Ars Technica covered this much better

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/nothing-phone-says-it-will-hack-into-imessage-bring-blue-bubbles-to-android/

Basically, the company providing the service is shady and should not be trusted.

While I am not one of those people, some of the jobs in finance is basically high level mathematics and statistics.

Ah! So just like the financial industry which is abusing those like hell

Wow! Good for the Germans!

What I don’t understand is why governments don’t try to fund open source software.

Cyber is increasingly becoming an attack vector on key infrastructure and it would be so helpful to have a group of developers to be at government disposal while understanding what software is being run on.

I understand that China and a few other countries use Linux but this is not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

Honestly any nation not named the United States should move to FOSS if they care about security. Imagine the keys to all important infrastructure being held by foreign companies.

I really really hope they eliminate the free tier. That might finally force people to move to other platforms.

Same here. I have had better experience here than reddit. Much fewer one line / meme responses and more actual discussion on a topic.

There are PLENTY of people who cares about young men. Many of them are just in REAL LIFE not on the internet.

Teachers and social workers at schools, classmates (yes, you can make friends with real people too.), FAMILY. Even if all that fails, many, many NGOs need more hands and would welcome any young men willing to volunteer. They just need to go there IN REAL LIFE.

Multiple studies have shown that smartphone decrease concentration, and have negative impact on emotional well being in adolescents.

The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4

Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/691462

Attention or Distraction? The Impact of Mobile Phone on Users’ Psychological Well-Being https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093572/

Mobile phone use, behavioural problems and concentration capacity in adolescents: A prospective study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1438463916300645

Its a tradeoff.

I understand Qwant to not perfect but its better than DDG in non-English results and I need it for work.

At least its better than Google…

Qwant

Try it. It has pretty good results even outside the US and is much more private.

Ungoogled Chromium is a great choice. I just hope it can auto update itself. 😅

Also I once encountered an anti-virus programme miscategorize Ungoogled Chromium as malware. It can be annoying for those uninitiated.

1. Say no to chromium. Use Firefox and its forks. Even Safari (webkit) maybe a better choice to support a healthy web environment.

2. Say no to crypto. I hope I don’t need to explain this one. If you have to use Chromium browsers for whatever reasons, use Vivaldi.

The blue bird being killed by the X is such a fitting graphic.

Forbidden knowledge…??? WTF is that description

wowah! First time I heard about this! Thank you!! LibreOffice for the win!