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We need the corporate death penalty.

Or at least take 100% of their revenue (not profit) until they comply.

That sounds really floppy.

I think we should ask Chuck Schumer. He’s really good at getting things done.

We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.

TIL people use the term vibe coding unironically.

As Louis Rossmann likes to say, this is a rapist mentality.

Ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

In capitalist America, laws decide you!

Yeah, when Discord first became popular, the whole “server” terminology was massively confusing to me.

Yeah, it’s possible with something like Shizuku. scrcpy works via adb, so something similar could work on-device.

It’s just not a part of Android’s standard permission system.

Which “once in a lifetime” market crash is your favorite so far?

The vast majority of users exclusively stick to defaults.

Microsoft got in a lot of trouble in the 90s for simply including Internet Explorer in Windows, as it disincentivized people from installing a different web browser such as Netscape.

Whenever you try to install an apk with sideloading disabled, Android will prompt you with a popup that will take you directly to the setting you need to toggle to allow sideloading.

What is legally defined as personal data in this case? Public usernames, public posts, or private messages to another instance, which states clearly that messages aren’t private and to use Matrix instead? Or is there something else?

Well no. How is Google supposed to feed all your text messages into their AI for profit if they allow a choice?

How? I just read the full text of that website, and I couldn’t find any language in there that would harm the fediverse.

The CA Prop 65 warning is a perfect example of this. Most people just ignore it because it’s on everything (which probably isn’t inaccurate, especially when most products contain some type of plastic).

I can use dd after running “lsdvd” on CSS protected DVDs.

I have no idea why it works.

Yes

Privacytools.io actively promotes VPN services that advertise heavilly on YouTube, and have no good track record, like NordVPN (which is at the top of their list of VPNs), which leads me to believe that they are paid by NordVPN to promote their service.

Mullvad (the most trustworthy VPN IMO in terms of track record) is at the bottom of their list.

At the top of their main website, they also have Incogni as a recommendation with what looks to be a referral link. They also have a referral link for Startmail, Internxt (whatever that is), and probably others as well.

On their front page: “Sponsors can be exempted from the criteria.”

Anyone trying to recommend privacy services who also accept sponsorships are not trustworthy.

Also, on their crypto page, they recommend both AgoraDesk and LocalMonero, both of which shut down last year, which leads me to believe that some of their information is also out of date.

When I look at PrivacyGuides, I see none of these issues, so I recommend PrivacyGuides over ptio. In fact, on their VPN page, not only do they recommend relatively trustworthy VPNs, but they also have a big red warning about VPN usage and what to expect in terms of privacy that ptio does not have.

The main thing you need to worry about in that case is the battery. It’s useful to have a built in UPS, but definitely keep an eye on it, especially after keeping it plugged in for long periods of time.