Since by design cryptocurrencies aren’t backed by banks/nations and any transaction is permanent, they are by definition not safe.
At best, you can save out your wallet to an encrypted drive, then write it back to your phone when you need to use it. Make copies, so if one gets lost, you don’t lose the value itself.
My mother’s maiden name was also Spartacus!
My other name online is Spartacus.
Seems to me that all this would do in my case is identify that I’m likely the same person in the various forums I post on.
I’ve used LLMs to go hunting for me online, and it took a LOT of prompting to link the same anonymous me across more than a few of the most popular online forums, even when I fed it excerpts from less popular places.
Since I use a different voice in my private communications and don’t post to public forums under my real name, there’s very little to be matched.
Matching up multiple Reddit and Instagram accounts? Sure, LLMs can do that with ease.
https://beehaw.org/post/24684848
I think this may not be the best time for them to do that….
So… the human brain can act like a spider’s spinneret… we just need a way to extrude the human silk instead of letting it gum up our brains.
Isn’t that functionality built in to the OS? Set up parental controls, and you can do this with no extra apps needed. It’ll even generate reports.
Using Shortcuts, you can even map these profiles to different Focus modes.
Humans in 80,000 BCE:
“We have to do something about this global warming”
“I know, let’s scrub the air of methane and CO2 and store it deep underground! Then we’ll never have to worry about global warming ever again!”
So it sounds like they’re doing something in AI integration at the hardware level for audio?
Q makes me think of “cue” - could they be providing live translated descriptive text tech?
So essentially, the end-game of DHS has arrived, and the goals of Bin Laden are complete.
Indeed; the time to suddenly stop was in 2014, when they were acquired by Facebook.
This was when many of us argued that the end game in acquiring them was precisely what we’ve since discovered. This “news” was obvious over a decade ago, and people were warned.
Yeah; I use Matrix for people coming from Discord, and Signal for people coming from WhatsApp and Messages.
Something I’ve been investigating is setting up a meshtastic node at home with the expansion board. This gives me a 15-20km range for basic signal, which is more than enough for most stuff I want to do, and I can connect to other nodes in the area when needed.
I’d still need to add a temporary eSIM when traveling sometimes, but that can be a temporary thing.
I’ve never had someone ask me for my phone number. They usually ask me to text them, at which point they have my (throw away) number.
Everyone is totally unaware when I’m de-carriered.
I almost pivoted that way years ago. I even took the company’s mandatory drug test. At the end of the day though, it wasn’t a good match.
But I found that industrial automation companies and the companies that use their systems have their own degrading steps to the hiring process. It just doesn’t tend to involve AI and digital privacy invasion.
“This product tested on free range mice.”
Most Google trackers currently capture the information provided by the website (at a minimum, domain and URL), your IP address and Google account ID if you’re logged in. There’s lots of leeway as to how much additional information the site provides, though.
RCS is even less secure than SMS though — it’s unencrypted and by design, Google, Apple and the carriers all have to be able to inspect the content. And the way it’s designed makes it really difficult to have an open E2E encryption standard. So as a result, Google<->Google is encrypted, Apple<->Apple is encrypted, but combine even one device not of the same type in a group chat and it has to be unencrypted.
Nest and Eero/echo are two brands I wouldn’t trust even if jailbroken. They’ve both been shown to contain more hardware than originally announced after some third party tear downs.