Because Trump is your god king but the difference is when the journalists got called out there they rapidly corrected themselves whereas I never once saw a correction about the Joe Biden story and I never once saw anyone seriously criticizing Trump for losing his marbles 20 minutes into a town hall...

Well not exactly I think one of the editors over at the New York times tried to and got fired for it. Or maybe he just decided to resign all on his own after decades of working there...

Dude you won. You own everything. Your side can do anything it wants now.

Fascists are never happy because fascism is about being angry all the time so no matter how much winning you get you're going to be more and more and more miserable. Almost as if you probably shouldn't be a fascist...

Shut this down as not budget related? Then again there are literally hundreds of things to Republican party stuffed in that bill that aren't related to the budget so some things are bound to slip through.

Somehow I don't think 1 trillion dollars of Medicaid cuts should be included in a budget bill. That should be considered way too significant a policy change since it basically shuts down medicaid...

In other news 1 trillion dollars of government spending is on track to exit the economy. That's going to result in a hell of a lot of job losses. Not just in healthcare you can't take that much money out of the economy and not have it Go boom.

So what you describing is called a browser fingerprint and there are plenty of ways to prevent it.

On the other hand like I mentioned on another comment that only applies if you are fairly technical and while that might protect you it's not going to protect the vast majority of people who simply do not have the skills.

And if it's one thing the last 6 months has taught me it's that the rest of the world will drag you down with it. Freedom isn't something that can be protected with individual action. It requires a concerted effort from a large number of people.

Presumably the idea is that website y knows that VPN provider x is using it.

From there it's an opsec problem. Most of the time though hackers don't get found out by incredibly complex shit they get found out because they accidentally post their email address onto a forum and it traces back to them.

Stuff like this is mildly useful for peace of mind if you're doing something dodgy online and possibly very useful to foreign intelligence agencies that have really good opsec.

But society-wide it's not really going to allow us to avoid the techno feudal dystopian hellscape that's coming. Even if you're opsec is so good you never get caught when all your neighbors are getting caught they're going to drag you down with them as society collapses.

Freedom isn't something that individuals acting alone can protect. But nerds really really like to be individuals because it's a huge drag to deal with people. We wouldn't be nerds if that wasn't the case..

I'm tired of hearing that we don't have to worry about techno feudalism because magic space technology we can't imagine is going to save us. It's a childish appeal to Middle School level sci-fi.

We have tens of thousands of years of human beings being absolutely fucking terrible to each other and outside of a few developed countries human beings are still absolutely terrible to each other.

The real problem is you're stuck in a bubble where you've had a comfortable life so you can't imagine that being taken away from you because why would it? This is the way the world is and the world can't change. Certainly not for the worst because that wouldn't jive with the Sci-Fi books you read when you were 13.

It's the classic 4 to 14 problem where you have an idea that was planted in your head around that age group. In this case you're a nerd and I can see the same sort of Hope the future without the fear of dystopia that comes from being a slightly older nerd that grew up reading Asimov and Bradbury outside of Fahrenheit 451...

You might also have glomped onto the cyberpunk dystopia's where brilliant hackers can still live great lives. Nerds love that because we're the kings in that world.

None of us ever considered techno feudalism though. Or if we do, again we think of ourselves as the Kings and not the peasants...

Good to know if your phone is lost/stolen/damaged you are shit out of luck.

Depending on jurisdiction, establishments are sometimes being forced to accept cash, to not exclude the under banked.
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I still use cash from time to time, and I am not under banked. In fact, I used cash on Saturday to buy gas for my mower, and I always use cash to buy gas for my car. Never have to worry about my card being compromised. Or anyone knowing what I'm buying when I use cash.

Has it out for you then unless you have been protecting democracy non-stop for the last 50 years you are already fucked. And with the exception of maybe possibly France I don't know any country that has been doing that. Pretty much all the first world Nations have been balls deep in moral panics instead of making sure they are systems of checks and balances were functional.

It's that classic, he's got 1024 bit encryption what do we do! Hit him with this $2 wrench until he gives us the code...

In America right now you no longer have guaranteed rights as a citizen. Under our current regime you could be declared a non-citizen relatively easily and by the time the court system gets around to correcting that you're in a prison in El Salvador.

Like everything terrible this model will eventually spread to the rest of the world if left unchecked and I don't see anything to stop it.

situations where lupus is mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis,

It's never lupus.* Until it is.

* I wanted to post a video of House saying it's not lupus, but for some reason YT is now requiring me to sign to confirm I'm not a bot. Sorry for not posting the reference.

At least the one bankruptcy that should have put him under. The people who owned them all the money did some calculations and found that it was better to let him swim for a bit and see if they could get some of their money back by letting Trump pretend to be rich and letting him fleece people out of money.

Basically Trump was almost completely broke at that point and his creditors would have gotten nothing. So they let him keep a chunk of his remaining assets rather than take what little he had so that he could go around pretending to be the smartest rich businessman long enough to get a bit more money for them to get some of their money back.

Basically they were counting on Trump being able to rip people off and frankly it paid off. It did help that our legal system let Trump launder money for the Russian mafia for something like 20 years...

The news media basically covered for him. So much so that we had to create a new term for it, sane washing.

Studies show Trump got billions and billions of dollars of free advertising during the 2016 campaign. And the 2024 campaign was insane. I watched dozens of well-respected editors and journalists dog walked from major institutions like the New York times and Newsweek and even USA today because they criticized Donald Trump or corrected misinformation about Joe biden.

My favorite example was a case where Joe Biden was taking a question from somebody off camera and multiple news outlets reported that as him staring off into the distance. He was just looking at a person that wasn't on camera waiting for them to finish their question.

Meanwhile Trump short circuited during a town hall, stopped everything 20 minutes in and proceeded to dance to his iPod playlist. The news media called this a brilliant move that brought him closer to the voters...

The billionaires bought the media and they are exerting the power that they paid for now.

Taking shortcuts. I don't know what the current state is but the last time I looked which admittedly was when it was called machine learning instead of AI the system was fed a bunch of data consisting of things humans had already diagnosed and initially it looked like it was doing an amazing job until somebody pointed out that it had figured out that the slides that had the diseased parts also happened to have some framing that the slides with the healthy parts didn't have and that the AI was just using that framing and had no idea what was or wasn't a problem.

AI is going to take the path of least resistance. And it's often difficult bordering on impossible to scrutinize how it works properly.

We are a hell of a long way away from Star wars medical robots.

On the other hand since we don't consider healthcare a right, and let's not get ourselves the majority of people reading this don't, I suppose having a barely functional AI reading your chart and diagnosing you is better than nothing.

Of course we'll probably still just give the majority of people nothing. Because you still have to earn the right to exist in our civilization. If you can't generate consistent shareholder value then you need to just go away curl up into a ball and die...

Because human life is only valuable when it's making somebody else rich or when it's already rich

If you are the platform holder you can run code directly they cannot easily be spotted by bots.

It's really easy to spot a third party fingerprinting JavaScript library running on a browser. As soon as you spot it you can shut it down.

It is much harder to do that when the fingerprinting libraries are tightly integrated into the main code on the page. It's still doable but it's much much harder.

This means that if you're the platform holder you can much more easily detect a bot and ignore the garbage data they are generating.

On the other hand if you're not the platform holder all you can do is trawl the website and hope you don't get picked off as a bot. And you will have to devote a lot of time and money and resources to that. Then you also have to figure out what is and isn't AI slop and that's going to be a huge competitive disadvantage because a ton of your computing power and resources and programmer time gets spent on it.

Everyone thinks in terms of absolutes instead of gradations and that's the mistake you're making.

your startup is going to be disadvantaged let's say 10 or 20% versus the major platform holders.

That Gap will let them lower their prices and then you combine the fact that they're making money off the platform and can more easily subsidize themselves.

They will quickly run you out of business and at Best buy you up to get your engineers and whatever tech you might have stumbled on and at worst they just run you out of business and you have to go find another career.

I always tell people when setting up their 2FA not to use Authenticator. First, it does not reliably work. Second, it's from Microsoft which means they can stop it working or make changes to it at will.

Instead, I tell people to select the Text or Phone option. Text is preferred as it will always go through unless they're in a cave.

I think it depends on the base you're working from. If you're starting at 60 or 90 FPS and using it to get up to your monitor is high refresh rate then I think that can work pretty well.

But if you're starting at 30 FPS and using it to get up to 60 then yeah that sucks.

Most esports are going to be the former. You use it to hit the 120 or 144 Hertz refresh rates. At that point it's like an ultra complicated version of free sync or gsync. Completely different tech of course but same basic idea that you're trying to match the frame rate of your monitor to the output.