misanthr0pe

i liked your writeup, thought i would check the app out (android). 33 permissions? as well as "adservices attribution"? it seems as if you acknowledge that privacy is a legitimate issue, but then went ahead and made a pretty ravenous app anyway.

i think it goes back to a deeper root premise about the human experience. maybe thats where i go a-kilter. it seems common these days for people to travel and then take instagram pictures and make posts about their experience going to michelin starred places. perhaps they are looking at their phones much of the time or documenting their travel for an audience that isnt themself. then, sure, you may as well read articles about it. youre missing the whole point anyway, and youre also missing life at home even if you arent traveling.

having just returned from a trip to asia and australia, i can confidently say that the basic premise of this article is mistaken. reeling off facts from wikipedia is not the same at all as traveling to a country. the tastes, interactions, trash on the sidewalk, mysterious odors, miasamatic airs, overheard conversations all add up to a thousand times what the two paragraph history of vietnam gives you. is this satire? is this written by a bed bound agoraphobic? dont be silly. education is more than reciting the after effects of chinese rule on a small nation, its more than knowing dates of revolutions and the current form of government. education is context and perspective, macro to micro, the where and why and how. if education is wikipedia then philosophy is dirty limericks and science is air fryers.

i looked it up, everyone thinks its a scam.. just for kicks i went through the signup process and they want to link to a GitHub account for KYC (know your customer). they are less than a month old. i suspect its a harvester for credentials. dont do it.

some people like Harleys because they feel cool and they feel like Brando and they don't mind taking their bike to a mechanic when it breaks down.

some people like BMWs because they are well engineered and relatively easy to fix if you don't mind reading a manual and getting your hands dirty.

neither is better or worse. it's just taste.

I would also wonder what the difference between this package and Restic is. as far as efficiency and encryption.

if you love nickelback just slide the option off. this is a non-issue. its a friggin joke and i think its funny, whoever the band is.