Recent and perplexing ordeal with YouTube
No.
Both Android and iOS do enforce permissions against applications that have not been granted explicit access to listen constantly.
For example, the Google Assistant is a privileged app oftentimes; and it is allowed to listen. It does so by listening efficiently for one kind of sound, the hotword "Ok Google".
Other applications not only have to obtain user permission; but oftentimes that permission is restricted to be only granted "While app is in use", meaning it's the app on the screen, notifying the user, in the foreground, or recently opened. This permission prevents most abuses of the microphone unless someone is using an app.
This is why I generally ensure my phone is configured ahead of time to block ads in most cases. I don't need this garbage on my device.
As for how they could listen? It's pretty easy.
By waiting until the phone is completely still and potentially on a charger, it can collect a lot of data. Phones typically live on the nightstand by your bed at night; and could be listening intently when charging.
Similarly it could start listening when it hears extended conversations; simply by listening to the microphone for human speech every x minutes for y minutes. Then it can record snippets; encode them quickly and upload them for processing. This would be thermally undetectable.
Finally it could simply start listening in certain situations; like when it detects other devices (via BT). Then it could simply capture as many small snippets of your conversation as it could.
To the People's Republic of China; you are very stupid if you think this will work. To the Activists; Sock it to them!~ Stay safe out there and do not let them intimidate, bully or harass you.
To my other readers: You surely see this act for what it is. Do not let them intimidate or bully you either. The whole international community should be shaming Chinese Authorities right now, pointing and laughing at them for their foolishness. The diplomatic community should be advising China to back off; this looks bad even for them.
For the interest of interoperability though; It would be cool to see this map exported/migrated to a supported interoperable format so that people may, if they choose, view it on the mapping engine of their choice.
It's definitely not a huge priority though; but a nice-to-have that we might hope for by version 1.0 at least.
That's the fun part...You don't!~
At least it showed some creativity and effort...if only a little.
You should be safe if you are the only one with access to that computer.
If you are sharing the computer with another human being; please Unplug your Yubikey and take it with you when you are not using the computer and it is likely that another human being could be using the computer. Just to be safe; Do Not Leave Your Yubikey Plugged In If Another Person Is Using It...unless you're authorizing them to access something.
Your Yubikey can't tell who clicked it's button as it is NOT a Fingerprint Reader.
I could prompt engineer around this in 10 seconds flat but at least they patched it.
We need some mad genius to crack Widevine and make a plugin that works for Linux.
It's going to have to be restricted-source, but hey, honestly we need to break Google's stranglehold anyways.
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Will he make it?
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Will there even be another version? I'm not ruling out any kind of life shenanigans preventing the devs from doing their amazing thing...
I plan to Continue Refusing To Daily Drive Linux again this year in my standard drive to push Linux, Linux Developers, Managers and Contributors to be more friendly for end users. You have to be better than Windows, and we know you people can achieve it if more can and do contribute. Make Contributing Easy and they will Contribute.
Maybe I'll spin up a Matrix Homeserver with Beeper bridges to self-host that...if that becomes a necessity. Getting to know how to use and administrate Linux efficiently is always a good thing to learn, even if it's not easy still, and even if the bad old days were even worse.
The Linux for Windows subsystem is a nice to have that makes learning a little less troublesome.
I don't mind that people disagree, but I feel like his Life Sentence Without Parole was, indeed, justified. I get that he was young at the time of the crime and he was begging for help he wasn't getting. That does not excuse the crime, nor does it make the crime any less of a crime.
I also feel that, maybe in 20 or 25 years, he should have a shot at appealing the "Without Parole" part of his sentence. I do think he has a genuine shot at getting that part of his sentence reconsidered if his time in prison reformed him. But he did kill four people...and probably tried to kill more. So I think he should serve at least 20 years if not more, before he even gets allowed to be considered for Parole.
Personally; I manage my BO. If I can lift my shirt up, pull my head inside the shirt, and smell my own armpit odor, then I'm in need of some DO.
I've been using a Dove branded Spray-On (AP/)DO for Women and it's effective. By combining the acts of applying DO, then, changing clothes; I don't particularly sweat over much.
I Do Shower on an As-Needed Basis. That's saying that I do shower, without committing to any specific showering pattern or timing basis. If you try to imply I don't shower regularly you will look foolish.
If I stink, then it's either uncommonly hot and humid or I have not yet had the opportunity needed to shower. The hows and whys of this are not important; but generally if I choose not to shower, it's probably for a good reason.
I do suffer from some allergies and disabilities. I won't comment on what they are specifically, but they do exist, so I keep my fragrances light and unobtrusive; and I try to shower only when I can manage to handle doing so. I'm not going to uproot or upset my health, focus, peace or routine just to take a shower to please someone arbitrary; but I do allow the people whom I live with and love to remind me gently should I forget about addressing my BO in the chaos of life.
This isn't saying that I don't care. It's saying I'm imperfect, I have a life, and I do get overloaded sometimes.
Nice. Once upon a time Winamp had a functional preferences slider that controlled the "Shuffle Morph Rate" and I can imagine it likely used a similar algorithm to shuffle.
I only wish this existed in more software in general...and that music players would let you select what method the randomization is achieved with.
Just because someone skips a track doesn't mean that track was wrong for that playlist. It just means the time was wrong for that track. The mood.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed; but "Shuffle" used to be a good thing! Now; it frequently just isn't good at it's job. There's no control over the "Randomness" of the shuffle anymore, and there's no way to turn off any "Algorithm" that promises it can pick the next song better than random shuffling can.
Sometimes that experience of a truly random or an algorithmic shuffle is good; and sometimes it delivers bad options, and being able to say "Nah, I'm just not into this track today, NEXT!" is something I regard as a fundamental right, and something that you too, should do. Skips shouldn't be precious actions. Your mental heath shouldn't be impacted by an unlucky shuffle, nor should your mood.
Music is a deep, and almost primal form of expression; and it can express many things. Sooo...Being able to skip the emotional equivalent of a 💩 pile of poo 💩 is actually pretty important...even if it doesn't 🌹 always (metaphorically) smell 🌸 like poo to you all the time.
More devs should be this understanding of piracy. So should companies in general.
Asking nicely is a lot better than hitting. More flies with honey than with vinegar.
Yeah; without more information about your threat landscape, aims and needs; you probably won't get more specific information.
Obligatory disclaimer here; I strongly recommend you do not do what you are planning to do with only rotating proxies. Tor is much safer and more private about this sort of thing; you will be de-anonymized easily if you do not use Tor.
Now that the obligatory "privacy community" disclaimers are out of the way; I can say that I do understand what you're trying to do. Frequently many websites ban the ever loving crap out of Tor Exit nodes and simply will refuse you any service if they even sniff a hint of The Onion Router on your packets. This is, unfortunately, an intentional design decision of Tor Project. You see; they understand the massive potential for abuse of Tor.
Unfortunately...this probably leaves you, the reader, in a situation. You end up being required to choose to either trust or do without. In today's world; that's just absolutely freaking impractical even in the best of cases.
Unfortunately the same websites who block Tor are also the same kind of websites with the kind of kinks in their panties that also motivate them to block Proxies as well! Seriously; if your packets come in smelling like they came fresh off a SOCKS5 tunnel; the remote website can often tell. Sometimes the website will be nice and wave this on through; but only if you include headers like X-Forwarded-For: in your request...which defeats the entire purpose of the damn proxy; as that header is for putting your original IP address in.
So in the end your traffic will still 'stink'; either of Onions or of SOCKS. Sure, you could buy a VPN; but now you're coming from an obvious VPN proxy and websites that already hate Onions or Socks also hate VPNs; because they can't see who might be abusing their service.
Now you can try all three ideas and see which one the site will accept. Your mileage may vary and some websites indeed will block all three; Cloudflare, which is a CDN that also services many other websites and protects their edges from DDoS attacks is notorious for doing this.
Best of luck. All I can recommend is a paid VPN plan, pay more than $0 and ideally less than you would spend on a week of coffee; and make sure that the provider not only does not log; but make sure that the provider also is verified by third parties who aren't shady...to actually be a no-log VPN service. This will take lots of research but it's worth knowing who in the VPN space are shysters and who arent.
No, I won't recommend a particular service; I'd rather you did your own homework and risk analysis anyways
If a Paid VPN is out of the question; using Tor may be your only option. If you have multiple proxies you're probably paying for them anyways and could afford a VPN.
Uninstall and Delete with extreme prejudice. Find an APK that has this removed or cracked; or make sure your system locale or language do not imply you might be Chinese speaking.
You can appeal this bogus appeal outcome; but prepare to go to battle on Twitter with TeamYoutube and don't expect to win...unless you can prove your channel was either "more official", "not claiming to be official", or "Not Official, not claiming to be, and you started your channel before they started theirs.
Most of the time it's not worth the effort unless you have overwhelming evidence.