FINALLY we are back to cellphones you can use to kill a man.

Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest

https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surveillance-detected-at-anti-ice-protest/

Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.

#TVAdvert #TVAd #Samsung #CellPhone #SamsungGalaxyS25Ultra #MobilePhone #TVCommercial #Commercial #Cookery #Siri #Apple #AI #GochujangPastaSauce #Funny #Silly #Comedy #Cooking #TV
I couldn’t resist trying the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra TV ad out on Siri. These are the two responses I received after frantically informing it I’d added way too much sugar to my Gochujang Pasta Sauce…
(NB: Here’s the link if you haven’t seen the ad! - https://www.ispot.tv/ad/TJxp/samsung-galaxy-s25-ultra-gochujang-pasta-sauce)

California law prohibits drivers "from holding and using a phone’s functions in any manner while driving,” including handheld use of a mapping app, an appeals court has ruled.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-court-rules-holding-phone-maps-driving-20361800.php

Okay, Back of the napkin math:
- There are probably 100 million sites and 1.5 billion pages worth indexing in a #search engine
- It takes about 1TB to #index 30 million pages.
- We only care about text on a page.

I define a page as worth indexing if:
- It is not a FAANG site
- It has at least one referrer (no DD Web)
- It's active

So, this means we need 40TB of fast data to make a good index for the internet. That's not "runs locally" sized, but it is nonprofit sized.

My size assumptions are basically as follows:
- #URL
- #TFIDF information
- Text #Embeddings
- Snippet

We can store an index for 30kb. So, for 40TB we can store an full internet index. That's about $500 in storage.

Access time becomes a problem. TFIDF for the whole internet can easily fit in ram. Even with #quantized embeddings, you can only fit 2 million per GB in ram.

Assuming you had enough RAM it could be fast: TF-IDF to get 100 million candidated, #FAISS to sort those, load snippets dynamically, potentially modify rank by referers etc.

6 128 MG #Framework #desktops each with 5tb HDs (plus one raspberry pi to sort the final condidates from the six machines) is enough to replace #Google. That's about $15k.

In two to three years this will be doable on a single machine for around $3k.

By the end of the decade it should be able to be run as an app on a powerful desktop

Three years after that it can run on a #laptop.

Three years after that it can run on a #cellphone.

By #2040 it's a background process on your cellphone.

Bell Atlantic NYNEX (NYC area) cell service pricing circa 1994-95

Note that Roaming and Long Distance charges were a thing then.

#cellphone #1994

Got my hands again on a #cellphone that I regularly used years ago, where the original #keypad stopped working and I replaced it with tactile mini switches and attached the replacemend keypad with silicone to the device. Was durable, and still works :-).

Phone is still used irregularly.

Recommendation sought. Our current cell phone service, through Credo, is awful. I have had a bricked iPhone for several days since they sent me an eSim upgrade. It takes hours to get help, I have wasted too much time on this nonsense.

I am looking for a new cell phone provider.

It has to work all over the US, and in Europe (England specifically).

I am not averse to an American provider with a UK eSim.

I don't want a company who donates to the GOP.

Any suggestions ?

#cellphone ##cellprovider #telephone

Nearly 100 Countries Have Acquired CELLPHONE 'SPYWARE' And They’re Using It. Warnings about the vulnerability of mobile devices from National Counterintelligence and Security Center

https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/nearly-100-countries-have-acquired-cellphone-spyware-and-theyre-using-it/ #cellphone #spyware

Mobile phone detections decline but one driver caught 41 times and fined $27,000, police say

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-30/mobile-phone-detection-camera-fines-down-overall/104771074

Dickhead's gonna dickhead. And going to kill someone soon.

Is there actually a phone + OS option out there that doesn’t regularly collect and report data (above and beyond the typical data that can be captured via cell phone networks, stingrays, and wifis). As in, one that doesn’t tattle back to a corporation all the time?

GrapheneOS? Any “true” Linux phones?

boosts appreciated

#cellPhone #phones #phone

So, one of the items I'm planning to invest in for #PowerOutages is a #Solar #CellPhone charger with #USB (rather than trying to charge them using the car) -- since the phones are a way to keep in touch with the outside world (in addition to battery-operated radios). If there's enough wattage on the charger, I could potentially run my PC laptop (that has a DVD drive) and watch movies (can't do that with a Mac). Reading books is great to do during the day, but at night, it's been nice to be able to watch a movie (usually a comedy).