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gunpachi, (edited ) in Anonymous phone number

Mysudo seems like what you are looking for. I have not tried it because it’s not available in my country yet.

Asudox,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

Seems like a sketchy website if you ask me.

eruchitanda,
@eruchitanda@lemmy.world avatar

user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

gunpachi,

Haha! Good one

tekcaj,
@tekcaj@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve heard this recommended by Michael Bazzell of Intel Techniques, whose job it is to make people untraceable (from stalkers and the like)

DmMacniel, in Why Bluesky over sth like Activitypub?

“Why Bluesky” is all you need to ask. And the answer is no.

random65837, in Google memes itself with an admission of spying on customers via a new ad on reddit!

However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.

Google is now making jokes at customers expense,

Google sucks but they’re not doing either of those. You’re missing the point and using privacy minded thinking to misunderstand.

Are you not familiar with the whole “I spy” thing? Ie: they see something you don’t see, they know something you don’t know?

I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?

jacktherippah,

Still funny though.

404,

Question still stands: who tf greenlit this? No chance they don’t know the other connotations

random65837,

I highly doubt they’re worried about less than the 1% not seeing the obvious meaning of what they said. They’re marketing to the masses, which would very much know and pick up on the “I spy” thing.

ekky43,

That just expands the question: do they not know about other countries?

Many of us have certain connotations with google, and while we know the game in our native language, it’s not the first thing we think about when thinking “Google says: I spy”.

JungleJim,

Probably why they published it in English and not your native language so you wouldn’t be confused and think they meant it that way. Too bad somebody will always go the extra step to be offended.

random65837,

Sorry, I disagree, I don’t make the assumption that they’re considering a statistically insignificant group of people that hate them, or possibly countless other countries when using a well know saying in their marketing.

ekky43,

Are you assuming that Google, which, as far as I’m aware, is an international company providing service to a multilingual userbase, has less than 1% non-native English speaking users?

I mean, I don’t care much how Google advertises itself, even companies I do like sometimes make an unlucky promotion and that’s fine, but I do find the arguments in this comment thread to make some wild assumptions.

JungleJim,

What seems like a wild assumption is that an ad in one language would be designed with what another language might think of the ad in mind. Why would a Chinese person care about a Mexican ad for Coca-Cola? You’ve found something to enjoy being upset at.

random65837,

Are you assuming that Google, which, as far as I’m aware, is an international company providing service to a multilingual userbase, has less than 1% non-native English speaking users?

I’m assuming nothing, nor did I ever say their English speaking data sources are less than 1%. That would be the privacy crowd that would be the ones to take simple marketing using a well known term and go into paranoia about it.

However, if I were to assume anything, it would be that an ad in English, would be geard towards English speakers, not others.

li10,

I thought it sounded really out of place still, but I guess it’s a reference to Cyberpunk’s expansion being stealth/spy based.

Denatured,

I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?

No, other side of the world. No, not familiar with that.

Dark_Arc, (edited )
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

It’s a very common game here, especially for children (and has been for decades)… Here’s an example youtu.be/8N2Ha1FuBr4?si=XN9QeSYPrg1JzBuR

It’s very similar to where is Waldo if you’ve heard of that, except “Waldo” can be anything the person who’s running the game wants it to be.

Denatured,

Thx for showing me that. I had no idea. Still to me, someone who lives on the other side of the world opposite of America, to see the phrase “I spy… Do you…” From Google felt a lot like, well, my post says it all.

Appreciate you educating me on that.

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

All good, culture is weird. Definitely a strange reference by Google to begin with

CmdrShepard, (edited )

I am familiar with that and don’t believe your take is accurate. When asking this question, it’s followed with a description of the thing you spy.

“I spy… do you?” is the text of the ad and the text following that doesn’t make it make any more sense either, “Game more than you thought you could.”

jacktherippah, in Anonymous phone number

smspool.net works great for me. Tried with GMail, Apple ID, and ChatGPT.

shootwhatsmyname,
@shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee avatar

If they’re one-time use, how does that work with accounts that require that number to stay attached to your account and use it as two-factor authentication?

Asudox,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a rent numbers tab on the side menu. You can rent numbers there.

jacktherippah, (edited )

1000000088There’s this “resend” button on the site I guess but I don’t know, I’ve never tried. I usually just use a number for a one time verification.

privacybro,

you can rent numbers as well for a period of time, iirc

GrappleHat, in Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification
@GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

Why GitLab!?

tarneo,
@tarneo@lemmy.ml avatar

Because it’s a decent competitor to the GitHub monopoly. It also has a few unique features when compared to it. Just guessing why OP uses it though (many people do)

GrappleHat,
@GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

Sorry, I meant “GitLab, why’d you do that!?”

(I’m a GitLab user myself)

tarneo,
@tarneo@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh right

DroneRights,

Oh, well then you forgot your comma

noodlejetski, in Why Bluesky over sth like Activitypub?

no and no.

N4CHEM, in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

With the Fairphone (…) the ROM options are CalyxOS and /e/OS

Don’t sleep on DivestOS and iodéOS. There’s more OS options for the FairPhone.

Matt, in Most private app for Lemmy

I would stick with one of the open source apps. Thunder is my favorite, but Voyager and Eternity are good as well.

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve only used Thunder, but it’s been just fine and I haven’t felt like I need to see what else is out there. I guess it could be more responsive with reply notifications and such but that’s pretty minor.

krolden,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

What lemmy apps aren’t open source?

noodlejetski, (edited )

Sync, Boost, Connect and Summit, to name a few.

privacybro, in How marketing companies use "Active listening" voice data to target advertising to the EXACT people businesses are looking for

dont run stock android. solved.

possiblylinux127,

I briefly used it a while back and it was nothing but pain. Constant notifications and popups everywhere

privacybro,

yeah how do most people even tolerate it? I’d go insane.

ErwinLottemann,

notifications and popups as in ‘unwanted ads’ or did you just get a lot of textmessages?

possiblylinux127,

Lots of things prompting me to do things.

ErwinLottemann,

like ‘finish setting up your phone’? there should not be many of them and they usualy just pop up once. 😐

possiblylinux127,

Why would I need to “finish setting up my device” I don’t want all the google bloatware. I get my apps off of F-droid.

interdimensionalmeme,

My phone is not rootable :( I need a privilege escalation exploit for my Motorola moto z3 android 9 phone

privacybro,

That’s kind of funny, to be honest

nfsu2, in Smart android keyboard respecting privacy?
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

Unexpected keyboard, was meant for termux but can be used for daily use. It’s difficult to get the habit of key positions though.

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

I tried it, but couldn’t find basic stuff like how to type áàâ from the letter a… Also no predictions

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

https://feddit.cl/pictrs/image/45db3e7e-1d9e-4b2d-9b7b-cdbf3421991e.jpegHere, its with the secondary functions of letter D, J and N. Yeah no predictions is not a feature but I like to scroll trough text with the space bar and delete backwards. Plus if you hold a key it keeps going like a regular keyboard which I like. Overall I think its a good option for composing emails if you get the hang of it.

22rw,

The first two features mentioned are also available with OpenBoard (the Helium-Something fork) afaik

yesman, in 2024 mustang extensive invasions of privacy

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Clbull, in Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification

Well they can just GitOut

buzz,
@buzz@lemmy.world avatar

Better to train Microsoft ai?

QuazarOmega,

How about training HI on Codeberg? ;)

authed, in Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification

fuck them

buzz,
@buzz@lemmy.world avatar

But what are they supposed to do - they dont have Microsoft resources and can’t exchange your data for ai training

Chamber7576, in Smart android keyboard respecting privacy?

I use AnySoftKeyboard

grue, (edited )

I also use AnySoftKeyboard (installed from F-Droid, BTW) but IMO it kinda sucks. In particular, it often tries to autocorrect things to capitalized proper nouns, which is almost always exactly the wrong thing to do.

Frankly, I’m reading this thread in hopes of finding something else to replace it.

AtmaJnana,

same

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

Does it have a predictive function? Based on what?

TeaEarlGrayHot,

I use AnySoft as well–it has a predictive word function that seems to work just as well as GBoard’s (albeit I haven’t used GBoard since 2017)

The interface is different (e.g. swype left on the entire keyboard for numbers), but give yourself a week or two to adjust–most things can also be fine-tuned from the settings app

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll give it a try, thanks

overshot, in Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification
@overshot@jlai.lu avatar

Gitea for life

PropaGandalf,

forgejo for life!

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