API index access is an important difference.
If it was only that, without public facing ad driven search, I’d be more impressed.

Maybe if you removed the adds, and severely rate limited your own public facing search, so it’s more of a demo than an actual service. This would force you to solely make money off the API access, without directly competing against those customers.

That would be an honest buisness model. One that doesn’t turn users into eyeballs for advertising. Which seems to me, to be the most insidious problem of the modern internet, and its effect on society generally.

For all their talk of doing things different with their own index and rankings. Mojeek is following exactly what Google did. It’s still an ad based business model that makes users into products to be sold to advertisers. They’re good now, while still trying to build market share. But once their investors get hungry, the enshitification will commence.

You’re basically describing the “Reader View” that most browsers have already. Then trying to force it through a more limited standard.

There are some current attempts a making new browser engines. Servo and Ladybird are two I know of.

The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won’t have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can’t make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.

comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines and accounts.

That’s kind of standard practice on any company issued devices I’ve ever used.
Unless they’re being given for the kids to own. If they have to give them back at the end of the year, then they don’t belong to the kids.

Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.

they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.

The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.

Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.

Nobody cares because they are US companies.

First, it’s not a TickTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. ByteDance could sell TickTok to another company outside China and TickTock would be fine in the US.

Second, it was never about protecting user data. It was about preventing China from tweaking the algorithm to try to subtly influence public political opinion, instead of maximizing generic rage and political polarization, to exploit for ad dollars.

Have you tried the “Stealth” protocol option ProtonVPN has?
It’s intended to bypass VPN blocks. Sometimes it works.

Commercial monitors or digital signage displays are out there.
B&H has a good selection.
They are a bit more expensive, but not crazy.

90% chance it was some kind of user error.

Is he really saying it’d be better if they got more money?
I read the article. I still don’t get the argument.
He’s sounds disappointed they got paid so little.

As I recall yes. When the tech was new several years ago, just wearing flip-flops or jandels or whatever-you-call-them was enough to completely throw it off.

That’s exactly what we were discussing.
But it doesn’t matter any more.

That’s not what I witnessed recently.

Now you’re bringing personal anecdotes to rebut global systemic hypotheticals.
We’re not having the same discussion anymore.

The inventory and POS systems also go down. You still can’t by your groceries/gas/weed.

Going cashless is a bad idea. But not because of this.

But cash has nothing to do with this.
It’s an entirely unrelated issue.
It could equally be a warning to floss every day for all they’re related.

Because if everyone used cash, schedule systems, records systems, communication systems around the world, breakdown still.

If there’s a verity of software vendors used in these systems, and financial systems, you don’t get simultaneous global breakdowns any more.

Basically. Using cash won’t prevent this from happening. Using several interoperable software providers and systems will.

Precisely

The situation here is rather bleak really.

Generally these cars have their own always on cellular data connection paid by the manufacturer. So they don’t depend on. Your phone for anything.

What they do is record and transmit any sensor data they can. The sexual activity you mentioned, comes from the sensors in the seats that are required to activate seatbelt warnings, or disable the airbags if a child is in the seat. Data from those pressure sensors can be used to determine if there’s a certain kind of rhythmic motion happening in a given seat.

They also collect any and all data they can from devices they connect to. Like phones. So don’t use carplay, or android auto. Don’t use their app. When using Bluetooth audio don’t give permissions to make calls or access contacts.

It should be possible to physically disable the onboard cellular radio. That will prevent any live data tracking. Exactly how depends on the specific car you’re looking at.

I would assume the dealer can access and download the data manually. Use private non-dealer repair shops for any regular maintance or any repairs possible.

It’ll be easer when you point out they don’t have adds.

Our comments right here on the Fediverse, are a good example.
Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and numerous others, all use the same open communication standard; Offering very different services and experiences.

Collabra seems close. They do use ODF. And you can host you’re own server.
But they don’t seem to use E2EE. And the collaborative aspect doesn’t apear to be an open standard you can use with different software packages.

Is there an open standard for encrypted asynchronous colabreative document creation and editing?

It’s more expensive; but look for Digital Signage.

It feels better than doing nothing.
If you can convince yourself you’re not doing nothing.
I’ve never been that good a liar.

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As I said, that’s a very different definition of “always”. In fact it’s more like “sometimes”.

Always, would literally mean nobody knows you even exist.
Any knowledge of your existence would mean you’ve lost some privacy.

Says someone commenting to an unencrypted, publicly federated, social media platform.

I’m not sure “always” means what you think it means.

There is SimpleX also

It might be possible. It would depend on the specific details of what the whistle blower is claiming.

Yah. We need a more general version of HIPPA that covers all personal data, not just health information.

If any of this is actual health info it’ll be $25000 per person, per instance.

You Can!
Stores are called Adoption Agencies.
Congrats!

If being arrested and going to trial was his big concern, he would have taken that over running. We’re talking about the NSA and CIA here. He was afraid of being suicided in jail before ever getting to a trial.

Honestly I’m a little surprised he’s still alive. Russia wasn’t his plan, but it may have been the best place for him to end up.

Nope.
Not remotely private.
According to the PDF on their Privacy Policy page:

They collect a whole bunch of data on you. Including every site you visit. As well as every email and SMS you receive.

Specifically, during Your access and/or use of the Services, we will collect or receive the following information (including Personal Information) about You:

• Anonymized browsing behavior needed inter alia for the operation of the Solution including sites and URLs visited during the Solution’s operation.
• Country, IP address, Installation time, E-mail, name, last name (as provided by the user), 4 digits of credit card, credit card type for paying customers, and other information provided by you during and as part of creating and maintaining an account with us.
• To the extent you have chosen to subscribe to and use our email scanning feature and/or SMS messages scanning feature as part of the Services, we will also receive information as follows: (a) when you use our email scanning feature – the information (including email content) contained in your email inbox as of your subscription to the service and information contained in any email you receive thereafter during your use of the Services; and (b) when you use our SMS messages scanning feature, information contained in the SMS messages (including messages content) you receive as of the subscription to such feature and thereafter during your use thereof, all as described in your subscription and as made available by us.

They then use and provide that “anonymized” data to any 3rd party they work with.

The collected information as stated above is stored in Guardio’s database and shall be used and processed by us only for the following purposes:

• Providing the Services or any part thereof and enabling convenient and efficient use of thereof including, as applicable, third-party services made available via our Services;
• Improve and enrich the Services;
• Modify and/or remove existing Services and content;
• Perform research and provide statistical information to third parties (in such case, the provided information will not identify You);
• Enforce the Guardio’s Terms;
• Collecting of payable fees;
• Providing additional services and/or products;
• Any other purpose detailed in the Terms and this Privacy Policy.

They target you with 3rd party ads (personalized content).

Your Personal Information is collected and used because Guardio has a legitimate business interest for Your Personal Information to be used for the above purposes. This enables Guardio to send You relevant and personalized content designed to improve Your use of the Services. You have the right to object to this by contacting us via email: my.privacy@guard.io. Please note that if you object, this may affect Guardio’s ability to provide you with the Services and send personalized content to You.

My F-Droid download keeps failing the hash check.

You know the phrase “If you aren’t paying, you’re the product”.
It doesn’t hit as hard as a CEO using the phrase “Monetizing Our User Base”.