If this would have surprised no one they wouldn’t have done it and just ate the cost of office spaec. No, there’s people out there who still think company loyalty is a thing and that fostering a “company culture” is actually viable.

Oh God do I even want to know what they’ve trained for their AI image generator? Will it ironically be the only one that can show mixed race couples?

I’m not scared of governments surveying me, as someone who has worked for several national and local governments, they don’t have the time or budget. I’m not scared of advertisers surveying me, they’re just going to try and sell me something anyway. I’m not scared fo data brokers, they don’t want my data, they want to sell it to some one else for a profit and don’t really care about it.

What I am afraid of is someone I’ve pissed someone off and that any of the groups above don’t care about my data enough to protect it from the asshole who will use it vindictively.

A lot of paranoia on this community :(

There’s a few sign in checks (The variety makes me think Disqus or something similar.), a couple of keep alives, your phone registering for Wi-Fi calling, Fallback DNS requests, a couple of CDN requests which I would get is likely update checks and finally YouTube content for NewPipe. I think I’m seeing five tracking cookies based on the rest of your apps here, probably being sent “Do Not Track” requests.

While I’ve seen these before, I find this hard to believe this isn’t a screenshot from The Witness (2016).

Yeah very similar to Matrix or the good days of Trillian

Check out Beeper https://beeper.com/

*except nearly the entirety of India, but who cares about a country with nearly a billion customers

techmeme.com is a great aggregator

I’m a little shocked it’s not a Watchy with a custom app on it

The second one is a legally mandatory prompt regarding accepting cookies

97% of users would like all their decisions made for them, it’s what Apple has been proving since the 80’s.

I was meaning more in the “trusting Google” sense, how is this different to trusting VeriSign?

Can someone explain to me how this is different to the trust system used by SSL Certificates?

Thanks for the correction, I was unaware

The Android licence is free and the Play Store infrastructure has to support tens of millions of devices.

I’m not saying this is an acceptable level, but Samsung ain’t putting a dollar toward Google running the store, in fact, they’d much prefer to run and maintain their own.

get_iplayer or yt-dlp should be able to pull from the relevant UK VOD service

I never perceived this could even be a possibility, I recall reading this in a bad sci-fi novel once and I thought it was dumb for a multitude of reasons:

1. It’s extremely unlikely that there would be any benefit. Most people would have their devices in a bag or pocket.
2. In cases such as an event where a terrorist attack occurred, there would likely be people recording it anyway and likely happy to had over their footage anyway.
3. There is no piece of software out there which could accurately determine what devices are in a particular area.
4. There is no government dumb enough to propose or support the ability to monitor citizens like this unless they are already in, or close to being in, a dictatorship.

And yet the justice minister thinks it is positive that this would “only be used dozens of times a year”

WTF.

I guess I’ll be looking into Prowlerr then 😆 does Prowlerr still require Mono?

Have a look at Jackett, it re-produces the search results for hundreds of torrent sites as Torznab feeds, what that means is that these can then be added to indexes for Sonarr and Radarr.