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)?
Thanks for the decimal places on the percentage. Wanna be precise with that one.
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You can be goddamn polite and still swear without automatically becoming a fucking asshole.
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It’s mandatory for online boasting.
I think nuclear terrorism would have been the more realistic future in that case.
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 Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don’t scream code quality.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.
It’s like that in other democracies too. It’s like analysists about the markets. They all know jack-shit but need to report something to justify their existence in media. The outcome is usually close enough to make them stay but never quite the actual result.
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.
It is possible to estimate?
No. Everything from zero to everyone here may still use Reddit in parallel.
Personally, I use kbin exclusively now.
Ha, good one! Got me interested, how the standards bodies handle something like that. Found this in the Wikipedia article for byte:
The unit symbol for the byte is specified in IEC 80000-13, IEEE 1541 and the Metric Interchange Format[10] as the upper-case character B.
In the International System of Quantities (ISQ), B is the symbol of the bel, a unit of logarithmic power ratio named after Alexander Graham Bell, creating a conflict with the IEC specification. However, little danger of confusion exists, because the bel is a rarely used unit. It is used primarily in its decadic fraction, the decibel (dB), for signal strength and sound pressure level measurements, while a unit for one-tenth of a byte, the decibyte, and other fractions, are only used in derived units, such as transmission rates.
Somewhat disappointing. “There’s a conflict but it’s fine”.
But there is also nothing contradictory or wrong with the unit MB.
And I didn’t say that. Admittedly, the constraint “If the image size is defined as binary” probably could’ve been expressed better (I’m not a native speaker). File sizes are usually calculated in binary units (at least by Windows and the Linux distros I know - even though Windows continues to claim those are megabytes and Linux adopted the standardized units) and I’d bet that’s the case for file.coffee, too.
Oh, well, I’m pretty sure we’re not really disagreeing anyway. So let’s conclude with the obligatory relevant xkcd.
Thanks for the link. That’s funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.