I dont even vacuum. I get on my knees and clean my floors by hand.

Unfortunately.

I have to read this all soon. But I hope something like this shows up for Canada.

They denied your passport? That is like literally the highest level of ID you can present! Holy fuck!

Yes, like the farting monkey i made who uses his farts as a means of jet propulsion… the art world will never be the same.

I will be a happy man if they also lost all data and all chats permanently… meaning my chats are gone. Not that that I said anything embarrassing, but I like my privacy.

If you want to know, some of the things I asked chatgpt were sarcastic questions like ‘why won’t Bill Gates buy me lunch?’ Or ‘how do you know i am not Jack the ripper?’ Or ‘write a scenario where Mr. Bean joins the bomb squad and is tasked with disarming a bomb left by thr unabomber?’

I think people don’t realize just how dangerous this shit is until they have been affected in some noticeable way, and even then they will not link just how the incredible amount of surveillance they are under every day is the cause of it.

I worked in tech support for 7 years, and one thing that will never cease to astonish me is how tech illiterate people are. Do you have any idea how many people called me and demanded that I make modifications to their account and refused to tell me any verifying information? While some might have been malicious actors , most aren’t. Most of them were genuinely expecting me to do everything for them and they wouldn’t even tell me what their name is. They fully expected that somehow we would already know they are just from them calling…

Some of them called me on a number not recognized by the system but they fully expected me to pull up their account (fucking how?) Without any information at all.

When you have worked in this field long enough you will know why there is so little effective opposition to all this shit. It is not just because they dont give a damn if we are literally in a 1984 scenario with active cameras and microphones in people’s homes, but they just dont understand what that really means. Even younger people who grew up with these devices from early childhood don’t fully understand just how much they are being observed. If anything Gen Z and Gen Alpha are more fucked since they are the first generation of people whom the algorithms and data brokers have had some profile on since early childhood.

As an elder millennial who grew up in a techie family with computers from childhood. I am fortunate in that they have nothing on me from early childhood to teen years. By the time I hit 20 the internet was still too chaotic and underdeveloped and algorithms weren’t the norm yet (and I was never a Google guy to begin with). But people born within the last 10 years can’t have that privilege.

The UK experienced a major data breach with all their government info from their ID checks not long after the law kicked in. How many fucking data breaches do we need before people catch on?

When you are carded at a club the staff doesn’t scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.

As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.

Android Debug Bridge? Please tell me I got it right!

I guess even in authoritarian police states where the government will disappear or execute you for any opposition businesses still get away with being assholes.

Also automation is getting better and better all the damn time. The only reason why we haven’t hit 30 hour workweek is due to declining unions and and exploitation politics.

I learned that China had basically made this shit illegal years ago, but work hours in China are still insane. I am willing to bet that they will still have incredible growth and prosperity even if those workhours are strictly enforced.

People like this dipshit need to be stripped of all possessions and wealth and immured alive.

I never heard of zorin. I went to mint. I originally wanted a more hardcore distro but I decided to save the remaining bit of my sanity for later.

I am ashamed to say that I did use windows 11 for longer than I should have.

I heard about Cape, a phone provider that is privacy focused and will soon be entering the consumer market. I will probably switch to them.

For one thing. Their geolocation is deliberately imprecise, meaning instead of pinning you down to a few meters (or even centimeters) they put you in a broad range around the towers, meaning your stated location could be far away from actual location.

I’ve been wondering about the costs of actually having a car custom built. I obviously have neither the know-how nor the place to build my own car, but are there some garages where you can just order the parts and have others assemble it for you? I know it would be expensive as fuck, but having a road-safe, road-legal car with no on-board computer (except maybe a rear view camera… something that doesn’t need connectivity) would be worth it. They might need a vehicle Black Box, but many of those only hold data for the last few seconds only in the event of a collision or accident and do not keep geolocation or personal driving data.

The only time I use copilot is when I am bored at work and I make jokes with it.

I have been online linux mint for a good while now.

I really dont know what you mean. I rooted my samsung s23 and I can turn the sensors off.