Thanks for the rec. Ngl for something like sms though, maybe not maintained isn’t a problem. Heh as long as it doesn’t have any bugs, not like the protocol is changing

My… Guess is that it’s still another data point attaching your IP to you. I haven’t really dug into how true that would be, but there is def fingerprinting stuff that could be shared without location permission. I.e. just a web request gives them your phones ip. Now that might be your cellphone wan ip, That might be your home ip etc… still identifying info.

Imo this isn’t so much about tracking your literal location (though, that too) but also in tracking you across websites without permission.

That means you’re clear and don’t have any offending apps.

Had no idea Textra was on here. I guess back to stock graphene OS messenger.

Gloves are off and you won’t / can’t talk about what you believe about china in a meaningful way. All the rest is deflection and blame on me. I in fact was and have been open to entertaining more than one viewpoint, you have merely twisted what I’ve said to make it seem like I’m the one who won’t actually have a conversation here.

That’s why I asked questions which you refuse to answer.

The conversation here speaks for itself. If you want to blame me for refusing to engage, by all means, do so. But you’re the one spouting CCP revisionist history and refusing to answer questions about China.

Lol when actually asked about the stuff china is doing though you have repeatedly just hand waved it as I won’t go into that. You say stuff to establish yourself as an expert and yet have done nothing but just called me a brain rot liberal. You in fact have 0 concept of my background or upbringing and have just assumed because I have sat on my mobile phone and haven’t taken the time to go point by point explaining what I meant that I am some inferior person with no intellect of ability to think critically about my world view or escape the brainwashing I have been subjected to.

Please, enlighten me on all the truly bad stuff china did in the first years, talk about it. (Implication of your statement being that stuff is now over) Up to this point all you have actually done is speak positively about Tienammen square and hand waved “bad stuff” for china without saying it. Do it. Im worth all this other “time” you spent, but I’m not worth taking the time on actually saying anything bad about china? Still sounds like you aren’t who you say you are.

Are you going to tell me the Chinese government doesn’t threaten dissenters (and dissenters families) at home and abroad? Are you going to describe their state run media as free speech? It’s the government protecting the people from themselves. The censorship and control the government exerts on their society for their own people’s good?

When actually asked about china, to this point all you have said is I’m not actually going to go into that. I call bullshit.

And you describe yourself as allowing your long held beliefs to be challenged. Please tell me more. What are your beliefs?

Yep. It’s a bribe opportunity

Ah China, the perfect nation. Lol

For one so sage, and we’ll versed in the world, I take it you have nothing bad to say about china after all? Their spotless reputation.

They don’t appear to be selling bombs for the genocide in Gaza, and they didn’t destroy Vietnam, as 2 examples of atrocities carried out by the US. Or the war in Afghanistan. I am happy to talk about how shitty Britain and the US are, because fuck anyone involved in those wars. What about China’s role in funding Russia attacking Ukraine? What about the Uyghur people or Tibet?

I guess as a litmess test can you even talk about Tiananmen square?

As a Chinese propagandist can you in fact talk negatively about china? Or will everything you say merely defend it?

In fact, not what I said at all. I said, I agree with your statement that the western media does similar things, but I called out that the ccp doesn’t allow dissent in the media. And you did not actually present evidence that they were worse, just that they did bad things. You basically just ignored what I actually wrote and attacked me for pointing out your whataboutism.

It is possible to consider one thing as bad while also thinking another is also bad.

You are likely a CCP bot and I’m conversing with a computer.

More on with your whataboutism.

Again I wasn’t saying there isn’t a similar usage of propaganda in western media but also there at least has existed the right and existence of other media which dissents from the state propaganda.

To varying degrees, yes. The key is the extent which that is true. china is an exceptionally bad actor here, and has been for a long time. So don’t throw around “everyone has always doing this” to dilute the extent or make it seem less pronounced and “everyone does this to this degree” you’re just engaging in basically whataboutism.

Probably the exploit is referring to taking what is said out of context and using very key clips to drive a narrative.

I agree, but enshitification marches on.

It seems that there may come a point where screenless and disconnected cars become more and more valuable. That and jailbreaking cars is going to become a requirement.

I agree, but it still has the best remote / experience on the market (afaik)

Graphene OS says no

<3 thanks

Is there an easy way to see what instances we are defederated from? (I fully support defedding any white supremacist instances, but also love transparency stuff about how the content I see is influenced)

Couple things on my mind regarding this post.

1. Is there any way for us to have transparency on the bans / the rationale that resulted in the ban? I.e. a ban log with the evidence? Lemmy.zip, feels somewhat like a collective, I know it’s not truly, but I’d like it to lean on that direction, as is many instances of Lemmy. So transparency on when / why people are being banned feels important.

2. Love the idea of thinking about the first time user exprience. We should def make those default rules very obvious with explanations on why they’re there, what each of them does, and a one click url or button to remove all pre-added filters. Short and to the point. These communities create controversial content and can be off-putting for new users. Here’s a lost of all pre-applied filters, the rationale for each, and if you’d like click here to remove all filters and start fresh.

Perhaps hosting on GitHub could be good too.

As a whole I’m concerned for Lemmy if/when we become the target of a misinformation / bot campagin, but not sure of there’s anything to do about it til it happens. But feels like it’s relevant for the defed Convo and the pre-applied filter rule. If, for example, some instances have much higher level of bad actors present.

Fucking religions and the fucked up people that hide behind them