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Mike Kuketz is entirely funded by donations The donors are anonymous You can't know WHO is funding him. He has chosen a funding model of perfect opacity.


thats all for now….
Mike Kuketz: He is an absolutely fanatical supporter of Graphene OS, and the developers of Graphene OS are in close contact with him. The spread of Graphene OS is so important to him that he regularly organizes competitions and gives away Graphene OS phones as prizes.

Furthermore, he is an extreme Mastodon supporter. FACT: Mastodon was significantly funded by the EU and the German state. Mastodon was also funded by wealthy "philanthropists." Therefore, it is anything but a grassroots movement.

speaking of mastodon: here are some major donors
Jeff Atwood: The co-founder of Stack Overflow made the largest single donation to date, totaling €2.2 million in 2025. He had previously donated amounts of $100,000.
Craig Newmark: The founder of Craigslist is highlighted in reports regarding Mastodon's 2025 restructuring as one of its particularly generous donors.
Biz Stone: The co-founder of Twitter is not only a significant donor but also sits on the board of the U.S. non-profit organization Mastodon, Inc.
Mozilla: The organization behind the Firefox browser has also contributed amounts in the range of $100,000.

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Bonus points if you like Rust and take estrogen… Ik ik its popularish to larp as a NixOS enjoyer right now but it's actually a great OS if you know some programming.

In recent years China has made significant strides in developing its own semiconductor industry with things like Huawei's HiSilicon, Loongson, StarFive, MilkV, etc. I would call that China outlasted the US sanctions barrage from the US. Chinese investment in fabrication technologies, while not anyway near cutting edge is getting to be near good enough. With things like Intel looking shaky and the rise of Risc-V and ARM we are steadily moving forwards towards the hopeful future of open standards, hardware and software, where most consumer computation devices will have built in Chinese backdoors instead of American ones.

>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/china_schools_riscv_pc/

>Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
>2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/

>China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/

>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc

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unironically though

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Why is everyone acting like nothing's happening? It's obvious that in the next few years we'll have extreme unemployment rates.
"Just learn trades" won't work - guess what, everyone's going to be doing that. I think a prole should be prepared to become indefinitely unemployed, with a very high degree of propability, in the very near (5-10 years) future.
How are you preparing?

And no one can prove me wrong. It even comes with LibreJS.

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anonymity is over. even if you are a tor user, stylometry is the new deal.

https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ende-der-pseudonyme-im-netz-mit-llms-lassen-sich-im-grossen-ausmass-online-konten-deanonymisieren.96375/

The ComputerBase article (based on the study "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs") describes the end of "practical anonymity." For users of imageboards like 4chan, leftypol, or similar platforms, this has far-reaching consequences:

1. The End of "Security by Obscurity"
   

Previously, anonymity on imageboards relied on the fact that manually correlating thousands of posts was too labor-intensive for an attacker. LLMs now automate this process at near-zero cost.
* Significance: An algorithm can scan hundreds of a user's posts in seconds to build a profile based on interests, jargon, location clues, and activity patterns.

1. Stylometry as a Digital Fingerprint
   

Every individual has a specific writing style (sentence structure, word choice, punctuation). LLMs are excellent at recognizing these patterns.
* Significance: Even if you don't mention your name, an LLM can compare your "writing signature" on an imageboard with posts you've written under your real name (e.g., on LinkedIn, professional forums, or letters to the editor). The "Anonymous" mask falls through the sheer structure of your language.

1. Cross-Platform Identity Linking
   

The study demonstrates that LLMs can link pseudonyms across different platforms.
* Significance: Those who "shitpost" on an imageboard while maintaining a professional presence elsewhere (e.g., GitHub, X/Twitter) risk these identities being merged. A single minor detail in a post (e.g., a specific local event or a niche technical detail) serves as an anchor point for an LLM to identify the real person behind the post via web search.

1. Low-Cost Mass Doxing
   

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Two users:

User A: Graphene OS phone, uses X, TikTok, YouTube, and Amazon with an account.

User B: Stock Android phone, avoids account-based platforms as much as socially possible. No Google account.

Who is the LARPer? Who is the true privacy pro?

What do you think about it? On its face it seems like a straightforward improvement over C/C++ and a good way to modernize development in their typical niches.
On the other hand there is this really weird cultish behavior around it that just makes me feel suspicious. "Let's rewrite everything in Rust", forcing it into existing software without a clear use case other than just "it's better", overstating the language's capabilities and robustness, very much a kind of "toxic positivity" around it as in the whole Linux Kernel shitshow earlier this year, and the fact that it's being pushed by corpos and the US government. It all feels very weird.