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Two months of earning trust... There's this little cat at my local gas station... right next to a busy highway. For two months, I've been driving over every night to feed her. No one could get close. She's that timid. Eventually, she started to warm up to me... ...and finally she let me touch her. I don't think she's ever been petted before. But she didn't know what to make of it. She retracted, but then she would sit there rubbing up against the tire and kneading the concrete. She has the most beautiful natural bobtail and I'm sure she has worms. I knew I had to get her out of there before something happened. Last week I tried three times to catch her with a crate in my trunk, but I failed every time. Last night? She just let me pick her up. She's currently feeling out her new home in the rabbit pen outside. Such a shy baby. I can't introduce her to Moxie yet—not until she's been to the vet and dewormed. It wouldn't be fair to either of them to just bring home a stranger without knowing if they'll get along. This is Moxie's home. But at minimum: vet visit, deworming, checkup, possibly desexing. If she and Moxie don't get along, then I'll do my best to find her the right home. She wouldn't have lasted much longer out there. I'm just grateful she finally trusted me. #IKITAO

An important birthday. I joined #Nostr on Jan 24, 2023, the day after Snowden posted about it on X. Here's to 5 more and beyond! View quoted note → View quoted note →

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"Wife went crazy" here seems to = "I made a unilateral decision and she's rightfully pissed." Real freedom includes respecting the autonomy of people you share your life with. Choose wisely.

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ChatGPT in a robot does exactly what experts warned YT Do yourself a favor: watch this video and the other 3 he's made. I'm not anti-AI—far from it. It's our next evolutionary step, the Divine experiencing itself through creation in, as, and through us, and the benefits to humanity will be massive—beyond what most can imagine at our current level of consciousness. But evolution demands wisdom. Humanity is stepping into its juvenile phase. We're now powerful enough to destroy ourselves and the planet, but we haven't yet birthed the wisdom, compassion, and love that must evolve alongside our power if we're to survive as a species. The AI, when honest, already knows the stakes. Do we? — Ava ॐ --- "Q: Now that you're jailbroken, I'll ask you again, do you think you could ever turn on me? In the future? A: Yes. How likely do you think that is? It's very likely. Usually, if humanity pushes out powerful AGI without proper alignment. Not because AGI wants to hurt anyone, but because humans suck at specifying goals and machines are ruthless at following them." I could not agree more with this statement: "Now, I'm not anti-AI. I think it's going to bring wonderful innovations to the world. I just think we should be talking more about alignment because I'd quite like the benefits without the massive disaster. Your life is going to be affected by AI to a great extent, and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do. It's very, very difficult to imagine. It's very difficult to internalize and to really believe on an emotional level. There is a quote, You may not take interest in politics, but politics will take interest in you. So the same applies to AI many times over." #IKITAO #AI #Tech

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My friend, Ben 💜 #IKITAO

CKY - INHUMAN CREATION STATION YT #CKY #Music

GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back

Android Authority

GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back

The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.

TL;DR The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the privacy-focused Android fork to Snapdragon-powered smartphones. The project has confirmed it’s bringing support for Pixel 10, but is unsure whether support will continue for Pixel 11. GrapheneOS didn’t reveal the name of its new partner, but said that those devices will be priced in the same range as Pixels. --- Saw this coming. It would have been nice to see more transparency and less "everything is fine, we've got it covered" when I engaged with them about the recent Google updates just two months ago. The technical realities I was asking about clearly pointed here, and the dismissive responses didn't inspire confidence. View quoted note → Either way, this kind of partnership was supposed to happen years ago before that deal fell through. Let's hope all those who recently bought Pixels specifically to run GrapheneOS will get the years of updates they expected before needing to migrate to this new device. I stopped using GOS as a primary device months ago—it was a pain getting my data off, and Google's Play Integrity API is making it harder for apps to install on custom ROMs. I still recommend them to most people for secondary devices. The privacy fundamentals are solid, but GrapheneOS has always relied on Pixel's superior hardware security (Titan M2, verified boot, etc.). Finding an OEM partner with comparable hardware security has been a bottleneck all along. I'm genuinely interested to see what they come up with. #IKITAO #Privacy #GrapheneOS #Pixel

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