Andrew

the the reason this is all kind of weird is it seems like most people aren't using it so they're probably doing all this anyways but like the actual end to this is probably just saving them money because they don't have to run compute to and saving their face with like all the all the public stuff with the it's really nice that they're having other people like government agencies tell them to remove it so they can just be like well that's the reason we're removing it thanks for the training data thanks for the advertising yeah uh

Yeah, that's kind of I'll let everybody be the judge of how they want to see this story with encryption.

But I think the thing to know here is if you really care about privacy encryption, you don't touch a Meta product.

Yeah, that's like the easiest thing here.

Yeah, I think Meta realizes that like a lot of the DMs on Instagram.

They mostly care about you sharing reels and sharing posts and pushing you to other parts of Instagram to spend more time on and gather more data to spend more money.

So they don't really care about this.

WhatsApp is still encrypted if you want to use that.

But I personally would just stay away from Metaproducts if I really cared about my privacy.

The UI on all these short form contents, how far are we away from it just feeling like the old annotation scamming where there's like 20 different boxes up on your screen?

Because we have all these different sets of guidelines for different short form because depending on where you put...

text or something in a video it's going to get covered by a username an icon the description and like now we're adding shops and stuff this is already a really small form factor of what we're watching there's not a lot of real estate there so adding all of that on is yeah it's crazy we're just not even going to watch videos anymore okay they're pushing you to use instagram on the ipad because all they want you to do on that is watch reels anyway and then you won't misclick because it's a bigger screen wow true big brain got him um

kind of related the u.s government has officially banned consumer routers made outside of the united states which by the way pretty much all of them yeah essentially all the only one i could really think of that's not is starlink because that's made in texas is that a router yes i guess but like it's not what you would think of in the general sense of like a router when you already have an isp and you're using it as a router in your house yeah

So like similar to banning drones made in foreign countries, the FCC is adding consumer grade routers made outside of the U.S.

to a covered list.

And if you're not sure what that is, the covered list is a list that the FCC and Homeland Security Bureau used to add devices that, quote, pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of U.S.

persons.

Like you just mentioned, we're all pretty familiar with where technology is manufactured.

It's not in the U.S.

It's not here.