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ChillPill

@ ChillPill @lemmy.world

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  • In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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  • What other apps use Google's "Android Private Compute Core" and therefore don't show mic or camera usage notifications? Not trying to sound all tinfoil hat here, but seriously: can apps other than those from Google use the "Android Private Compute Core"? Even if only Google's own apps can use the "Android Private Compute Core", we can't see the source code for Google's apps as (far as I know, anyway) they are not open source. If an app is not open source, we do not really know what the app is doing in the background; we'll just have to take them at their word.

  • In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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  • Google's "Now playing" feature constantly listens to what's going on in the background to show you what songs are playing. They claim this is done with a local database of song "fingerprints". The feature does not show the microphone indicator because: "...Now Playing is protected by Android's Private Compute Core..."

    I'm not saying that other, non-google, app do this to my knowledge; but the fact that this is a thing is honestly a bit scary.

    Edit: screenshot of the "Now Playing" feature

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  • What is jellystat?

  • Small VPN Access Device?

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  • Plus one for the gli.net router. I've got the Beryl AX and it's great. Ended up going with a wireguard VPN rather than tailscale, but either would work.

  • The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker.

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  • I run the snap version of nextcloud in an ubuntu VM. I know snap gets a lot of flac, but I have a day job and I don't want to spend all my time trying to keep nextcloud running.