same here; this comm is always good at making me aware of what i don’t know (which is a lot. lol)

this same thing that happens to me and i’ve tried using different computers and different phones and all using privacy respecting apps.

i’ve since concluded that it’s probably server side tracking using the analytics that 3rd party sites employ that allow “anonymized” data to be shared w google.

i can’t wait to get my de-googled phone.

are europeans just as bad at not reading beyond the headlines as americans?

i failed clarify an important distinction: the only reason why [the ruling class] don’t like him is that he never bothered with the mask.

That mask was slipping but now with Trump2 seems to have just fallen off. The pretense has given away to crass might makes right international relations. I consider the USA becoming a hyper surveilled state to be part of this story.

the USA has always been like this and the only reason why they don’t like him is that he never bothered with the mask.

it’s a brand new feature i just got from firefox so i’ve been trying out and it clearly has some limitations since this is the 2nd time today.

the ai summary led me to believe whatsapp was incorporated; it looks more like it was seller’s remorse:

The past tense and wistfulness hang in the air. More than four years ago, Acton and his cofounder, Jan Koum, sold WhatsApp, which had relatively insignificant revenue, to Facebook for $22 billion, one of the most stunning acquisitions of the century. Ten months ago he left Facebook, saying he wanted to focus on a nonprofit. Then in March, as details of the Cambridge Analytica scandal oozed out, he sent a Tweet that quickly went viral and shocked his former employers, who had made him a billionaire many times over: “It is time. #deletefacebook.” No explanation followed. He hasn’t sent another Tweet since.

they bought whatsapp; he didn’t have a choice.

i was agreeing that walking away wasn’t the best way to handle it.

he could have done a lot more good with $850million

i bet that the lawsuit is an effort to force something to come from it after the appeals fell on deaf ears.

next they’ll be saying that capitalism and fascism are the 2 faces of the same coin. smh.

i must be going crazy; i could have sworn i read a comment yesterday of them only considering supporting fairphone2, must less fairphone5.

OH WOW!!! the murena store gave me the completely wrong impression.

thank you!

putting e/os on fairphone 5; murena and the e/os project site implied to me that it only supported fairphone 1 the last time i checked.

where there any wiki’s or blogs that showed you how to do this?

TIL that discord is not part of the fediverse.

i think i’m going to switch back to a dumb phone.

i can here to say this; the literally made 10x this amount in their 3rd quarter 20 years ago and i have no clue how much more they’re making now.

it sounds like you’ll need a better handle on what’s running on your computer.

if this matters to you enough: you can start with pruning the systemd services that are running to remove the ones you don’t want so that you can know for certain what is supposed to be running and then run another capture to see where it’s calling out to.

that’s why the other places with cop cities are the next on the list to be occupied like dc

i knew i would eventually rue the day i joined social media because my ex-spouse forced the issue by making a facebook account for us; i just never knew that it would be because of this.

easily reproducible stuff

when i lived in austin, i witnessed several instances of “texan progressives” call the police on protestors for preventing the self driving taxis from stealing peoples in jobs by sitting in the street to block them; while people in san francisco & oakland looked the other way when protestors threw paint destroyed the sensors on the self driving taxis.

californians have the proper mindset to affect change and i REALLY miss living there sometimes.

it was always going to happen eventually, but the situation with gaza lit a fire under its urgency and you can see it happening for yourself as the west is capturing moderation on all centralizated social media platforms via appointing of idf & isreali officials/officers.

i’m pleased to learn that the only path i drive in is free of cameras and also surprising since it’s where every single one of my speed & red light camera tickets have come from.

i guess this city hasn’t gotten around to retrofitting the police cameras with these tracking cameras.

very neat and thank you for this.

this guy could become a millionaire if he could make the adversarial noise license plate cover that’s imperceptible to the human eye; but given that he could afford all fo those toys to make/test his prototype along his rejection of vc fund proposals makes me think that he’s not hurting for money.

which also means that such a thing like the license plate cover is not going to happen anytime soon

in the meantime, i guess i’ll stick to just not driving unless i absolutely have to.

i tried making it complicated too, but i doubt that helps much.

i’d like to think that my pattern unlock w/o making the pattern visible would protect me against something like this; but i’m learning that nothing is safe from the authorities.

i’m glad that my own vanity will prevent me from getting these. lol

seems to work fine

2fa keeps biting me in the ass because, somehow, each time i set it up; i lose access to the authenticator and have to use the breakglass codes to disable it.

there’s needs to be guidance for people like me who are ultra klutzy and have shitty memories. lol

tiktok proves that even the google and apple app stores are vulnerable to takedown requests so this is a strange condition to stand on.

i was going to do this too, but none of my functioning androids are supported and i expect google to take another step in disabling alternatives.

these companies are adept a detecting these services and the gpdr and ccpa eligibility requirements include residency.

the problem is that google is capable of slurping all of your data and your phone becomes an enhanced avenue for access; the linux phones are the solution to this.

i’m convinced that the “it just works” mantra is the reason why google or apple or microsoft is able to do this sort of asshattery and i can understand why people would want something that simply works.

however, the trade off for this mantra is that you’re giving yourself over to a corporation that not only doesn’ t have your best interest at heart but has proven will happily sell your control for a penny.

i can also understand why someone wouldn’t think that any of this matters and; if you’re lucky; it won’t matter all, but for the rest of us unlucky sob’s (and the people who don’t want to put their faith in luck), linux phones matter.

i wish there was a way i could pretend to be a california or german resident so that i can put in these delete-my-data requests.

aka: the only kind of freedom that matters. lol

age is a just a cover for controlling what you can see akin to “won’t somebody please think about the children!!!”

is that different than no data protection?

this only works if your bank isn’t a pos; both chase and cashapp told me to pound sand the last 2 times it happened.