Care to explain?

What would you have preferred? “Most apps sell your data, news at 11”? Would anyone care if it was written like that?

Thanks. You’re not wrong, and I appreciate the well-written response. Some might say you are defending/advocating proprietary software with this stance, but I don’t think there is a clear answer either way that applies to every circumstance.

This article is about the app, which does not run the model locally. Why would you doubt that a Chinese app which openly claims they send your data to China, actually does so?

Contains proprietary code. I recommend Molly-FOSS instead.

Yikes. Thanks for the info.

Depends on your perspective I suppose. One good reason might be that it means more hardware is supported. A bad one might be that it increases the overall attack surface from a security point of view.

Well it wouldn’t be news if it wasn’t newsworthy :p

Isn’t this basically the same thing as clicking a .apk or .exe link in a browser (which already works on mobile/desktop)?

illegal in the EU*

When I first read the title I thought it was some clickbait claiming that US cloud providers themselves would all be found to be illegal and cease to exist at all, which is of course, preposterous. Some clarification in the title would have helped.

I would hope the difference is that the f-droid version does not contain any proprietary code.

Not sure if this fits your definition of OS, proper, or install, but FWIW you can already download an apk directly from github using most Android browsers and it will open (or give you the option to open) it with the system’s package installer.

https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

https://github.com/lwindolf/rss-scraping

Yes I agree with everything you said.

Thank you for your perspective. Yes I think people can find both extremes and everything inbetween depending on where they look, but I don’t think that necessarily represents a majority of the population. I do think more can probably be done to reduce waiting times for people on either side though.

Yes I agree with your points.

Yes I think both situations are often not ideal. At least in US you have the option, if you have the money, to be able to go to an “out of network” facility that can see you much sooner and probably get a much better standard of care.

Probably doesn’t outweigh the cons for everyone else though.

not from VPN provider and legit websites

Why not? Aren’t you worried about either of them selling/leaking your data? I think a lot of people here are.

It was 4 months wait for myself but I have seen similar threads for people that had to wait 6.

I had to wait 4 months to see a doctor for my uLMS, and I personally know of several others now with worse conditions that also had to wait months. If you search around online you will also find many more similar occurrences. Same for ER visits taking literally all day long.

In general I don’t think it is a lie, this IS happening.

How much it goes on, or how often it might be a made up occurrence, and how often that needs to happen for you to consider it a “lie”, might be a separate matter.