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From my experiences, Signal has the cleanest, most functional UX and design out of nearly all my apps. I have a mid-range Pixel 4a running CalyxOS and it works without hiccups. Not sure why yours is so slow.

Fahrenheit 451 is truly prophetic!

True, but I believe the point is that the author is willing to sacrifice this for speed and privacy. Many who are privacy-conscious generally don't care about design and are prioritized on functionality and data safety. That's not to say design isn't important. I love apps and sites that follow fluid and modern UX, I just see it as second underneath privacy.

Do they have any information on resolution, chip, or anything else?

That one is cool. Another similar one:

> >>https://s.id/

Can anyone explain how Cloudflare got the 1.1.1.1 domain? I know they are an influential company that controls a large portion of the internet, but I'm still confused. Is it an IP or a name that gets matched to an IP?

I'd day there is a balance between form and function when it comes to websites, and I'd rather stare at a nice looking slightly less efficient webpage rather than an ugly but more efficient one.

Its legislation. More transparent governments like the US' are generally trusted with data over closed governments, at least, for the majority of Westerners.

The two solutions I know are Premiere Pro's built in one called "Optical Flow" and Topaz AI's which is baked into their upscaling software. Premiere Pro's is not as good, and causes artifacts, but is more accessible than Topaz's which is very GPU heavy and costs more money if you don't want a watermark.

My guess is probably both to free space from their servers and to ensure that unknowing users aren't downloading an app that doesn't have somewhat recent security patches.

I believe it is because their app was not updated in 2 years, and was auto delisted from Google Play. https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic/issues/1464

It is still up on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...

Though it is through these unfortunate means, I am glad that the wider community is realizing just how much large companies can and do fingerprint and track their users. Maybe this will lead to widespread questioning of trusted American companies that sell and share users data like it's free real estate. Who knows?

I'm sure most of you all know about the VPN false marketing and the fact that they really don't make you "private" (https://www.privacyguides.org/basics/vpn-overview/). That's a whole other can of worms. VPNs are specialized tools for encrypting your traffic on unprotected networks, bypassing basic georestrictions, and hiding your traffic from your ISP. Most people don't know this and use them because they believe they are a quick way to hide themselves from big tech. For the few who dig deeper and find out about Tor and true private browsing, many give up due to its complexity. Safing believes they have a solution. Their SPN (Safing Private Network) is something in between a VPN and Onion routing. Like a VPN, it can route all internet traffic through its SPN, including TCP and UDP. However, it also routes your traffic through nodes, similarly to Tor. Here is their whitepaper with more details: https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdf

On top of all this, Safing seems to be transparent and tinfoil hat friendly. All in all, I am interested to see where it goes, though I have not been able to test it personally. What do you all think?