Yea it's used so much is literally has zero real meaning anymore. Nazi == Satanism and Hitler == Satan. It's pretty much a religious belief now.

They don't need to add any of those. They already have all that. The "age verification" just helps tie you to that data more concretely.

I stopped running GApps years ago. Most normal people would never wipe their phone and delete their major social networks. I admit it's hard to do, but it's a lot better on this side. I know my mobile provider still sells my location data, but at least I'm not sending any to Google and that's a big chunk out.

I wish we could educate people on how to reduce tracking, but people keep allowing schools to force their kids into Chromebooks and childhood Google Accounts (unless you're rich enough to send your kids to a private device-free school like the Tech CEOs do). It's pretty fucked up and I don't see an end to it.

I don't like the world largest defense contractor either, but for the correct reasons (father's connection to Emerald mines, connections to Peter Theil and the PayPal Mafia, not raising any of his children, etc.) But he's not any more evil than the rest of the Epstein class. Calling him a Nazi is just so retarded sauce it makes you look sad and like an idiot. The bastard who's company is literally launching spy satellites for Israel is a Nazi? Seriously? Elon Derangement Syndrome runs both directions.

It's like everyone is literally ignoring every Science Fiction book/movie ever, and in those stories humanity is always taken off-guard by their hubris. I think the big difference is that in fiction, the machines are really intelligent and decide they want to kill us all. In reality, the machines are really stupid next word prediction machines that generate text based on all of our collective works (including those about Terminators).

The machines won't kills us all because they're smart/evil. It will be people who are so stupid they think the Machine are Oracles, giving more control to the random word generators, trained on the best and worst parts of humanity, and allowing them to destroy us (really us allowing them to destroy ourselves) by pure randomness and not any actual malicious intent.

But yea, keep making those robots with massive security holes and continue to give them guns.

Thanks for doing the actual research. That is kinda crazy. Why didn't he get the person hit with the cream pie onboard to sue? I wonder if that guy is still employed.

Also it seems like this manager watched too much Nickelodeon as a kid.

I think it was Defcon 2016; I went to the free "B-sides" mini-security conference that was between Blackhat and Defcon. I was in the toilet and heard some guy saying, "Hey, you can't do that here!" I was thinking, "what the fuck?" As I was washing my hands I head two guys saying, "That dude was in here taking pictures of people pooping!" "He was taking pictures of people pooping?!" "Yea that's what I said, he was taking pictures of people pooping!"

So .. guess perverts were a thing at Defcon? I mean .. that was the only incident the whole weekend, and Defcon hadn't technically started. It is Vegas though.

I agree. AI derangement syndrome runs both directions. At the same time, even though I use it, I know it's hurting my cognitive software engineering abilities. I think that's going to become a bigger issue than anyone realizes.

Could have had a really bad or incompetent lawyer, or a completely brain dead jury. Tragic either way.

I mean, Adrien's Digital Basement works off of it full-time (via fan subscriptions) and he looks to be in his late 40s/50s. He doesn't have millions of followers, just a few hundred thousand. Although his partner may also provide a sizable amount of their income too.

This sounds like some marketing bullshit. It's not remotely verifiable.I have a lot of doubts about everything reported on this story.

> But honestly, why do we have accounts at all? 99% of the crap we do on our phone doesn't actually need it.

I don't. I haven't signed into a Google account on my phone in years. I run Lineage without Gapps or even microG stubs and just use F-droid.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

..but I realize I'm an outlier. It use to not be that way. In the 90s/2000s every tech enthusiast would wipe a machine and reinstall Windows when they got it to get rid of the bloatware. Replacing a phone OS would not only be commonplace in that era, but be demanded by consumers. In the early days, I even knew non-technical people who jailbroke their eyePhones all the time. Hell even people with kids an "zero time" would still do this stuff for fun.

Consumer exploration and curiosity has been atrophied. People want stuff that "just works," ... even though none of it actually works and the Cloud Gods can wipe your entire account with thousands of dollars in purchases overnight if they want. It's all DRM and no physical floppy disks.

Both of my vehicles are still stick shifts, a 5spd WRX and a 6spd Tacoma. You'll take them from my cold dead hands!

You will own nothing AND be perpetually in debt while not owning it.

> I suppose TV manufacturers could make it impossible to use the smart TV if you never connect it to the Internet, but they'd probably see mass returns to the store if they tried that.

They're getting close. Wal-Mart's TV brands (Onn and they recently bought Vizio too) will not work without a Wal-mart account ... and people are still buying them. I thought it was required just to use them as TVs, but doing some more research, it seems you can still use HDMI without a Wal-mart account. But I bet in a year or two, they won't even let you do that.

Huh ... so your reply makes you sound like you have limited reading comprehension and critical analysis skills. Very interesting. I'm sorry you're retarded. I really am. Maybe you can work on that?