I dropped Whatsapp for Signal the day after Facebook bought it. Told my friends who use it that is just a matter of time before they wreck it and exploit it for targeted ad purposes.
Took them a little longer than expected but they announced a couple of years later that they were researching how to do it. And, of course, they cross link your Facebook data and WhatsApp data.
Lots of articles out there on the topic but here's an excerpt from 2021:
Earlier this morning, Facebook confirmed to The Information that it is developing a team that includes former Microsoft AI researchers and cryptographers to find new ways to collect data from encrypted sources such as WhatsApp–without technically having to decrypt the information.
Facebook can go fuck a duck and I'd never trust anything they've touched
I've been curious about this myself and it's been asked a few times. I'm just regurgitating those answers with no expertise myself so... be warned.
Past answers:
By keyword? Not at this time, regardless of following qualifications.
By instance/domain? Only if you're running your own instance.
If you're just a user, there does not appear to be a way to block an entire instance at this time. But, it's been requested (many times) on multiple apps and in the lemmy core github via issues.
EDIT: I misread. I don't know what an Amazon assistant is. I'm talking about an Amazon echo below
I have one at a cabin in the mountains that has no internet or cell service. It required internet access to sync/auth with my phone so I did it at home then moved it to the cabin. I think it needed to be auth'd to an Amazon account, despite never planning or wanting to use it with an account. It was a "prize" from work.
It is literally impossible for it to connect to the internet at its location but it is a pretty good speaker. Perhaps the loneliest IoT device ever, but I'd never use it in a connected state.
If you only want it for a speaker, you could wall it off to prevent Internet access even at home
I tried to recover my Mojang account and migrate it three times. Each attempt gets a stock response asking for certain info (receipt, email, username). When I provide this, I get a response from a different support user asking for the same thing I just provided. After three to five back and forths (with the same questions and the same answers) I get busy, frustrated, and leave it for a few weeks.
Once I have time, I start over and the exact same thing repeats again.
I wrote it off as a loss last year with an asterisk of "another reason to fucking hate Microsoft"
I teach a programming class to young adults (18-25, usually) and was flabbergasted last semester when I realized that a couple of them didn't know what a directory hierarchy/file system was.
My suspicion is that the ease of use angle of "just tell me what you want and I'll find it" led to this. Not saying ease of use is bad, but I expected more from people wanting to learn programming.
And I'm over here meticulously organizing my music library into folders by band, album, year, etc...o the humanity.
I once had a task stripping a ODM out of a large project, reverting to the native driver, because of its (extremely) poor performance. Also the fun of profiling the project to prove the ODM was to blame. I also empathize with the "supposed to make things simpler, makes them more complicated instead" point you make.
From many experiences, I hate ORM/ODMs and am immediately suspicious of anyone who likes them.
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Seems I've been watching too much Resident Evil.
Doing the quick scroll through my feed and had to pause for what I thought was the umbrella logo.