Google Play IS my “sideloading” app repository.

Edit: nevermind I typed a lot but that Lemmygrad user made a far better post that I agree with.

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There is no metadata harvesting on Signal and the use of a phone number is so convenient and helped massively with adoption from the general unaware public.

I loved that it acted as a private and secure drop in replacement for SMS (particularly before they removed that integration) that does what I needed and does it very well and easily connects me with people that already have my number. This made sharing Signal very easy. The only data Signal has to even provide to the authorities is your registration date, phone number, and time of last connection. The absolute minimum. It’s fantastic. If you compare this to Whatsapp which has everything but the exact content of your messages, it’s not even a contest.

For myself on Signal and everyone else I’ve known that that uses Whatsapp or Insta or whatever, the extra absolute anonymity of also removing phone numbers from the already small equation just isn’t needed or worth it, otherwise you wouldn’t be using Signal, let alone fucking Facebook.

So they can hear me type p + enter into my browser?

I like the way your mind works.

or do as they do in China and run a quick scan using their special software?

Can I get a source for this?

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On behalf of teen me and adult me, fuck off

So the evil mega corp gets a free pass while the Internet Archive regularly has to fight for open access to knowledge. Fuck that and fuck Meta.

Amazon had also appointed a former NSA director. Actually, it was Snowden’s director.

You mean you didn’t enjoy sending giants flying?

I admire your conviction. But in that case we also have to consider how your right to move about freely is being affected. If you feel like you need to choose not to travel when you want or need to travel, how will you reconcile? Do you weigh and choose the lesser evil? Seems like you just end up violated one way or another. I don’t like it, not any of this.

It’s not just European elites who are afraid of upheaval. It’s all of them. It’s one of the reasons why they all have bunkers, why Zuckerberg is building another one in Hawaii recently. They know that we can actually do something about them because we outnumber them by a lot, so they build these systems of control. Governments, corps, elites have all become noticeably more brazen in the past several years.

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It’s not going to get better. I nuked 10 and switched to Linux permanently around the Windows 11 launch. My only regret is not switching sooner, like around Windows 8 times.

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I don’t use ChatGPT and host my own models ✅️ I don’t use Reddit, I use Lemmy ✅️

I agree with the dystopian part. It’s not a warm and fuzzy feeling, this feeling. A feeling that’s too common for my liking these days.

Hosting pirate scripts for a Microsoft product on another Microsoft owned website is… interesting.

Indeed, but it didn’t stop them from trying to use cats. Thankfully it failed spectacularly while costing a certain 3 letter agency many millions of dollars in the 60s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty