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  • I’ve been wondering about this recently too. Everyone has had that situation where they talk about (Thing) out loud with someone, and then a few seconds later they see an advertisement for (Thing). That means there is something recording conversations and selling it to advertisers. I don’t see why those companies wouldn’t sell that to Palantir too.

    The obvious suspect for “who the fuck is recording my conversations” is smartphones, but it’s also probably IOT shit like smart TVs and other appliances. Even if not connected to wifi, some could include their own modems.

    In addition to this, Palantir could also just buy location and other data directly from telecom companies. They could even have deals with eg Qualcomm to backdoor their SoCs or implement data collection. (Except I think something like that would’ve been caught be security researchers already)











  • This article was written by an anonymous/throwaway Medium account. For all we know, it was written by a PR firm they hired. Corporate propaganda has zero credibility, and the anonymity makes it impossible to verify that it’s anything else.

    And if anything, now that time has proven that Trump/Vance were, in fact, worse than everyone was saying, it’s further reason to hate Proton for using their influence/reach to support them. Did it help them win the whitehouse? Hard to say, but even in the best case scenario, it comes off as a lame, opportunistic move to advertise their services to MAGA and profit off political turmoil.



  • Whoa, take a deep breath, relax a bit. Modern life can get us constantly on our nerves, I understand it, but let’s not take it out on each other.

    Any comment can appear hostile if you that’s what you’re looking for. I didn’t think my comment was hostile, but intent isn’t always obvious on the internet (and up/downvote systems tend to quickly distort it). In any case, if you’re trying to keep a discussion civil, making condescending assumptions about someone’s mental state is the wrong approach.

    I didn’t comment like complaining in a demanding way, like thinking that mozilla devs would have to maintain it for me. I just commented to express myself and show that there are real people still using 32-bit software around the world

    That’s fine, and I never accused you of doing so.

    I assume you saw my other comment already in this thread, which explains my position. I’ll take this to mean that we’re in agreement, so this exchange can have a happy ending 💖


  • It depends. Spend enough time on bug trackers and forums for open source software, and you’re bound to encounter hostile assholes shitting on devs when they make decisions to drop support for ancient hardware like the OP. It’s particularly egregious IMO because they usually are willing and happy to use an ancient build of some proprietary software without complaining, but feel entitled to demand more from open source maintainers for some reason.

    If you’re doing it for your own fun, not making demands of devs/maintainers, and accepting that you’re not going to get support for a lot of software, then it’s all good.