So did your deflock day, unearned arrogance, and potty mouth make things better? Oh, it didn’t? Who could have possibly predicted that?

Nothing, of course. We are going to continue to be tracked and spied upon regardless. Anyone with a phone in their pocket is already being spied upon 24/7. So-called smart devices and security cameras have also been recording us for years. Even our TV sets are now recording audio.

But having a rallying cry is enough for some people who want to rage and break things to not feel as bad about committing crimes. Anything to avoid that cognitive dissonance. Same group of criminal losers that have been calling for political assassinations and that riot and destroy people’s property and businesses. There’s always an excuse, but they just want to kill and steal. Not actually to solve anything, just to satisfy themselves.

We might stop the surveillance state somehow, but not by following childish suggestions like OP’s that are nothing but pretext.

Depends on what you’re trying to defend against. If it’s against a burglar, full disk encryption is plenty, and you can go ahead and save those passwords in the browser and it doesn’t matter at all. If it’s against your own government you’re probably screwed no matter what you do, just a matter of how long it takes them to notice you. Eventually you’ll get tired of being in jail and will cough up what they want to know.

Oh, that’s not good.

How’s the Android app for it?

Nobody moved the goal posts, you simply picked a terrible example but you’re too arrogant to admit it.

Someone doesn’t choose where they’re born, even if that land was stolen. It’s simply not their fault. But they do choose whether to create or use an LLM based on theft. So it’s not remotely the same.

We also didn’t choose whether our ancestors were slave owners, whether they committed various atrocities, etc. Same with other things our country did in the past. We’re not responsible for any of that. But we can hold some measure of responsibility for things that happened once we were alive if it’s based on how we voted.

We also don’t choose anything about our body at birth, attractions, genetics, etc. Yet people judge and condemn people for those as well. People who do judge others for those things are garbage, IMO. Yet that’s the kind of gross argument you’re basically making here.

Judge what someone chooses, for their actions, not for what they didn’t have any say in. And, again, people choose whether or not to use an LLM.

Can’t shame someone for being born in a certain place.

Maybe there’s some way, but Google didn’t want me to know about it. All their docs made it seem like I would have needed to have an enterprise version (no clue what they call it but you know what I mean) of Google services to get it to work, not the free version. I tried for a couple days anyway and couldn’t solve it, so I figured it was a good opportunity to de-google my email. Once I switched to Proton I had it set up in hardly any time at all, and all the different authentication protocols too. Longest part of the process was simply waiting for record propagation.

That works to some extent, although certain receivers like Yahoo will bounce messages because it breaks sender authentication protocols. I had to switch from Gmail to Proton (paid, the free version doesn’t allow it) to fix that.

Registration walled. Anyone happen to have the full text?

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You just proved his point and don’t even realize it.

I paid the fee for a dev account near the beginning of Android. Haven’t had any apps published in over a decade, but from what I understand my account is grandfathered in so I don’t have to jump through as many hoops to get something published if I chose to, compared to newer accounts. Anyhow, since I have an account I suppose I’m unaffected by this decision. Still, it goes against the original spirit of Android as a free and developer-centric platform and I condemn it.

I need to know more about where you stand on gender/sexuality so I can decide whether to upvote or downvote you. /s