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wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

Again, edge is running on my gaming PC that has never once left Seattle. It clears cookies on exit. When i use google on it, it says im in mexico.

Idk why everyone is so gung-ho to disbelieve me. Theres NO EXPLANATION for what im seeing other than Google keeping a hint for my IP and it being currently set to "being in Mexico".

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

It happens on my unsigned in TV that has been sitting in Seattle for a year. I'm really not an idiot. Idk what else to say.

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

What? No, i just meant that its a random browser that i have no cookies on, on a stationary computer that has never left my apartment?

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

Its my tailscale exit node, its not a public vpn.

Sigh, i guess i wasnt clear enough but i didnt pull the conclusion out of my rear.

Days later, my stationary gaming PC still thinks its in fking Mexico.

wereallterrriston Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

Can we please stop falling for this obvious tactic? How many days in a row does he have to do something seemingly-unhinged, and then follow it with some spectacle of a poll to shift the narrative? Is it really that easy?

wereallterrriston Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

All I can really say here is that I hope we can elevate beyond "left" vs "right". Elon is doing the same thing every other wannabe-populist does. Take the beacon light off of him, his riches, his flailing ego, and... sow division. Every single thing he's done for the past 4-8 weeks has been about doubling down on distractions, as he sells more TSLA, lol.

Why is the supposed "liberal tech guy" bumping fking shoulders with Ian Miles Chong on a regular basis? I mean, come on. Please, see it for what it is. Ego and populism, through and through and through. Exactly what I told my ex I was freaked out about when he floated this in March. At least Bezos had the sense to keep his hands off the Post.

We need class solidarity (, we desperately need ranked choice voting), and seeing Elon for who he is, would be a great place for us all to start.

wereallterrriston Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

I just wish personal integrity mattered at any scale, anymore. I wish that people actually came to their opinions via some sort of logical process that could be easily later self-evaluated and reflected upon. There's this tendency to double-down, when "admitting a mistake" is really as simple as reflecting, realizing what assumptions were made wrong, going back to base principles and re-assessing. If you have integrity and good base values, then it's admirable to be able to see a mistake, acknowledge it and grow.

But what's frustrating is that this "double-down-at-all-costs" has worked for some at the top recently, and it seems to just be spreading, and spreading to those that don't have the money to escape the embarrassment/cost of repeating doubling down.

wereallterrriston Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

Do y'all not realize or not care how utterly petty, pathetic, and out-of-touch you come across? Like, you won, your guy is in charge acting like a petty baby tyrant and you still manage to frame as "conservatives are so persecuted". Sorry you can't post Hunter's nudes on Twitter, that must be tough.

I love threads like this, with people furiously voting to try and offset the sinking realization as the cognitive dissonance gets too overwhelming to ignore.

wereallterrriston Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991851

Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it. Elon is not a genius. You got duped. Just accept it and realize he's a petty tyrant whose ego is exploding. It explains every single thing that has happened, and yet people are so desperate not to accept it.

wereallterrriston Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

I'm going to die from eating popcorn. What an epic battle of parasocial allegiance, for some here, this must be.

wereallterrriston Ask HN: Is Sapling, the new SCM/DVCS, getting any traction in the wild?

see also, https://github.com/martinvonz/jj which I really have been enjoying wrapping my head around and using. True undo, and no-stage is truly such an amazing experience compared with raw git.

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

I can open private browsing on my laptop, and Google Shopping shows me Seattle results.

But again, my gaming PC, which was offline in my apartment in Seattle, has been showing me Mexico/Spanish results in Edge. And my TV, which sits in my apartment in Seattle, is inundated with Spanish ads.

I'm starting to suspect that different Google properties are using different signals, too, which makes this extra confusing.

It's really as if YouTube has modified it's profile of me and said "oh, since he was in Mexico for 2 weeks, he must speak Spanish now" the same way they *infuriatingly* insist on switching my results to Spanish whenever I first landed (which literally was why I started using the VPN).

It's a kafka-esque nightmare of them trying to be smart and absolutely making things harder.

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

Astound/Wave Broadband. From whatismyip.com:

My Public IPv4 is: 198.244.xx.yy

My Public IPv6 is: 2604:4080:redact

My IP Location is: Seattle, WA US

My ISP is: Wave Broadband

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

>If you want to fix that, you can set a manual location IIRC, or you can enable some other location source.

Yeah, but I can't. The only way I've seen hinted at doing that is letting my browser share location to Google.com and my desktop Firefox can't estimate my location anyway, on top of the fact that I'm not about to give in and fix this by just arbitrarily granting them access to more data about me.

Especially when they clearly have all of this effort around it, dialogs to try and tell me why it thinks I'm in Mexico and won't just give me a way to tell it where I am.

When I was looking for where to buy an SSD and used "shopping.google.com" earlier, I absolutely could not find how to convince it that I was in Seattle. Ironically, a private browser worked there.

And yet, I literally just sat through 3 spanish ads, again on my unsigned in TV that has been sitting in Seattle for a year.

I think you're absolutely right, it's this myriad of data. But it's frustrating that I /can't just easily override it/.

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

Sure. And in this case, they're showing me irrelevant ads, shopping results I can't use and more.

It's not surprising me, it's baffling me because it's just stupid to do this.

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

No, I'm pretty careful about the information that I give to Google. The only Google app on my phone with access to my location is Google Maps.

To me, it's absolutely news that Google Maps data can taint my entire IP address across all Google services.

Ultimately, sure, great, I realize Google is going to Google, but this is absolutely not something I've seen discussed previously.

wereallterrriston Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

I mean, I'm sitting in my apartment in Seattle and Google says I'm in Quintanna Roo. Given that I don't have any devices left in Mexico, I'm not really sure what else could be happening.

to be clear: my VPN is Tailscale configured to use an exit node running out of the apartment I'm currently sitting in.

wereallterrriston Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000

I mean there's a serious bug where Windows will not properly realize it needs to /stay asleep/ and will wake itself up in your bag, and sometimes stay on.

Linus did a whole video on it - you have to unplug your laptop, then close it, or risk a serious issue.

Just one example of hoops that Windows users become conditioned to.

wereallterrriston Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000

Power-profile-daemon, wayland, and running a somewhat recent kernel will likely resolve these except the keyboard shortcuts (though, likely a newer libinput with wayland instead of X will also resolce this).

Which zenbook? Ill try to find one here to validate explicitly.

Its hard to have these conversations sometimes because people use old versions of meh distros and then carry their anecdotes forward for years.

I literally cannot find a Zenbook on the market that has hardware that should have these issues. I'd really, really like to know what custom kernel patches (really?) you were taking to get hardware to work.

wereallterrriston Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000

Damn near pure FUD with any remotely, remotely mainstream laptop. The Linux ecosystem is so wildly more consistent and predictable than Win10.

I mean, my laptop doesn't overheat daily in my bag when its booted to Linux, but yeah, Windows is so easy. /s

wereallterrriston Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP

If OBS and WebRTC can get to ~120ms, it seems like there are some low-hanging fruits here

wereallterrriston Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music

:/ this is just spam. How are more of your comments not flagged?

wereallterrriston Twitter blocks links to the ElonJet Instagram account

Right because Elon is such a genius that of course he wouldn't just block links to the Twitter account he suspended and not also block links to an Instagram profile. :eyeroll:

The faster people stop being surprised, the better. I don't want to be too bold, but it's increasingly obvious that he's in the "double down on everything, at all costs, lest his ego explode" mindset. Interestingly, not terribly dissimilar from some OTHER richy-richy types lately that have lost all touch with public perception.

wereallterrriston Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

It's +43 and seemingly pinned to the bottom of the page. But I know where I am :P.

wereallterrriston Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

wereallterrriston The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment [pdf]

Surely a meager bit of attention paid to fear/disgust-based politics [now don't project here folks ;)], would dissuade you from that notion. There's always a deeper conspiracy to double down with. Or outright lies. Gish galloping, etc.

wereallterrriston Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are

Yeah, but why? Between the lines, this also means you've been wasting my battery life for some time. And likely will be again when the kernel impl is updated. For what purpose? (Not totally unrelated, I can't help but wonder if Tailscale on a certain platform wouldn't be a bit more reliable if it used the builtin WG support instead of insisting on wireguard-go).

wereallterrriston A software change allowed FTX to use client money

Speak for yourself. Before I read your full comment I assumed your last line was a literal joke.

Countless charlatans have run confidence scams (cons) in the crypto space, accuring money and attention around a centralized platform, in a tech area predicated on decentralized technology.

Living through the MtGox era, watching the corners of the Internet refer to the incident for a decade and then the Shocked Pikachu faces now? I just can't.

I don't care about crypto and "the masses". I invest in things I understand, and it hasn't _burnt_ me yet. I understand crypto and it's unique value prop and it sure as hell doesn't involve investing in or putting my money into a centralized platform. And certainly not one run by the blessed-ilk of Wall Street.

Once again, ever so slight skepticism for the win. It's truly unbelievable the irrationality people engage in when they think they're in on something even when they don't actually understand it!

"The line goes up" is a cautionary tale, and yet I think some folks really missed the whole middle section talking about the psychology that the vultures (NFT, centralized exchanges, etc) are preying upon when chasing explosive growth (or riches, on the other side of the equation).

> and smart contracts don't replace the need for social trust.

idk, a (still relatively) fat stack of crypto sitting on my Ledger would disagree.

wereallterrriston Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me

Yall need to post screenshots. I do not believe you

https://i.imgur.com/hENFQtG.png

As seen in the image, nearly 10 years, never a single issue, and there's not a chance of someone compromising one of my active 2FA options.

wereallterrriston Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me

I never flag content but this was an easy one. Ignoring the utter stupidity of not being able to sanely transfer money in the US, there are countless better ways of sending someone money in a scenario like this. In fact, it's hard to think of a worse way than using crypto, and I'm far from a crypto hater.

Linking to a long form YT video with some gd floating talking head screencasting a Mac, with no text description really just seals the deal.

I don't think money is going to fix the problem at hand, but I suppose I'll extend a similar offer - I'd Western Union cash to you Doreen, if it would help, or help you purchase a good meal so you can regroup/recharge.