Yup. Kind of surprised how people seem to have jumped to the idea this is something toxic.

I’m not talking about anything seriously crossing boundaries, I just want some fodder for domain specific teasing. Maybe worded things a bit extreme.

Pretty presumptuous to assume this is in any way toxic or mean.

I just wanted to tease him about his job, like when other friends ask me about my work week as a systems admin/engineer and then follow it up by making up absurd reasons for people to request admin rights.

“Centralized social media wrapped in the poached skins of open source and federation follows it’s true nature. More at 11.”

You don’t ever know for sure. I’ve seen people with “less than a day left” take months, and people fully healthy drop dead from completely unknown health issues.

Same sort of thing. Sure, my entire existence could be the product of a delusion of some higher order being merely keeping the results of my senses consistent with what I consider “real life”. All my previous experiences could be complete fabrications done convincingly enough, including previous musings on this.

So fucking what?

Until any of that becomes provable or has direct impact on the experience I have as “real life”, it’s nothing more than extremely boring navel gazing.

Non-falsifiable philosophical wankery dead-ends and a waste of energy to seriously consider. Better ways to spend what I pErCeIvE as time.

Matches my thoughts on the whole “what if this is all just a simulation?” thing too. Until that has some tangible effect on us, or we find a way out, so what?

And free will. We feel like we have it. That’s all that really matters as far as that debate goes unless you’re the kind of jackass trying to rob someone of their accomplishment or absolve yourself of terrible behavior.

From my understanding, this sort of thing was also used by Ukraine to identify where Russian soldiers were. Not ad tech specifically, but stuff like cell tower usage spikes from the troop’s cell phones.

More importantly, to link multiple device fingerprints to a single identity.

Yeah, like what is this even about? You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker with pause/play, volume, and sometimes even forward and back skip buttons for pretty cheap.

What the actual fuck

Oooooh no! Tut tut good sir, I only eat pea-nut-but-ter-and-preserrrrve sandwiches! What do you take me for, some sort of street urchin, a ruffian, or a cad? Shame upon your family sir! Good day!

I can only assume there’s a different backdoor for 10 that just hasn’t been published. Even if there isn’t, Windows defaults to backing the key up to the attached Microsoft account. You think they’d ever tell intelligence agencies to come back with a warrant for that?

Just use Veracrypt folks.

Not since the accident

Please review the last 100 years of technological development and educate us all on when, exactly, improvements in productivity have resulted in a reduction of the working hours required for subsistence. Extra credit for when it also did not involve threats of bodily or existential harm to the ruling class.

Perhaps, just maybe, people are less concerned with perpetuating the wheels of the machine “at all costs” and more concerned with what happens between now and then. With who will get crushed before they’re stopped, if they ever do, long after our own lifetimes end.

Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.

I’m fully in support of the idea of UBI by the way, I just don’t see the hypothetical distant possibility as a reason to discount issues actively occurring in the existent present. Similar arguments are used to defend the acceleration of pollution in pursuit of an AI super intelligence that will supposedly “fix” all the issues we make during the pursuit of it. It’s foolhardy, dangerous, and reckless to leave the problems being built today to be solved by a purely hypothetical future.

Wait, has anyone ever seen Nigel Thornberry and Princess Diana in the same room?

Why that minion got bedroom eyes?

Fuck, I have one from 2024 that’s been sitting in a box until I had the time to get into 3d printing (like yours, it was a gift). Guess I need to buy a fire fighting ball thing for it when I finally get it set up.

Works with toddlers too.

How else are people going to know how to navigate them?

The base OS of Android is, but the widely dispersed version maintained by Google with the hardware drivers required for it to work with the actual hardware is not.

That’s why projects like Graphene can’t work on every phone. They have to rely on either reverse engineering hardware drivers or the manufacturers providing the drivers. For many years, Google openly released the drivers for all the hardware in their Pixel line of phones, which allowed Graphene and other customized versions of Android to easily work on Pixel phones.

Manufacturers usually don’t release drivers separately and instead they’re only available built into the manufacturers customized Android version. Android Open Source Project is the open source base, then Google builds their proprietary stuff on top as “Android”, then the various phone manufacturers build their own versions on top of Google’s “Android” with: manufacturer specific crud added, phone specific crud added, and often phone carrier specific crud added.