ReversalHatchery

@ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is working on a new wireless file transfer option for Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  why do I feel like we have dozens of viable options already for this task?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is working on a new wireless file transfer option for Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately we have Syncthing instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  counterpoint is 1) about grapheneos, a rom with extremely limited device support, so it is not at all representative of how easy it is to install, and 2) uses a browser tge privacy community advises to steer clear of for good reason.

  also the webusb permission is very dangerous, because most people were literally trained by the advertising industry to always click allow and agree mindlessly, so I would not recommend anyone to make use of that, or any browser that supports it. and it is not only dangerous because of the unintended allowings.

  in counterpoint 2) you make an assumption as big as portugal, which I also addressed above. lineageos and most other roms won’t pass the Google Approval safetynet check, and lots of apps will refuse to work. banking apps, DRM-based apps like netflix, even some work related apps in my country

  GPay sure , just get a case with a cardholder

  though I’ll keep that advice in mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to add them. I want to remove them (if I had such a phone), like the top level comment in this thread says.

  Adb commands for uninstalling system apps exist

  which in my experience causes bootloops. even App Manager’s recent debloater feature warns of this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you are making choices for others. some apps require it. and then the post was about removing gapps, and my point was that it’s not possible to just uninstall it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  most people are not

  • technically literate to install a custom rom with a computer’s command prompt
  • willing to give up bank apps and sometimes phone based payment

  even just considering the first point, it is really not just “some” effort. sure we can do it, but this is a very small bubble.
  I think it’s comparable to replacing the windows on your house all by yourself, from selection, across acquisition and taking out the old one, to installing the new one nicely and with insulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ok, but that’s not what most people on this world use. they are basically stuck with a rom that has google services integrated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they didn’t mean to buy from a reseller, but to buy from people who had it and are selling it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  most people for whom I help configure their phones they don’t want to buy a new one. and they are often terribly afraid of used phones. I don’t have any google services on my phone, the problem is not about me, but lets be honest, the absolute majority of the world’s population

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s a replacement to be used on a clean system, but it does not help removing an integrated gms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you can just silence all the notifications, and still know which messaging app out of the 5 has new messages, and whether you got emails, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the modt noticable change is when the developer built all functionality around every kind of firebase service, and didn’t care to handle the case when they are not available

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not my experience, but maybe they changed something recently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s true, I meant when you install opengapps to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disable Your Mobile Ad ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  good luck “removing” that while not breaking the system. It so deeply integrates itself that you can’t really remove it even from a lineage os install

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it does. it locally aggregates, collects data about what you do on your computer across the days and weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it is, and that is still happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the point is that making it local-only is not significantly better. it does not solve a major problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mistakes were made⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what the actual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah the famous linux phones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you only look at the top of the page, it’s like saying trump is the white house lab leak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encryption Is Not a Crime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  be gay, do crime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  their service is very cheap, though. but yeah if you can selfhost it, and expose it to family that’s good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but above all, fuck you if you care at all about your privacy, and if you think it is more important than our profits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m never, ever downloading a windows 11 ISO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frfr no cap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can imagine this is what is needed to grab the attention of the instagram generation.

  is it enough for the tiktok generation, though? the picture is not moving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  never - for now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think their point is that E2EE’s protection starts at one end, and ends at the other, and the ends themselves are not particularly trustable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Whatsapp Contacts Bypasser": Open a chat in Whatsapp using only a phone number!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  well, you have a point. mandatory work group chats are still a question, but this may solve the majority of the problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Whatsapp Contacts Bypasser": Open a chat in Whatsapp using only a phone number!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it is really not solved if it’s not abput people wanting to reach OP, but OP needing to reach other people, like those at work