Free Software Enthusiast
It’s by design. If 80 to 90% or more of people blindly agree to share their contacts and email then the rest of use are caught up in it every time we communicate with them.
You cannot both participate in mainstream social networks and communications platforms and have any real privacy.
In this case it’s Marc Andreessen. He’s not on the payroll. He is the payroll.
Great article but this shouldn’t be called “Tricks” it should be called Shell Basics. I’m old enough to remember taking an Intro To Unix course and there was an entire day on the shell where these types of commands were presented as essential learning.
I think most people are way more influenced by nudges than they would believe or expect, as anyone who is successful in sales well knows.
I can’t see any reason to trust this project with my browsing.
I take pride in being a contributing member of my community. I see no value in obscuring that by using the vocabulary of magic to describe it.
I think it actually devalues such real tangible contributions to jumble them in with rituals and ceremonies that also give the practitioners a sense of satisfaction and inner peace but do nothing for the world outside of them.
I guess, “Spending time doing things that give you a high sense of satisfaction, especially in ways that help others, will make you less likely to take drugs” isn’t a very exciting headline?
I wouldn’t call it magic, but it was a power beyond his control
I don’t understand how it was a power beyond his control. Taking the story at face value, Crowley created a rhythm and then manipulated it. Crowley’s understanding of how some people are very susceptible to following rhythms and can apparently be tripped up by syncopating the rhythm is in his control.
“Bugs In The Gut” sings pretty well to the tune of Blood In The Cut.
you got bugs in the gut o/~
I understand that might be what it means to you but I can’t find any source that suggests that the world is commonly used that way without any supernatural, magical, or metaphysical aspect.
Personally, I do the charity work I do because I find it rewarding on two levels. I enjoy repairing things and I enjoy knowing it will benefit someone in need. I derive a sense of satisfaction from both.
I don’t experience a feeling of connection to “something” beyond myself. I don’t know what that would other than something magical, like a spirit.
any practice, religious or otherwise, through which an individual finds ultimate meaning, purpose, and connection to something greater than themselves
To this study, my volunteer work testing and fixing electronics for my local charity shop would probably be counted as a “spiritual” practice, even though I do not believe in spirits or ghosts or magical energy.
I live in an apartment with a very small fridge that has a tiny freezer inside it. I got a small chest freezer that I use for storage. I only use the one in my fridge for freezing stuff, then it moves to the chest freezer.
Do you do meal planning and if so do your plans include your frozen stuff?
Yes, and freeze sauces, soups, and stews in ice cube trays and then into freezer bags for easy portioning later. This was life changing advice for me.
If you want to be extreme, you only use devices that you control all the software on and you are very careful about what software you run. You always use a killswitch vpn. You choose carefully the websites you use and you use all the standard counter measures (ublockorigin,DoH,uMatrix,pihole,etc) at all times. You keep another laptop that has whatever you need to install to be able to use your bank and the online shopping you can’t live without. You use it for nothing else.
Even then its not perfect. I’m pretty sure that all Android, iOS, and Windows devices track the wifi access point name and mac address of all the ones you use. They also track the location of all the access points as seen by everyone elses location enabled devices. Easy for them to combine that to basically know where every visible wifi in the world is.
They can tie it to you by cross-referencing all the signals they have about you with data collected from other data collectors and aggregators. With enough data they can connect things like browser fingerprints and so-called anonymous ad IDs with your real identity.
Keep in mind that there is a good number of technical people whose job it is everyday to continuously figure out new ways to track everything they can about every person they can. These data collector and brokers have demonstrated time and again that they don’t really care about following the rules either. Here’s a good resource for more info https://noyb.eu/en
In terms of how they use it against you, this is some good info and it applies even if you aren’t American https://epic.org/issues/consumer-privacy/data-brokers/
Like a dossier which identifies you only by some ID which is used to compile data about you but never includes your direct personal info (name, email, home address, mobile number) so they don’t have to tell you or ever delete it, even under laws like GDPR.
Everything you type in the chat box is sent to the LLM provider but they get Duck Duck Go’s IP instead of yours.
So if you type personal things its mostly just like typing them directly to ChatGPT. However, with duck.ai your IP, Browser info, Location (if shared), etc is seen by Duck Duck Go instead of OpenAI.
I don’t think DuckDuckGo is lying when they say that they don’t use your chats to train models. However, that leaves plenty for OpenAI and Duck Duck Go to do with your chats, like building shadow profiles.
I suggest that if you want to be anonymous to Duck Duck Go, then use duck.ai via vpn or tor. Always assume the content of your chat session is being logged by the LLM provider.
I’ve heard you can ask those people, “if you have nothing to hide would you be OK with a camera in your shower? Recording you have sex?”
I like the saying that privacy is like cancer. Just because you don’t have it doesn’t mean its not vitally important to solve for society as a whole.