It’s so wild how laws just have no idea what to do with you if you just add one layer of proxy. “Nooo I’m not stealing and plagerizing, it’s the AI doing it!”

Companies have been compiling lists of which IP blocks are consumer Internet and which are cloud services. That’s why some VPNs are now selling home internet IP VPNs.

Same. My first "smart"phone was a Nokia N95 and I had so much excitement back then Then I realized: hey man, I can’t actually do anything that I need to do on this thing… But at least it takes really nice photos?

There’s a problem with this “give them what they want and they won’t pirate” when it comes to Spotify, yt music, etc: They can change the terms at any moment. AKA enshittification.

If you downloaded it or bought a CD? Ain’t no enshittification.

I appreciate that Android changed from an opt-out to an opt-in model when it comes to notification permissions, but it’s still not enough. I can’t believe the mobile OS world became so much worse than actual computing. What a corporate hell scape.

Canada going to be 52nd state–after Greendland 😆😆 (just kidding)

So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.