Relevant Tangent:

When you try to link two financial accounts (in the US) for the purpose of transferring money from one to the other, and the originating financial institution offers, or in many cases now outright insists you use Plaid (a third party company) to make the connection…

YSK you’re giving Plaid permanent access to all of your financial records on the target account. They can immediately download your entire history and go back whenever they want to get an update.

Sometimes they obfuscate that they’re even using Plaid, so here’s how to tell.

If they “inconveniently” ask for routing and account numbers, and tell you that they’re going to make two small deposits into the target account and that you need to watch for those deposits in the next few days and then come back and enter how much those deposits were to verify that it’s your account, then that is NOT Plaid. This is the version you want!

If, however, they “conviently” jump to a window for you to log into the target account to instantly make the connection, THAT’S Plaid. Once you enter your login info, you’ve just given Plaid permission to paw through your account history and come back to rummage for more whenever they’d like.

it’s not entirely there but damn impressive

Maybe, if you believe they’re actually autonomous and not just being secretly driven remotely.

“If a human spokesperson made these false allegations on Google’s behalf, a significant award of punitive damages would be warranted. Google should not have lesser liability because the defamatory statements were published by software that Google created and controls.”

They are very concerned about that data,” he said. “They need to be convinced that the data is protected

The only way you protect the data from a future wannabe authoritarian dictator is for the data to not exist in the first place.

That was just one example. There are many other topics worthy of serious investigative journalism. This was not one of them. This is just tabloid gossip “journalism.”

Nobody cares. People that don’t care about Bitcoin don’t care. People that do care about Bitcoin don’t care. Nobody cares.

What an absolute waste of investigative journalism time and resources when everyone that’s not in the Epstein files is screaming for those to be investigated and the DOJ to be pressured to properly release the properly redacted files.

JFC. The house is on fire, but lets go find the neighbors lost dog.

Because she works in the medical field, she decided to create a condition related to health and hit on the name bixonimania because it “sounded ridiculous”, she says. “I wanted to be really clear to any physician or any medical staff that this is a made-up condition, because no eye condition would be called mania — that’s a psychiatric term.”

If that wasn’t sufficient to raise suspicions, Osmanovic Thunström planted many clues in the preprints to alert readers that the work was fake. Izgubljenovic works at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in the equally fake Nova City, California. One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”.

Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.

If he was going to post about it, THAT’S where he would post about it. 🙄

Was posting propaganda about immigrants just half an hour ago on his LiesSocial feed. No mention of hospitals.

If it’s free, you’re the product.

Would I be asking if it’s normal if I had?

Three years?!?! Is that normal? I’d be ready to strike after 3 months!

Everyone would use it if that’s just the only way it worked. I don’t need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It’s always on. There’s no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don’t actually want people using it.

I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I’m running SmartTube on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.

If you go this route, you’ll be suspect #1 if anyone else ever takes more aggressive defensive measures against the cameras.

If only there were some way to temporarily cover up the license plate.

I’d recommend caution. No idea if these things have a built in GPS, but I wouldn’t be surprised considering how easy/cheap it is for electronics hobbyists to add GPS functionality to their projects. Take it home and fire it up and you may potentially be telling the gestapo right where you live.

You have keywords to type into forums.

That’s great when you do, and you usually do, but sometimes you don’t.

Case in point; A while back I was creating a 3D model for my 3D printer. It had a part that was essentially identical to a particular unusual pipe fitting that I have seen and knew existed, but didn’t know the name of (spoiler: I’m not a plumber), and I wanted to give the sketch in the modeling software a proper name for the thing.

Just trying keywords that sort of described it’s shape in search engines was useless. Search engines would focus more on the “pipe fitting” part of the keywords and just return links to articles about plumbing. Then I asked an LLM, and it responded with, “That sounds like X.” Then I checked that it wasn’t just making it up by searching for “X” and found online stores selling the very thing I was trying to figure out the name of.

This tech we need, is the leap from ICE to electric vehicles

Great news! I heard a rumor that they’re going to start making electric vehicles next week.

“Yeah? And your point is?”. ~ Billionaires