Funny thing is, in the past 4 years or so, I’ve been using those cookies to my advantage.

As far as Google knows, I’ve been at the same location for the past 4 years. I have other private devices when I’m out and about that have never signed into Google nor had location services activated.

I walk both sides of the fence, just to confuse the system…

Device profiling, user identifiers, processor identifiers…

How is a toddler supposed to learn anything if their memory is erased after a month?

What do you expect? Don’t use AI…

Before or after he got captured and briefly assimilated into the Borg?

My bifocal glasses. They were donated to me last year, and some fucking how, they’re a perfect match for my prescription, and have absolutely no scratches.

They were manufactured in 1988, literally 2 years before I ever got my first pair of glasses.

I didn’t exactly sign up for big ass thick bifocals, but the last prescription glasses I paid for cost me $217, are scratched to hell and back, and the frames split at the nose bridge.

They’re big, they’re ugly, but they just fucking work, even clearer than my most recent actual prescriptions.

You can’t complain when it’s free!

Thanks!

Although, the first PDF link says invalid format…

Like I said, I was also studying acoustics at the time, and also writing sound card drivers.

I probably have one of the longest open bug tickets ever for VirtualBox…

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=12425

My original algorithms were specifically designed to help artists perform nearly perfect color matching, based largely on text inputs. It started off as a single purpose application, but totally human driven.

The more I used and tested my own software, it taught me more than I even expected to learn about photochromatic processing. More than I even designed it to do even.

I was already also studying acoustics around the same time. I saw how well my chromatography software was working, and just barely started adapting the algorithm to process acoustics.

I quickly realized that I didn’t have nearly enough RAM or processing power to do anything meaningful in any sensible timeframe, but I could already see that it was possible to go as far as changing one’s voice with the voice print of someone else.

I announced that with online friends at the time, around 2017, and nobody believed me. Probably because I couldn’t quite prove it yet. But I knew it.

The more I thought about that, the more I thought it would only contribute to fraud. So, I just fucking stopped, slammed on development brakes, and said fuckit.

I don’t want to be part of the problem, I just wanted to design a better color filter/processor system.

I was actually developing a crude form of AI, for graphics processing, between 2009 to 2017.

When I realized that my algorithms could be repurposed to the point of cloning someone else’s voice, if I just had enough RAM and processing time, nobody believed me back in 2017.

I will never touch AI again.

You know how people sometimes like to write their phone number on public bathroom walls, looking for a ‘good time’?

Yeah, I’ve been tempted to go around and write this number on bathroom walls, wonder how many people might actually fall for it…

1-911-867-5309

Split right down the urethra, obviously.

The average human has one breast, one testicle, one ovary, and half of a penis. So clearly you have half of a penis.

In my experience, Lemmy isn’t particularly toxic, though sometimes you might run across people with a bad attitude or just might have simply had a bad day. Block those sort of people if you need to, or report them, depending on context.

Also, life pro tip, people aren’t too keen on reading walls of text, especially if it’s mostly complaining…

My eggs are notarized homie, $10 each.

https://lemmy.world/post/25286184

I ended up with the absolute worst shopping buggy in the store, constantly clacking and hanging up. I found it was somehow much easier to push backwards…

People looked at me funny, but hey, if it seems stupid but works, it’s not stupid.

More or less yeah. Though back around 2013 or so, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised by how they designed their Mac AIO desktops, they actually were somewhat repair tech friendly.

The front glass was magnetically attached, so it only took a suction cup or two to start disassembly, and basic screwdrivers to remove the screen and get access to the motherboard, hard drive, RAM, DVD drive, etc.

And yes you could replace or upgrade parts as necessary, none of this newer soldered on storage shit they do these days.

I’ve lost a lot of respect for companies that solder on important parts that should rightfully be fairly easy to replace or upgrade.

Plus, now the big companies have taken to forcing encryption on the storage devices, effectively locking the drive to the system. Well isn’t that just cute for the backup operator that’s trying to recover your late grandmother’s family photos…

Apple, and a number of the other big tech companies as well. Shit used to be easy to use, repair, customize to your liking, etc.

Now they don’t want you to be able to fix a damn thing, plus all too many services and features and stuff have gone to the subscription model.

Fuck all with that, give us our stuff back and let us just use what we paid for.

Right To Repair!

Fast oil change shops, at least where I’m from, allow the driver to remain in their car if they want to. Personally I think that’s about a dumb and risky policy, but that’s how many fast oil change shops roll around here.

It’s said that about 95% of car alarms are accidental triggers. Try working at an oil change shop, it’ll happen at least 3 times a week. And down in the pit, the echo is so loud that the alarm might as well be inside your skull. And we absolutely cannot wear earplugs, the mechanics have to have clear communication at all times.

To make matters worse, some vehicles have aftermarket alarms and security systems where some bonehead thought it would be cute to make the doors automatically lock when you simply close the doors, even if the keys are in the ignition and the engine is running.

United States is different, cars and bicycles on the right side, pedestrians on the left side.

Thankfully my city isn’t strict about that, as it makes damn near no sense to me, regarding the opposite side laws for people on foot… 🤷

When you bring your vehicle to a mechanic, please clean your nasty shit out first. It ain’t gotta be totally perfect, but hell, clean your own nasty junk and bug infestation out first.

Side note: Please make sure to properly disable your car alarm before getting your oil changed. I can guarantee you that the guy working in the pit really appreciates his (/her) eardrums, and the pit is a literal echo chamber.

You want a sledgehammer to the bottom of your transmission? Sure, just let your stupid ass car alarm go off in the shop, go ahead and test your luck with the mechanic in the pit that probably already has a migraine…

Edit: 3rd respect for mechanics. Please God don’t sit in your vehicle running the air conditioner while waiting for an oil change, oil gets fucking hot yo! Please let your vehicle cool off, there’s a damn fine reason they have an air conditioned waiting room.