I wonder if eventually we'll go back to either "more open" or "more decentralised" versions of these, in the longer term. I know there are quite a few that exist, which is in a way already "somewhat decentralised", but some may need to be more "inter-connected" to at least have some of the core "moat" functionalities of GitHub e.g. "see all things this person worked on", "how active are they in the overall community", etc. I can think of some technical bridges, at least...?
I had recently (months ago) rewritten my personal blog to nextjs from wordpress, and the part I struggled the most was with the editor. It was so painful that I stopped at the last 20%, so I don't have any new posts on it... Maybe it's time for a new rewrite.
I'm not sure if I've understood your question, but I'll take a shot:
By using an offline GPS app, you no longer have the need to coordinate with a centralized server. In exchange, you will lose traffic data. There may be some app that gives traffic with a level of privacy loss that meets your needs, but generally the data collection compromises your privacy, and the data is valuable... Anyway, OSMAnd is a popular F-Droid app I remember hearing mentioned.
But, if you don't need traffic, then you could theoretically navigate with all your radios off, so you wouldn't be talking to towers. The experience will probably be quite slow, even with all the navigation constellations available now. The increasing incorporation of L2 and L5 GPS may improve that, but generally you're asking for niche performance, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
I think people typically leave data on and prefer to just buy prepaid phone plans anonymously, paired with some combination of VPN usage and not using the phone for anything with a login, hoping to break the chain of tracking between the phone and the user's identity. It's probably enough to stay out of geofence warrants, at least.
I appreciate your suggestions but why is it so hard to have something akin to a real 'private mode' in Google Maps app where it doesn't track you at all.
Why is it so hard to just pay the ransom for your encrypted data without funding further ransomware or nuclear weapons development in North Korea? It's baked into the very core of the offering.
You can adjust some settings to reduce targeted advertising and ad measurements and such. I do get worse (irrelevant) ads but it's not like Google is making less money, I never click them either way
You’re judging two wildly different generations of children based on one of them being able to do something the other one wasn’t even thought.
Imagine training a chihuahua to do tricks, then looking at an untrained golden retriever, not even try to teach them, and saying “why are chihuahuas so much smarter than golden retrievers?”
> No one said "smarter", they said "more skilled".
No one said dogs, either, they said schoolchildren. It’s an analogy. Either way, it makes zero difference to the point. You could change my word to “skilled” and it would work the same. Skills are learned and thought, that’s what matters.
> A perfectly legitimate answer to that question might be that we stopped teaching them.
Which is what I wrote as the first sentence. The second is merely an analogy to exemplify that notion.
Well, presumably outliers exist. I don't think we have a large enough sample to conclude anything. Pretty sure there are plenty of children these days who are significantly more "skilled" (just like back then).
Of course modern writing/drawing utensils are on an entirely different level and paper was very expensive back then e.g. an average labourer supposedly only made
enough per day to purchase less than 100 sheets, so practising was expensive.
No. They are large and presumably have some sort of trust, and can lose the trust of people if they do particularly shady things. This may not bear itself out in practice of course. But a game studio has something to lose, whereas hobbyist developer 73683 asking for root permissions for no real gain to you has nothing to lose from any number of things like scraping sites you visit or using your browser as a tor exit node or any number of things.
yeah, I'm sure Genshin impact's creators went out of business when their Kernel access anti-cheat was hacked by ransomware or more recently the hacks mid live broadcasted tournaments (don't remember which game, I think it was apex).
I mean that's what kids, teenagers, and young adults and non technical people in general are known for: their prudence and good technical decision making.
lets not talk about the other risk vector that Tencent, a chinese company is the one buying most of these game studios that have Kernel access (not exclusively).
Which is the problem with games having kernel access for anti-cheat and <whatever-else-they-want-to-do-with-it>.
You don't know what they are doing in there. You don't really know who they are. Even if you do, corporate machinations might mean who has access to the facility to <what-ever-they-want-to-do> on your PC could change at any moment without your knowledge.
Most end-users are blissfully unaware of the potential consequences of these level of access (Games having kernel access, and browser extensions having all-sites/all-contexts access).
I use yjs myself and you can choose to serialise anything you like, most solutions allow saving snapshots of the document state. You can also store any incoming changes too for more fine grained undos and redos etc. AFAIK the state in typical solutions is a binary representation.
