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Cake day: September 3rd, 2023

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  • Yeah, the fact it’s only mobile games surprised me a bit, especially since they don’t seem to mention it anywhere until you see the only platform filters are iOS and Android.

    There are several games I have a small interest in but from companies I don’t trust much, so a review of the potential manipulation tactics in those might have been useful to me.

    I don’t play mobile games though. This is unfortunately not at all exclusive to mobile.

    Edit : just saw the notice about other platforms coming. Makes sense.



  • Turin’s royal palace is from the 17th century. The western Roman empire had collapsed more than a millenium prior to this. Do you consider the Eiffel Tower a Roman monument too? or maybe a Parisii Gaul one?

    You can obviously say that the Roman empire is one influence over western European architecture. But “Roman architecture” is going to imply the style and techniques used by the ancient Romans, and this palace was not built with those.







  • Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

    There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

    It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.