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- Comment on Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI 2 hours ago:
“Atmospheric” I mean, not any atmosphere I want to be in.
- Comment on Being Difficult 12 hours ago:
The waves of this comment collapsed into photons entering my eyes showing me a joke about superposition once I observed it.
- Comment on "Sober" 15 hours ago:
Add it to the list!
- Comment on "Sober" 16 hours ago:
The 90s version was “I’m straightedge except for weed and shrooms. Those are natural.”
^Don’t come at me, I know alcohol and tobacco and cocaine are naturally occurring also.^
- Comment on irony is pressing 16 hours ago:
I also use a custom domain. Basically, as long as you accept that the domain might be linked to your IRL name, it’s more of a privacy issue in that regard. The custom domain means you don’t ever have to stick with one company forever, also. My email address is portable to any hosting service.
Spammers and scammers work in databases of hundreds of thousands of records they buy. Anything that doesn’t immediately return a hit is chaff to be deleted. There’s no incentive to root through thousands of credential combos and see if your human brain can see a pattern to tweak, short of targeted attacks about you as a person. If the custom domain doesn’t stand out as a business with website worth sending ransomware, what’s the reason to be a target? No one will waste time on a custom domain just in hopes of getting someone’s 27 addresses just to send important dick pill meds spam.
I get zero spam after a year or so with a custom domain. My neutered gmail still gets flooded with spam.
- Comment on irony is pressing 17 hours ago:
I used to live like a savage with everything tied to one email, and had a few regular spam shields. Damned fool small smooth brain idiot way of living!
I don’t know why I didn’t do a custom domain 10 years ago. The level of security buffering it offers is worth every penny alone. Someone gets aggressively spammy? Fine, I’ll delete the fucking email address, enjoy the bounceback, dicks. Every breach reinforces the idea that this is a good call, giving data leaks worthless garbage. It genuinely gives me a feeling of freedom.
- Comment on Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party 1 day ago:
Please please please do this. Everyone well get it. Zero downsides.
- Comment on Radioactive Steel 1 day ago:
Wow, this is the setup for some excellent dystopian scifi. Or, like, real fucking life.
- Comment on More than a dipper 1 day ago:
Someone said this bird eats insects, so it’s not violent for the fish at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Is Lemmy at the point of creepy dude capacity that I should wish RIP to your inbox?
- Comment on See you on the Dark Side of the Moon 2 days ago:
I was very upset to learn that the Artemis II crew didn’t turn on Wizard of Oz at the exact moment that Dorothy opens her door, synced to the second they lost contact with Earth.
- Comment on Real 2 days ago:
Beyond what’s been said already, we 100% do not have any way to take a picture of a planet outside our solar system that shows any detail of the planet’s surface, and no plans to make a telescope that can do that. What we do right now to even tell if there are planets around other starts is look at the star’s light and see if it gets slightly darker on regular intervals, indicating that a planet is crossing between us and the star in a regular orbit. Right now we can barely take a decent picture of Pluto, which is in our solar system. And checking the light brightness is really only good for looking for large planets the size of Jupiter and Saturn.
It’s like seeing a car at night on a mountainside 4 miles away with its headlights on. It’s just sitting there and you are wondering if it’s a car or something else. It’s hard to even tell it’s 2 lights, it just looks like one light from that distance. But what would we see if someone walked in front of the car with the headlights on? The light get dim on one side and bright again, then dim and bright again on the other side. Sort of the same thing.
As for the uncanny valley part, it’s because whoever came up with the graphic just did a random splash of water and land. The planet could be orange and magenta-colored, we have no idea. They used colors familiar to us looking at images of Earth because the intent is to make you think “it’s like Earth, but different.”
- Comment on Hamdurger season 2 days ago:
I really can’t imagine that the hot dog doesnt curl back as the protein tightens on the bottom cooking first, making this just flop apart in the grill.
- Comment on Hamdurger season 2 days ago:
I mean… Aren’t both of those things just ground meat anyway? One’s in a tube, one is free-form.
- Comment on More than a dipper 2 days ago:
So is this is the fish equivalent of Bigfoot? Or like space aliens?
- Comment on Times sure have changed 4 days ago:
REM as in “Razored, Exsanguinated, and Murdered?”
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 5 days ago:
Maybe he was dictating?
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 6 days ago:
People “find” religion for all sorts of reasons, not just being emotionally vulnerable.
The social infrastructure for many religions doesnt exist near a person and that doesnt prevent them from following what they want. Immigrants move to places where they’re the only whatever they are. Plenty of people convent to a religion where they’re the only practitioner. Online Buddhist Sanghas serve exactly that group.
I have a friend that is a Unitarian-Universalist because she wanted a chill social group that wasn’t about drinking and matched her ideals. They’re not exactly scooping up huddled masses these days, either.
While I take your point that Pastafarianism isn’t “legitimate” enough to pass muster in a court where religious exemptions might be a defense strategy, that doesnt prevent it from being something that speaks to people. It’s a “religion” highlighting how ridiculous religion can be.
- Comment on Cunk on bodies 1 week ago:
Goat, human, sheep, horse, camel. Plenty of animals give us milk with less lactose than cows.
Cows seek revenge on humans through biological warfare.
- Comment on Moon Mommy Milkers 1 week ago:
I hate that this is totally out of touch with real conspiracy people.
They genuinely believe this is some Capricorn 1 style psyop with an empty rocket. Once the rocket leaves their view, “we’re just supposed to trust NASA to tell is what’s going on?” Which, sadly, isn’t bad logic in is face, but during the Apollo missions, it was possible to use third party radio telemetry to prove they were, at least, in orbit.
Reverse the roles. The standing one is the conspiracy but saying “You see how much money they’re willing to spend to fool us?!” That’s legit how they think.
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 1 week ago:
Yeah, but paganism, animism, and Pastafarianism are all valid end points, too.
Worship the sun, it gives us life. What have YOU done for 8 billion people today?
- Comment on Did you do this at your highschool? 1 week ago:
Rednecks. They would have started shooting at the orb, way before the gorilla showed up.
- Comment on guys would this work? 1 week ago:
“Guys, I hacked a nuclear rector using the secret direct protocol!”
- Comment on Did you do this at your highschool? 1 week ago:
I love this idea, but whew, where I grew up this would have gotten someone shot.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
Not sure if you saw my edit in the previous comment as it looks like you were responding at the same time. Back in the day, my guy made everyone that bought from him move to PayPal because, at the time, cops didn’t want to do the extra work to subpoena PayPal. Plus, it meant less cash at his house, so less robbery risk. Things change, and I’m not trying to mess with you or freak you out - I’m genuinely trying to let you know you’re holding onto an idea that stopped being low-risk 5 years ago and now using BTC is not a great idea. I’m trying to help you because I do, in fact, know what the fuck I’m talking about. FFS, you’re being rescued, please do not resist.
Don’t feel like reading? Here’s videos: Reviews of crypto forensics platforms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxmvQO2INE Your wallet is a data point that companies monetize by selling the data to law enforcement www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvNfGu_dio
Because it’s not just you and D and John in the world - fraud cases are also adding pressure to law enforcement to track wallets. So you’re up against millions in software companies and AI tools and old people losing money pushing these tools to go anywhere and see everything. youtu.be/AjxA_xBjcxE?t=389
Let’s get personal. Here’s two scenarios that do play out all the time, and which federal, state, and local cops contract out to get network intel on this:
- So there’s You, John, your guy D, Tom and Janet. You don’t know Tom and Janet at all. Tom wants to buy mollies and party favors from D and because Tom’s a dick, he gets $500 out of the ATM over 2 days and asks Janet to buy BTC from Coinbase, with KYC. $500 of BTC gets bought and goes to Tom’s wallet. Tom buys $300 in party favors and leaves $200 in the wallet. Seven months later Tom gets busted for DUI and in the process gets a possession charge because of a roach in his car’s ash tray that wasn’t even his. None of this touches, you, right?
It’s a public ledger, so all BTC transactions are visible, both wallet names and values. And at this point, BTC wallets are part of the typical asset investigation list because it’s so easy to track. KYC shows Janet bought BTC and immediately sent it. Tom is a bitch and for probation gives up D’s name. D is now associated with that wallet. Local PD sit on D for a month looking at who comes and goes. and seeing which wallets touch D’s wallet. That OSINT link I sent you is all about this. So the PD gets one pic of you walking up to D’s house - so they have your face, which goes into ClearviewAI and gets them your name, address, phone number, etc. They notice that one wallet connected to D also serves as a hub and making BTC purcahses and immediate payments to lots of wallets, Because John doesn’t take cash just from you, John takes cash from lots of people to buy BTC. That’s John and D both easily on the list for subpoenas for phone records. After sitting on John for 2 weeks and D for 4 weeks, PD picks them both up. John’s phone has Whatsapp messages, and the PD subpoenas Meta for those messages and Celebrite the rest. You accidentally called not on Whatsapp once, and you’re connected to John - but you’re also connected to D. You’re just one of a dozen or two nodes in the network map that get picked up over the next week because you’ve left a trail.
You use a mixer? Cute - guess who has flagged the use of mixers as probable cause? secretservice.gov/…/Public-Alert-Cryptocurrency-M…
- D has a connect/supplier, right? D isn’t growing keys in the garden. Let’s call that supplier Mack. Mack supplies 5 people: D, R, T, B, and P. P gets busted 2 states away and has a trail leading to Mack. Mack has a trail that leads to D. D has to move what he gets paid around so he can buy groceries, right? So that’s a trail leading to someone else with KYC or red flags from mixers. And then we’re back in the same scenario as above - anything that touches D can come back to you and people who you’ve never met can bring it all down. A pattern can easily get established where you get out $300 cash and within a week, $300 or less goes to John into a new wallet. Those new payments happen within 24 hours of you going to visit D, in the same exact amounts.
Chainalysis LOVES that you think BTC is even slightly anonymous. “Senator, cash is, indeed, far less traceable than cryptocurrency.” - youtu.be/DSyGE3BDpVg?t=65
Here’s detectives talking up how easy it is to track you, across different coins, across mixers, there are methods Mostly that there’s no delay between a payment happening and going to another wallet… youtu.be/AjxA_xBjcxE?t=389
And they are willing to wait. And that data stays in play for YEARS. You been buying from D for 4 years? that’s 4 years of patterns. THAT is the data trail you and D and John have left, not what you do today. It’s what you’ve been doing.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
I really don’t think you understand how deep KYC goes, and how patterns get established based on wallets. This is not “loony” stuff- OSINT people do this in their spare time. Your wallet is tracked and known and connected to your dealer already by people. But hey, you do you. Just remember that you have been warned three times.
First off, read the Privacy Guides recommendations for crypto: Monero only as it provides privacy by default. www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/
Second, have you done KYC anywhere else? That CAN get connected indirectly to your wallet. How do you GET cash to pay Johnny Shadyshit? Did you pull out enough to also match that cash in the amounts paid by Shadyshit to a wallet within the same general time frame? Feds have this records, and if they roll Johnny, that’s classic data they use to build a case. Did someone stupid that your dealer sells to have their girlfriend deposit money from Coinbase and send the exact same amount to their boyfriend who send the same amount to the dealer? They’re connected to you, too. People you’ve never MET are making nodes on the network mapping. discuss.privacyguides.net/t/…/36366
My guy, you might as well keep going with what you’re doing. Fighting with anyone about it is straight up foolish in the face of everything I’ve showing you. But remember, you’re taking a risk to maybe/maybe not be yet another example of some idiot ignoring all the warnings.
…yahoo.com/…/bitcoin-worth-35-million-tied-213110… justice.gov/…/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-… www.crimeworld.com/ireland/…/144477652.html komonews.com/…/king-county-dealer-amassed-287k-in…
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
Not quite.
Look, ask any serious privacy community, they’ll give you the same answer. It’s kind of a known standard.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
The pointers are that a lot of people track crypto wallets, it’s not hard to do, and that any wallet ever tied to an ID is directly identified. So any other wallet that touches those wallets gets pulled into a network cluster. Network analysis tools are decades old. Patterns get established. So your wallet isn’t any safer than Johnny Shadyshit and his wallet once they connect. You think Johnny won’t ever get rolled? You trust them to be invincible?
Just use Monero or cash.
- Comment on So hungover and so horny 1 week ago:
I don’t think so, I think it’s a copycat.
The horniness is less refined, more just overt sex references. Not the self-confident horny of Violet08.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
Spend some time looking into how the FBI traces wallets. It’s pretty easy, and it’s that at some point, John Shadyman’s wallet gets tied to people tied to you. The entire Privacy community considers cash better than every crypto other than Monero.