The messaging in the article is a bit mixed, which makes sense because it’s trying to explain Google’s intentionally confusing messaging, but I would like to highlight one thing:

Can you fully disable Gemini on Android? No, and that’s by design. While you can turn off activity tracking, revoke permissions, and even uninstall the Gemini app on some devices, Google is actively replacing its Assistant app with Gemini. By the end of 2025, Gemini will be the default…

If you use Android, you should not use its Assistant if you want to keep Google away from your data.

This applies whether Google calls it Gemini or not.

There seems to be something a little… off here. VP looks like it’s a tech demo for a patent held by another company.

The new VPN service is operated by the American company VP.NET LLC, which in turn is owned by TCP IP Inc

And TCP IP (a terrible name for people who want to look it up) is exclusively proud of owning a patent it thinks is worth a lot of money. From its site:

We own the intellectual property that enables hardware-guaranteed network privacy—addressing a critical market gap worth $562 billion by 2032.

To me, it sounds like the CEO is trying to sell the company itself as a product to a larger investor. And that other privacy considerations, like jurisdiction, never factored into this.

Then I got to this part of the article, which seems to confirm those suspicions.

The idea to use SGX as a privacy shield comes from Andrew Lee, the chief privacy architect at VP.net. As the founder of Private Internet Access, which he sold to Kape a few years ago, Lee has a long history in the VPN space. However, he believes this new concept is a breakthrough.

So this company is run by somebody who sold out before.

So the people you were actually referring to were…

Trump is a muppet being played out, people above him feed him king vibes to play him out. They manipulate his narcism for their profit. Elon and the young kids that are working doge are played out.

You mean people like Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, white supremacist Stephen Miller, and the Project 2025 team, right?

Because people could read your post and think you were talking about Jews.

It’s your right until they ban it

It’s difficult to identify cops when they hide their name, badge number, and face. And when they get extra, pro bono legal support when challenged.

And those are just the developments from this year that I can recall.

Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to @[email protected] but either my app broke or I’m half blind

What are you assuming about my identity, and declaring about your own identity, that makes you uniquely able to speak about affairs in China, while telling others to shut up about it?

(context: From what I see, you joined this thread to praise China’s healthcare.)

If you don’t believe in lesser evil like you just said, and you think China is fascist like you just implied, why say “at least the trains run on time they have healthcare”?

It sounds like the kind of virtue signaling you disapprove of.

I’m glad you thoroughly understand the concept of “the lesser evil”

Sorry for the mediocre source, but it looks like it got its facts and translation right.

Any idea if these threats are actionable? He’s not a US citizen to just fine or imprison.