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On the far anonymous end you've got 4Chan style anonymity, no permanent or any ID at all. Keeping track of individual people is nearly impossible. Conversations are chaotic and hard to follow. Pretty solid privacy.

I guess the next step up would be per conversation/thread/group whatever ID, you trade a small amount of privacy for improved conversation, privacy is still pretty good, a poor choice in username or username reuse could prove to be privacy risks.

I guess next up from that would be something like forum style usernames, like hn or reddit where it's persistent across the entire platform, but still doesn't have to be linked to anything permanent or 'real'. It increases the privacy risk again because now, your conversation history can be tracked across time. This does make it easier for more permanent connections to be made between users but does make it easier for sensitive details to be leaked depending on the user's behaviour.

Up from there you start getting into IDs that are linked to real world information about a user. This provides some pretty obvious privacy risks.

Ids linked to phone numbers are a strange case of trying to take an ephemeral ID that in todays world can change quite regularly and use it as a source of info for an ID based on real world information.

It feels natural and organic. Human creativity building on and growing what came before.

For me, I like air powered tools because of their power and reliability. They'll almost always have more torque and power than similar electric tools.

I'm so unbelievably sick of this 'security by corporation, it's what's best for you so accept it bullshit.' I really am.

No I don't want proprietary internet enabled hardware on my PC monitoring my software, no it does not make me feel safe and secure, actually, go fuck yourself and whatever marketing bullshit you spew to make this desirable for consumers. I'm honestly so fucking done with this kind of shit.

Even the pre-exposure rabies shots are only good for a year or two, at least when I got them. If I'd continued working with bats I would have needed yearly titer shots just to keep my immunity up enough to be safe around bats.

The problem with bats and rabies is, bats can be carriers without showing any symptoms until they're near death. The only way to know for sure if a bat that bites you has rabies or not is to take it in to be tested.

Compare it to say a modern profession like software engineering. Despite it being work, there's plenty of programmers who also enjoy programming and do it for fun on their own time as well as work.

Why would it have been any different back then?

>Music and dance Music and dance is as old as humanity itself.

The peasantry could not afford to pay professional musicians but plenty of people knew how to dance and sing and enough people knew how to play instruments to have a jolly good time.

Occasionally, actors might come to town and put on plays and dramas.

>Decorative Arts Decorative arts were applied to clothing, housing, religiously symbolic objects, etc.

Embroidery, pottery, basket weaving, carpentry, leatherwork and woodcarving were common skills, often with division of labor by sex.

>Sports Sports, including martial arts were also practiced commonly.

There were many medieval tournaments allowing people to compete and demonstrate their physical skill in sports like running, log-tossing, or stick-fighting.

There were also team events such as kicking a stuffed leather ball.

This issue is something that seems odd to me. Why are blatantly ridiculous theories lumped in with things that have some possibility of truth under one big 'conspiracy theory' label? Things like flat earth and lizard people are so obviously ridiculous yet the media seems to treat theories like that the same as theories that question government or corporate motives or other such things as equivalent.

I recently moved a wordpress site I was working on from a local dev setup onto a live bluehost server and was immediately hit with a bunch of out of date package warnings. As the customer was using some cheap shared hosting service, there wasn't much I could really do about it.

It's not something that should be taken lightly and it's not something you should do unless it's a last resort.

That being said, i went through the firearms safety courses and did all the necessary steps to be able to acquire a firearm here, it was through school, there was a chance we'd be working in remote areas with grizzlies and cougars, in many cases a firearm would have been necessary for protection. I chose not to get the license because there was not a situation where I'd need it.

I've met many gun owners in my life. Most of them were quite responsible and understood exactly what the consequences of wielding a firearm is.

Then there's those people who acquired them illegally who had zero regard for any safety when it came to their firearms and used them irresponsibly. I won't be around those people if they have their gun around.

As far as the protection aspect goes, if you live in a relatively stable country and area in the country low on things like home invasion and crime, sure it's probably not necessary.

Then, there's places like some areas in south Africa, where someone I know's brother lives in a fortified compound with automated machine gun turrets and guns stashed in every drawer because when the thieves come, they'll show up in a group armed with automatic rifles, cut your phone lines, and murder you and your whole family for whatever money or anything valuable you have.

I did grow out of skateboarding though, then that longboarding craze came out and I never really got into it.

Funny enough, these days, I'd probably be more willing to go rollerblading somewhere than skateboarding if I had the chance.

It might help anonymize your device.

If you sign into a network regularly that you use with devices you sign into google with, or a network google associates you.with, they might correlate you with the device.

If you follow your normal routine of locations, browsing or other behaviour google is aware of, google may associate the device with what it knows about you.

It's kind of hard to say though, Google's data collection is somewhat opaque in regards to things it collects to associate you to other things.

I have noticed a few occasions where google has given me suggestions or ads based on searches i've made or on devices that I'm not signed into or associated me with data available only from such devices, other times not.

This is just anecdotal though so make of it what you will.

This makes a lot more sense than any other explanation i've gotten over this. Thank you.

Viruses are a completely different form of life that causes illness in a totally different way to other forma of infectious organisms.

I've asked a few people that believe in this ivermectin nonsense to explain exactly how this drug helps against covid. I've yet to receive any explanation as to the mechanism by which ivermectin treats covid that didn't devolve into some unbelievably stupid shit about pleomorphic bacteria and viruses not actually existing.

Why this has taken off just leaves me scratching me head. It just makes no sense.

This is a very obvious example of how bad it can be. Regular complaints from people about ai recommendation engines and most other similar ai driven tagging systems exist.

What i wonder though is on a more subtle level, how these ai categorizers are quietly altering our perceptions of things and the world?

We notice when it's something obvious like the story in the OP, but how many quiet little mistakes do we just ignore or not notice that on a subconcious level are changing the way we think about or classify things.

More and more it seems like society and all things are being neatly placed in little boxes, where they're filed, stamped, indexed, and numbered by fancy algorithms operating without much human oversight, until something like this happens.

How much of this is subconciously affecting human perception of the world?

I'll admit, it's been at least 3 or 4 years since I last checked it out but after nearly a decade of waiting for something that resembled a full game I kind of gave up.

I might give it another try though now that I've seen this to see what's changed. it has been a few years now.

The little tricks it takes to get something working in ways nobody really considered or accounted for.

I dunno, this kind of stuff seems like wizardry to me, yet when I read things like this, it makes it seem so easy and inspires me to try tinkering with things.

It took a few hours for Microsoft to fix the problem, they responded within a half hour or so of the first complaint.

Two days seems like a long time for Microsoft to respond when commercial customer's businesses are at stake. Say what you want about Microsoft, i don't really like them, but their enterprise/commercial support is honestly pretty top notch, I'm really surprised it took them that long to get on top of that considering the calibre of customers involved.

Yet here we are in today's third world derived resource driven rush, where billions of dollars vanish and appear in the blink of an eye, unicorn startups come and go in a day and a fool(VC) is quickly parted from their money with a buzzword and some marketing.