Wednesday, June 29, 2022

A Society of Control? ...or Liberation?

18 comments:

Thersites said...

Given the nature of algorithms and search engines, my money is on Control, and not liberation.

L said...

You have that correct it has always been about control and we are seeing more and more on a daily basis. So shady!

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Control is an illusion. The more the system devotes resources toward it the less control it will have. The less bang for its buck it will get out of its spending on it.

What's the paycheck of someone who will smash faces in with a rifle butt for the system? Will it have a great health care insurance package?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Algorithms don't collect paychecks, beamish. That's the beauty of automation.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Just ask you wall thermostat.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

ps - I don't think that anyone's figured out how to "open a window" on the Internet yet. Can you work on it?

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Algorithms don't hire, fire, or even arrest you.

If you have a Crapple phone, I can't help you. If you've got an Android phone, swipe down with two fingers, click the settings / gear icon, click on Google services and preferences, click the three dots in the upper right corner, click on usage and diagnostics, and turn it off.

Boom, you've blinded Google's algorithms.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

If you really want to "control" what's going on with your phone, subscribe to a VPN service, and download Opera browser and use it to browse with after you've turned off all the identifying characteristics of your phone, or written in what you want your phone to display to a hacker.

Mine says "Not the droid you're looking for" in hexadecimal.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

...delete TikTok lol

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I can do you one better... land line. Go ahead...track me. lol!

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Bounce that off a VPN or two ;)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

My VPN is already keystroke monitored. :(

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Work VPN or personal VPN? There are tedious ways to get around a keystroke logger, most of which are still compromised by a screen capture bot (like if you were running macros or physically clicking a simulated keyboard on the screen with your mouse...)

The lengths employers will go to make sure we"re not looking for other jobs on their computers is astounding ;)

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

One of my past jobs IT department went apeshit when they discovered I was using Opera to circumvent their firewalls :P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Work, of course. But what makes you believe that NSA isn't inside your "personaL' one?

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Graymail discovery.

"Your honor, we'd like access to the NSA's child porn collection to establish motive and intent."

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

(I don't do anything illegal or even mildly questionable with my computer and phone use... Kafka's trial is a fun paranoid story, but I guarantee the government or watchers or whoever are far more paranoid than you or I)

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

It's not my fault the telescreen is in an alcove and can't see anything. Have you tried turning it off and on again?