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901.
by gruez 6mo ago
You buy a new phone, install the app, and get an uuid with 0 attestation count. Now what? If you try to use that uuid to farm attestations, it'll be easily linked to that uuid. If you try to uninstall/reinstall, the attestation co
902.
by gruez 6mo ago
>I still don't get how those 1000 posts tallied with previous UUID would get correlated with the new UUID. The point is that you can flag accounts/uuids based on monthly attestation count alone, without correlating all the post
903.
by gruez 6mo ago
Should the government also get in the business of drilling for oil, or making medical products, because "it seems to make good money"?
904.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Yes regular cookie from Google's perspective, but super in that it works across sites. If for some reason you don't just take Google's word you might suspect they collude and share / sell your identity to the site as
905.
by gruez 6mo ago
USPS should get into the business of running whitelabel warehouses?
906.
by gruez 6mo ago
>So, essentially a super cookie? That is, generated once (at random or arbitrarily) and then included with proof of work? You're just describing a regular cookie. >But not a fingerprint or otherwise linked to identity? You'l
907.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Google is literally selling it's customers?! You can characterize this commercial arrangement as whatever you want, but not meaningfully different than what they had before, where they were getting users to click boxes and charging
908.
by gruez 6mo ago
No, on both android and ios device id implies some sort of identifier that's reusable across apps. Otherwise a uuid that you generate and write to storage could qualify as a "device id".
909.
by gruez 6mo ago
>with its eternal gaslighting. That's not gaslighting. >And probably some percentage of people clicked rails, so now I have meta it and guess if that percentage is enough to throw off my guess. No, there are multiple accepted ans
910.
by gruez 6mo ago
The "device ID" part is probably false and a red herring. What actually matters is that google can correlate which challenges a given device is solving, so if it's solving 10k challenges per day, it can be marked as being sus
911.
by gruez 6mo ago
>so they had to make a seemingly ridiculous statement (because who in their right mind would trust bitlocker) to call attention that "something is very wrong" Alternately, they don't want people to rely on abandonware for
912.
by gruez 6mo ago
>The thousands of winre thumb drives are certainly out of reach; maybe the bitlocker side update the access permissions? Would it require unenc/reenc? The part that isn't mentioned is that the win re is privileged because windo
913.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Typing my passphrase on boot is muscle memory and gives me simple security I can trust. It's not an either-or. You can combine TPM with passwords which makes it far more secure than password alone. A TPM can enforce password guessi
914.
by gruez 6mo ago
>If there is a stick you can boot from and drop into an emergency shell This won't work because the TPM will only give you the keys if you're booting an "approved" OS, specifically the PCR states that the encryption k
915.
by gruez 6mo ago
>You can enable ADP for E2E encrypted backups, but it's probable not going to help you much, because the people you are communicating with likely didn't. That just sounds like a fundamental issue with security in general, not s
916.
by gruez 6mo ago
>If I could go to a regulated dispensary and do a line of methamphetamine I think I'd try it. You can, it's called getting an ADHD diagnosis through a telehealth provider, which gets you an adderal prescription. It's not l
917.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Even just the fact that Google knows my IP (which is otherwise dynamically assigned) at any time is too much. >LineageOS + MicroG is a much better solution Doesn't microg still connect to google? I'm not sure what your thre
918.
by gruez 6mo ago
>I haven't implied an AI takeover, this data will be repackaged into a product for military/intelligence, political applications, insurance companies that can charge you more because they know you're willing to pay, and ma
919.
by gruez 6mo ago
>and the "real phone" from aliexpress or whatever that is purchased rooted and you actually live your real life upon. Ironically the phones with best third party rom support are google pixels. Good luck getting lineageos suppor
920.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Any device with Google services installed has all apps scanned at least once per day. You can turn it off, so it's not "any". At best it's "most".
921.
by gruez 6mo ago
Okay, what concrete harms has Meta done with this information? At best you have some creeps using it to stalk their exes, which is bad, but a far cry from the AI takeover scenario implied by OP.
922.
by gruez 6mo ago
>they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations You can get a pretty good estimate just by looking at other demographic factors like age, education level, income, and zip code. Moreover, how many people
923.
by gruez 6mo ago
That's not really a fair test because you're leading the model pretty hard, even if the prompt doesn't specifically say there's a bug to be found. It's basically the same objections that people raised in the thread
924.
by gruez 6mo ago
The price per task already factors in token usage so you're double counting if you're also tacking "higher token usage" as another argument on top
925.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Almost nothing this scale can be built without subsidies because in the U.S. no company is willing to actually buy anything on their own [...] All this feels like a heuristic (ie. large projects are bad because subsidies) taken too far.
926.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Surprisingly, the exit IP you are given is not randomized each time you connect to the server, but deterministically picked based on your WireGuard key What's the point of this? This seems more complicated to implement than mapping
927.
by gruez 6mo ago
>But then the reality sets in. The massive property and corporate income tax breaks and subsidies and land use variances that were all negotiated as part of the deal come to roost. The jobs aren't upwardly mobile jobs. The income ta
928.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Technically people do benefit from having a dump or power plant. They also benefit from an AI datacenter, at least as evidenced by how many installs the chatgpt app has. >Very few people are affected by having a dump nearby or a nucl
929.
by gruez 6mo ago
>It's only oppression when a bigger dog shows up? That's unironically how it's sometimes defined. "racism = prejudice + power", as the saying goes.
930.
by gruez 6mo ago
That goes for like, most infrastructure? Who would want a dump or nuclear power plant in their backyard?

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