whalebiologist

I learned a lot this year. I think our media exalts the peaceful bloodless protest, because it is a comforting lie to think you are an honorable person for being passive and not resisting.

I like gen ai and I think this rule is a nice gesture towards the other side. It's a good practice to cite your sources when you're online anyhow.

I'm not an advanced phone user, the deactivating of apps confuses me... I think I have also seen things get stealth reactivated on updates (my samsung). Hard to trust if this helps anything...

My relatives think their amazon echoes are not spying on them because they opted out of being spied on as a tangential example

In real life people think it is weird that I don't use apps; even if this is obvious to us, we are also a bunch of anarchists on a defederated internet forum. Explanations and examples like this will help us protect the normal people who don't think like us (yet).

Im reading it now, thank you.

Lately people are starting to come around to ways social media makes people sick, and understanding consequences of the information age; from my experience the first casualty of this was not our attention spans, but our will to resist. Apparently just telling people your opinions on things anonymously gratifies your ego just enough without having to sign a petition, or stand outside in a line. "I'm so passionate about this subject I spend every waking moment talking about it online.; uh yeah I can't make it to the protest sorry, It's like a 30 minute drive and I have work in the morning."

I worked as a student loan debt collector over covid, all the old school collectors there would wax nostalgic for the times they could call peoples family members and shake people down; the CFPB was single handedly keeping debt collectors defanged and declawed.

I've always been too self conscious to dance, and had never thought of this before, Nice article, thank you for sharing.

Thank you db0, i am an average internet user, no vpn, limited pirate activity, minimal social media activity, minimal hacking knowledge; this is the kind of info that helps inform me about how to be safe in the dystopian cyberpunk frontier that is no longer a looming science fictional threat in the future, but a present that we have firmly arrived at.

people would have to be paid enough to be willing to not sell out. I see how the existence of the middle class is inconvenient to the rich now.

I'm mainly trying to work out how to get off windows.

I've never encountered malicious content in book form. Avoid PDFs if you are worried.