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From https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
>The Mobile Advertising ID or MAID — the unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to each mobile device — was originally envisioned as a way to distinguish individual mobile customers without relying on personally identifiable information such as phone numbers or email addresses.

>However, there is now a robust industry of marketing and advertising companies that specialize in assembling enormous lists of MAIDs that are “enriched” with historical and personal information about the individual behind each MAID.


>Some vendors offered only a handful of data fields, such as first and last name, MAID and email address. Other brokers sold far more detailed histories along with their MAID, including each subject’s social media profiles, precise GPS coordinates, and even likely consumer category.


>How are advertisers and data brokers gaining access to so much information? Some sources of MAID data can be apps on your phone such as AccuWeather, GasBuddy, Grindr, and MyFitnessPal that collect your MAID and location and sell that to brokers.


>A user’s MAID profile and location data also is commonly shared as a consequence of simply using a smartphone to visit a web page that features ads. In the few milliseconds before those ads load, the website will send a “bid request” to various ad exchanges, where advertisers can bid on the chance to place their ad in front of users who match the consumer profiles they’re seeking. A great deal of data can be included in a bid request, including the user’s precise location (the current open standard for bid requests is detailed here).


>The trouble is that virtually anyone can access the “bidstream” data flowing through these so-called “realtime bidding” networks, because the information is simultaneously broadcast in the clear to hundreds of entities around the world.


>The result is that there are a number of marketing companies that now enrich and broker access to this mobile location information. Earlier this year, the German news outlet netzp
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Consider not running shitware on your phone, thats half the battle

Yes, it sure is hard being a non-tech-savvy person who doesn't want to participate in all the bullshit.
>just don't run that on your phone
Well, tell the average joe how he can simply opt out of all that. Apple wants $1,000 for a phone, and Android phones won't even activate without a Google account. Average Joe me isn't going to break out the tiny screwdrivers and take apart a phone. He's not going to plug it into some computer and run safe mode or whatever and reassign directories or "break", "crack", "unlock", "root", or anything else because I'm not able to understand ANY of that. Even the simplest of those kinds of tutorials assume a great deal of tech knowledge, interest, and experience. I do have some interest but at my age it's not easy to dive in and learn how everything works.
I'd just like to have a flip phone with a keyboard on it. That's it. I don't want internet or GPS but everyone makes me text and I have to, even for work. I hate texting but there's just no getting out of it.

Every smartphone makes you sign up with software people outside of the phone network. They made these fucking side deals so you can't just use the phone without tying your entire identity to your number and some online presence. They want you to sync all your shit together. They want your phone and television and all your addresses and everything in a cloud somewhere. And we've already seen how this can be exploited. And yet 99% of people just do what they're told.
>nothing to hide
Well then come right in!!! Have a look and a listen!! Because me not having anything to hide is the exact same as being an exhibitionist you can watch and hear as better to advertise to. Sure, it's not anyone real actually listening. So who cares that the technology is there? It's such a blessing for ME that something is always listening for me to address it for MY benefit. What a beautiful future we have. I guess I'm supposed to be impressed. I guess I'm supposed to feel like Tony Stark with Jarvis there to assist me. Record me, LEARN from me so you can better serve me. Is that something I'm supposed to be okay with or even excited about??
Fuck all of this. I hope there's a massive EMP and we have to start over. Really rather we just voluntarily freeze technology anywhere between the 1970s and 2000. That'd be just fine by me. In fact, just eliminate the internet altogether. At this point I see morePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29694
THIS
I fucking hate the "it's a you problem" retards. thinking in terms of individual actions doesn't make sense (and I find it odd to hear this in a lefty forum). they are tracking the whole population. if someone wanted to go after you and you had all the measures in the world to avoid tracking, they could go through your family, friends or coworkers. your careful use of your phone would be of no use.

>>29385
this is also why the "passkey" shit that pushes biometric identitification is promoted so hard.

and normoids will all willingly queue up to give their biometric data away and then in 10 years act like this was such a surprise???!!?! omg muh privacy!! why isn't someone doing something??!?!

>>30005
elaborate, please. does that shit send your fingerprints to some Google server or something?



 

I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?

First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/

Also relevant >>/tech/23548
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Zombo.com

https://www.htmhell.dev/
"A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites."

"Support small businesses" of the internet. Just let go.

>>29531
I thought the thread already had this debate but I guess not:
It's not a call to supooort something, it's an understanding that the current state of things, where the internet has accumulated around a handful of centralized platforms and search engines, is collapsing as the material conditions that allowed them to exist have passed, and smaller websites are emerging from that.

The thread premise is to explore this new, immanently approaching landscape.




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Yall ever seen a sundog before? Its a neat optical effect that speaks magnitude about our position in the cosmos.
The corporate rats who tried to hold the world hostage last week with their schizophrenic chatbots changed their tune as soon as the sundog dropped.
Why?
Because the sundog is an incorruptible purity of alignment for all living beings, describing a triangle between viewer, sun, and the geometry.
A sundog is the aether organizing itself faster than the speed of light, just to give humanity one more cycloptic wink before we shake off an old snakes' skin



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> OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through its API business offering—after news organizations suing over copyright claims accused the AI company of destroying evidence.
> OpenAI alleged that the court rushed the order based only on a hunch raised by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs. And now, without "any just cause," OpenAI argued, the order "continues to prevent OpenAI from respecting its users’ privacy decisions." That risk extended to users of ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro, as well as users of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API), OpenAI said.
> The court order came after news organizations expressed concern that people using ChatGPT to skirt paywalls "might be more likely to 'delete all [their] searches' to cover their tracks," OpenAI explained. Evidence to support that claim, news plaintiffs argued, was missing from the record because so far, OpenAI had only shared samples of chat logs that users had agreed that the company could retain. Sharing the news plaintiffs' concerns, the judge, Ona Wang, ultimately agreed that OpenAI likely would never stop deleting that alleged evidence absent a court order, granting news plaintiffs' request to preserve all chats.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

In other words the US has decided that the techbro slop emprire wasn't invasive enough already. All of this because the newspapers are mad they could potentially be missing 0.03% of the paying custumers btw, which is going to be like 1% of what openAI will have to pay in storage.
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>You'd better not tell me you had ChatGPT role-play something to cater to your special fetishes.

>>30115
chatgpt has safeguards to prevent erotic content from being generated AFAIK

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>give data to a yanqui disservice
>act surprised when courts demand access to said data

>>30115
Not ChatGPT

>>30112

Please tell me which AI companies I should short. I need money kinda ASAP



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>a lot of people use it!
This has gotta be one of the worst reasons for choosing a programming language for your team out there. The entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company and you end up going through excruciating hiring processes, meanwhile if you just say "ok we're using Rust" the only hiring friction will be finding someone who isn't annoying at Christmas parties.
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>>29932
>Endless circles of poor getting punched making them poor getting …
That this is a very affordable form of low "learning".
And not only because it's cheap itself, but because it lowers "earned" highs too.

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>>29927
This is all pretty cold, but, get the impression that since 2008 there's been a variety of attempts to figure out what to do with hardware performance which is eccentrically sufficient for consumers. Part of this is scaling, so you can have more tabs open, more pixels, and higher fidelity graphics etc. Another part is making thinks which couldn't have existed before 2008. The addition of production driverless cars and the transition from ELIZA-style chatbots to LLM are examples of this, but have only shown up recently. These are potential major changes in the means of production. Wonder if there was a twelve to fifteen year lull though. Probably something to do with innovation cycles or something.

>>29932
>Not sure the best way things are learned and overcome however.
Turns out you have to be told!

>Endless circles of poor getting punched making them poor getting …

The same messages paid for again … to listen.
Literally and deeply as well as critically.
Some tips are not to buy things that hurt you.
And to receive payment in necessities! (learning)
But really there's not trick to get out and it's stupid!

>>30030
Within a few short generations my technological Amish may ripen to a technological chardonnay!

>>29911
>the entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company

Script kiddies use scripting languages.

Typically this argument is used for "enterprise" languages like Java/C#, so the people applying won't be script kiddies but moderate skill 45 year old boomers with 20 years java experience and every java certification you can think of.

They're not geniuses who will invent the next meme database technology at a hot silicon valley startup, but they will get the job done for your midwestern airline/bank/tractor company/etc. 99.9% of the time at a moderate wage.



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Is there a siterip of all the documented works on marxists.org somewhere? I'm highly suspicious of the sites ability to stay up in the future for various reasons, and even if it does, I'd feel better storing it all on an HD or something and would be willing to self host it should the need ever arise.

wget --recursive --level=inf --no-clobber --page-requisites --convert-links --domains marxists.org marxists.org

Or something.


>>30100
Didn't realize that the archive would be so large.
Was wondering why there wasn't an effective google like service to do this sort of thing.
the site: search generally doesn't work for me,

Im sure a torrent exists somewhere of collected works.
learn how to internet gooder

>>30102
Not OP, but I've looked and there definitely isn't a torrent anywhere and the two guys that maintain the site have strongly suggested people just wget the parts of the archive they want, or mirroring it if you've got the stuff needed to do it.



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<People voluntarily line up to have their retinas scanned with a "worldcoin orb" to get a "universal" digital ID. In exchange for a small amount of "worldcoin" cryptocurrency.
The faggot behind "Open"AI is now trying to have biometric data of the whole world for cryptopennies. Very cool.
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>>24079
>>24421
Really not that dumb if you think about. Iris scan is whatever and at least they got paid, people actually PAY to have their DNA uploaded to the FBI database.

>>24421
>>24083
democracy is lovely

>24420
>I wouldn't worry that much, most of this shit will fail to stick, at least outside of the US.

You are either coping or you are just naive. Governments are currently in the process of creating techno-totalitarianism all around the world. From the US, the EU up to China. The dead internet theory is becoming real, it's all happening right now.

lol the "adam ruins everything guy" promoted this shit and got his iris scanned too for a substantial pay check so much for being anti OpenAI

>>24422
>people actually PAY to have their DNA uploaded to the FBI database.
there's something really hitlerian in doing these ancestry tests, so they deserve it anyway



 

From within a public library pure emergent, wiggly a.i. agents in the open wild.

https://youtu.be/lKF4Ij3rgT0?si=DWu1uhxQFZxnBIbq

This wasn't a theory; it was a reframing. Not “new laws,” but a different light on the scaffolding and the equation that will save humanity
H(X)

Main payload?

Wreck hooked crosses

> Time is not linear, space is not passive, and observation is not optional.

Reality doesn’t respond to measurement; it generates around it.
The sands of time are pulled down from the stars by our will.

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Are the mods afraid of banning stupid shit on tech for fear of being called ignorant?



 

Facial recognition. Gait recognition. Automated License Plate Readers, many of whom now identify based on make and model. DNA databases. Cellular location tracking. "First responder drones" will become a thing with police departments soon. Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds). For most people in Western countries acting normally, anyone going anywhere or doing anything in the physical world is tracked in a dozen ways. Taking elaborate measures to avoid this surveillance makes you look extremely weird and suspicious to most normal people. Any serious leftist movement dealing with harsh state repression is going to need a reliable toolkit for defeating this stuff.

I don't think this shit can be defeated. Even doing so much as a cash withdrawal adds to your credit profile.

>Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds)

Btw, this happens in plain sight. All your transaction data is sold to credit rating bureaus like TransUnion and Equifax. I'm Indian, and the same happens here. It's worse because here we have a casless payment processing system called UPI, which has gained popularity in recent years. It links directly to your actual bank account too, unlike venmo or paypal that require you to store money in wallets. I've seen alternate data products that scan your SMS history to look for these transactions and create a credit profile based on that. Many banking, insurance and trading platforms integrate these into their applications. So the moment you give them SMS access, they profile you.

You could be a basement dwelling shut-in who never goes outside, but the moment you interact with any banking or insurance systems (which is something everyone has to do) you get profiled. Your transaction and medical history can be used to track you. In fact, in my country it is mandatory for any financial services provider to upload your KYC data to a centralized government database (CERSAI). It's done in the name of fraud prevention, but we all know there are ulterior motives.

All in all, even excluding all the fancy AI-powered surveillance tech available nowadays, governments can still track you. There's no escaping it. Only widespread class-consciousness can make people even start considering this to be important and lay the basis for the collective action needed to counter it. Where I'm at, people literally call you a traitor questioning feds. So yeah, nothing will be happening anytime soon.



 

AGI by 2027. What are the implications for the world and the future of mankind and communism?

>Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the willful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.


>Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.


>Let me tell you what we see.


<I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs

>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

<II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion

>AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic.
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>>30001
And basically everything regarding the hype was made up because Sam Altman was panicing and needed to assure the stock holders that they must stick around. That's why he announced AGI, and that's why he announced ASI, and that's why he'll annound AXXLI in the coming months..

Ok

Permaban everyone in this thread

>>29959
came here to say this lolol

i just want the robo proles to kill the bourgeroise



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