fonts, screen resolution, many things can affect fingerprint.

The solution is not “a browser from a reputable company.”

It will be a browser designed by security professionals to spoof fingerprints, along with a “crawler” that analyzes the current blend of fingerprints already out there, crawling not web pages but the request headers instead, and canvas outputs, etc.

I don’t think such a browser plus infrastructure exist yet, but they will. It is inevitable.

Such a browser will output garbage yet plausible and believable fingerprints that maximize ambiguity.

Always, unless by mistake it is off.

I’d rather read something like that than 50 pages worth of legaleeze.

Wealth concentration is problematic.

Capitalism on its own doesn’t have any guaranteed and deliberate, measured, studied, tested and understood anti-concentrationist dynamics.

What we get from the cappies instead is a head fake like this: “Check out this example of a corporation losing wealth and its competitor gaining wealth. Now add the magical invisible hand. Therefore, capitalism magically balances itself out.”

But while there is always a rags to richies story to be found, and also an occasional redistribution from one cappie to the next, at the macro level we see a totally different picture.

At the macro level property/wealth holdings concentrate. Reliably. If left alone. More and more is owned by fewer and fewer hands.

And ownership isn’t just about the balance sheet. The owners tell nonowners how to live. It’s about power and dominance.

The landlord tells their tenants how to cut grass, how to aqcept and not accept guests and for how long, what to keep and not keep inside the appartment/flat. Etc. The employer tells the worker how to dress, when to show up and where, what to do, how to do it, and what you can and cannot do on your time off, and it doen’t stop there because there is no line where the cappie says to hirself, “ok, this is plenty of dominance for me, I am satisfied, I will stop making additional demands.” So the cappies tell their workers how to vote, how to organize or not organize, how to share or not share certain information (like about their own salary), etc. Doesn’t matter if it’s legal or if it is enforceable. It works often enough that it makes it worth it to cappies to keep pushing the line.

So not having the wealth is bad enough on its own, but when every aspect of life is tightly managed, including how to think and not to think, capitalism rapes your soul in addition to either keeping you poor, or forcing a neverending hassle, a neverending energy drain on you, unless and until you yourself become a cappie.

That is criminal.

And capitalism doesn’t value anything not denominated in currency. Thus the commons get raped, science is only OK if someone somewhere is profiting, etc.

You get cities that are dirty, dense with money making properties, and little to no space to kick back for free, etc. Anywhere it is not like that is because people pushed back! And not because the cappies prefer ample parks or open land.

Just the fact that the accounting books are almost always the most closely guarded secret of a cappie, that alone, if you are knowledgeable about how power works, should tell you everything about what kind of relationship exists between the various people under capitalism. Workers are roped by the system into projects the details of which they aren’t welcome to know. And the government is also not welcome to audit anything.

What matters is who controls the tech, not just the capabilities.

I want body cameras and body microphones on all the billionaires.

Lets flip the script. The billionaires are a source of danger. They require live monitoring so long as they exist.

“The cameras are protecting you from the guillotines. We want you to stay healthy and safe, mr. billionaire.”

We should still benefit from China making good memory chips. Assuming the chips are fungible, China might buy fewer Samsung or Taiwanese chips and that’s more chips for us.

Personally I don’t care how many yacts you have, but meddle in my government, behave like an aristocrat, try to surveil and manipulate all the proles, and I am not a happy camper. Very salty.

I think there ought to be a hard cap on wealth from 30mil net worth to somewhere around 250mil. Per person. Double that per family. The actual net worth number should be INDEXED to median (not average) wealth and income, cost of living, etc. And it should be determined democratically.

If we catch someone speeding, first offence just surrender all the wealth over the max wealth limit. Second offence? Capital punishment without the possibility of a pardon, and limited chances to appeal. This can’t be treated like any other crime. Going over the wealth limit shound be considered treason.

I use Organic Maps very often. It’s not perfect. It wrongly identifies a shop next to me. It also occasionally gives less than ideal for my taste directions. However, it is subjectively 99% good and right about the map objects and the directions. It is reliable, basically.

Google’s app has given me issues too in the past. It’s not like Google is without its chinks.

So I am happy with it and would recommend it at least for a spin. For me it’s a daily driver app.

But can you 3D print a guillotine?

Asking for a friend.

A plane should still be capable of unassisted taking off and landing for emergencies, imo.

They are already unpopular now. Wait till the pigs dive even deeper in popularity.

They might convince the general population that the first amendment is not worth exercising, and instead we all neet to contemplate military style resistance.

Nobody apparently wants to bring trouble to themselves as long as there is still anything left to hope for. However that calculus can change once the powers that be engineer a life even more glaringly worthless than it already is. Lots of people are quiet quitting or not having children already. That trend will accelerate even further.

I am waiting for now, for me, since I already have a phone. That said, if it’s the difference between zero connection and the status quo, I would just buy something now. The status quo is better than nothing at all. But once Graphene’d Motorola comes out, it’s a no brainer purchace for anyone who wants to own their device in deed and not just on paper.

This looks like the problem here isn’t a technical one, like how to best render a site.

The problem is that some of us (too many) have become dependent on hostile systems (machines + hostile owners + desperate humans willing to serve the owners in exchang for bread aka the employees).

The solution as I see it is twofold:

1. Shift to friendly systems.
2. Treat the relationship to a hostile system as a war, and properly prosecute that war.

People are the product.

Yes, but how many pull ups does it do?

Seriously though. 70km a week is insane. Animal!

With ownership being as concentrated as it is now (more concentrated than during the guilded robber baron age), naturaly, most of the benefit flows to the biggest owners, and AI seems poised to deepen the wealth inequality further.

In a scenario without the insane wealth concentration, and with a dignified and decent economic floor being guaranteed universally, I would be in favor of any AI that does not burn our planet to a crisp and stink up the neighborhood with the gas turbine exhaust.

So in our world as it is, I have to be agaisnt the AI for the foreseeable future.

I can operate the car as I see fit once I take posession of it.

Whether the camera can continuing spying is up to me if the car is mine.

If the vendor has other ideas, they will lose in court.

The best they can do is try to condition services like warranty repairs, or software updates on my compliance, but that has to be tested. They may be compelled to provide some minimum level of service no matter what.

In other words, what’s mine is mine to control.

They would need to rent the car instead of selling it if they didn’t like letting go of it.

I am already generous. I don’t feel the slightest need to be polite or generous to someone or some entity, or a process, I didn’t like.

That’s free money for the buyer in a lawsuit.

We get all the downsides of private ownership with none of the upsides. Meanwhile, the billionaires get all the upsides of private ownership with none of the downsides. Fuck that!

Guess which cameras are getting the hammer or the duct tape?

Or buy used.

If this disease spreads, we’ll need to have a talk with the CEOs and the big investors.