDSA.
Similar enough that it doesn't really matter for the above advice, but still.
Anything ECDSA will do really, though some curves are better than others.
Personally I have an RSA key for annoying old machines and a NIST P-384 key for everything else, but ed25519 is pretty popular too and in the same ball park.
Some people don't like the NIST curves because the NSA muddled with Dual_EC_DRBG, but that incident was suspected before confirmed by Snowden, and no similar suspicions exist for the NIST curves.