Random Rants
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sorry to hear @goosehd
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Fuck cancer!! Mom just recently diagnosed with Leukaemia. Still doing the work up, so not much known at this point.
Sorry to hear that mate! Hope you guys are doing ok considering the circumstances
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Thank you all!! God bless…
I would be lying if I didn't say I was just a little upset, but you have to take life one day at a time. The shitty part is that she is about 600 miles away and across a border that has been closed for almost a year. It would be suicide for me to go right now as their Covid numbers are worse than ours. With my wife and two kids, I have to keep thinking about the big picture as much as it sucks!!!
I miss the innocence of youth...
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Alexa and Echo collect your algorithm data for Amazon, websites track your purchasing and viewing habits, and Google openly track your movements and plot activity of your area's movements. When did you consent to this? This is why I am getting a dumb phone and spend less and less time online. I am happier for it, my time has become my own again.
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Alexa and Echo collect your algorithm data for Amazon, websites track your purchasing and viewing habits, and Google openly track your movements and plot activity of your area's movements. When did you consent to this? This is why I am getting a dumb phone and spend less and less time online. I am happier for it, my time has become my own again.
I'm guessing our consent lies in the massive Terms of Services tabs that google downplays to the bottom right of the screen but it's a definite abuse of power and information. Social media platforms are even worse and have been selling our information for years….influencing buying, communication, and our time spent online. I deleted my FB years ago and just casually surf IG but I'm about this close to deleting that too. We do have Alexas in our house that we use mostly just for music but I'm not really pleased about them either. Occasionally an Alexa will spin blue like it's listening when no one says a wake up command. Somewhat disconcerting IMO.
Not to hijack this thread but does anyone make a dumb phone with an iPhone or otherwise quality camera?
To put this thread back on track, I wanted to say I appreciate all the leadership and forumites here and to say thank you for giving me a much better perspective during this pandemic! Much love from St Louis
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This is the only site that I have an account on, I do have a Discogs account, and dormant ebay account. I have zero social media accounts. I still buy print magazines and books, but no books since shops closed.
It worries me massively (and this is a general point, not a direct response to @giles) that we are running toward a society/world where we voluntarily give our most base date away to be monitored and used (what's your heart rate, bmi, blood sugar level? What does that tell perspective employers, insurance companies ect?).
Our algorithms have been bought and sold for over a decade. Now though research is being undertaken into mood modification. Amazon and Google contribute to it but the biggest players are tech companies most bods don't know exist.
Aexa and Echo data monitors what music you request to make you feel a certain way..
Feeling low? Play something happy (very base level psychology that doesn't stand up to scrutiny). That same data could be used to modify your suggestions and playlist (even 'shuffle' is tampered with) to change how you feel.If you are someone that thinks 'Well I'm not doing anything wrong so why should I care'? ', I'd say' there are lots of persecuted groups in history that once though that'.
We really need to think more about what we take for granted.
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Thank you good sir. Sausage fingers, mobile phone, and tired brain = misposting.
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The second you click "I accept" in any terms and conditions, you are giving up something you have taken for granted and giving it away for free.
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I use the home page and search engine https://www.ecosia.org/ it is an ethical browser that does not share search info with 3rd parties. I never get any spam emails, or emails trying to sell me crap. Damn sight better than Google imo
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Alexa and Echo collect your algorithm data for Amazon
Please share your sources where the data is used for anything other than improving the natural language processing of the voice language neural understanding, based on device-enabled keywords (Alexa, Computer, etc) to trigger the service. The technology does nothing other than listen for specific trigger words. Amazon would be sunk in seconds if they overstepped this trust boundary. Don't want to say tin foil hat here, but there's no data to support that which I've ever read, in all the tear downs/reverse engineering/network monitoring etc etc.
Anesthetist, mine do it too from time to time. Log into the Alexa app and you can see what triggered it. There's always something. So far everytime I've been like oookkkayyy I guess that's kind of close. Technology is still very young/needs work. It's not spying, it's just dumb software :D.
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Not being tracked, profiled, targeted etc is difficult to avoid completely; in fact it takes quite a bit of research and being pretty tech / IT savvy to reduce it to a minimum level, bit of an arms race really and the little man is at a disadvantage arguably.
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Dear lawd the life of a landlawd now and then… I got a new upstairs neighbour about three years ago...
Sidebar - The previous tenant was robbed by his girlfriend (she max'ed out his cc's whilst he was on an army mission), so the first couple of months there was no one living there... I did catch him once whilst he was moving out... Well: I came in with groceries and he was moving a washing machine, down three stairs of flights, ON HIS OWN… He was on the last couple of stairs as I entered... Didn't even look phased...
So about three years ago, a new tenant was found... A young girl (22'ish), on her own... As I always do with new neighbours (and also new people at work), I check their social media... Apparently she had a child, and worked at a local alu production factory... The child didn't live with her (and as far as I can tell, visited her three weekends during those three years)... She was quiet and gone to work all day... Fine by me...
Then the dog arrived... What possesses someone to keep a medium sized dog (as you can tell I'm not familiar with the different kinds of dogs) in a one bedroom pad is beyond me... Especially since she was gone from home for ten hours a day... To his credit, he was the sweetest thing alive and only barked when a motorcycle passed...
Then the burn out and/ or depression arrived... She stopped working, and did not leave the house for almost two years... I mean: she took the dog out for two minutes, and picked up pizza for dinner at the place across the street. That was it. Soon she wasn't able to pay for the flat anymore, but the contract stipulates that you rent for three years... Leave any earlier, and you have to pay an additional two or three months of rent (basically you lose the deposit)... So she soldiered on...
But meanwhile she even got fed up with walking the dog, and she let him piss on her balcony... Which are made of wooden beams, so the piss dribbled down onto my patio furniture and my balcony door... I warned her twice to stop fucking about, and to get him to piss outdoors... Third time I contacted the landlord, who gave her a stern bullocking... It then stopped...
Now: she finished the three years and fucked off... Good... I saw the ad pop up on the estate agen't website, and noticed, in the pictures, the stains... I remembered my landlord had put in a brandnew, thick, sound absorping carpet, when she had moved in...
Basically, she had just let the dog piss everywhere… I also forgot to add that she added a cat to her little ark the last year... Presumably it too, added to the carnage... My landlord now had to put in a new carpet again, and the total damages ran up to 5000€... She lost her deposit (around 1800€), and is paying off the rest on a monthly base...
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Nice looking place. And as Giles said, unfortunate all around.
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@Seul I remember you complaining about the dog pissing on the balcony and it raining down. Yikes
