What’s that guy need so much water for anyway?!?!?

I think there’s a couple of Bond villains with similar setups. Not sure how I feel about that, but felt it was worth mentioning.

Maybe similar to fluoride, there can be a low-concentration version OTC, with the strong professional version only being available directly.

It would be really incredible if they can manage to make this an OTC offering. This is huge.

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It’s a company of less than 10. I’d just be fired.

Like you would unfortunately expect. “I don’t care if they know that stuff.”

This is missing the point that in this example, you have to choose who you’re targeting, find someone at the DMV to bribe, get away with the bribe, and even then, this is limited info.

The difference here is that people are willingly handing their data to the parties that want it, bypassing our DMV buddy entirely.

It’s a case of perfect being the enemy of good. I’m not saying this information isn’t available. I’m saying we shouldn’t be in the habit of handing it out.

These are all things that would need to be individually tracked down or requested and in government-controlled databases. It’s not just the government that has that data now. It’s the camera manufacturer and their 800 partners. And it’s all in one place.

It’s data that individually may not be important to you specifically, but combined, that’s enough information to easily start manipulating you, whether it’s directly or through advertising.

It’s not just about what data is collected, but also who has access.

I explained this to my boss the other day about the cameras he picked up for his house. He was like, “I don’t have anything that I care about them collecting.” To which I mentioned the fact that they now know:

• Where he lives
• What he looks like
• How many devices are on the network
• How many/how old his kids are
• What times they are home
• What types of food they have delivered and how often
• Who they have as guests and how often

The list goes on. There are so many things people can find out about you when you don’t make it easy. Putting a 3rd party camera in your house, though? Now you’re just handing it over.

I won’t be happy until a third of the traffic on the road is driverless zombies going to pick people up who are too lazy to drive themselves or ride a bike. And another third should be cars that are just picking up a box or two for delivery. The remaining third should be exclusively SUVs and pickups too tall to see any passengers, lest they slow down for measly walkers.

One can dream…

After I’ve spent several years away from algo-feed-based social media, I can’t imagine going back. The sheer amount of content that I didn’t consent to witnessing was wild. The frequency of shock and gore was pretty much at least weekly, if not daily.

It wasn’t until I left FB, joined Reddit, unsubbed from all the defaults, and started adding subs as a whitelist rather than a blacklist, did I start seeing my reactions to news shift. I started becoming way less reactionary over time and engaged far less with bait.

When they killed 3rd-party apps and I came to Lemmy, there was a lot less content, but it was also obvious the advertisers weren’t here generating bait. I’m now back to a blacklist on Lemmy, but I also don’t get hit with engagement bait here like I did on previous platforms.

I picture an electric car with almost no dashboard at all. Just one dial for speed and another for remaining charge along with your odometer if you feel you must have that info. Maybe estimated mileage, but even that’s just spare info to someone who’s used to a classic fuel gauge.

In a car, the interior should fall away and the car should become an extension of the driver. Only by feeling the need to preserve the car do you drive with the necessary attention to protect yourself.

People seem to treat cars like roaming living rooms instead of the farm equipment they really are.

I have seen this recently pretty often that people seem to believe Lemmy is an equal representation of the real world. It’s probably one of the more niche media platforms, though. I come here because I enjoy every third Linux post. I also know that I have to go out of my way to find someone who has even heard of Steam, let alone a Steam Deck in the real world.

I’ll stick to my home server, thanks.

I’ve spent the last 2 years pulling all of my cloud data. I’ve read too many stories at this point about people losing access to their stuff and with the way administration is going, that’ll only get worse.

The cloud is just someone else’s computer, after all.

Or even worse, “if we don’t it, someone else will anyway”

That’s easy. You just ignore your conscience because money speaks louder to these people.

I’ve had plenty of success using it to build things like docker compose yamls and the like, but for anything functional, it does often take a few tries to get it right. I never use its raw for anything in production. Only as a leaping off point to structure things.

Yeah, not to mention the actual advantages that come with the format, such as search, highlighting, multiple bookmarks, notes, etc. Yes, you can do most of these with a physical copy, but not without marking up your original copy or having extra materials on hand. Just way more convenient overall.

There certainly can’t be any data to back this up… Now way making access to mental healthcare reduces fringe groups and gives them more constructive ways to deal with their emotional state. /s