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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Psychology Today

wanderingmagus 1d ago

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Tuta 1d ago

Check the decision of your MP by our friends at @HowTheyVoteEU https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270

Here's the story of HowTheyVoteEU & why they use Tuta: https://tuta.com/blog/open-source-spotlight-howtheyvoteeu

Vote results: Extension of the temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse

Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

HowTheyVote.eu

wanderingmagus 1d ago

Tuta 1d ago

You did it! 🥳

European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

wanderingmagus 1d ago

Plutarch 2d ago

EDIT: #PleaseBoost to help with federation. EDIT 2: thank you for all of the support, everyone—seriously.

#Introduction #IntroductionPost #NewHere #NewInstance

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"… or something.

Hello, or hello again—if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything nice.

If you think you know me by another name… I cannot argue with that… not even a little bit.

New here, and by that I mean that this is a brand new instance.

Single user GoToSocial instance, self-hosted on my own hardware; this is not my first. It's just like that scene from the Matrix with the Architect: we just keep torching it and starting over, and we're starting to get pretty damned good at torching it.

I've had a WriteFreely instance before, and I think I might have another one here in the near future, honestly.

GED in 2011 at 17; no qualifications otherwise, at least literally on paper.

No human children; cat dad, though.

NixOS diehard on desktop/server. The host machine for the VM for this server, as well as the VM itself, both run NixOS and always will. Currently using Niri on the host machine and loving it. GrapheneOS diehard on mobile.

Love projects, especially the kind that are never finished because they're never supposed to be.

Grew up in Oregon and moved to New Mexico with my family when they did.

I ride a unicycle. Trying to learn violin. These things don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, I hope.

ADHD and Tourette Syndrome, both professionally diagnosed for the first time when I was 20-something.

My dad passed away last October.

#ADHD #Cinemastodon #FediLab #FilmReview #GoToSocial #Memes #MovieReview #Movies #NM #NewMexico #Niri #NixOS #SelfHosted #TouretteSyndrome #Tourettes #Unicycle #WriteFreely

wanderingmagus Mar 19

Fabio Manganiello Mar 12

#Samsung devices from today can no longer install custom ROMs.

Odin is gone and the Download Mode is also gone, which makes life hard also for repair services that want to restore a device.

This is your daily reminder that #Android is a liability, and major hardware manufacturers who ship Google’s version of Android are a liability too.

We need to get Linux phones to work, and we need manufacturers who are aligned with our principles.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-disables-odin-removes-download-mode-3648469/

Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users

Samsung has released a controversial update that disables a tool widely relied upon by power users and service centers.

Android Authority

wanderingmagus Mar 18

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Dec 4

#LearnLockpickingWithAlice, lesson 1: Get yourself a decent starter set.

You'll want some good turning tools. My favorites are the red/white/blue set from Red Team Tools for a few reasons: they're a good range of thicknesses, they're color-coded, they're smooth, and the short ends are slimmed down for top of the keyway tensioning or for smaller locks. Turning tools are the most important part of your kit.

You'll want a couple good hooks. I recommend a thin-shank short hook, and a sturdy short/medium hook. The thin one will be your friend in tight keyways and for small locks. The sturdy one will let you bully most other locks.

Finally, you'll want a couple wave rakes. My favorites are the triple-peak w-shape and m-shape (in that order). They're easy to work with, don't get hung up on the keyway, and can be maneuvered to more precisely hit specific pins.

Oh, and you'll need some locks to practice on. Clear locks are great *for your first day*, but you'll run into trouble if you start to rely on seeing the pins. Grab some cheap Master No.3, Master No.140, and/or Brinks padlocks. They're satisfying to open, and they'll teach you the basics. Beware dollar store locks—the manufacturing is usually shit and some have plastic cores, which feel like garbage to pick, and break easily.

Everything else is icing on the cake.

Most starter sets will include a "city rake" or "L rake", and several other mostly useless picks. Ignore them. They're filler and you'll spend days just trying to find a valid reason to carry them—because they *have* to be good for *something*, right? ...right?

Here's the kit I currently recommend: https://www.redteamtools.com/essential-lock-pick-set/ (with the book https://www.redteamtools.com/practical-lock-picking-a-physical-penetration-testers-training-guide-by-deviant-ollam-signed) It's ~$60, solid, no fluff, and well made. I love the book, the turning tools are part of my everyday carry, and I use the picks whenever I teach lockpicking in person.

Disclaimer: @deviantollam (Red Team Tools' founder) is a friend of mine, but I don't recommend anything that I don't personally use.