Apparently some places call a paper fortune-teller (below) a ‘cootie catcher’. Still unclear as to how it relates. Closest I got was that it’s some kind of LLM script to give users defined answers based on their questions. Maybe that mean OpenAI gave hardcoded responses, therefore lying about intelligent generation?

Better source. HQ (ish) image at the bottom

Apple’s datacenters have been untrustworthy for a long time, at this point any breaches or data sales of user data is as much the user’s fault. But yeah, from what I’ve seen, corporations never make moves to primarily benefit the consumer, society, state law or otherwise. Only self profit. Sometimes aligning with demand improves profit.

YSK that Google Photos will not work unless you give it access to all your media. The privacy-respecting ‘Allow access to some photos’ results in an immediate rerequest for all media.

I use Matrix and this is possible via several encryption keys. They just probably cba. How Matrix E2EE works