I started working similar concept 3 years ago and eventually discontinued the project because of workload.. Great to see someone making the progress :D
Gemini 3.7 benchmarks against GDPVal-AA-V2 were 1525 in Aug blog post. However same model against same benchmark is 1482 in today's blog post of Gemini 3.8 release..
Do they make it intentionally to look previous model less superior than current models? or these are the real numbers when re-ran the benchmark..?
Google has done this before. They want to know what you click. There were extensions to undo it in the past. Then they seemingly switched to javascript and stopped the link jacking for a bit. Today, you shouldn't be using google for search. It is one of the worst options. So this new link jacking really doesn't matter.
Tell people to use firefox with ublock origin and privacy badger. I am sure there are even better combinations. Use something to block junk.
I just had to install open source local alternatives for someone who was using snapchat as a private journal. She did not realize anything on private is still read by AI and law enforcement. I can't imagine the personal things she posted thinking it was private when it's not. I think her thrapist may have given her this insane non-private idea for journaling. She looked scared.
Degoogle, decloud, debloat. No google camera apps, photos, or local file apps. You are uploading your images to google if you don't stop using their apps.
I installed two open source apps and told her to try them both since I never used these. June and StoryPad.
Reg. goto links, as far as I remember, this has been in place for quite some time. and it only applies to sponsored links. The rest of the links remain unaffected by this..
I really love using Claude, but running its API in production was a constant headache (they hv most horrible status graph), switched to Gemini and didn't hit any major downtime since...
I bought the Moto signature a month ago , I already assumed it prolly won't support graphene, since some of the previous replies on X indicate that the graphene team requires full hardware compliance with their requirements, and the Signature apparently is not compliant yet.
Anyway I ended up buying a really good smartphone.. just not a graphene supported haha :(
Also this is really great collab from moto & graphene as more vendors will officially recognize Graphene as legit OS (legel/OEM is different concept). I heard month ago Volkswagen banned graphene, hopefully we we will see moving things in opposite direction...
They didn't "ban" them, but they did enable some attestation feature that effectively "bans" anything that isn't Google Android.
Which still makes you wonder why Volkswagen is so keen on alienating what little is left of their customer base with completely stupid security theater.
Because the EU is run by lawyers and lawsuits. They probably decided there was a risk of being sued for insufficient security if they didn't enable every security feature, and they considered it as zero impact to customers because nobody uses graphene.
Yes, but that is still very confusing to me, because you're not paying other people money so that they just follow incentives without thinking, vision or backbone.
The whole idea of buying something is giving people money for their (assumed correct) judgement, which then leads to desired artifacts downstream.
It's fair to say they banned GrapheneOS but they didn't only ban GrapheneOS. It's very rare for apps to specifically ban GrapheneOS but Revolut uses an SDK which tried to do it. We worked around it and Revolut works on GrapheneOS since January 2025 but not for lack of trying to ban it by an SDK they use and it sometimes blocks our users.
They banned GrapheneOS and other non-Google certified operating systems.
> Volkswagen probably don't even know that you exist.
They're aware of the existence of GrapheneOS. They've received immense pushback for banning it. They have customer support templates for responding to GrapheneOS user complaints.
> because like this it's just storytelling
Revolut shipped a check for ro.build.user being set to the string "grapheneos" resulting in using the app being blocked. They also banned the yellow verified boot state at the same time but quite notably did not ban the orange verified boot state. This was our release working around it to get the app working again:
We know what happened and what we had to do to work around it. It's verifiable that this was shipped by Revolut.
> I know of course that uncompromisingly maintaining something that challenges the status quo needs stories to keep the drive alive.
It's you who is pushing a false narrative.
> Idk man I think you people need grounding. That, or I just need to stop seeing the humanity in you, start seeing you as a software vending machine and applaud your (hate to say it, but) delusions, as those lead to you working harder for stuff that is useful to me.
You're not welcome to contact us again after this.
The people at VW don't think about the customer. They are essentially bureaucrats who only live to expand their personal fiefdom in the bureaucracy. I bet that many in the IT-security team would insist that their team doesn't have customers.
In the context of agents and automation, I believe we’re already NOT HUMANIZING the output. Instead adjusting the prompts so that agents and machines can exchange data in a format that is more suitable for machine-to-machine communication.
