Not just Europe either. 172 countries use NFC passports, all of which have your full biometric info (including a high res headshot) encoded onto the chip.

If you’ve ever had a passport your face is known to the government of your country and searchable in a database.

Do you have a passport?

It’s open source and can be restricted to private followers. If you self host it’d be as private as possible for an Instagram clone

Android 15 solves your issues -

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-private-space-hands-on-3432113/

Private Spaces when they come to Fairphone will be perfect for this.

Yes? Nobody was claiming they weren’t proprietary.

I’m not running an instance I’m talking about generalities not specifics.

Because I’ve regularly got in arguments with people who refuse to donate.

The ratio of leachers to seeders in torrents is a similar issue - and seeding is practically free.

Asking $12/yr for software seems like pulling teeth to some.

I can understand not having anything and not wanting to pay. I get it.

But don’t act like it’s free just because you can’t afford it.

The argument as far as I can tell is “FOSS means I don’t have to pay anything because it doesn’t cost anything! If they ask for donations they don’t mean me”

Not a single one of them have a monthly contribution to their instance though. Guaran-fucking-tee it.

Well yeah this presupposes that management knows what the fuck they’re doing.

Which is vanishingly rare. It happens sometimes though. I worked at a small 12 man shop that had an engineer CEO who valued doing things right. Very refreshing.

Not a typo - a false economy is a decision that saves money in the short term but wastes more than it saves in the long term.

Expensive engineers is a category dipshit.

You add an S to a noun in English to show it’s a category or grouping instead of a specific individual.

Learn to fucking read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_category

Definitely - hiring isn’t easy.

But you’ll never get value for money from engineers who don’t care, and you have a 0% chance of a cheap contractor caring.

Again - I don’t blame them. They shouldn’t care. The company clearly doesn’t respect them.

But it’s a false economy.

optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive

um acktually you can’t build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓

Reading comprehension: you lack it.

That’s not what I said or even remotely implied.

If you want a good back end that isn’t bloated you can’t use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they’re doing.

It’s a fight I’m constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.

These contractors weren’t paid to care - I don’t blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.

But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps

And the way you don’t bloat your backend?

Expensive engineers

I’m fine with this trend.

Servers aren’t free and engineers aren’t cheap. Online products need to make money in our world.

If you’re not paying them they need something to sell to someone else.

Pine phones have privacy but not functionality unfortunately.

GrapheneOS + Linux Is the only way to truly have digital privacy.

Most people think iPhone + Mac is. So, so wrong.

Don’t entirely take it off: ad companies are as malevolent as you think. They’re just not wiretapping you constantly.

There are plenty of easier ways to spy.

It’s great that you’re focused in on privacy but that’s not what’s happening.

You can examine every byte of traffic off your phone. There isn’t an open audio stream: it’d be too obvious. On phone analysis is too computationally intensive to be inobtrusive.

You’re experiencing some combination of frequency illusion and priming when you experience these “phone listening in”.

It is far more likely that you had seen the product advertised before but not consciously considered it (priming) followed by a discussion which made you more aware of it so you noticed the ads more (frequency bias).

The fact is companies don’t even need to record your conversations to know how to get you to buy what they want you to buy.

It’s not.

1. Battery consumption would be obvious
2. Network traffic would be obvious
3. That’s not how app lifecycles work on phones: the only thing always ruining is the OS.

Source: professional app developer who has also worked for big G

The fuck you mean western media cabal?

Writing out Aaron is something Reddit has been doing since his death. This isn’t a media conspiracy: it’s reddit successfully scrubbing the past.

Does iOS not have notification channels? That’s definitely a thing in Android and I thought it was also a thing in iOS

Not a home assistant. Home Assistant™, the open source privacy focused home automation system.

Not really.

Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn’t have to match the package name.

As a professional mobile app developer most of these lines are bullshit anyways.

Purchase history? Yeah that’s just if you’ve bought subscriptions to the service. Of course we fucking know your purchase history: if we didn’t how would you get anything with a purchase?

Crash analytics? Cool we get a stack trace of what happened when it crashed. Half the time it’s not even helpful because it’s buried deep in some fucking Java library.

Things like coarse location are getting more specific and a few lines here can be used to deanonymize you when used together but (or an advertising I’d which can be used to track you no matter what) but the majority of data passed to phone devs is us frantically trying to figure out what combination of make & model of android device combined with android version caused your app to crash.

Anonymity is important and we should all take it seriously. Most of this has jack shit to do with being anonymous.

Besides: ewa is listed as a paragon here when they collect advertising data, the most targeted and least anonymous of all data gathering.

Man the comments section on the tor project blog are just as smooth brained as YouTube comments sections.

I kinda expected better of the average reader than commenting “hmm another captcha” 6 hours after they explicitly clarified this isn’t visible to the user (which was also implicit in the whole 30ms time specified).

Like 10 points for reading the article but -30 for reading comprehension.

Those are the guys they didn’t fire.

This only makes Google more money so they’ll get bonuses or promotions.