Playing devil’s advocate here - we know voice information is being sent back to both Google and Apple, if the analysis were done server side dissembling apps isn’t going to show us anything we don’t already know.

While I do suspect they listen, I have pretty solid (anecdotal) evidence they scan text messages. When I bought my house I had no solicitor, I text my buddy to see who he used and he texted me a response.

Started to type into Google to get a number and it was the top suggested search after 2 chars. Nowhere else did I mention this solicitor, hadn’t heard of them before this, have no other searches for this solicitor. It’s not a big firm, it’s not even in my city - only explanation I have is they scanned the messages.

Isn’t it mostly a reimplementation of the windows API? Where do we draw the distinction?

Don’t sweat it, it’s just a bunch of pixies running around for 9 hours.

Yeah, year 0 doesn’t exist, it goes 1BC -> 1AD

I’d been comparing them to the models for the Quake mod Quake rally some time, I actually went to verify that I was remembering Quake Rally correctly and now I have to stop because the 90s video game mod had higher poly counts.

Just to clarify drinking bleach is probably less bad than what he actually suggested, which was injecting disinfectant.

Honestly I’d take the utilitarian approach to that, if it’s a net good, then I’m probably for it - but that’s a big if.