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- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 5 days ago:
You should really talk to some real in-the-flesh people.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 5 days ago:
Thanks for including the mirror, OP.
Companies that obtain mobile phone location data generally do it in two different ways. The first is through software development kits (SDKs) embedded in ordinary smartphone apps, like games or weather forecasters. These SDKs continuously gather a user’s granular location, transfer that to the data broker, and then sell that data onward or repackage it and sell access to government agencies.
The second is through real-time bidding (RTB). When an advert is about to be served to a mobile phone user, there is a near instantaneous, and invisible, bidding process in which different companies vie to have their advert placed in front of certain demographics. A side-effect is that this demographic data, including mobile phones’ location, can be harvested by surveillance firms. Sometimes spy companies buy ad tech companies out right to insert themselves into this data supply chain. We previously found at least thousands of apps were hijacked to provide location data in this way.
I really despise these practices. I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.
- Comment on Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain 5 days ago:
This isn’t likely to be open at all.
- Comment on Fallout: London's first DLC, Rabbit and Pork, is finally out and adds 30 new quests 5 days ago:
Did London ever become compatible with the latest FO4 release?
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 week ago:
May as well just rig the house to burst into flames
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 1 week ago:
Like Dean Karzanes. Dude can run almost indefinitely.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 1 week ago:
Money transfers, online payments for whatever, place to park your assets in volatile times in the market, integration into other on-chain investment systems, etc…
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I’m really curious who these people are that actually use these things.
- Comment on Arc Raiders' devs would you like you to slam its servers with one last, open to all tech test next month 1 week ago:
Third person shooters are weird.
- Comment on The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure the stuff can be funny but mostly just feels me with dread that for this cat meme I have to watch others suffer. 2 weeks ago:
So it’s either be uninformed or miserable.
- Comment on Please make it stop - Google Chrome to be reimagined with AI 2 weeks ago:
Difficult things like “booking a haircut” or “ordering your weekly groceries” will be a thing of the past Google hope, as they’ll get their AI to do it for you.
I gotta wonder how the ad business will fit into this. Are companies just going to make a bid for consumers that Google will just deliver via blind AI orders like this?
Consumer choice comes down to who bribes the AI the most. This seems almost inevitable.
- Comment on When “Ordinary People” on TikTok Turn Out to Be Professional Actors 2 weeks ago:
It’s about media literacy and the unhealthy parasocial relationships of their audience
Ironic.
- Comment on When “Ordinary People” on TikTok Turn Out to Be Professional Actors 2 weeks ago:
Her videos are framed as off-the-cuff, but if you actually pay attention to it, the delivery is very controlled with precise, deliberate phrasing (scripted).
This describes literally any half successful youtuber.
Another commenter also pointed out the stark pivot in messaging from recent videos, to which I replied that she might want to take a screen shot of the comment for posterity (as I wish I had done!) as comments were being deleted, and I was swiftly blocked.
Sounds to me like a creator wasn’t a fan of your obsession with their life off-camera.
Lots of people seem to be turning fascist for whatever reason. That’ll include content creators. Especially ones that think they can build an audience from exploiting the latest controversy.
That makes them opportunistic and shitty, sure. But thinking everyone with a shitty opinion is a paid propagandist isn’t healthy thinking.
- Comment on New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂ - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
What could go wrong
- Comment on When “Ordinary People” on TikTok Turn Out to Be Professional Actors 2 weeks ago:
Paid by whom? Everything here looks like pure speculation to me.
- Comment on When “Ordinary People” on TikTok Turn Out to Be Professional Actors 2 weeks ago:
Actors can have hobbies, too.
- Comment on The song that never ends announces what it is in the first line, then expects us to believe some people started singing it without knowing what it was 2 weeks ago:
We all know damned well you sang the first line in your head though.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 3 weeks ago:
They’re so proud of themselves.
- Comment on US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid, top official says 4 weeks ago:
Damn it Reuters. They’re not targeting the businesses. They’re targeting the workers.
- Comment on Blue 4 weeks ago:
Can I eat it?
- Comment on At least 15 dead after Lisbon funicular derails 4 weeks ago:
Well that doesn’t sound very fun^icular^.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 4 weeks ago:
Can’t find shit about how well this works on Graphene because of their stupid names.
- Comment on US would control Gaza, displace all its people under new plan: report 5 weeks ago:
What a horror show
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 5 weeks ago:
Using it to run desalination is confusing.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 5 weeks ago:
That article’s only real point is that we shouldn’t pin our hopes entirely on sequestration. Nothing about it being invalid or “a scam.”
Basically summed up in these two paragraphs:
On the one hand, putting more money into carbon removal will help scale up—and drive down the cost of—technologies that will be needed in the future.
On the other hand, the growing excitement around these technologies could feed unrealistic expectations about how much we can rely on carbon removal, and thus how much nations and corporations can carry on emitting over the crucial coming decades. Market demands are also likely to steer attention toward cheaper solutions that are not as reliable or long-lasting.
Carbon sequestration is likely to play a part in becoming carbon negative, and deserves to be explored.
- Comment on Lemmynsfw defederation? 5 weeks ago:
Nevermind, I’m just an idiot that forgot they set the NSFW filter on.
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- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 5 weeks ago:
IMO, lying is a terrible way to start any relationship. At best it means you wind up with a job you’re unqualified for. At worst the whole thing blows up in your face. Maybe even the remote possibility of fraud charges.
Don’t think there’s anything wrong with embellishing or talking yourself up, but outright lies seldom work out well. At least in my experience in my industry.
- Comment on YSK that you can save a lot of money in Colorado by using Bustang. It's a government-run bus service that offers great and frequent buses across the state 1 month ago:
Is bustang a synonym of bussy?
- Comment on Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin on seven blockchains 1 month ago:
The Frontier Stable Token is overcollateralized by cash and short-term U.S. Treasurys, holding a minimum reserve of 102% to ensure stability at Franklin Advisers.
Wonder how long this will last until we start the fracturing of US currency at the state level again. That’d get pretty turbulent.
