fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES
i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word.
above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data
Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.
Ooh I know this one!
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it’s not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?
It’s like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I’m like ah okay so I’m clearly overthinking this
This restaurant is absolute chaos and I’m giving it 5 stars
The food is excellent. The clientele… ARE WONDERFUL PLEASE LET ME LEAVE THIS PLACE ALIVE
Imagine breaking tree law before paying your workers more :)
Tree law in many states was made many years ago, and was designed to restrain logging companies from pirating trees from private property.
Because of that, it slaps *hard*. In some cases it specifies damages of 3 or 5 or even 10 times the lumber value. This can be extravagantly expensive.
In other cases, it’s Replacement value, or a multiple of Replacement. Consider for a moment the cost of replacing a 100yo adult tree with another 100yo adult tree. Just transporting the thing is likely to be well into the 6 figures, to say nothing of *finding* a tree like that for sale.
Arrogant shit neighbors often think they can just cut the tree down, and it’s fait accompli. What are ya gonna do? Tree’s already gone bro.
When that happens, the victim often ends up owning the arrogant shit‘s house.
companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it’s not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭
This is the thing. If there are only so many people they can profit from, and they demand to see profits go up every year, they will have to steal more out of the pockets of the little people each year, either by paying less, or by charging more. And that is the problem. Because that is exactly what is happening. And the rich get richer. And the poor are getting so poor that it is coming to a crisis point. They seem to have forgotten what happens at the crisis point though: people who have nothing to lose, will rise up and fight.
It would help if they called it “consistent” rather then “stagnant”
my liege you cannot trust this buffoon. he doesn’t even begin every other sentence with “my liege.” he‘ll never whisper in your ear the way i do it, my liege. sire. your fuckableness
I always thought the name wormtongue was derogatory but I clearly misunderstood their dynamic
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
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All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): Remember a compliment you have received and be grateful for it.
THE WEATHER the humidity finally calmed down enough for me to go outside and enjoy SUMMER, the insects, the sun, the grass, picking berries, the green of the leaves and the trees it’s properly SUMMER and I can go wallow in it I am very grateful
Since my most recent post made a few people aware that I might not be a big fan of certain usages of machine learning and image generators, I felt I should make one thing clear. Again. uwu
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:Fuck AI.:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:Fuck NFTs.:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:Fuck people who claim AI regurgitated images are “art”.:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:And especially fuck people who tag it as “traditional art” or “artists on tumblr”.:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:You are nothing else but scalpers and scammers and I will never support you.:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:Don’t like this? Well, lucky you! This is not an airport and you can leave without having to notify anybody about your departure! The unfollow button is there for a reason! <;3 :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
With love: dra <3
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ:Fuck people who claim
AI regurgitated
images are “art”.:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
This is not an airport and you can leave without having to notify anybody about your departure
