The point is that it’s a loophole in privacy laws so they don’t have to outright tell people that they collect personal or identifying information. So they can legally mislead people by claiming it’s anonymous telemetry in hopes that users don’t actually look into it or understand the implications.

Ad firm money.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but my first instinct when I see stuff like this is they have a secret contract with an advertiser and are selling this information.

Like if you’re going to use Arch btw, go all the way and use actual Arch.

Those are absolutely ways of covertly identifying your device while technically not counting as “personal information” under privacy laws.

It’s not fucking over Microsoft, it’s prevent Microsoft from fucking us over. Microsoft is not the victim in this.

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Oh but when I feed at 40 times the theoretical limit my doctor calls me “unhealthy” and “you’re eating yourself to death”

It’s not about if it’s successful or not, it’s about the US having dug in to this and wanting to keep up the tough facade they so desperately want other countries to fear.

Trade Offer

(From literally every goddamn AAA game studio)

You receive:

• A pre-pre-alpha build of our game, literally the first fucking build that compiles

We receive:

• Your money at the price of a full retail game
• Your alpha testing data, but we never actually finish the game because we already have your money so go fuck yourself

Narrator: He won’t

Easiest way to do this: Turn the modem off after bed time (you will also lose internet)

Most expensive but still easy way to do this: Buy a “smart router” with time-based parental controls (lets you use the internet at night).

Nerd way to do this: Pihole with a script that enables and disables certain blocklists at certain times (free and open source, because fuck “smart” products)

Zionists have little concern for Jewish people

FTFY

Also isn’t English the only European language not to call Pineapples some variation of “ananas”?

We call them “dirt beans” in Mandarin which is an improvement I guess?

Can’t wait to have Google’s telemetry injected into my Linux apps

It’s almost like the publish or parish model puts an unnecessary burden on researchers and contributes to the ongoing problem of low quality or even outright incorrect research as researchers try to manipulate results to make them publishable.

I’d argue that the internet has made this problem worse, not better.

In fact, I’d argue that the internet has taken away tons of people’s ability to admit they’re wrong because there’s always an echo chamber that will support you on even the dumbest of beliefs and anyone fact checking anyone is seen as the enemy. You see this on places like Facebook and YouTube comments where someone will make a claim, other people will think it makes sense on a cursory glance and express their agreement, then someone who actually knows what they’re talking about will politely correct them and everyone will gang up on them because they’ve disrupted the vibe, and simply because of that the unanimous decision is made that the correct answer is in fact wrong and is a government conspiracy.

There’s a reason the French beheaded the clergy alongside the nobility.

No one works harder than people whose lives are threatened [for example, by starvation] and they are working to not die.

The logical conclusion of this is that we should bring back slavery and extermination camps because that’s how you maximize the efficiency from of humans. /s (obviously)

The gyroscope can record your speech: https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf

And no OS requires permissions for apps to access your motion sensors.