local backups is responsible

yeah you might do that, but how many non-technical people can be bothered to do so?

As usual, root and sshfs make this all a lot more bearable. Alas, no online-banking or digital health insurance services, lol.

The server, and plausibly at least one secret service. Telegram datacenters are located in Florida, Amsterdam and Singapure.. guess local jurisdiction applies.

I am 100% convinced that whatsapp has backdoors and so I might as well just use the convenient one.

Because of all the laggy javascript, wasting precious compute and gigawatts of power just to make buttons dance, track us and shove ads up ours?

Websites used to be below 100KiB - now they come with MEGABYTES of obfuscated JS.. wtf

Though obviously, it's not the individual developer to blame but the incentive system.

PostmarketOS is a complete degoogled mobile ecosystem, actually. How about we commit resources into that?

Personally I'm pretty happy with GrapheneOS (Android AOSP distribution) and also donating to it. It works for me, its licensed under a free software license, there are plenty of cool free software applications available. I'm familiar with Android application development if I need something custom.

Unless Android (itself, not Google Play Services because I don't depend on them) goes closed source I don't see a reason to switch to something (imo) inferior.

I have nothing PmOS, phosh and other free mobile smartphone projects and will probably redirect my resources towards them if Android goes closed source.

With a bit of reading between the letters it seems obvious that for us anthropocentrics, humans are the implicit baseline measure for intelligence.

Gone already?

"I've only had alien mushrooms show up once" gonna be my reassuring quote of the day, thanks : )

Well the time filters (before/after:date) still seem to work, but for controversial / hot topics, somehow, more recent videos tend to still show up at the top. Try "scandal after:2010 before:2012"..

I've stumbled upon very valuable content with very low view numbers - the algorithms spiral around spectacularity and provocation, not quality or insight.

Then it's on you to share it !

But to whom, I have no followers and a blog update has been on my TODO list for two decades..