minkshaman

Look, I’m as sceptical of “fact check” stuff as anyone, but please don’t use Sky as news

Australia tried it and gave in.

QI said the tail is loaded with muscle and is strong enough that it actually counts as a limb.

So yeah. You’re fucked.

Yeah, but that needs to patch each app.

Root level ad blocking was apply once

SAP, the worst thing to come out of Germany since WW2

Yeah, but I mostly did it for ad blocking.

I was able to strip ads out of games too, super effective.

iOS does everything else, and I still have an android tablet

Shits me off that rooting the phone immediately blocks most banking apps.

After a few years of playing cat and mouse with the workarounds for safety net I finally said fuck it.

If they’re going to force me to live with an unrooted phone, I might as well have shit that works with the rest of my families eco-system and go iPhone.

…why would you read either of them?

Exactly. It’s all propaganda, and to say “oh well Facebook is ok, so why pick on TikTok” is the hottest of takes.

They’re all garbage and we should ban all of them.

Wasn’t he also middle management when he was working?

So, Y’know, he was the pointy haired one?

I’m incredibly surprised that Wired (the original source) didn’t mention that there’s precedent for the fediverse’s concerns in Gchat/XAMPP

Never.

Just look at what happens on Reddit when Mastodon is brought up in the Threads/Twitter wars.

“Ohhhh it’s too haaaaard to use. What does it matter about a little privacy loss anyway?”

I’ll tell you a secret you might have missed.

It’s not about the privacy.

It’s about a foreign country of similar power levels having the ability to shape your people’s political opinions.

They’re shitting themselves because it’s one of the first times it’s happened to them instead of them doing it to someone else.

I’ve been keen on this for a while, just waiting for it to grow a little

Timeframes escape the pasta colander of my mind

When it’s well established that feds have been monitoring TOR exit nodes for like the last 5 years, I think it should be assumed stuff as easy as Reddit is monitored and astroturfed