This isn’t particularly surprising. It’s becoming more and more common hearing about these stories, the last one I remember being Nokia HMD and Xiaomi both sending packets to Chinese servers.

I have a Xaiomi Android One phone and it only pings google servers, most activity is from Google Play Serives which many Android apps require to function, have never seen a Chinese server in the logs. It's probably a different story with the MIUI OS.

Sinkholing all requests the most concerning one Ive found is Google analytics running as root continually trying to dial out every few minutes. It doesn't give up and keeps retrying even after hours of failed requests. This is without any phone/internet usage.

Interesting to see how high the percentage of people who want to be taught more about climate change in the US (among both Republicans and Democrats too!)

Here in New Zealand there isn’t any standardised content/curriculum specifically focused on climate change as far as I know, but it is very much talked about in the classrooms of most schools.

Been having a great amount of fun making a game using this, fantastic app!

Not getting the same paywall trouble as you but https://outline.com/PZnDHL

This is such a fantastic tool to have, thank you so much!

I agree, there is far less of a learning curve involved with Discord and I believe this helped them win over a younger demographic of users.

I also feel like they capitalised on something specific that gamers wanted (chat and voice calls with low latency). Skype call quality is very much hit or miss, and while Mumble is great not everyone has the expertise in setting up a server.