Your toxic partner: "What were you doing at that cafe at 5:42 PM"
Twelve years ago Moto X was launched by Motorola, at that time controlled by Google. I had it and at any moment you could say "Hello Google, what time is it?" and it responded. I was constantly listening. All the time. And it was a perfectly normal phone regarding battery life or data usage. TWELVE years ago, imagine how much easier would be to implement that now, with more powerful and efficient chips and bigger batteries.
From an article about Moto X back then: "If you want to take a selfie, you should be able to simply say “Take a selfie!” In short, your smartphone should live up to its name. That’s the goal with the Moto Voice and Moto Assist software integrated into the second generation Moto X smartphone. And to do that, the Moto X is always listening, for verbal commands from the user and also ambient cues of the context. That emergent behavior is spawned by complex interactions between the software and hardware"
Only much latter I came to the conclusion that with Moto X Google was making its first tests on using the microphone for mass surveillance.
I would say most funny... but the worst because you have to read the whole paper to know what it is about.
No daily anxiety at all, just being aware of the dangers. When I drive and see a red light I just stop, there is no anxiety involved, I'm just aware of the dangers of crossing. If you are not aware of the dangers of the excessive digital exposure and surveillance you should subscribe to this community and read what's going on in China and in an increasing number of western countries in relation to this.
How many years until they run out of characters?
It's about time it's also the title of one of the best introductory books on relativity by David Mermin. Specially for those who aren't good at math but want to understand it beyond popular science books.
Yes, It is MRI... Man Roughly Incinerated.
It refers to the ability to locate the source of a sound. It supposes that the localization is achieved only by the difference of the time of arrival of the sound to both ears. That's why the curve is a hyperbola, which is the set of points which distances to the foci (ears) have the same difference, so you couldn't differentiate which of all the points in the hyperbola is the actual source (confusion). But this is too simplistic, the auditory system is much more sophisticated and the source can be localized by other means.
It's totally doable because they are real people.
Unbeatable running multiple threads
You should try lemmy, it's almost everything what you describe you are missing. Jokes aside, I think that what you refer is mainstream internet, which like music is usually shitty if it's mainstream, to find the good stuff you have to take your time to dig deeper. Internet is an incredible tool and it's being used both to enslave and to free people.
It almost impossible to that all the data collected from you (by all the apps you used, no only by Google) will be deleted, mainly because it's already out there being traded by data brokers. That's why I think that deleting your accounts is not the best approach for privacy. I think it's best to keep an old phone with all your accounts and every now and then watch a random video, make a random search, follow a random profile, and so on with all your accounts. Over time your true profile will become obsolete and buried under fake data.