great quote, thanks. I think this is also compatible with Ads Don’t Work That Way which argues that rather than psychically manipulating consumers to crave stuff, ads just build social consensus (you know that other people have seen the ad).
lol another PimEyes frontend. None of this tech is new but it’s gotten a lot easier for the amateur. The technically neat thing is LLMs to do the brute work of parsing the scraped whitepages or whatever. Here’s the students’ writeup
How to Remove Your Information
Fortunately, it is possible to erase yourself from data sources like Pimeyes and FastPeopleSearch. We are outlining the steps below so that you and those you care about can protect themselves.
- Removal from Reverse Face Search Engines:
The major, most accurate reverse face search engines, Pimeyes and Facecheck.id, offer free services to remove yourself.
- Removal from People Search Engines
Most people don’t realize that from just a name, one can often identify the person’s home address, phone number, and relatives’ names. We collected the opt out links to major people search engines below:
- Preventing Identity Theft from SSN data dump leaks
Most of the damage that can be done with an SSN are financial. The main way to protect yourself is adding 2FA to important logins and freezing your credit below:
Had to do it once before, when my accelerator got stuck under the floor mat. Nice to have the option.
Why would anybody want this? I wrote the notes, why do I need two robots to spoonfeed them back to me again?
Mullvad fits your criteria. Proton is annoying to use on phones I think but they do have a free VPN.
Really there’s very little that a VPN is suitable for over TOR. Probably, if you can’t run it over TOR it’s not secure over a VPN either.
No TikTok, no Kaspersky, I’m excited to live behind the Great Firewall of America.
i think most people now think that consciousness doesn’t require being able to communicate in language. hence all the interest in Genie and other feral children, animals looking at themselves in the mirror, etc.
are you saying babies aren’t conscious
if you wait 12ish hours before using it for anything you don’t have to provide verification
huh? I’m not making a value judgement, I’m saying that as a matter of fact capitalists have compromised safety for expediency and cheapness. It’s not because of techbros fucking around or something.
Reuse is possible, but only to a limited degree. Setting up tooling is very expensive. Not as bad as body panels which are custom per model, but still pretty rough. You’ll see that when you look at the cost of buying replacement parts for even a parts bin GM car. Gauge cluster, button and dial assemblies, the interior trim that the buttons and dials go in, all surprisingly expensive when you think of how much tablet you could buy for the same money. There is a real profit motive behind the screens. Even in consumer/hobby electronics, my background, it’s the same: cases and buttons often dominate BOM costs (and require manual assembly).
that have basically only proliferated because of techbro dipshits mucking about with things they don’t understand
I hate touchscreens too, but the reason they’re so prevalent is they’re cheaper than engineering and manufacturing a bunch of custom physical buttons and knobs
you can still agitate, you gotta be approachable not hard to talk to people
if you have $40k in a software wallet you are a grade-A MORON. Spend $60 on a hardware wallet and this whole class of attacks goes away. I genuinely do feel bad for some of these people. Crypto is in a state right now where you can use it for the intended purpose (crime) if you’re technical, and if you’re non-technical it is very easy to be victimized by the people doing crime. The genius is that everybody thinks they’re pulling one over on somebody else until they get cleaned out.
It may be too late for you but I HIGHLY recommend other people use address postfixes in the future. If your email is foo@gmail.com, you can enter foo+bar@gmail.com in forms and it’ll go to your inbox like normal. But if they sell your email, you can easily add a spam filter for to:foo+bar@gmail.com. This works with Gmail and some other providers but it isn’t part of the email standard.
The problem of “how could AGI take over the world” is the same thing as “how could a billionaire take over the world”. To affect the physical world they just pay people to do things, no trickery required. If the factory needs to keep the lights on, a private army will guard it. Runaway AGI is a problem of capitalism (and its prominence in discourse is a reflection of people’s fear of capitalism). It’s just “what if corporations were smart”.
It doesn’t make financial sense to manufacturer a car or computer that lasts 70 years because of rapid technological progress. There are some 50s cars still driving around, but they’re cool toys. Worse gas mileage, worse emissions, worse handling, no airbags or ABS, etc - for all the practical uses of a car, modern stuff is better. Same for computers, try browsing Hexbear on a UNIVAC.
Replacement parts are an engineering choice. Over the design life of the system, usually it’s cheaper to say “swap these relays every 10 years” than to put in a huge durable relay that will probably last for 75. You’ll find some elevator computers and other industrial controllers with long lifespans, but pretty much the only systems you will find no replacement parts are things like the Voyager probes.
I use those ones that have a supporting thing that wraps around your ear. My BT headset never loses connection unless it’s trying to go through a wall or I’m more than a few yards away, though when I turn it on I have to manually reconnect once before it’ll work properly. I’m sure Apple has figured it out but mine was $20. I just can’t handle a wire flopping around, even with clips. I struggle not to get it caught on stuff, stretch out and yank it, or squish the phone in my pocket (deadlifts). Maybe for jogging or something where your torso isn’t flexing. I’d have the “yanking” problem working on my car as well, sliding underneath without a creeper.
It’s possible my myopic ass is missing some critical use case that normals have
physical activity. I saw a couple people bouldering with BT earbuds in yesterday. I deadlift listening to music. Some things, wires are a nonstarter.
For portable use, I personally have some Chinese drivers that can be plugged into either a BT adapter or to regular wires. Better sound quality on the bus, better mobility at the gym or working on my car. When the battery dies I can replace just the BT adapter; when the earbuds die I can replace (and upgrade) just the earbuds. 1 replacement of each so far with no issues. I have wired cans for desktop use of course, nothing can beat actual headphones.
looks like the Twitter advertisers have found a new home lol