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Comment Re:Further Proof, Plants Are Sentient Beings (Score 2) 12

It's possible that sentience being exist with a temporal perception so slow that we appear as flitting blurs. It's creepy to watch a hyperlapse of any plant; they move around all the time but it's usually just too slow for us apes to notice. We must be a sudden and terrible plague to all vegetable kind, with the majority of their kin hewn and burned with useful species forced into slavery.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 3, Insightful) 25

A lot of the automated "site-builder" tools include these trackers by default. Some of the trackers (like the Google one) are useful for site-operators to track metrics (# of individual visitors vs repeat visitors, referring source, etc.)

If you build your own site from scratch, and know how to code, you probably would not include them in anything sensitive like this. But if you are just a guy who's boss said "Make it so" and searched for "how to build a website", well... here we are.

Comment Re:Engagement! (Score 1) 19

One of the goals that the AI pushers proclaim is for every human to have their own dedicated AI Agent that sifts the raw newsfeed and crafts articles tailored to the individual's preferences. Individually tailored spin. Everything matched to our pre-existing biases. Comfort and outrage tailored to our individual expectations. 100% engagement.

Comment Re:Garmin was the way to go (Score 1) 21

You're right, their hardware is terrible now. My last 3 Fitbits have failed or are unreliable for basic functionality. The last one was only 1-1/2 years old and therefore out of warranty when it wouldn't hold a charge. I've since switched to a Casio. It doesn't track steps or report my health back to Google, but at least it can tell the f@&#ing time.

Comment Re:Rethinking our approach (Score 0) 105

> Throttling is ineffective if you base it on IP address...

I didn't dictate any specific throttling algorithm. You are stabbing a strawman.

> an attacker obtaining the encrypted vault is probably not going to be able to decrypt many passwords,

That may not be how they breach them. It's an extra layer or device that may have an inadvertent security flaw. The more turtles in the stack, there more turtles there are to hack.

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