The prior comment read very much like satire to me. I doubt anyone seriously believes single men are the only people that commit rape.
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Your cell company and Google aren't the only companies that could make that link.
Companies could link your identity and your phone together by your browsing habits, any other account from other services you've signed into, (e.g. tiktok if you used it before calyx, or any other email provider, search engine, news website, etc that you've visited), if you did any browsing on the same device before installing calyx, they could have gotten tons of browser fingerprinting information directly influenced by minute differences in your phone's hardware to others, or you could have just slipped up at one point and not had a killswitch on your VPN, so they were able to make a network connection outside your VPN before it managed to connect.
There's a million different reasons that could be why.
I'd say check if your VPN is set to block all network connections when it's off first, then think about if any account you use on your device now existed on a device with an OS prior to calyx, and prior to when you used a VPN. If the first is true, it's likely you just had a simple IP leak. If it's the latter, then that's just gonna be basic tracking from any number of data brokers. And if it's neither, then it's probably some form of behavioral analysis that linked your past activity to your present activity, or your general interests to those of people around you.
While true to a degree, I think the fact is that AI is just much more complex than a knife, and clearly has perverse incentives, which cause people to use it "wrong" more often than not.
Sure, you can use a knife to cook just as you can use a knife to kill, but just as society encourages cooking and legally & morally discourages murder, then in the inverse, society encourages any shortcut that can get you to an end goal for the sake of profit, while not caring about personal growth, or the overall state of the world if everyone takes that same shortcut, and the AI technology is designed with the intent to be a shortcut rather than just a tool.
The reason people use AI in so many damaging ways is not just because it is possible for the tool to be used that way, and some people don't care about others, it's that the tool is made with the intention of offloading your cognitive burden, doing things for you, and creating what can be used as a final product.
It's like if generative AI models for image generation could only fill in colors on line art, nothing more. The scope of the harm they could cause is very limited, because you'd always require line art of the final product, which would require human labor, and thus prevent a lot of slop content from people not even willing to do that, and it would be tailored as an assistance tool for artists, rather than an entire creation tool for anyone.
Contrast that with GenAI models that can generate entire images, or even videos, and they come with the explicit premise and design of creating the final content, with all line art, colors, shading, etc, with just a prompt. This directly encourages slop content, because to have it only do something like coloring in lines will require a much more complex setup to prevent it from simply creating the end product all at once on its own.
We can even see how the cultural shifts around AI happened in line with how UX changed for AI tools. The original design for OpenAI's models was on "OpenAI Playground," where you'd have this large box with a bunch of sliders you could tweak, and the model would just continue the previous sentence you typed if you didn't word it like a conversation. It was designed to look like a tool, a research demo, and a mindless machine.
Then, they released ChatGPT, and made it look more like a chat, and almost immediately, people began to humanize it, treating it as its own entity, a sort of semi-conscious figure, because it was "chatting" with them in an interface similar to how they might text with a friend.
And now, ChatGPT's homepage is presented as just a simple search box, and lo and behold, suddenly the marketing has shifted to using ChatGPT not as a companion, but as a research tool (e.g. "deep research") and people have begun treating it more like a source of truth rather than just a thing talking to them.
And even in models where there is extreme complexity to how you could manipulate them, and the many use cases they could be used for, interfaces are made as sleek and minimalistic as possible, to hide away any ability you might have to influence the result with real, human creativity.
The tools might not be "evil" on their own, but when interfaces are designed the way they are, marketing speak is used how it is, and the profit motive incentivizes using them in the laziest way possible, bad outcomes are not just a side effect, they are a result by design.
100 million is still a lot though.
To be fair, the article does mention that he's considering using that as a way to fund his current startup if it ever needs a cash injection, rather than turning straight to more VCs, which is probably good in the long run in terms of reducing how much the company could have to cater toward predatory investors over customers, so I'd consider at least part of his remaining wealth just a means to fund a separate venture from his private life, but still, he probably does have more than enough even after that.
Also, I'd never heard of the Russian Nobleman paradox before, but I looked it up and it seems interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
The fuel rates are currently about $0.22/gallon, and are going up to $1.06/gallon over 5 years, but even that wouldn't put them on par with commercial flights (they pay 0.6% of the fees, but use 7% of resources, $1.06 divided by $0.22 gets you 4.81x the current 0.6%, which is still 2.9% of the fees, while using 7% of FAA resources.)
So even with the current fuel rate increases, private jets would still be paying less than half of what they end up using.
- Tickets for flights are taxed at 7.5% to pay for the FAA
- Average flight with many passengers pays over $2,300 per flight
- Private jets don't have tickets to be taxed, are only taxed on fuel
- Private jets pay an average of about $60 in FAA fees
- Private jets take up about 7% of the FAA's resources, but only make up a fraction of a percent of the revenue
- Thus when you pay the FAA fees on your economy class ticket, you're subsidizing operating the FAA for private jet flights, that don't pay enough to cover their costs.
Linkwarden works quite well with its archiving features. Highly recommend.
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I know. I also know not everyone likes installing extensions in their browser because they can be a security risk, and they can even change your browser fingerprint (which makes your browser more trackable), compared to bookmarklets, which do not.
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I do the same thing here. I even use a bookmarklet that converts a current tab in reddit.com to an old.reddit.com link.
(code if anyone's interested)
javascript:(function() { var currentUrl = window.location.href; var newUrl = currentUrl.replace(/^https:\/\/www\.reddit\.com/, 'https://old.reddit.com/'); window.location.href = newUrl; })(); Even ICE's own website states this. They quite literally define themselves as terrorists if you compare their actions to their words.
You mean it's skipping some of the entries in the actual playlist, or it's just only getting the first x entries and then stopping?
I haven't personally found a solution to random skipping to that other than allowing yt-dlp to use your account credentials/cookie to act as though it's a signed-in user. YouTube is randomly deciding to block either some or all download attempts from non-signed-in clients, like yt-dlp.
If it's just stopping after x number of videos, I have absolutely no clue.
And it wasn't even Signal, an actually encrypted platform this time.
It was SMS & MMS. As in, the known to be very low security, non-encrypted protocols used for basic texting.
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Obligatory deflock mention! (If you see a camera in your city that's not on the map, add it!)
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Seconded. A lot of harms we see from surveillance cameras (and all kinds of other tech) come from how and to whom the data is made accessible to, rather than the cameras themselves.
It's fine if my neighbor has a doorbell with a camera on it so they can see when a package is delivered, when their kid comes home, or have video of something happening on the sidewalk that could possibly be needed as evidence in a court case, where they can manually export a video and give it to whoever would require it. But it's not fine if that video is being always uploaded to a corporation's servers, and they're handing it off to the police, for example.
Surprisingly, Ring actually stopped doing this given enough backlash, but the risk still remains of future changes to that policy, any breach or software vulnerability, etc.
I've also had the same procedure before, three times (on different parts of nails, obviously) and it's worked every time.
This also helps if you have short nails, and just want to make sure it doesn't grow in before the nail gets longer again. Can raise the nail up enough that it will grow out forward without cutting in, then you can make sure you clip it properly so it isn't rounded at the edges, and it can sometimes stop it from growing in later.
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It's always so funny to me when I see people on the right act like we wouldn't care if someone on "our side" was on the list.
Like dude, I don't know if you know this, but unlike you all, we don't blindly treat politicians as gods that can do no wrong. If they're a pedophile, fuck 'em. We don't give a shit 😆
My father often bikes up to Canada, which means crossing the border. (obviously)
Normally, there's a long line of cars, and a bit of a wait.
There wasn't a single person in front of him when he got there, and just 2 cars waiting when he came back.
Most of these AI crawlers are from major corporations operating out of datacenters with known IP ranges, which is why they do IP range blocks. That's why in Codeberg's response, they mention that after they fixed the configuration issue that only blocked those IP ranges on non-Anubis routes, the crawling stopped.
For example, OpenAI publishes a list of IP ranges that their crawlers can come from, and also displays user agents for each bot.
Perplexity also publishes IP ranges, but Cloudflare later found them bypassing no-crawl directives with undeclared crawlers. They did use different IPs, but not from "shady apps." Instead, they would simply rotate ASNs, and request a new IP.
The reason they do this is because it is still legal for them to do so. Rotating ASNs and IPs within that ASN is not a crime. However, maliciously utilizing apps installed on people's devices to route network traffic they're unaware of is. It also carries much higher latency, and could even allow for man-in-the-middle attacks, which they clearly don't want.