Did anyone extract these weights so we can run Gemini Nano locally? Is it better than Gemma 4?

"AI safeguards" are not working I guess.. or maybe they're only working against those who'd like to secure their software.. good job Anthropic + OpenAI!

The AI safeguards are indeed a joke, you can get around their classifier by simply masking out all the unsafe words and it will happily work on your rootkit.

I don't see a problem with supporting their legitimate hardware or cloud business models. But of course I see a problem supporting their illegitimate adware and spyware business models.

I agree, especially when you are buying for the used market.

Stock Android is spyware and adware, back in the day we called such software malicious and removed it, now it's the default.

We all agree. But what's the solution? We know 99% of the users don't care. So, the only pressure point is phone manufacturers. I don't have any power to influence anybody significant in this space. I feel helpless.

The phones without tracking are so rare that I don't think we can even say that the users do not care, they simply never had the option

For me, it's litigation, because the nature of GMS and Play Integrity is highly anticompetitive and these shouldn't even be legal (and most likely already aren't)..

See, mobile phone vendors have their hands tied - they can offer bootloader unlocking, but they can't touch Google spyware, otherwise they won't be "certified", won't be able to use Google Play or even the name Android.. That's of course not enough for Google, they also want to go after users which of such systems / modified systems (with unlocked bootloader) - that's what "Play Integrity" is about, they work hard to make sure the phone gets as useless as possible.. Together those two basically prevent vendors from making the mobile privacy landscape any better.

In the EU, we should outlaw Play Integrity first, by mandating that security level attestation might only be done in a way there's an independent auditing body that might certify alternative operating systems (these could use standard Android attestation) based on objective security criteria, not the Google spyware criteria. I heard about the "UnifiedAttestation" initiative but I'm not sure what's the progress on that.. not that I'm a fan of attestation at all, but you need to understand that it's a different thing when you attest the security model of the system, and a different thing where a system being "secure" actually implies Google spyware must be installed. For banking apps, I'd just want a secure OS, like GrapheneOS - without GMS.

Howver, the main antitrust investigation should happen in the US, only US courts can bring relevant Google executives to justice.

I don't think it's going to be a savior... the same things that make Android hard to modify can happen just as easily when GNU/Linux phones become popular.

How? Linux development is not steered by a monopolist acting to gain the maximal profit. It is distributed over many entities.

Why is there no Librem 6? Librem 5 is 7 years old, it's a low-end smartphone with a flagship price tag :(

Oh wait they released "Liberty Phone" - still low end(!), this time with absurdly high price.. You can get true linux phone 10x cheaper by buying something that supports PostmarketOS

Your post sounds like you're trying to spread FUD.

Librem says the Liberty phone is the same, it just costs more because it is assembled in the U.S. for people, companies, or governments that don't want it intercepted and modified by a bad actor.

This might justify the price of Liberty Phone, but doesn't invalidate my claim that these phones are low-end by todays standards.

Why no hardware upgrade after 7 years?

You can't easily find vendors supporting free drivers: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

Also this: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

I don't, to me this AI generated image has more value than this human generated content.

The two sets should be disjoint for any self-proclaimed human being.

I don't know which activity you're referring to, but why are you trying to discriminate between humans and bots? Because bots don't pay? So demand payment.. Demand like payment per account creation, then set appropriate rate limits per account.

> Or like maybe the CAPTCHA company who put out the post has an agenda here?

That captcha company is not trying to push spyware onto my device and punish me for daring to remove it. Google is.

> Look at how complicated CAPTCHAs are getting to try to be unsolvable with AI - it's a losing game.

So don't play. Even cloudflare had a better idea - don't block, just demand payment.

The future, for those who have the capital. The rest may die, shareholders don't care.

Then we must build our own future. One where we deny the capitalists access to their own automated killer robot armies.

>Then we must build our own future.

Sure. How many of those hated capitalists have started with exactly same thought?

People should stop drop this naive act.

I don’t think I’m the naive one if you think those “hated capitalists” had the intention of building a bright future for the collective us.

> if you think ... had the intention of building a bright future for the collective us.

Never said or implied such thing.

You shot off a one-sentence rejoinder about capitalists building a future. What does it mean? Not worth your time to explain, but worth your time to nuh-huh about your autor intent after the fact.

> That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers and to honor our mission to help build a better Internet for everyone, everywhere.

What a load of crap..

I think it's essentially a transformer, so it just stores a bunch of weights. As a model that's supposed to be able to convert any image to 3d scene, it's pretty nice size actually.

Regarding the ios lockscreen - I believe they are different models. I think Apple use this one to generate those Vision Pro 3d photos though, but I'm not too sure.

No the 3D effects are much more simple for the lock screen…more akin to old-school animation via layers