Wants privacy and security, posts in GitHub lol. Jk sort of. In all seriousness, it's an interesting project I'm going to check out. Thanks for the hard work.

Edit: fixed your link https://github.com/pablo-chacon/the-substrate

Rough. I'm all for PC, but you're about to find out how expensive PC gaming is with the "memory crisis". I've been with Xbox myself for 20 years and my game library is so big I couldn't imagine switching. My gaming PC was over 2500 a few years ago and it sits there collecting dust bc consoles are easier to fire up and play here and there. It was also easier to share licenses with games to play co-op with my kids. I'll be ditching soon I feel cuz that falls to the wayside more and more, and GP keeps going up and up. No longer can i just pay $5/mo gold for online, its at least $10 for no good reason.

I guess I can't blame you, of they do age / ID verification or whatever you wanna call it, I'll probably ditch consoles too.

This is actually an Android feature. iOS, too. It'll give a random MAC or device MAC depending on what you want.

My MDM at work for Android-based handhelds I've configured to device MAC so I can geofence devices and keep track of them. If an employee connects to the employee network (which has to be configured by IT) we set it up with with device only MAC so we can add that device to the allowed list. Apple warns "it enables tracking" but if they ask I tell them in public it might be configured that way but we don't care nor monitor that closely. If someone shares out the WiFi password by digging through settings, it wouldn't matter as it's not allowed.

Anyway, just thought I'd share both mainstream OSes do this now for a few years now.

My wife would just sell my data.

"Penlink's main product, Tangles, already scrapes social media and online accounts; Webloc adds the ability to tie those "anonymous" mobile IDs to specific people, at specific places, without a judge ever hearing about it."

So there's crazy use of data brokering right there. No warrant or subpoena needed.

Man, I setup Immich for my whole family, a RAID6 of enterprise drives with about 10TB total available storage, and 1TB/user. I've got symmetrical 1Gbs fiber, too. Does anyone use it? No. The last get together I told them if anyone wanted help setting it up, I wouldn't mind. And no takers really. I said it's easy enough anymore with a 1TB SSD being <$100 it'd last a very long time they could back up too that, far more than Google allows... Nope...

It's insane to me that nobody wants to change, but when these companies change on everyone, they just let it happen.

Gen Z just isn't gullible like others, and neither are Millenials or Gen X. The other generations have a few wealthy C suite idiots that apparently speak up for everybody, which is not accurate in anyone truly wanting AI... They're (Gen Z) also being fucked from the get-go and don't want this dystopian bs anymore.

My other biggest gripe: what happens to business computer users at the office? What about their admins? How much extra work is this going to create???

Let me comment before finishing the article: this is a software's lack of security problem, not a young teenager's problem.

The fact they were breached, that's nothing new. Same goes for everyone's SSN under the sun, who cares?! The fact that a young person is owning up to it now, they have to punish and make such a big example out of him, it distracts from the failure of big tech...

Edit: another reason not to put all your eggs in one basket. PowerSchool is an American tech company, public on NYSE in 2021, and now owned by Bain Capital... Would you PLEASE THINK OF THOSE INVESTORS!!!

Good for the half that's fighting it!!

Did you know: you can fully sign out of Google on your phone and still use it? You can download an alt app store like F-Droid for most apps, or use APKeep from EFF to get those certain app installers. Or Aurora store, but I'm less familiar with that, and assume it's the same principle as APKeep. I also recommend NetGuard to individually handle what apps are allowed to use internet access.

Either way, you may not be able to fully remove Google from Android without a custom ROM, but there's still a lot you can do.

Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!