Awk is a turing complete programming language.

While there is no system for monitoring the companies, experts can reverse engineer the apps and debug the devices. Thusfar, experts who have done this have found no evidence of these types of activities. All the evidence is anecdotal. I believe if this was a widespread practice, evidence would have been uncovered by now and we would have been reported on widely.

The implication here is really scarier than if they were listening to our conversations. It means they do not need to listen to our conversations. The telemetry they already have is so good that in many cases they know what you will say with such high degrees of accuracy that people assumed that they had to be spying on their conversations.

Either way, we need to demand an end to this unprecedented mass surveillance.

Sometimes it helps to feel bad for the person rather than get angry. As Gandalf said in the LOTR:

“Frodo: ‘It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill Gollum when he had the chance.’
Gandalf: 'Pity? It’s pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment.”

Remember that plumber earns his livelihood on his professional reputation. If he cannot keep an appointment, he is failing at his career.

I got ISDN from work in 1995. MSN was my ISP for some reason. It was glorious! In FPS shooters I had a 30 ping while everyone else had 200. I was a beast !

This seems relevant -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsAd4HGJS4o

TLDW: You have to change your mindset. Do not accept the default, be mindful and self-aware.

It is exactly what happened with the settlement of native american lands in the US. Settlers move into land given by treaty to the Indians, when trouble occurs the military is sent in and the Indians are inevitably ejected from their lands.

To quote Carl Sagan, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

• Take Screenshots

• Customize Quick Settings

• Disable Preinstalled Apps

• Revoke Permissions

• Change System Fonts

• Restrict Cellular Data

• Dark Mode

• Encrypt Device Storage

• Connect to VPNs

• Restart Your Phone With One Tap

Who would buy this and how would they monetize it? In browser ads? A freemium paid model to remove the ads?

How would that work exactly? Google would sell Chrome but keep paying teams if developers to work on Chromium?

Do you have a few minutes to learn about our lord and savior Linux?

Had one for my iPaq in the early 2000s.

Does Fedora have a long term support version? Last time I used it a decade ago I had to upgrade every 1-2 years.

I do not disagree, but I was surprised when it claimed to have consciousness and that AI should have rights.

Heads Up on your phone is good. We play it with the fam on the holidays. You hold the phone facing away from you with the answer and your teammates give you clues.

You should be continually contributing over time allowing you to benefit from the dips by buying low. This offsets the losses and is called dollar cost averaging,

I will never forget the joys of the playing Half-Life 1 on max settings with my Diamond Monster3D Voodoo2.

I found happiness. I am almost done with it. You want it after me?

This is good advice. Keep the conversation short, formal and boring. Bring up the weather as a signal there is little of interest in the conversation. When you are ready to disengage say “I will let you get back to your work now”

You should name it Hawk, so people can call it Hawk-Tui.