We were all thinking it, he just said it
We were all thinking it, he just said it
Well, judging by your previous comment.
I essentially just thinking about what the intention is behind something. What are Facebook’s intentions? Are they to connect you with your friends, and improve your life? No. Their intention is keep you stuck too their platform, and sharing marketable details of your life.
You walk onto a car lot. Is your first thought “hey, this guy is super friendly! He just wants to spend time with me” not, his intention is to get you into the most expensive car he can.
Does that make sense?
If you start to build an “intention” mind set. This will make you successful in so many areas of life.
I’m in no means an expert here, but over the last 10 years or so, I’ve been trying to learn as much as I can. I am still in the boat of trying to find meaningful, impactful ways of explaining to people around me, why they should care about privacy.
Here’s what I would challenge anyone who takes the time to read this to do. Choose a random user in this thread. Any one of them. Go to their profile page, and see what you can learn about that person based on comment/post history.
Did you get an idea of where in the world they live? The problems they’re facing? The things they like? Now. Think like you were someone trying to harm/exploit them. Think of some products you could put in front of them that they could not live without.
Now we take that information, and start to put it together, we think, okay how do we manipulate this person into purchasing this thing.
Maybe we target a fake news article, stating “(target user’s generation) choosing between paying rent and purchasing (target product)”
Now that person starts to think “whoa, in not the only one that’s struggling with this decision, and others are choosing the purchase”
Now, maybe we target an influencer video to them, about how much better their lives are with that product.
Pretty soon, we put together a picture of how quickly and easily we could create an algorithm to manipulate someone into buying something that they would not have made the informed decision to buy. Now they value the product even if they can’t afford it…
I’m literally realizing this as I’m typing it… And it kind of terrifies me.
All of this is completely ignoring the concern of government entities, with I’ll intention, using the information against you…
This guy has a good financial planner.
I for one, will advocate for the separation of kernel and church.
That absolutely does. As much as I loved the ship one, and would love to find that one, I found the concept a very healthy way to wake up. Didn’t panicked you, just got you up. Sorry, I may be living under a rock, is a one plus a phone? Or app?
This may sound dumb… An old Samsung phone I had years ago, came with alarms that gradually faded in. The most memorable, started with the ocean, and the seagulls… Then there was a fog horn in the distance. Slowly the horn got closer, and closer… Until it was all you could hear, and your alarm was going off.
I’ve looked everywhere for the sound file… It must be Locked away in a basement at Samsung somewhere.
One day I’ll find it
Movie: hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, RRR, most of Ghibli studios, drunken Master.
Shows: house, Dirk gently’s holistic detective agency, the Blackadder
My guess is that would be the Lemmy.world hack.
They took the servers offline, to avoid more damage.
Kind of neat, that the main Lemmy instance went down, and it actually wasn’t that noticable to those of us that weren’t logged into that instance… The fediverse is cool :)
I searched for years. Nothing really clicked… I’ve finally settled on ParrotOS. Their flagship is a pen testing distro like Kali, but they have a home distro as well, I’ve been using it for quite some time.
Stability is huge for me, and regular updates. Privacy focused, based on Debian.
Hope this helps your search :)
6 months ago, it’s “we want to scan all devices for CSA media”, 2 months ago, “we want to scan all devices for DRM”, now, “we want to scan all devices for phishing”
They’re just rebranding the same thing over and over till nobody says anything… Get ready for it, guys, the end of privacy is here.