Soulseek is my goto

No it has very little overhead. But you'll need to choose between tailscale of mullvad on your phone since you can't have two different VPN clients running at once on your phone.

And? That's meaningless unless it's enforced.

Hence the reason of the the lawsuit

Prediction markets are the insider trader's wet dream. Enjoy while it's unregulated and offshore!

F. nucleatum animalis. Cancer causing bacteria. No l, there's not much you can do. Results of the 2024 study by Nature.

https://www.cancer.gov/...

The employer owns everything you produce at work. Documents, code, emails, everything.

What you're looking for is a VPS provider.

You know which other group of people dehumanized their victims? Nazis.

Boo. Sync was the app I used.

They already have lol. Beating a dead horse. Whataboutism is getting lame.

We know

The "windows just works" claim is stupid. Especially the statement the author makes on how you just double click an icon and it just works everytime and if ever there is an issue, someone else will eventually fix it.

It's also opt in. Although I'd be surprised if anyone commenting here is actually using google photos in the first place.

Meh, as a teenager I never would have purchased something from my dealer that didn't get me high. It'd be a complete waste of money with my perspective back then. You'd already have to be addicted to be desperate enough to buy cigs from a dealer.

Article behind paywall.

An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking. Each company disputed or took issue with the research, with Google saying it was based on a “fundamental misunderstanding” of how its product works.

The webXray California Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March and found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of cookie tracking. California has stringent and well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which allows users to, among other things, opt out of the sale of their personal information. There’s a system called Global Privacy Control (GPC), which includes a browser extension that indicates to a website when a user wants to opt out of tracking.

According to the webXray audit, Google failed to let users opt out 87 percent of the time. “Googleʼs failure to honor the GPC opt-out signal is easy to find in network traffic. When a browser using GPC connects to Googleʼs servers it encodes the opt-out signal by sending the code ‘sec-gpc: 1.’ This means Google should not return cookies,” the audit said. “However, when Googleʼs server responds to the network request with the opt-out it explicitly responds with a command to create an advertising cookie named IDE using the ‘set-cookie’ command. This non-compliance is easy to spot, hiding in plain sight.”

The audit said that Microsoft fails to opt out users in the same way and has a failure rate of 50 percent in the web traffic webXray viewed. Meta’s failure rate was 69 percent and a bit more comprehensive. “Meta instructs publishers to install the following tracking code on their websites. The code contains no check for globally standard opt-out signals—it loads unconditionally, fires a tracking event, and sets a cookie regardless of the consumerʼs privacy preferences,” the audit said. It showed a copy of Meta’s tracking data which contains no GPC check at all.

webXray is an independent technology company that runs a search engine that lets people look for privacy violations on the internet. Its founder Timothy Libert is the former lead of cookie policy and compliance at Google. Libert told 404 Media he felt his job at Google was to protect its users but that his bosses didn’t agree. He left the company in 2023 and started webXray.

“Shortly before I left my boss told me, direct quote, my job is to protect the company. There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

Yeah I'm on .world too. Ruud, the sysadmin, is working on improving reply delays.

Lol

The idea of not having a government issued photo ID in the US is inane to me. I didn't know it wasn't a basic thing as a us citizen.

In my case I work with a family member in another city. We connect via VPN (tailscale works well too if you prefer that) and push the data we want to backup. Something like nextcloud could be used too, although a regular file explorer works just fine once you're connected.

Now mind you it's mostly family photos, so not petabytes of data.