Clearview buys photo-ID-for-porn database in 3… 2… 1…

Done:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo

Their logo is even a variation of the RSS logo.

I remember seeing a doc about Wall of Death motorcycle riders. The bikes they used? Century-old 1910 Indians.

Why? Because when lives depend on it, you want a solution with the absolute fewest possible things that can go wrong. Not the latest fancy thing with all the bells and whistles.

My proudest achievement! 😁

I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.

If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.

Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.

PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.

“If it ain’t broke, break it.”

Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.

Fear City (1984), martial arts serial killer stalks strippers, from the man who brought you Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer.

B-Movie Bonanza: https://lemmy.ca/post/41252146

MAGA:

• Make
• America
• Gamergate
• Always

Awesome!

Given that the US government has recognized how unprotected technology (like unencrypted messaging) leaves its individual employees vulnerable to Chinese snoopers, I wonder if China is starting to realize just how vulnerable its pervasive unencrypted tech could leave it to US snooping.

Chinese fintech giant Alipay has for some years now had the “Smile to Pay” system: Alipay users can pay for something by just smiling into the camera in an Alipay “Smile to Pay” POS terminal. IIRC KFC was the first place to have it.

In China, many operators of public toilets seek to prevent theft of toilet paper (I shit you not 😉) by having some kind of rationed dispenser (a certain user can only receive a certain amount of paper in a certain amount of time) or a vending machine.

Public toilet + toilet paper vending machine + “Smile to Pay” = facial recognition in toilets.

• https://chinahandsmagazine.org/2019/11/01/your-toilet-knows-non-surveillance-uses-of-facial-recognition-in-china/
• https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3112836/facial-recognition-toilet-paper-dispensers-china-put-hold-privacy-concerns

In fact, I think a few wanted fugitives have been caught (out?) by the cameras on toilet paper vending machines.

That was something I liked about ZeroNet; in addition to it being incredibly easy to universally block a specific user, there were also block lists anyone could create or subscribe to.

(Although IIRC ZeroNet blocks would only mean you didn’t see blocked users; others could still see that person’s comments etc on your content.)

In 8 years, anyone not mainlining Truth Social through their compulsory Neuralink will captured and euthanized.

So… Zuck stans the guy who ended the Republic and turned it into a monarchy that pretended to still be a republic?

Well, that’s not concerning at all.

Yeah, me too. Never used it since.

So I was glad when Opera co-founder von Tetzchner announced Vivaldi, and I did use it for a couple of years. But I don’t want to become dependent on something not completely FLOSS, so lately using mainly Firefox mods like Floorp, Zen and Firedragon.

IIRC it was something to do with the difficulty of getting the browser to use hardware acceleration/GPU in the countless variations of Linux, to the point where they don’t even bother trying because of the infinitesimally small market share of each distro.

But I’m not 100% sure of that.

Back when I used to watch Netflix in a web browser, I had a browser extension that gave me lots of different capabilities, including all kinds of playback speeds.

I can’t remember the name of the extension I used then, but I see there are still plenty of extensions available. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?q=netflix

You’re welcome.

I don’t know about hosting costs. I do know that Firedragon is a side project of Garuda Linux, a volunteer-developed distro with a Donate page.

One thing: Turn off your phone’s WiFi and Bluetooth when travelling.