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>Google Play Services is quietly "Self-Verifying" and linking your phone number to ALL signed-in accounts without explicit permission.
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>Just a heads up for anyone who values basic privacy on Android.
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>Check your inbox for emails from noreply-phone-verification@google.com.
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>Without asking for my confirmation or giving me an opt-in prompt, Google Play Services performed a silent background "Self-Verification."
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>It exchanged SIM card identifiers and device metadata with my mobile carrier, grabbed my phone number, and automatically attached it to EVERY Google account logged into my phone.
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>No prompt. No "Do you want to link this?" button. Just a silent background action followed by a notification email telling me it already happened.
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>How to kill this setting on Android immediately (for now) but it will self verify even if turned off Go to Settings > Google (or Google Services) > All Services > Phone Number Verification
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>Find Phone number verification (or Device Phone Number Verification). (Ah, and lovely it automatically appear my phone number even WHEN IT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE!)
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>Once Google steals/verifies the number, it pushes it to your Google account profiles.
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>You need to log into myaccount.google.com/personal-info, click on Phone, and manually delete the number from every single account where you don't want it stored.
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>Modern "self-verification" dark patterns are completely out of hand. Check your settings before Google silently grabs your data too.
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>NO ANDROID IS SAFE: Happened on my Android 10 Huawei, Android 14 Xiaomi and is now requesting on my emulators too…even my tablet… Beware…
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/tech/GODS discuss

>linux mint

>the balearic sling is what david used to kill goliath
>it is a bronze age gun
>it can be made with paracord and rocks
>you can practice shooting it with a tennis ball
>your dog can fetch the ball so that you can continue practicing
>make sure you tell your dog he is a good boy when he gets it for you
>keep coming and taking it ♔

should i buy a ipod classic or a video ?

What does /tech/ think of functional programming? OOP has its merits, but in my experience with Java and C#, it very often devolves into unnecessary abstractions, boilerplate, and design pattern autism. FP feels more direct since you’re focused on expressing the actual computation rather than wasting a gorillion hours designing class hierarchies and dealing with architectural bullshit. I also like how naturally it connects math with programming, like through recursion for example. The declarative approach just makes more sense to me. Even if you never use a functional language professionally, I think FP teaches you a lot about programming fundamentals and how to reason about code.

https://github.com/popcorn-cow/spinner/tree/master

If you have a big album collection on your computer and it's all MP3 files or other proprietary formats, I'd suggest that you convert them to ogg using the low to medium quality option, it saves a lot of storage and it is the best thing you can do to save storage in general. I have 45 albums (freely downloaded legally, or CC artists) and all of it was 4.2 GB of MP3 files but I converted all of them to ogg using FFmpeg and that ended up giving me 540 MB of music, in 45 albums, that is literally nothing in a modern SSD. They sound fine, although lack a big part of the bass, but I am not an audiophile so I am ok with it, to me there is almost no difference

I fucking hate niggers who post tech discussions on >>>/soy/ instead of increasing activity on here

im trying to learn more java and its too late to give up but is it truly worth it or is java shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-ncfGhvxI

Pilotlight is a vibecoded software designed by YouTuber Flesh Simulator. Why is it important to the Soysphere?
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Pilotlight has the ability to shift through infinity brim posts on xitter (& exported cord messages), compiling together a timeline of law-breaching posts all filed and formatted with ease of use for legal institutions in mind. Example usecase:
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Xitter groompedo has a long criminal history on their timeline. You sick Pilotlight on them, and it builds a case, reading messages (even deleted ones), cross-refrencing their behaviour over multiple alt accounts or platforms, finally producing documented court-applicable evidence which YOU can send to law enforcement.
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It is currently available on mac. Soon coming to windows. Also it can simulate how court cases go or if the judges will think that the case is snca.
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THINGS YOU WILL NEED: An anthropic API key, and at the very least, a xitter API key.