Oh, hey. Looks just always ignored that, apparently.

Wallet, keys, phone, pocket knife, smile.

Yep - Why I put it so far back on the list. I’m also not a huge fan of Brave Search unless through the filter of Mullvad. It’s fine, but not my daily driver.

Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, SearXNG, Brave Search, Mojeek. All AI-free.

If you do 2 a day, after a couple months you’ll be good.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List?tab=readme-ov-file

There are some privacy-forward domain registrars and you can register with a privacy mode enabled that hides your name and info. Also, it’s an honor system, no one comes around to check your ID and phone number, at least in my experience with NameCheap. I registered a domain with a day-old Tuta address. Likely using a credit card with KYC didn’t make them look any farther, but if you get a burner SIM and have an image of an “ID” at the ready, and set a VPN for an EU location, I expect you’d be fine. Just don’t put all your eggs in the basket for a month or so.

When will people learn that any advertising that occurs during extortion like this is the focal point of hate and fear?

This is like anti-advertising.

Same, I used to have some Caliber extension that stripped DRM. Last used it 2-3 years ago and worked for Adobe DRM at least.

I like to go check out the book I want from the library, and when it gives me the Amazon DRM version I just go search for the epub version online and download that. IIRC, completely legal as I have legal access to the book…somehow.

You have 2 neighbors where it’s basically a public good.

I saw a guy in a park in Milan at almost midnight filling up a few 5 liter bottles from the carbonated water station. He clearly lived across the street and just…needed to bathe in fizzy water right then? No idea. But it’s not just you all.

Bonjour, mon aime.

OK, but what if they have to trade their driver’s license for voting rights?

Grandma, we’re watching things on the internet now. It’s consolidation of the media because those formerly powerful outlets are dying and now these things are cheap.

This is a Boomer problem, and I’m fucking tired of Boomers running stuff, because they suck at it.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment that the voting age starts at 18 and ENDS at 70. And that no one over the age of 70 can be elected to anything Federal ever again. That anyone currently in office over the age of 70 be kicked out right the fuck now.

Then let all the Boomers exist in their paranoid racist little bubble getting scammed and buying pillows and catheters from whoever the TV tells them.

I was going to bring up the Interpol bust all around Africa of SIM farms that is referenced in this article. Usually all about international calling and for scammers to use.

Reporting on this said that this setup had been involved with nation-state level threats. I wonder if it’s that these spammers were just doing their spam stuff and have all their stuff automated to sell bandwidth. Like you just send them a CSV with numbers and messages, and they don’t care what the content is. So then nation-state just books a few campaigns that are what kick off an FBI/Secret Service investigation because the nation-state isn’t actually affiliated with the spammers.

This setup is worth a ton of money just chugging along, and realistically, this is not built to overwhelm a few key mobile towers. These things are built to spam and scam.

LOL. Chicago Pope?

Don’t you know? ALL the Holy Water is hot dog water now. Go into any church and you’ll see a priest slathering mustard and celery salt on the wafers.

I have personally told coworkers that if they train a custom GPT, they should put “AI expert” on their resume as it’s more than 99% of people have done - and 99% of those people didn’t do anything more than tricked ChatGPT into doing something naughty once a year ago and now consider themselves “prompt engineers.”

He’s been saying the quiet part out loud for so long, are they really finally surprised when he says the quiet part out loud?

I really don’t think that a weird DM from 1 person in 1 comm on piefed counts as “The fediverse.”

I mean, don’t we still have The Fediverse Chick? What ever happened with that? She totally undoes, like, 7 weird DMs like this.

Your hatred is steaming beans?

My hatred usually corns beef.

I now have exactly 1 reason to go to Boston.