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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • It really didn’t used to be this way. I remember distinctly walking into a metro PCs store in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and being told by the guy there they didn’t care what your name was, you could write down bugs bunny and they’d still take your payment and activate your service. But because of that lots of… Less than reputable people did just that and things kind of ended up how they are now.

    I think there was at one point a switch to VOIP because of that change, and after that VOIP providers started tightening things down, so now your best bet is probably to pay someone in crypto to import an already activated phone.


  • Yeah. I had a glitch happened today where it started playing a song (I think I inadvertently tapped play while looking at a playlist. I couldn’t shut it off in the app, I pressed pause and the screen said it was paused but it clearly was not), and had to turn it off in the media tool. I don’t know what’s going on with it but this isn’t the first time one or the other has glitched out.






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    That’s probably true. But I also deliberately blocked the vegan community here because I saw several posts where it was essentially trying to cannibalize itself over whether cats could be vegan. I honestly didn’t want any part of that no matter how useful some of the recipes might have been.

    Reddit is a cesspool, and yeah, this community is for reddit stuff but at best this post is just trying to start a fight, or receive some validation (which is like … ridiculous because it’s a one off reddit post and we only have their side of the story, and we don’t even know if the accounts they interacted with are real people).

    But also impartiality is something not even paid judges master and it’s like half their mandate. Expecting a bunch of random volunteers who aren’t being paid to be impartial is a crapshoot everywhere including here.



  • To create an effective burner account you need an effective burner device and a burner network to use it on. Otherwise it is trivial for companies that collect your data to figure out who that data belongs to.

    This is more technologically difficult than the average person is willing to deal with. It’s too high of a bar to clear when your browser is being fingerprinted, your devices are being fingerprinted, every new device you buy has some app or subscription, and algorithms collect and anonymize your data with such recklessness that it’s basically trivial to unanonymize it.

    Use the same network as your parents and you’ll get ads for the toothpaste they use, and maybe what they plan to buy you for Christmas.

    Try to remove or block trackers? That just makes it easy to single you out as a specific individual. Try to firehouse those trackers with garbage data? Same problem.

    If you think using a dummy Facebook account on the same device you use for regular accounts means Facebook doesn’t track you or know who you are? That’s a pipe dream.

    It’s the same with other apps too.

    Especially Google and their app network.

    Understand that it’s not that I don’t think this is a good idea (to remove certain services from your electronic life, and to curtail the use of others). But I think your strategy will give people a false sense of security.