You don’t have to be insane to not be happy about this. I believe in ‘harm reduction’, which is to say: If joe biden were still president, i would probably not be upset if some medical condition removed him from the presidency, because then he could no longer actively do harm from his position of power.

But now? He has almost no active power or influence over anything. His suffering doesn’t benefit me or reverse any previous harms he’s caused.

Yeah Google claims it’s not recording, storing or being sent the conversations or sharing them with anyone, and that this is all done ‘on-device’.

The thing is, I don’t trust them. At all.

Maybe the terms and conditions will silently change. Maybe their definitions of “recording” and “save” will change. Maybe they’re blatantly lying and are willing to pay a fine if they get caught.

Google’s whole business model is harvesting and selling people’s data, so I have to assume the worst intentions.

Exactly. And unless RCS with e2ee is made equally available to companies other than Google and is implemented by the carriers, RCS will continue to be a monopolistic data-harvesting grift.

I’m surprised there is not more outrage directed at Google over this.

No, please explain it to me!

That’s quite misogynistic.

Ruin her body?

That’s incredibly misogynistic.

And there are no better camera hardware else where

Sony and their Xperia phones would like a word.

I had trouble with it too. The site told me to disable all the privacy settings on my browser, at which point I simply decided that the whole thing was no longer worth my time and data.

Can we please ban electronic advertising already? And billboards? Society would be better off without them.

My 17-year-old account is at $600. That’s an average of $35 per year.

Most of my gaming spending for the last 8 years has been on Nintendo Switch. That number is too embarrassing to post.

Do you know what their enforcement mechanism is for a situation like this, where a company like Clearview is doing it against Illinois residents but it’s all happening online?

Yeah. It is oddly worded in places, but otherwise seems fine. I didn’t see any grammatical errors.

Edit: No, you’re right:

Windows 11 Phone Link accomplishes the same thing, and it approaches Android connection in the same way Unison does. However, it’s limited to Android and iOS users who can’t utilize the function due to how Windows approached compatibility in the first place.

That makes absolutely no sense.

To be fair, plenty of telemetry is still being sent by Microsoft in Windows 10. It’s not as bad as 11 though.

Where is kryptkey? I don’t see it on F-droid.

I do see KryptEy, which sounds like what you’re talking about. What’s important to mention is that it’s a proof-of-concept app that hasn’t been updated in two years. It may still function fine and be secure, but I wouldn’t necessarily assume that, especially when we are talking about high stakes like avoiding government intrusion into chats. Has anyone ever checked or audited it?

Lol…that’s funny and also so depressing.

Well I’m hoping to live in a world where banks don’t provide loans anymore. I’m demanding a better world than this nightmare that is unregulated capitalism in the US.

I’m demanding a better world than any economic system that incentivizes and rewards screwing each other over and hurting one another in a race to get ahead.

Yeah, and now that Musk is unpopular with conservatives, Trump will still use Musk to buy elections but we just won’t hear about it (if they’re smart).

Your conservative coworker should be tarred and feathered in the town square while being made to watch fact-based news for a change.

Edit: maybe not tar, as I now remember from school how that was exceptionally torturous and cruel. Super glue sounds like a good replacement.

Loans with interest rates above inflation are weapons. They are violence. Why should we all have to pay more than something is worth for our education, our transportation, our housing? Why are we paying directly for these things at all?

Government should be providing all this for its people. Higher education should be provided. Starter housing should be provided. Public transportation should be provided.

I don’t think there is anything stopping nintendo from making 64GB or larger cartridges except the cost.