Didnt have an account for years but needed to make one recently for some work bs. Anyway as much of a privacy nightmare as it is. It seems to be the way a lot of hiring is done these days. My friend found all his last few dev roles on there. I started on it late so forget half of the folks i went to college with etc but such is life.

I do hate the falseness and corporate fetishization that goes on there. The mind virus is on full display.

Pressing F to pay my respects.

Sorry to hear that OP.

When old employer was bought out they tried to move us on to windows. It was shit. After non stop issues they gave in and let us keep linux.

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Point was the site is showing a price in sterling suggesting it is being viewed in the UK, which is now not an EU member thus has it’s own laws regarding this stuff.

The Uk is out of the EU

You say you were not using a vpn. Then the site has your ip and probably has meta/google ads or other shit running on it and links the product with your ip.

This data is added to some data broker/ ad network and you see an ad when you visit a site using this network as you have “signalled” interest in the product by viewing the product page the first time.

I dont see fdroid blocking the app. I think signal is in the guardian project repos. Anyway a repo can just be hosted in switzerland or on tor or something. I would be more worried about govenments blocking access to the signal servers.

All this theatre in the name of protecting kids, Yet the pedo formally known as prince andrew is still walking free.

It is available in fdroid

Freedom isn’t free, its a hefty fuckin fee …

What child has a VPN ?

Dont buy them for them. Kids have no money unless you give it to them

Copies of important documents or photos you cant afford to lose. Then leave it in a safe place. Encrypt it if you like.

Good to see more software offering an fdroid option.

Use a sim in a portable hostpot or a second dumb phone powered off

Financially they use trusts and LLCs to shield their assets so they are not in their names or directly owned.

They can afford to hire specialists

If i dont know the number i dont answer, if they ring again and its spam i block the number. I also only answer if its from my country.

“less”. If its a small file i use cat. If i want the top I use “head” or "tail’ for the bottom. For a specific string i use “grep”

Fartsniffer 🤣

They will probably just show message to Swedish ip addresses and state that they cannt provide you with the binary as you are using a Swedish ip.

Something very clear to say use a VPN 😉

If you trust the initial install then unless there is a warning about the signing key you are good. Only signal devs can sign the builds so if you installed the play store version then updated with their standalone apk or fdroid version then it should just work as the signing key is the same.

Guardian project are just publishing signals apk files as the signature matches.