discord can be used without an account - until they kick you out demanding your phone number.

on matrix too you can have a guest user that works somewhat similarly, but most rooms don’t have that enabled I think. I am not too surprised about that, no idea how could that be effectively moderated. it also needs client support but element web supports it

reasonably speaking, there are no smartglasses today that are capable of doing that locally, and even if there would, that does not guarantee in any way that it keeps the data locally. youre a walking surveillance camera, and like it or not, if people don’t like that, that’s their decision.

I’m surprised teslas and other such surveillance trucks are not vandalized more.

huge difference. smartphones are not recording the street most of the time, and they have permission controls.

yeah maybe they don’t even request the permission, so you can’t grant it

this is not new, but its time for the hdmi forum to fade into irrelevance

we are all awaiting your suggestions on how to install and keep it updated on the phones of our friends and relatives

The one small issue I had was with the calls not appearing on my Android device when the phone is locked, but the call feature is still in beta so I guess down the line they’ll improve it.

for that usually you need to enable a special permission in the system settings, something like “display on lock screen”.
while you are there, also disable “pause app activity when unused”, for yourself and your friends too, otherwise android will not let them receive notifications if you message them.

who said they’ll take away social media. the popular addictive services will remain

on windows too. any programs can read your history bookmarks, cookies, for chrome too

the perfect showcase about the security guarantees of E2EE. It’s important, but it won’t save you if “your” phone is programmed to snitch on you. same thing applies to screen reader AIs, and whatever you grant accessibility permissions or the assistant app role.

fun fact: on most googled phones the google assistant app is by default, without approval, set as the assistant app, and it has access to screen contents. I don’t know if it has that access all the time, maybe only when you are baited to open it by long pressing the home button or trying to turn off your phone with the power button.

I understand that you must feel good hating on valve, but what you say makes no sense whatsoever. centralization? steam is popular but by far not the only option:

notably, the final version of Horses has been reviewed and approved for distribution across numerous other PC storefronts, including the Epic Games Store, GOG, the Humble Store, and Itch.io

if you want yo buy this game, you have many options for that

that won’t work anymore, because today not even just to youth, but everyone the only thing that matters is convenience. their friends are not on there? they are not interested! maybe they would try it for fun? too bad, their phone does not allow installing it

that’s nonsense.

You can use any chat app that works, just don’t expect privacy

that was the fucking point, that they are making it illegal to change this for the better

unless you’re a pair of trustworthy cryptography experts using secure devices at both ends. Near future tech should make it more possible for regular everyday tech users to achieve what an expert could do today

you don’t have to be an expert for it today, but in the near future easy private tech will be illegal so that you will have to be an expert on it.

better yet: criticizing Debian for the instability of Kali

how does that relate to privacy?

by having you trust intel instead of themselves: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

where did you read that?

the same as with 23andme and other genetic analysis services

To give you an example, if you have no water in your house you need to report on wp. No other way. And this is the standard for a lot of services, wp is the ONLY way to ask for support.

whatsapp requires phone numbers. surely they can be called

It’s a nightmare, i really want to get rid of meta services but it is impossible for my case.

if you have tech skills, try running a matrix bridge for whatsapp for yourself. take it slowly if you need it, you are not in a hurry. your own server, federation off. keep using whatsapp as you did before, and check for a month or two if the bridge is running stable. subscribe to notifications for github releases of the bridge to know if there’s an important update.
you won’t be able to leave whatsapp behind, but at least you’ll be able to get rid of its apps that do whatever that’s not for your benefit

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