Let’s keep in mind that if this is a state actor or some sort of global organized crime, then they don’t put all their eggs into one basket. If that’s the case, they’re going to have a bunch of other plans and backdoor attempts ongoing. This isn’t the end and we can assume there’s something else somewhere that went unnoticed.

Security is a constantly changing war of attrition, not a goal/product/configuration.

This creates a single backdoor for all sign-ons on your phone.

SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.

Gpodder-adaptive

Don’t do this to me, man. Don’t bring real shit into my escapism. 😣

When I saw this on a custom ROM, it was basically the same thing, but said that my financial institution or whoever had admin access to my phone, including seeing texts and everything else, until my phone was paid off. Still not sure why that was there in a custom ROM, but I ended up not using it.

They all work well enough on my weak machine with an RX580.

Buuuuuuuuuut, RWKY had some kind of optimization thing going that makes it two or three times faster to generate output. The problem is that you have to be more aware of the order of your input. It has a hard time going backwards to a previous sentence, for example.

So you’d want to say things like “In the next sentence, identify the subject.” and not “Identify the subject in the previous text.”

Other offline tools I’ve found:

GPT4All

RWKY-Runner

God, I only use Ublock Origin on Firefox. No TOR, VPNs, or anything like that.

Despite that, there are a handful of Google-related websites like Virustotal that now permanently trap me in repeating captchas. Youtube will occasionally decide to block my IP entirely for a week.

Let me tell you, this shit doesn’t make me more inclined to disable ad blocking. Instead, I’ve starting finding alternatives and using a sandboxed vanilla Chromium for problem pages.

My memory sucks, but I’ll try to find an example for you. I remember it apparently last worked like two major Ubuntu releases ago, 21.04 or something. I tried for weeks to find workarounds and community-updates to fix it. I was on Pop!_OS at the time. Nothing quite worked and I gave up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/ww436j/howto_stable_diffusion_on_an_amd_gpu/

I’ve got an RX 580 8GB. What sucks is that it USED TO SUPPORT running AI and stuff. But AMD removed that support in new versions of the driver. Might have had a good reason, might not have. Still, sucks.

Oh, dang, that was civil and anticlimactic of us. Um…

I mean:

How dare you! This is the internet. You’re supposed to immediately call me Hitler for…reasons. This slight shall not stand. Expect a strongly worded letter from my emissary forthwith. Good day!

Hm.

I think you probably have a point there. Not sure about the details and nuance, 'cause I’m not that smart, but there is something there.

I wish I could go back in time and slap whoever invented the phrase “nothing to hide.”

It could be an interesting idea, but would be terrible to implement for anything where accuracy mattered.

Generally when you’re doing video or image editing, you don’t want the image to change after you’re done saving it. That would be a loss of hundreds of hours of work in some cases. And if you’re working on something where, small details matter, those might get lost in translation.

I’ve never heard of this company before the past week, and I’m seeing it everywhere now. I’m also really annoyed with this trend of companies appropriating random fucking words instead of using actual names.

As cool as the technology is, I wouldn’t trust Starlink to handle my breakfast order. It’s leadership is corrupt, arrogant, and evil. You can find all sorts of news stories about it online.

This is the exact reason I don’t trust anything hosted online. If it’s something I want to enjoy more than once, I download it.

Companies hosting things online tend to become authoritarian dictators in all but name, which is their right as they own the services and hardware. But it almost always makes the end user experience shitty and overly complicated, or filled with spyware, or requires you give away your rights to privacy or lawsuit, etc…

So if there’s a song or something that I like online, I’m downloading that and keeping it on my computer to listen to whenever I feel like it. I don’t have the time or energy to play games with these greedy ass corporations.

And the ironic part is, that while they would absolutely froth the mouth about me doing this, they’re the ones that drove me to it. It feels like an emotionally abusive relationship, are they keep making our just a man some gaslighting me, then getting angry when I fight back or tell them no.

Rethink for Android is an app firewall, DNS solution, and ad/malware/spam/etc blocker.

Might be worth giving a try.