Re: fire up your VPN
I put all of my guests on a WiFi access point which routes everything through a VPN. They get to use whatever rubbish they like (including Google) and I get to hear their complaints about all of the captchas whenever they do.
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Possibly. It depends who's behind the attack. If I was a criminal opportunist then I'd sneak in wherever I saw an opening. If I was the kind of aggressive nation state who liked to try and interfere in another country's elections then I'd definitely be targeting councils in order to disrupt services, cost money and sow much dissatisfaction among the populace. I understand it's known as hybrid warfare.
Only useful if you are at home though. Not much use if you need to tell the courier what to do with the package while you are elsewhere. Or if you need to tell the Conservative canvasser to shove his manifesto where the sun don't shine while you're having a grunty.
I disagree. MicroG deals with most problems caused by the lack of Play Services. Updates are available which allow devices to run Android several versions later than the point at which the manufacturers abandon them. If you mean "There are several usable, functional AOSP based Android OS that work without Google Play Services and without data grabbing" and devices which can be bought running such an OS from a retailer, then yes I agree a little. But Europe is leading the way on this.
Forgive the lateness, I've been ill.
SmsMatrix is what I use. It requires a couple of Matrix accounts. I'd recommend self-hosted unless you want to count responses in geological time.
MAXS and its various modules are also available but I found it less reliable. This would require XMPP rather than Matrix.
Such apps already exist, for Android at least. I use one in order to be able to send and receive SMS from the number everybody knows, at my domestic rate, regardless of where I am in the world.
It also prevents those who know that number and would track my movements via VLR/HLR data from being able to do so.
Ah such fond memories. In the UK in the 1980s and early 1990s Channel 4 used to show Peter Greenaway films quite frequently. Also it showed many other films from Europe and beyond which were seen as somewhat outside the mainstream. Today Channel 4 is a case study in enshittification.
I've seen the Coutts ones too. No idea why. At my house everything is subject to regulation by Pi-Hole and phones go over VPN, whereas at my SO's everything is slurped by whoever wants to. We also see the Coutts ads at her place so it's either based entirely on the shows we watch or they're shown to everybody.
That's why they go on their own subnet.
In reality, as others have said, sniffing your comms data is likely to involve criminality so probably doesn't happen. What is more likely is that they will map out your network and send back details of whatever other devices they find. I'm pretty sure I read about Facebook doing this some time back.
characters, motivations, location & props. Yet it couldn't write an imaginative story. It came up with something an average human might have written. I was quite impressed with the language processing but it's clearly not going to "take over" any more than Dave the plumber or Jill the checkout girl are going to.
would be similar if this had been done 20 or 30 years ago. We all had to learn it and the young team shouldn't expect it to be any different for them. Unless of course the global management caste have some sort of epiphany regarding the soul destroying nature of the way it uses words.
I think you're right. I have no Youtube/Google account and actively resist data collection generally. This means the Youtube algorithm probably has only the VPN provided IP address and current session history on which to base any recommendations. This can produce odd results at the start of a session but recommendations tend towards similar subjects as the session goes on.