GigglyBobble

Both are so stupid and I still chuckle every time I see those.

Java seems to be the culprit then.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

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)?

And now Bob next door pushes his shit first and you have an extra hour fixing conflicts.

Can’t even imagine. I’ve got fed up by the short time I had to configure Maven in plain xml…

I had to read it repeatedly and check if it really said “syntax error”. What will those people do if they encounter their first race condition?

Yes. Keep it simple and stupid.

Thanks for showing us who missed it this jewel of internet culture.

I have the chaotic neutral setup and the open notebook as a third monitor. Does that resolve to true neutral too?

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.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

Thanks. I did not need to know that. Oh well, off to more headbanging then.

That’s actually not that rare when I work later than usual. Some stupid problem my brain is too fried to solve. Eventually I give up, feeling defeat for the whole evening and solve the problem in 10 mins the next morning. Get enough sleep, people.

While true, businesses have it even harder to migrate to Linux (what else is there when talking enshittification?) than private users. Windows and dotnet won’t go anywhere anytime soon.

It’s probably a tiny fraction of the C#/dotnet ecosystem. But hobbyist meme creators mostly care about games, I guess.