https://www.newsweek.com/googles-ai-chatbot-tells-student-seeking-help-homework-please-die-1986471
Make sure to read the actual message, it’s a lot worse than the headline makes it sound lol (It’s also nice that you can look at the link of the full conversation to see how normal it was until the last message)
The pinebook’s privacy switches (for WiFi/BT, camera, and microphone) operate at the firmware level, the operating system has no control over them
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pro#Privacy_Switches
The keyboard operates on firmware independent of the operating system. It detects if one of the F10, F11 or F12 keys is pressed in combination with the Pine key for 3 seconds. Doing so disables power to the appropriate peripheral, thereby disabling it. This has the same effect as cutting off the power to each peripheral with a physical switch. This implementation is very secure, since the firmware that determines whether a peripheral gets power is not part of the Pinebook Pro’s operating system. So the power state value for each peripheral cannot be overridden or accessed from the operating system. The power state setting for each peripheral is stored across reboots inside the keyboard’s firmware flash memory.
I would love a source for this to pull up in future discussions
I also highly recommend the movie, one of my all time favorites (and not because of this scene)
The parents are getting a divorce, meaning the kid will celebrate Christmas twice, once with each parent