What do you mean by “the user’s DNS” exactly??

He probably means whitelisting domains when posting already uploaded images, clearly not having read the post

Hey, I remember this! Some guy made a really cool Mario and Portal crossover using this, called Mari0, back in 2016.

It has portals, multiplayer and lots of hats!

I work primarily in tmux and even in an IT department, people regularly say something along the lines of “woah are you hacking?”

I hear it a lot from almost all my engineer friends, so I guess it just depends on your field.

Coming from C-like syntax, Python looks horrible to me. PHP has come a long way with 7 and 8.

Quite a significant change, when 1 km2 is about 140 (real) football fields

But in reality it’s just a bunch of neckbeards with 100 reddit accounts each and a script to paint a bitmap

Those are some cute specs, I like em small

Either way whining about it won’t help

The equivalent of being broken up with, then posting daily on Facebook about your ex and contacting all her friends to tell them he’s/she’s the bad one

I’m sure they’re hating that 1% of their users is spamming /r/place with bot visits, but I think you have to realize that there’s no “fight” to be won and reddit definitely isn’t facing any type of demise.

If you like Lemmy, help improve it and stop talking about reddit.

In my understanding, the metrics tracked by just having Google Play services are pretty minimal.

It’s more like an API between your phone and apps you install through it, and the permission system for apps has improved immensely over the past 5-10 years. As I see it, it’s more like a firewall.

If you don’t want Google to know which apps you use and how much, you can go full custom, but that’s a bit too much tinfoil for me.

The tracking is mostly from web browsing. If you use Google Chrome, of course you can expect to be tracked based on browser history, cookies, etc., like most other browsers.

If I wanna do something in private, obviously I won’t use Chrome or a builtin browser.

There are lots of privacy oriented Android flavors out there. Most of them won’t come with Google Play services installed. Any of them will be able to run any apps you need.

In my opinion, Google isn’t bad at all when it comes to tracking and bloatware. They’re much like Apple. It’s the branded phones like Samsung that are absolutely horrible.

Anyway, check out the LineageOS Wiki: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

It can give a quick overview of the devices which can easily install a custom ROM (OS). I heard good things about Fairphone

Genocide or bukkake?