I wonder difficult it would be to design an image of an alert driver you could tape over, or suspend in front of this camera. I remember people I knew who had breathalyzer locks on their cars would get a sober person to blow in it for them. Mislead the spytech.

Does anyone know who is actually doing all the pushing?

I actually started doing random things and going random places to feed noise into the algorithms. I subscribe to newsletters about things I don’t find remotely interesting. I comment on uncharacteristic social media. I participate in short term phone exchanges. I change clothing styles often. I type random content on my work computer and save exploit prompts in files with names like passwords.txt. I would not have done any of those things outside surveillance capitalism.

I am Canadian. I don’t use the rbc app, I use a different bank and use their website. I alao use the skip website when I order there, but I’ve never heard of the third one.

I’m a grapheneOS user and I don’t have any google services installed. I havecyetvto hit any major issues with any apps or websites I use. Lucky, maybe?

Metaphorical interest. The percent capital gains on his stocks is well over that. It still functions as passive income. I am surprised that had to be explicitly extrapolated.

I’m going to hazard a guess he makes close to 0.3% in interest per week, meaning he could employ those people on his own passive income without even noticing.

Thank you.

GoG?

Definitely! I recall seeing you at the Lodge meetings.

You talk to dead people?

Maybe citizens should start buying location data on Kash Patel, Hegseth, Vance, Thiel, Ellison, etc. You know, so everyone knows where they are at all times in case they want to thank them forcall the good work they’re doing.

When I was young (late 1970s), “How’s it hangin’?” was actually a common greeting. Not usually to strangers, granted, but pretty common.

Sometimes it seems like it is less “protect the children” as it is “keep the children unsullied for the pedophile overlords” that is just being packaged as “protect the children.” It also seems like the aspiring overlord class wants to track all of the desired slave class to reduce the chances of guillotines. But a lot of how it’s allowed to take hold (in the west, at least) is because of the Abrahamic cult programming so many people still get while they’re too young to look at it critically.

I recognize I come across as a raving conspiracy nut. Perhaps more sedately, I would phrase it this way: the use of heavily hierarchical mythology in early childhood installs belief systems that make the population much more likely to be eager to live within hierarchical social environments that serve the agendas of those best positioned to run, control, and benefit from a hierarchical world. And the mythology positions an unsullied, pure child as highly valued, making both “protect the children” effective, and making “violate the unsullied to prove your power” desirable goals and easy manipulations.

Either way, any long-term solution is more likely to come from eliminating that hierarchical mythology before critical thinking is developed than any kind of universal ID, or the ridiculous OS level age API California is trying to force into play.

Sorry for the rant.

What made you not use the web for your banking? Is the app 100% required? I use the web interface (forcing desktop version) for mine on graphene with no issues.

Why stop at subminimum wage? They should give people the option to work for free as, what do you call that again? Oh yeah, slaves. Republicans like the idea of those, right?

When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.

offer a better, fully fleshed out alternative

is a bit of straw man. Offering a rough list of alternatives for discussion would be sufficient response to the question.

you are allowed to say X is shitty on its own

while true, this ignores that your original statement was challenging this choice over other possibilities. So yes, you can just say it’s a shitty choice, but you (colloquially, at least) implied there exist better choices in your opinion. So it is reasonable to ask what those might be.

Kinda depends on the role. I mean, I am a GRC, privacy, and security specialist who is usually brought in to teach existing employees how to improve their security awareness, and I have been a consultant in the IT industry for over 25 years. So I usually come in not trusting the employer.

If your corporation is running windows 11, you can’t be trusted to keep things malware free. If you’re a corporation, you should also respect true capitalist behaviour, and if they can make a profit offshoring, what difference does it make. If, however, you provide robust, *nix based equipment, follow a disciplined SDLC, and are not a corporation, then I might a couple of highly disciplined, experienced systems analysts with a GRC and privacy focus who would love to learn more about you.

Although you do open with the fact you don’t trust your people, so, probably not.