CircuitSeuss

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by CircuitSeuss 4d ago
If you’re in the area, check out the Connections Museum too! https://www.telcomhistory.org/ConnectionsSeattle.html
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by CircuitSeuss 10d ago
Not all problems are best served with technical solutions. This is a political problem.
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by CircuitSeuss 16d ago
Eerie how easy it is to leverage these always on network connected sensors we keep putting everywhere to get precise data profiles
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by CircuitSeuss 18d ago
I have a pipe dream that Apple will pull a 180 and offer support for GrapheneOS.
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by CircuitSeuss 19d ago
Age verification continuing to chart hitherto unheard levels of absurdity.
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You'll Learn to Love the Cage(frameros.substack.com)
3 points by CircuitSeuss 19d ago|0 comments
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by CircuitSeuss 21d ago
> “Internal posts also reportedly pointed to AI agents making “large-scale, disruptive actions that humans are unlikely to execute” and leading to a 40 percent increase in major technical and security incidents compared to the prior year
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by CircuitSeuss 21d ago
FTC study, Jan 2025 https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p246202_surveil... Frequently sited investigative video journalism on grocery delivery prices (and more): https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by CircuitSeuss 21d ago
If you have time and are interested I highly recommend reading Privacy Is Power by Carissa Véliz https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442343/privacy-is-power-by-c... https://annas-archive.gd/md5/11
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by CircuitSeuss 22d ago
Yes, but typically only on the retailer/ Point of Sales side. Your bank is not selling that information. Of course, things get weird when you have additional intermediaries like Apple or Google pay. In principle at least, there should
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by CircuitSeuss 22d ago
This ignores the aspect of consumer data. Credit issuers generate profit through issuing rewards programs in part due to the sale of their customer’s behavioral spending data. Cash and debit users largely retain their data privacy here. It
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by CircuitSeuss 22d ago
The scale of wealth imbalance, the scale of money in politics, the scale of grocer prices, the scale of data collection and abuse of targeted price manipulation, the scale of climate catastrophe, the scale of electric bills, humming noises,
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by CircuitSeuss 22d ago
Things are getting literal… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442998
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Guillotine found near US Capitol, California man arrested(apnews.com)
9 points by CircuitSeuss 22d ago|3 comments
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by CircuitSeuss 23d ago
Keep in mind line items can be deceptive. e.g. “Corporates” can mean “money we make from selling access to individual’s biometric data to the government.” https://ir.thomsonreuters.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
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US debt is rising by about $90k every second, or $7.8B a day(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by CircuitSeuss 27d ago|9 comments
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by CircuitSeuss 28d ago
Anecdotally, yes.
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by CircuitSeuss 28d ago
Yes, invasive background checks like this are scary. Biometrics collection becoming normalized as well. I encourage you to delete or suspend your accounts, and therefore legally list no accounts. Maintaining a largely un-used social under y
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by CircuitSeuss 29d ago
> the cost of influence has dropped an order of magnitude. This is a really interesting take. You don't need an entire organized religion in order to disseminate your desired belief system anymore… you don’t even need billions of d
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by CircuitSeuss 29d ago
As Bleeping Computer notes, the Xfinity Shield motion detection feature is not new [0,1], and neither is the technology behind it [2]. But it seems that recent advancements in wifi-based environmental mapping via common routers has made it
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Of course they are. It’s everywhere, especially thr online retailers these days. [1] Thankfully the resources at our local libraries are a) selected by a combination of librarian curation and public demand, b) often published before 2022, c
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Excellent time to apply for your library cards.
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
As with most things, it would be ideal if we could have both good defaults to make things accessible and advanced user controls to allow users to retain control. That’s a rare mix these days.
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Very interesting! Parent poster is correct, that notification does feel akin to a key logger… although I’m not sure that it applies to this bluesky feature. So in this instance, am I right in understanding that iOS posts a notification aft
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Alfalfa farms consume 26% of the Colorado River’s water (2024 statistic).[0] Alfalfa and hay production uses up to 68% of Utah’s water, and amounts to 0.2% of the state’s GDP (2022 statistic) [1]. These feed crops are extremely water ineffi
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
> The app knowing I took a screenshot feels adjacent to me to a keylogger. To my knowledge, this is a misunderstanding. The app does not know that you are taking a screenshot, rather iOS knows you are taking a screenshot (as it must) an
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Irl network security has its similarities
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Vet /screen everyone. Cross check personal references, have an onboarding period before introducing new members to anything sensitive, do background checks if you’re concerned about it. There are already experienced community leaders a
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Compliant Technologies’ founder and CEO Jeffrey Niklaus is pretty much exactly the colorful Hollywood arms dealer you would expect to be selling the government taser gloves. 20 year Army retiree who deployed in an impressive number of US im
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by CircuitSeuss 1mo ago
Compliant Technologies claims over 700 law enforcement customers. The company also produces shock collars[2] and e-vests “effective for prisoner transport and bring[ing] subjects into compliance during acts of aggression or attempted escape

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