No mobile website where I can block trackers, and the app comes with at least 4
- Google Firebase Analytics
- Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core
(location advertisement analytics) - OneSignal
- Sentry
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When I was 11, on 17th Nov 1989, in Czechoslovakia, my father was watching the evening news on our (black and white) TV, as usual.
There was a protest and the state media was reporting on it. When the reporter said, "our camera broke down and we can only show black and white pictures", my father IMMEDIATELY jumped up and angrily said, "that's bs, you don't want to show how they [the protesting students] got beaten up [by the police]!"
This was an interesting life lesson. So yeah, sure, technical difficulties..
They should be a de jure admission of guilt, is what they should be
Important to note that most of the "AI will take your job" rhetoric is spun up by the AI industry, not fact
Remember when millionaire weirdos would brag about setting up internet access in random towns just to put people on their preferred cryptocurrency? They called it "banking the unbanked," but we all know what it was really code for.
“I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
On the bright side: The government can't afford to bail out something this big with no purpose.
How's that?
AI bros do venerate science-fiction writers an unhealthy amount. Fictional fearmongering like "AI2027" is taken as fact, an actual AI doomsday cult leader has no credentials except publishing fantasy fiction, people like Neal Stephenson are treated almost as prophets etc... So if that's the bit of the article you take issue with, I don't think it's a problem
Then again we're on the internet so there's always at least one guy who'd hyperfocus on monitoring something like this.
Not just the Internet, but Wikipedia. It's catnip to people who hyperfocus on topics.
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People incorrectly assume "European alternative" means "better alternative" when sometimes, that's not the case. Privacy needs to be approached with skepticism, no matter what surface-level credential something has.
- Open-source
- Paid
- End-to-end encrypted
- European
Things like these might be table stakes, but they should not be the end of your search for an alternative product.
I agree. I think the average person just wants Roomy (or Matrix) to do what Discord already does. Voice. Video. Desktop streaming. All this haggling about protocols and decentralization don't matter, but that's what the article (and the app?) seem most focused on.