As the author alludes to, the majority of this traffic will be easily discarded. It’s the 1-2% that they can’t be totally sure about which will cause them to either keep a bit of bogus data about you, or accidentally discard a bit of real data about you

To take an analogy from image processing

Say you have a perfect, crisp image of yourself. That’s analogous to (company) having a totally pristine dataset about your activities.

Now, say, you introduce some uniform random noise to the image (this is the base level functionality of the Fauxx app without any of the other layers on).

Image denoising algorithms are pretty darn good at getting a bunch of it out, but you have to decide on how aggressively you want to denoise. Denoise too little, and some noise remains but you can be fairly sure you’re not also losing some of the original image. Denoise too much, and you can be more sure that you’ve removed all the noise, but you risk losing data in the actual image.

So, this app on its own isn’t going to take the average Joe’s public footprint and make them disappear behind a cloud of random bullshit, its effect would probably be more akin to a pane of very lightly frosted glass, once (company) is done discarding the obvious noise.

As part of your overall privacy approach I think its valuable, and once its running in the background you’ll basically not notice it’s there. But nobody should be considering this as a magic bullet privacy solution.

Re: them being able to detect and remove noise based on your existing data they already have by training on it - they totally could, and depending how much data they already have, they might have excellent results in doing so. However, performing that process is costly on resources and time (not for one user, but generally). It is likely more efficient for them to take rather dumb approaches to removing noise that are not as effective but cost less and run faster.

That is incredibly interesting

With platforms like bandcamp and qobuz you can purchase albums/tracks and then download them or you can stream your purchased library - so the artists get paid better and you still get to stream your music

I wanna be clear I’m more than happy to pay for a perpetual license to good software. Its the cessation of support past v1 that concerns me. Thanks for making a cool tool, either way, whether I end up using it or no

Any scope for a version of this that installs via docker compose and runs a webui for us home server users? Edit: oh huh I missed that it’s not FOSS paid. 69 bucks for a “perpetual” license that only gets updates to v1 is a bit dire

So a lot of the data is from clits that were removed from men? I jest.

Why do you jest? This is just a factual statement

It depends on the type of game you’re running and its an expectation that should be set from the beginning (as is “whether a 20 is a critical skill check at all”)

My games tend to be more grounded, so when I have run critical skill checks, they are a success with a reasonable bonus. A critical persuasion check might have the guard believe your phony story but also accidentally let slip some useful info as you’re passing through the gates because he’s let his guard down.

But in a game where the vibe is more out there and power fantasy-y, heck yeah, let your 20s rewrite reality!

Love it when the in-world behaviours are also accounted for by the rule system

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You can play whatever you want, yes, thirst, lesbianism, and even swords, are all optional but highly encouraged

Mark your posts as bot posts if you care about principles

You are right, forgot about that. But someone else mentioned already it’s nonmagical so i guess the attunement caveat is just for flavour

Past a certain point death is a formality in d&d, so I don’t think that’s true.

Everything from the rules of the game to the GM guide to the pre written game settings are written with the assumption that players and the gm will be respectful and kind, but no you could absolutely try to play the game about connection-seeking queers fighting oppression and finding family as a bigot

When we tell people not to murder, we are telling them how to act. When we tell people not to be racist, we are telling people how to talk. Telling people not to do things is a normal thing to do. The content of what is being told is the important part.

Is there a particular part of the op that you find friction with?

Well said :)

L take

Yeah but it would be good to educate yourself on your own steam as well

You’d be surprised at how many people were up in arms about it.

It hurt the feelings of a bunch of bigots online when the sourcebook came out so I’d say it did some good work