Routhinator @ Routhinator @startrek.website

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2011, contracting for a web marketing agency I came across a tool they used that aggregated data from Market, Salesforce and data brokers.

You could put someone's email in, and it would tell you every bit of info they ever filled out on a form for a sale or a freebie.

Name and address were often there, sometimes DoB, sometimes other PID, then there was shopping habits and history etc.

It was creepy as fuck. I dropped Facebook and twitter at the time. And I never filled a form or answered any questions at a till again. Then I started blocking trackers.

CW Flash

Would be awesome to create an offlined ZIM archive with this like they did with FreeCodeCamp so you can use on your local device with Kiwix.

That's strange. I would have thought with proximity to the EU the UK would have all metric signs like Canada.

US and Israel are the only places that still use Imperial. While older generations in Canada and UK will speak about weight in Imperial, the official unit system is Metric.

There's weird things though because they intentionally strip the Canadian language and region options out of AOSP and that causes some odd behaviour. Whenever I switch from my home towers to the ones around Nanaimo I get this odd message saying "Region changed to US, rebooting." And then the phone reboots.

A couple of times its gone into a complete bootloop and required reflashing because of this.

Also you have to use Australian English as the closest Canadian English.

At least, that's the e/OS experience on Fairphone 6. Still waiting for a release for postmarket

And then you added 1, right?

...right?

The two hemispheres are the northern and southern hemispheres when discussing earth, and both were affected.

Red Dwarf did this in an Episode as well where the new AI decides he's not crew and no longer has a subscription to air.

Yep, French's

Correct.

With this administration you need to move that red line up a couple of shades.

This is me, though I figured out a while ago it's better if I just ignore Daylight Savings.

My inner clock doesn't "switch". There's no change. There's just half the year where I'm up an hour earlier and forcing myself to bed earlier and it completely fucks my energy cycle.

ROTFLMFAO

This is what CB Radios are, and many more people used to have them before cell phones.

People in mountainous areas where a cell phone is useless still do.

Religion will become popular again and people still start falling for nonsense like ghosts and superstitions. People born after the 80s don't really remember just how batshit crazy people went for misinformation before we had the internet.

We need a new internet without corporate bullshit and some integrity in terms of knowledge. But seeing what happened to the current one, I don't think that will be possible until we kill capitalism.

These days firing employees when turning a profit is what makes the stock go up.

Its called revolt. By the point Americans have reached, many countries would be in full revolt. By the time Americans realize that revolt is their only option the army will be setup in their cities and bought and paid for by the oligarchy. The good soldiers will be removed from the army and they will have no protectors to stand with them.

Use DKMS drivers. They rebuild for the latest kernel as its upgraded. Using precompiled libs is a problem as many vendors dont keep up with the kernel.

Also, consider an OS that isn't just a Ubuntu variant. Broken kernel upgrades are a thing of the past since our house dumped Ubuntu based distros.

Luanti (Minetest) folks.

The modding momentum is picking up quite a bit and as a game engine its far better than Minecraft.