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Blogging the Monkey
Personal blog · bloggingthemonkey.blogspot.comsystemshardware
Blogging the Monkey is a personal blog at bloggingthemonkey.blogspot.com about systems and hardware. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on running Android without Google services. One commenter calls it a good article that offers options for limiting data sent to Google.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tales of a code monkey
What Hacker News says?
It's a good article. Those who prefer to have their phones disconnected from Google for whatever reason at least have some options to limit exposure, but unfortunately, preventing the mobile web browser in the phone from leaking information like location, history, and habits to Google (and plenty of others) is going to be really tough. Also, the article glossed over an important issue; the need to use closed-source…
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on “Android without the mothership”Submitted Fire in the (root) hole as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot https://www.raspberrypi.org/feed/ https://www.aclu.org/taxonomy/channel-term/1/feed http://gpuopen.com/feed/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/armdevices?format=xml http://mobilesemi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/cnx-software/blog?format=xml http://boingboing.net/feed http://atomicsupermen.wordpress.com/feed/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gizchinacom?f…
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on “Ask HN: Share your best OPML/RSS Feeds”Submitted Freedreno (not so) periodic update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting back against binary blobs! (freedreno, 2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging the Monkey: Infrequent freedreno update as a story · 1 points
HN discussion