Well, that’s not necessarily true.

Some apps, alongside providing their core functionality, such as messaging, also collect a lot of information from all the permissions they are granted on your device.

Think for example constant location tracking or collecting your contacts, as I believe Facebook Messenger does.

It could be possible to provide a front-end that blocks certain requests or spoofs information.

Of course, that doesn’t stop them from collecting information you directly provide to them by using the service, such as profile information, direct messages, interactions etc.

I suppose you could use these services as a skulker which doesn’t have an account (or a semi-anonymous one) whilst denying all permissions and providing as little information as possible. It’s not wholy black and white.

That said, I do recommend not using these platforms at all if you can. Use alternative platforms that provide similar services. Lemmy vs Reddit is a good example.

It’s just not always practical advice for everyone, given that some people have jobs that require social media, or have no other means of contacting some relatives and friends.

I use Mullvad for their privacy. Not sure if they would fit your needs.

Nope. I complain when it affects me and disadvantaged people. Regardless of the party in power.

Politicians are not your friends and should be held accountable.

The rich and privileged don’t need or deserve more stuff, so I don’t feel bad for them if they are negatively impacted (within reason)

Make America checks notes Poor Again!

https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/151330/meta-adds-interoperability-with-signals-tech-for-whatsapp-messenger-in-eu

Nah I think it will just be

const benefits = false;

Do what I did a few months back and switch to Obsidian.

Especially if you write any code. It’s way better for that.

You will need to either

• Pay for their sync at $5/m (hugely overpriced imo)
• Use your own sync solution like Dropbox, Google Drive, Resilio Sync or Syncthing.

I bought it for $90 in 2020.

The Nazis praised the US’s “scientific” approach to racism and eugenics.

Measuring people’s heads; IQ tests served in a person’s non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people “dangerous”, “criminals” with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)

Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic “we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion”.

A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they’re coming right back around.

This is an educated meme.

You beat me to it!

Cool. Now let’s make immigrants legally people in the US.

Yeah this is emblematic of modern LLMs like Gemini and ChatGPT. Needlessly verbose, confidently wrong, less capable of actually doing things.

Not for me. I vaguely remember that being a thing, but it’s not with the other features at least.

Thanks bud

4 times once every few years is still way lower than using it every few weeks, once, as it works the first time.

Hmmm I couldn’t really find anything. The only way to guarantee that is to have models that run purely locally, but until very recently that wasn’t feasible.

Smaller AI models that could run on a phone are now doable, but making them useful requires a lot of dev time and only giant data-guzzling companies have tried so far.

I disagree. Most of the people Trump has pardoned, helped or gotten along with are libertarians.

They’re millionaires / billionaires who hate taxation and regulations because it gets in the way of their ruthless means of making money.

Trump is more than happy to help them to do that. He runs the government like a quid-pro-quo crime syndicate where you can buy yourself favours, including getting out of jail.

His authoritarianism only targets the poor; whatever scapegoat-du-jour the far-right hate today (trans, LGBT, minorities, immigrants); and anyone that tries to protect them.

He needs votes to stay in power, and since he can’t appeal to the left because everything he does is diametrically opposed with them (regulation, social spending, taxation of the rich) he has to pander to the far-right to keep a majority. Even if he is likely more right than far-right himself.

The requirements to get pardoned under the current administration are:

• Be white
• Be rich or high profile
• Be generally aligned with the right
• Claim your incarceration was politically motivated (it almost never is)

Your crime does not matter. Trump will accuse foreign refugees of being drug dealers and violent criminals, then pardon drug dealers and violent criminals if they were white and high profile enough (Google Ross Ulbricht as an example).

So, all things considered, SBF seems to qualify!

That must be it!

2G is also gone. Edit: it’s not gone just yet. Not sure why the phone didn’t try to fall back to 2G.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/3g-switch-off/

The old phone was a couple years into 4G existing but before we started to send voice over it.

I assume it just wasn’t in the OS-level code. It only went up to Android 11. We could have tried LineageOS but that would have required a bunch of work including wiping the phone.

Either way, we checked and the option just wasn’t there.