this is an amazing study in how to go carefully, point-by-point, through something, and refute none of it.

I think you might be 180° missing the point of the meme

13 downvoters are turned-on and mad about it

with the armband as well it seems like kind of a dogwhistle

cool can you point me at the repo for their server software then? and the f-droid reproducible build of their android app, or the sideloadable iOS app?

claims to be secure

closed source

total snakeoil

this cold war propaganda belongs in a museum

summary of issues with Wikipedia written by a Lemmy developer https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,_the_federated_Wikipedia_Alternative@ibis.wiki

if you’re in one of the areas it covers, Offi is pretty solid Offi https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/

Citymapper is also not bad but the coverage is v limited and it’s not open source

wow that sure is an extraordinary claim that a brain parasite has similar negative health effects to vaccines I’m sure extraordinary evidence is right on the way…

totally fair to be upset IMO. spare a thought for my friend whose gym rolled out mandatory fingerprint scanning for entry, then mandatory facial recognition a few months later (they cancelled their membership)

afaiu pairdrop and snapdrop only work if both devices are on the same local network, filepizza works over the internet

i chose to read the 41 words of your comment instead 😌

no there is no (good) option that doesn’t involve you signing up for an account. but that seems like a weird requirement; you were willing to sign up for youtube?

this just sounds even less believable: you’re in a jursidiction where the amount of data you have to store on students is exactly specified, and you’re liable to prosecution for storing any single piece of data less or more? I would appreciate extraordinary evidence for this extraordinary claim.

anyway, even if that’s true, you could be using your knowledge to help privacy-conscious students like OP, instead of throwing a rulebook at them and casting aspersions about their motivations. I return to “reconsider your views, and the impact of your job”.

pressing X to doubt that you only help keep information on students that you’re required to by law.

and, something being legally required doesn’t mean you need to enthusiastically support it in an online discussion.

trivialising a student’s desire for privacy as being about playing videogames is a lot more ridiculous than anything the OP said.

maybe rethink your uncritical support for surveillance, and either organise with your coworkers to make your school’s policies more respectful of its students, or find a less unethical job.