Keep in mind that doom scrolling while laying on grass is also an option. I will come back later for more uninteresting tips.

I talked about continuing to make money , after they sell the device. It’s usually just more profitable for a company to not respect their users.

Most companies, if not all, can probably sustain one time payments, but investors prefer growth.

I wonder whether mobile device manufacturers get a cut from Google’s spyware revenue.

Why would a company sell such a device? Unless it’s a privacy company, they will prefer to bloat the device with spyware in order to continue making money by selling user data.

Unless they didn’t “systemctl enable simulation.service”

They (the govt) would know that they issued a certificate to ex. lemmy.dbzer0.com

They can’t know that the certificate is issued to conmie

Unless, of course, the instance logs the age certificate used by each user

And also, unless the govt’s age verification service logs the certificate issued by each citizen

But Porkbun charges per mailbox.

I pay for Tuta, and I have added my personal domain. It works as catch-all, allowing me to have an infinite amount of addresses, so I can use a different email on each website.

We just hope they do force Android to allow sideloading. However, I wouldn’t expect them to do so, given their latest decisions…

Auto save on cloud sucks.

Depends on the cloud. I like my files being automatically backed up to my private Nextcloud server.

I had such an issue with Teams on Mac the other day. It had a phone call stuck running in the background, so I tried to Quit the app. The Quit Teams option just turned gray, and the laptop even refused to reboot.

What if I keep the apks for me and my family, instead of publicly releasing them.

This is probably similar to the state of Piped and Invidious. Google tries to kill them, so we are hosting private instances, instead of relying on public ones.

There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.

Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.

Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.

What if I come up with a random package name, like “online.discuss.jim3692”, register that name and a keypair, and then build ReVanced using that name and keys?

what can’t I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?

On the Android world, there are various Firefox forks with privacy enhancements. Such an example is IronFox. These apps are not listed on Play Store, and are, instead, distributed through F-Droid.

Besides this, there is a big difference between the policies of Play Store and F-Droid. Play Store takes your compiled blob, runs some security tests, signs it and publishes it. F-Droid, on the other hand, requires that all the source code is public and compiles the app.

This allows the users to be sure that the apps cannot be tampered by their developers. While, on Play Store, devs can easily submit applications that aren’t built based on the published source code.

Having given a shot to OpenRC on Alpine systems, I would say that I prefer systemd for creating and managing services.

I like its unified logging, which extends even beyond the host, integrating the logs of nspawn containers. I like its tmpfiles, which allows configuring temporary files, without writing scripts that create/cleanup them.

I have to admit, however, that I don’t like all of its subsystems. For example, I don’t want networkd and resolved anywhere near my configuration.

You can install SmartTube on Android TV. It’s the YouTube TV app, but without ads.

I didn’t say that it can’t be detected. I said it fools your eyes.

Besides that, stop using ML for everything. My guess is that you need insane amounts of processing power for ML to detect hidden messages inside terabytes of live internet traffic.

In fact, the algorithm for steganography is standard. It’s probably trivial to detect it, unless you add encryption and padding to the mix.

Sorry, out of the loop. What does MAP stand for ?

The United States paid nothing for these shares

There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.

You can’t block VPNs without blocking the entire internet. You can block known VPN services, but you can’t prevent people from hosting their own.

Some known VPN protocols could be blocked, using introspection tools. However, this would just render corporate VPNs useless. VPN traffic is just bytes, and so is WebSockets. Good luck figuring out whether my HTTPS traffic is legitimate internet traffic, or masked VPN traffic.