Thank God I’m European and the privacy laws here are pretty strict, so at least the official channels can’t collect and provide our personal data. I’ve a second SIM card installed in an old smartphone that forward (done with the Tasker app) to my Telegram account all the SMS that it receives and the phone numbers that try to call it and I use that number when is mandatory on a website/service.

It seems pretty extreme to me. Any app needs your consent to access your contacts and if you wanna hide them from Google to (if you’ve an Android smartphone), you could just download an open source contact app (like Fossify Contacts)

On another note, I received some flack last week for poking fun at the Immich devs for prioritizing the platform’s new mascot over a feature I’ve personally been looking forward to (yes, they were in on it). I had planned to make a formal apology this week until I noticed they dropped another release that again left me feeling neglected as they instead celebrated 60k GitHub stars (is that a lot?).

If you need me before next Friday, I’ll be busy making the transition back to Google Photos while enjoying this custom CSS for styling a Flame dashboard to look like the Lumon MDR terminals from Severance

Both these sentence feels very childish to me. First of all, it’s an open source software, nobody can pretend anything!
Second, it’s clear that, as mentioned by one of the developer, they were joking about it

If he was joking too, I didn’t get it.