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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

For a second I thought you meant you don't use Signal, so they all went there on purpose to avoid you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and go to collage.

This is who I want telling me reading is bad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It is a nice PR but for me I am not impressed. Rolex is also a non profit organization in Switzerland and and mostly help hiding there finance.

Okay but Rolex is Rolex. There are uncountably many non-profits, and many (most?) do good work. I don't think Rolex is representative of your usual non profit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Fast forward to today, I ended up killing him and am writing this from jail.

Okay, important question here: are you writing this on Android or iPhone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My Puxl was from eBay.

To be honest, I don't know much about how credit cards can be associated with phone hardware. I would think it could conceivably be tied to phone #s. In my case the phone is unlocked and it's not an esim, which I understand we will all be moving too soon.

I wonder if it might have something to do with Google Pay or Apple Pay that ties hardware information to payments? And as for Esim, it might make it so that you can't distinguish phones based on their physical sim card so it perhaps introduces a possibility of reliance on hardware.

But this is all speculation on my part. I just don't know and I haven't made whatever precautions would be needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (8 children)

That's what I did!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

This is not from Google. This is Extinction Rebellion registering a domain to prank Google, by speaking in their voice and resolving to stop funding climate deniers. It's both a cheeky prank and a way to put pressure on Google to take accountability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sorry, I was super unclear there. This was not Google.

However, Google also sometimes has done their own April Fools bits, and historically Google has been big part of April Fools hijinks. So I did mention them as a company that does these, and I did post this which is impersonating Google as an april fools prank, but yeah, this particular one was not at all carried out by Google.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I almost forgot today was April Fools day. I feel like since Covid, the national mood (TM) was such that Google and co stopped doing April Fools pranks, and/or if they did them, they were so safe they were groan inducing.

Looking around at the roundup links for 2024, there aren't many that happened this year, from the looks of it. So I wanted to post this one, because it's the rarest of rare - one that I thought was really incredibly well done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Very good to know. After following your Github link, I found my way to the blog post that it looks like you are quoting:

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/State-of-the-Pipe-2023/

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (5 children)

NewPipe is a killer app I would say, with nearly Youtube Red level functionality in something that's free and OSS. A bit afield from privacy, but you do get to access youtube stuff without logging in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Syncthing is brilliant, although for me it has had a heck of a learning curve to keep straight. Might just be me though.

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