its interesting when people seem to intentionally misunderstand statements.

I’m not a fan, but obviously, AI on the desktop is not about the CLI and bash, which are not the desktop.

I hope it will be that way. in the end it could be the incentive to improve accessibility and UI automation tools for wayland.

You’re right, you’re not going to achieve complete anonymity if you’re interacting with Google services in any way, but you can reduce the amount of information that they receive.

its not even about complete anonymity. google has zero business in when I’m logging into my utilities company account, or other semi-governmental portals!

“what are those? I only know duplavé.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20201114190040/https://hfet.org/google-recaptcha-privacy-nightmare/

protonmail too

wasn’t there a DB conversion document?

Because it’s plausible to keep using it that way, and because they are protecting their asses

which means can change the DNS servers in the router for a mitm Attack if the default password hasn’t been changed (and nobody changes that)

or if the device can succesfully spoof DHCP offers. perhaps crashing the real one, or just being faster somehow

as an ad company they know that perfectly well

so, only the most expensive phones not even my small company will afford

right, but that’s less of a problem

Right now in the US, the number of active LE officers is outnumbered 400 to 1. Meaning each police officer/FBI agent would have to keep an eye on 400 people at a time to get to the kind of surveillance state

that’s silly. nobody is watching your messages scroll by on a screen. its mostly automated.

They do monitor individual “Profiles” when they have justifiable reasons for it. Monitoring aprofile can include everything, phone monitoring, social media monitoring, physical monitoring. But again, you must have been cause of serious worry for them to start such investigations on you.

like being a “terrorist”: a peaceful protester for peace in Palestine. they are detaining people for attending those protests.

but we are still very very far for that Orwell’s 1984 type of surveillance, merely from a technology and capacity standpoint.

we already have the technological capacity.

well, for us

not yet, I guess it’ll take some time to arrive there

does not really matter when brakes are only activated electronically, sadly

Do you have a good reason to believe authorities might be monitoring your phone specifically out of the hundreds of millions of people the could pick from?

they don’t have to monitor any specific phone. that would be like, collecting the info but throwing away most of it. if they are doing something, they are monitoring at the provider level.

They don’t have the capacity to monitor every single phone or conversation.

it does not take much processing power to search in SMS messages as they are sent. that’s just very small plain text messages.

phone calls would be different, but unless it’s volte, processing is easier than transmission, because of the very low bitrate.

If you just go about your life minding your business

“minding your business” means not protesting to leave a foreign country in peace. from a point of view, it’s not our business.

Neither do cars.

maybe you don’t know but it’s not enough to start working on a solution when traditional cryptography has already failed. you have to start much much earlier, to have a solution much earlier. because most things encrypted one way will not be re-encrypted with new tech later, for various reasons.