The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.
It was awful.
“Oh, look. He’s a little bit racist. Now I get to know that. Thanks Facebook.”
I’ll wait and see if they can add some AI to it. But if they can, I’ll invest my entire life savings.
Yes. That’s what AI actually adds - plausible deniability.
My partner and I used to use location sharing pretty much 100% of the time. We just felt better knowing we could find each other.
But today, we do not, because the trust is shattered.
Google just cannot be trusted with our locations.
While you can setup a second profile to put the Google services into, I don’t recommend it.
The version of Google Services on GrapheneOS thinks it has root, but it does not.
So there’s no dramatic need to setup a second profile, unless you want it for other reasons.
I personally think the second profile feature is one of the things people think they want/need from GrapheneOS, but really are happier without.
(Sure it’s safer, but GrapheneOS is already so much better than other mobile OSes - and I hate to see someone quit GrapheneOS just because they didn’t like the optional profiles.)
An exception I have seen is for apps mandated for a job. I’m happy to bury that stuff deep.
In addition to what else was shared: GrapheneOS now has fairly nuanced options for running apps.
Things that previously would not run at all, now often run fine - if granted additional permissions, such as the permission for the developer to be lousy at their job (various settings under “Exploit Protection”).
Many apps run afowl of “Exploit Protections”, but if you trust the app author, those settings can be disabled just for that app. Just realize that needing these settings generally means the app developer is bad at their job. If that’s for an Indie Game - oh well. But when t’s my bank…maybe I should reconsider who I trust with my money.)
This allows deciding how much to trust each app author.
I find it creepy that Google hasn’t back-ported more of these privacy features into stock Android.
Specifically regarding the two app types you mention:
Regarding authenticators: I have yet to encounter one that fails on GrapheneOS. I have found some that only allow backups via Google services, which feels insane to me, anyway.
I wish someone had pointed me to Aegis sooner. Aegis is compatible with every MFA service I have tried it with, fully open source, available on F-Droid, and supports backing up to an encrypted file.
Regarding finance management apps: These have gotten super invasive, recently. Mine all work fine on GrapheneOS, but don’t play nice with routine VPN usage, or with ever having location services disabled even for a minute.
The saving grace is that all the finance apps I use have had perfectly functional websites, which cannot be made invasive, the way an app can.
That amused me, too.
I think it plays fine for the intended audience, though.
For the folks looking into Anubis, that line plays well - because hosting costs are driven up by the kinds of spam bot visits that Anubis slows down.
Thank you for sharing this. Patman was a delight. He made some of the best “History of” videos for classic games.
RIP Patman QC. He will be missed.
“We could be in serious legal trouble.”
“Don’t worry. My billions will protect me.”
Pen and paper is great for whenever I can’t get my hands on a chisel and rock wall.
This is the way.
That’s exactly my experience, as well.
The PineTime is the best current option for a pebble enthusiast, since the Pebble.
But I still have to charge the PineTime every week or so, and that is with the screen off most of the time.
I miss the Pebble’s battery life.
I don’t see how even Amazon can try to kill the competition in a market that huge, regardless of price or convenience.
So I assume you wrote this after picking up groceries from your locally owned grocery store? Because you still have one - it didn’t collapse due to a Walmart coming to town?
Most of us have a solid example of what driving a grocery store out of business looks like, though.
“Not everyone in the union will celebrate this corporate partnership. Some members have legitimate concerns about tech giants shaping classroom priorities through financial relationships.”
When has a corporation and a Union ever not seen eye to eye?
(Please don’t answer. This is sarcasm. Otherwise RIP my inbox.)
Or do I just have a really weak electric stove?
I think you might just have a really weak one, or poor compatibility pots? I’ve had both, and if anything my gas burners feel a little slower and cooler than my induction stove did.
Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.
Yes. This sucks.
The main cause of this is artificial intelligence
Unlikely.
The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and “Not The Onion”, in particular.)
Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.
I’ll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.
AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.
It can be hard to guess who to bribe, or how big each bribe should be?
Immutable distros can usually be set to mutable with the correct privileged command.
It’s essentially security by obscurity. But I disagree with “no benefit”. An infection miss through dumb luck is still a miss, after all.
I remember those days, as well!
I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.