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Cake day: September 13th, 2025

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  • From the article… Google changed that so the data only lives on your device if you even turn that feature on.

    You need to opt in to sync to cloud now.

    On the other hand, they can request the same data from the few cell phone providers and get it in ways that you can’t turn off unless you just don’t use your phone or put it in a faraday pouch.

    The warrants are the problem, the tech most people won’t give up.

    Warrantless stingray devices, warrants under seal to Verizon/ATT/whoever… That’s all something you can only avoid by not taking a phone or modern car, period.









  • We’re in a period where the tools, agentic systems in this case, are gated by large companies.

    This is like if IBM or Cray in the 60s through 90s only allowed rental of mainframes that they owned, and they can cut you off.

    That wasn’t the case then, but just like Google shutting down the father’s entire Google account cause the pediatric doctor wanted a photo of the kid who had a rash to see if they needed to be brought into the ER or a cream, then got his phone (Google Fi), email (Gmail), and all his paperwork backups (drive) cut off… When you don’t own the infrastructure you live at the whims of things you can not even appeal to.

    This is a story about people and companies putting their entire business workflows in the hands of big tech who really don’t care about anyone.

    So, AI drama aside, the moment your life or business is fully dependent on an unreliable partner, this is what happens.




  • Linux certified?

    I’ve got a fucking 1997 spectrum analyzer running Linux.

    What’s that even mean? It runs Linux? It is Linux optimized?

    Oh tell me it comes with a “Linux Inside” sticker on it.

    Realistically I’d imagine they are trying to say all the hardware drivers are supported… That’s just an annoying marketing term for something that should be easy.





  • Not seen any evidence that this is a research diver, and the behavior seems to prove he’s not.

    As a diver, fuck this dude. You don’t touch wildlife while diving. If it’s ugly leave it alone, if it’s pretty leave it alone, if it’s unusual leave it alone. They teach everyone this and other divers will call you out on doing this shit.

    Just fucking leave it alone.