Wednesday, June 29, 2022

A Society of Control? ...or Liberation?

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

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

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  3. (((Thought Criminal)))June 30, 2022 at 7:05 AM

    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?

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

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

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  6. (((Thought Criminal)))June 30, 2022 at 1:25 PM

    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.

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  7. (((Thought Criminal)))June 30, 2022 at 1:33 PM

    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.

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  8. (((Thought Criminal)))June 30, 2022 at 1:38 PM

    ...delete TikTok lol

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

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  10. (((Thought Criminal)))July 1, 2022 at 5:03 AM

    Bounce that off a VPN or two ;)

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  11. (((Thought Criminal)))July 1, 2022 at 9:29 AM

    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 ;)

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  12. (((Thought Criminal)))July 1, 2022 at 9:32 AM

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

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

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  14. (((Thought Criminal)))July 2, 2022 at 3:03 AM

    Graymail discovery.

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

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  15. (((Thought Criminal)))July 2, 2022 at 3:09 AM

    (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)

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  16. (((Thought Criminal)))July 2, 2022 at 3:17 AM

    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?

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