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https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-execs-decrypt-rival-apps-usage-snap-youtube-2024-3

This is a 'man-in-the-middle approach,'" the email said.

Yep, this article has more details about it

Please no, not bigger! Its been months and I've only reached Wyrms Crossing this week! I have so many other games to play and not enough time to play them all

You probably need to make the script executable first https://linuxize.com/post/chmod-command-in-linux/

    
chmod +x start.n.sh


  

Fennec is a Firefox fork on F-droid, use this as your browser and install ublock origin as your adblocker. Top right menu in fennc then press add-ons and find ublock origin and install it. Customise by pressing the top right menu of fennec -> add-ons -> ublock origin -> settings

Then just use the direct download sites in the megathread to download your files from. You can follow something like this video to harden ublock and make sure you block the ads that pretend to be download links.

OR

If you want to seed (upload the files you download from the torrent) back to other people like you, then use fennec, the same as above, but use the torrent sites linked in the mega thread instead of direct download sites and use a torrent client like libretorent on the F-droid repo to add the magnet links or torrent files you get from these sites. It will start downloading the files and also uploading the parts you have downloaded to other people that want them.

I always recommend a VPN and on android you can turn on always on VPN and and block connections without VPN in android settings but that's up to you and what your country is like when it comes to piracy

OR

Others might be able to suggest a streaming setup? But I don't stream anything so can't help you there

Check under Display Configuration, its at the top of the list where Gamma is in your screenshot. I'm also using Wayland, so maybe its not available for X11?

Edit: The archwiki might be more helpful, it shows how to access the settings depending on your set up https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate

Flowit (Fill all boxes with the color of their border) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.bytehamster.flowitgame/

2048 Open Fun Game (2048 game with AI, Replay, History and other fun features, Open Source, no ads) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.andstatus.game2048/

Minesweeper - Antimine (A puzzle game where you search for all hidden mines. ) https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.lucanlm.antimine/

Shattered Pixel Dungeon (A roguelike game based on Pixel Dungeon) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon/

Blockinger (Tetris clone) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blockinger.game/

If your screen is turning black when you go full screen, try turning Adaptive Sync to Never. This has solved the problem for me.

System Settings -> Display & Monitor -> Adaptive Sync

Just a completely blank screen atm, I updated to plasma 6 and it has not been going well lol

If you know anyone that has a card, ask them can you use it or ask in local groups. On reddit people used to share pictures of their clubcards so other people could scan it when they shop. The card holders get loads of extra points and the people that use the cards get the discount and privacy, win-win

I've been deGoogled for years, the battery saving was probably from not having Gapps running in the background, I know that Googles and Co are constantly phoning home but to say that they are turning on peoples mics and either running a service locally to transcribe the audio or sending whole audio files to themselves for marketing is unsubstantiated and a bit ridiculous, there's way easier ways to profile users through behavior analysis on their phones whether it be what apps and how long they use them or what posts/ ads user either scroll past slower or actually tap on.

There's a very obvious difference between a few kilobits of text and a few megabits of audio and people would easily see if megabits of data were constantly being sent to from their phones every day

Why waste so much energy and bandwidth trying to figure out what the mic picks up when the majority of it would be inaudible because of background noise or phones being in peoples pockets/bags when they can glean so much more data from how a user interacts with their phone for so much cheaper

Facebook isn't randomly turning on your microphone to sell you more targeted ads, as some conspiracy theories have asserted

the company admitted that it had been employing third-party contractors to transcribe the audio messages that users exchanged on its Messenger app.

They're using data that people sent to their servers. If they were turning on peoples mics and sending the recordings to themselves then anyone that monitors their network traffic at all would notice all of that data being uploaded.

The amount of battery used and data that your phone would be sending if it was constantly recording and sending the data to Google would be very obvious

Its more likely that Google and Co have just profiled you really well and or you searched for that specific topic before. Or that topic was an ad that you clicked on in the past or that you slowed down when scrolling to look at

Newer android version notify you in the top right when your microphone is active and you should also be able to see when the last time, down to the minute, that any app accessed the mic in settings

I've been degoogled since 2019 so I have never actually used RCS so I'm not 100% sure.

If I were to guess I would assume it has something to do with Apples support for RCS. The last time I checked, Apple won't support end-to-end encryption in RCS and the messages are only encrypted in transit so maybe Android users that will use RCS with Apple users will have all of the chats saved unencrypted within the system folders and that would be no bueno for Google

But I'm honestly not sure, I have no interest in learning about RCS unless GSMA helps open source apps integrate it so I'm not stuck with either Samsungs or Googles messaging apps

Its unlikely that they'd get involved, RCS might be default on Googles messenger app but people still mainly use alternatives like WhatsApp so there's not a big enough user base that would be affected and since Google is pushing RCS as interoperal, DSA won't apply.

As of 2024, Google is now quietly blocking RCS messages on unlocked/rooted android devices. Even if your device only has an unlocked bootloader, it is now at risk of being quietly shadowbanned from sending RCS text messages.

According to the OP that opened the issue with Google, it doesn't work with devices with unlocked bootloaders so it would affect the majority of custom ROM users since very few custom ROMs and devices support relocking the bootloader, and I think it probably would still affect these devices too since the last time I relocked a bootloader with DivestOS I still had the error message about system integrity on boot

Rooted users can probably bypass this issue with some Magisk modules the same way they do with GPay and banking apps.

If Google really does want to push RCS then disabling access to the more technically inclined users now seems a bit silly.

I thought they'd at least wait for wider adoption before locking it down like they're doing with YouTube and ad blockers, especially with imessage and WhatsApp being such big competitors. At least in Europe, I don't see anyone dropping WhatsApp for RCS anytime soon.

• Less bloat ware/spy ware - custom ROMs don't come prepackaged with random shady games from shady companies or random shady social media apps from shady social media companies.
• Better privacy and security implementations along with DeGoogling - a lot of ROMs offer Gappless ROMs which is really important since Google is way to big and has too much influence on android OEMs and its easily the biggest ad company in the world and constantly refused to respect peoples privacy. e.g GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/features and DivestOS https://divestos.org/
• Long term software support to help against e-waste e.g LineageOS supports so many phones who's manufacturers have stopped supplying software updates. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
• Customization e.g Crdroid includes loads of custom settings from a variety of other custom ROMs and OEM ROMs that rarely get implemented by any stock ROMs. https://crdroid.net/
• Rooting android phones gives users the ability to access system files that they may not have been able to backup if the apps don't support it. It also allows for a full system backup and restore
• It also allows users to block ads and unwated connections without using a local VPN e.g adaway

Enabling Google to dictate what a user can do with their own device by limiting features is a slippery slope and the last thing we want to happen is for Android to end up like iOS with its walled garden approach.

I use tags and categories in qbittorrent to know if I have made copies of the files to other disks, you could do something similar by naming with a sticky note/ label and making a corresponding category in qb

I also use tree to list all of my TV episodes individually so I can mark off the ones that I've reencoded and added subtitles to. You could keep similar text files with trees of each drive in your home directory to quickly search them to see which drive has the file you're looking for

Thank you for putting this together, this is great!

The link you posted sends me to Mayerthorpe on imdb so typed that in on btdig(.)com and the first result is "Mayerthorpe.2008.SatRip.avi" this might be it? Does the movie have different names in different regions?

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/417 it was requested back in 2019 for Firefox and is listed as a known issue on Mull https://divestos.org/pages/broken#mull it seems like Mozilla has no interest in implementing it. If you're rooted you should be able to access the file though