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make sure you don’t do the XY problem.
Thanks for the link. That’s funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.
make sure you don’t do the XY problem.
Thanks for the link. That’s funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.
I had no idea how to properly set up the filesystem, so I mounted them to /mnt/f and /mnt/h. It caused me many hours of headache later.
Can you elaborate? What kind of headaches? How would you set it up now? While I’ve been using Linux quite a while I don’t have multiple hard drives and am always interested in best practices.
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The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update. Now the app is garbage.
Wait what? I have it too and see no changes at all. How does it spy since the app has 0 bytes of traffic (now blocked it to be safe)?
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This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don’t even care anymore.
It’s mandatory for online boasting.
Right, because hunting and gathering isn’t work. People just got food into their mouths doing nothing - like wild animals.
Many obviously don’t know that “nazi” is an abbreviation.
2^0 isn’t multiplying by zero. Considering this law: 2^a / 2^b = 2^(a-b)
it’s obvious why 2^0 = 1
If a=b you’re dividing by the same number resulting in 1.
Unfortunately, I cannot explain/prove the first law though.
Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don’t scream code quality. I prefer yay.
Uptime: 12 mins
Sounds about right.
It’s good enough for NSA to catch a terrorist, not necessarily useful enough for FB to produce targeted ads.
I disagree. Identifying a terrorist and their whereabouts for targeted assassination is not that different to serving personalized ads. It’s all about gathering information about the person.
True, file metadata is unaccessible like message content but I was referring to message metadata which covers ip address and phone number (as you mentioned) but also geo location (possibly live - WhatsApp is an application after all), when you communicate with whom how often. You can derive lots of info from that especially if your communication partners are more careless about their data and may maintain an active social media profile with Meta.
It’s definitely easier than finding out info about someone whose life depends on not being found - like a terrorist.
if you don’t have a FB account, or don’t use your real name there, all they’ll know is that you have a WhatsApp account, but won’t see your messages, unless someone reports your messages
They don’t need your chit-chat to profile you. Metadata profiling is where it’s at and that’s why that whole e2ee introduction was just a marketing ruse. It’s good enough for the NSA, so it’s good enough for Meta. And Meta does collect that data even without an account.
but the same can be said for other OSS alternatives;
Well, your example is not open source, so yes, you cannot trust Telegram. Signal open sourced their server code some time ago. Even with FOSS you have to stay vigilant though and complete trustlessness is hardly achievable (do you trust your device? Your carrier? Your communication partner’s? Etc.)
They asked about privacy, not security. WhatsApp is profiling you.
Tho honestly I can’t imagine how an online app can ever be equal to a local one
Why not? It’s just a web app. It’s not really about the underlying tech making it inferior but about the device interface.
I mean your meme is funny but you could’ve made it even in Paint. The other tools are on another level.
Or start them. Source: Iliad.
Thanks. That’s some advanced internet shit.