They can’t. It’s unenforceable.

You can block a service from establishing outbound connections while allowing it to respond to inbound connections. It’s pretty common to do this because server software generally has no business calling out unprompted.

You don’t want the service to create arbitrary outbound connections, but you want your device to be able to communicate with the service.

It’s been a while since I’ve done network stuff, but it sounds like a pretty simple textbook problem.

A self-hosted service requires local network, not internet

You don’t have to audit code to ensure it doesn’t call home.

Ridiculous take.

There’s a vast difference between using a cloud service that definitely spies on you, and a self-hosted solution that you can ensure doesn’t.

An LLM trained exclusively on Facebook would be hilarious. It’d be like the Monty Python argument skit.

Small Basic is about equivalent to Scratch in terms of what you can do, but you have to actually write the code. It reinforces various coding principles in a more explicit way than Scratch.

The website has a printable curriculum that looks reasonable.

I think it’s an excellent stepping stone.

http://smallbasic.com/

The hash is not the password.

Passwords shouldn’t be stored at all though 🤷‍♂️

Still sucks if you’ve got a team that’s really good at Unity, but yeah