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Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded-protections-for-children/ ht
by areoform 2mo ago
Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded-protections-for-children/ https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded...
Mercury unblocked my accounts because their founder is a very kind man who bothered to verify what the document actually says rather than falling back to, "Computer says no." But everywhere else? De nada. Computer says no.
And it's not even me. It's a fuzzy match with someone in their 50s. Doesn't matter. Computer says no.
And I can't "get off the list" because it's not me who's on the list. The computer will always say no.
In the long run, I'll be fine. I think. But I'll pay $100k+ by the time it's over. These systems are being steadily expanded, as the dumbest incarnations of themselves. We've gone from Thin Thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread to crappy fuzzy matches on shoddy data executed on with 0 diligence. It's the stupidest possible timeline.
I think many, many other people will be sharing our fate soon, which is partly why I've been writing about this slow rolling train wreck in motion in bits and pieces.
- mock-possum 2mo agoHow can you possibly afford to pay $100k for something like this? That’s so much money!
- psd1 2mo ago"The evil, I can tolerate; but the stupidity..." -Hubert Farnsworth
- dredmorbius 2mo agoSee also Bonhöffer.
- praptak 2mo agoTerrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".
- somat 2mo agoThat is the fundamental of guerrilla warfare. The guerrillas can't win but can loose with very little cost while the cost for the established side to "Win" is an order of magnitude more.
- TalkingCodeMonk 2mo agoAfter 9/11 (and long before), the majority of historians and academia warned that the political response to terrorism — the destruction of civil liberties, implementation of mass surveillance, Islamophobia, populism — were a greater threat and risk to our freedoms than the terrorists ever were. I remember, after the Snowden leaks, when anyone warned that governments could use the patriot act and the various other "intelligence" power grabs to destroy democracy and implement totalitarian dictatorship, they would be deemed insane conspiracy theorists. The hilarious part is most of them (including me) were warning about a distant future... yet it barely took a decade for America to collapse into fascist populism, declare ANTI-FAscists the real terrorists, and turn the surveillance apparatus against them.
- andai 2mo ago"Encourage your adversary to do more of the thing they've been pushing for half a century."
- Henchman21 2mo ago“When your enemy makes mistakes, don’t stop them.”
- Cider9986 2mo ago>It started rather innocuously. Someone couldn’t send me money. You need a Monero. It's the only damn cryptocurrency that's used. https://getmonero.org https://getmonero.org
- darkhorn 2mo agoMay be you need to change your name to something unique like Ackfknetce. That will be cheaper.
- layer8 2mo agoUntil Trump tweets it by mistake.
- Henchman21 2mo agoAt least at that point you’re familiar with the name change process