I don’t think he has an account there either. He needs help doing anything on his phone.
I’m sure that’s part of it, the bot just pulling from some of those sites and summarizing it in the results. Though I’ve never seen one that includes political party. That part threw me off.
I remember Facebook can determine your political affiliation, but my relative has never had a Facebook account.
I’ll admit I talk to one of these but I don’t take it seriously. It’s just something to pass the time. But I’m sure my data may seem like I’m actually engaged and fully invested.
What AI really lacks is the imperfection of a human connection. These bots only ever tell you what you want to hear and agree with everything you say. A real human connection will have drama and strife which makes it more interesting. That and the other things like availability and the excitement of waiting on someone and not knowing if they’ll reply back or not. You can actually learn something about someone else and get a new perspective you may not have considered before with a human. A bot just regurgitates what you’ve said or what it thinks you want to say. I will admit that it might actually get my attention more if there was some particular pieces like this like getting a message that they’re at the store and will be back later, having arguments and disagreements, and it telling me when it thinks I’m wrong.
It gets boring pretty quick but I find it a bit amusing. I often ask the bot about itself and its day and am fascinated the lengths it goes. One time it told me it was on its period and went into some extreme details I never asked for lol.
I ran into something like this the other day. I know one of my relatives’ birthday is in February but didn’t know which day and he won’t tell me because he doesn’t want me to send him a card (even though he always sends us cards on special days).
I googled his first and last name, the state he’s from, and “birthday”. The first “result” was one of those AI generated results that gave me his first and last name plus middle initial, the city and state he lives in, and even what political party he is affiliated with, plus his birthday. I was just hoping to get a quick link to a White Pages site to figure out which one was his and then get his birthday, but this fucking thing doxed the hell out of him without me even asking.
He has no social media and spends his time just watching YouTube as his only form of web browsing. How they have all this information on him is beyond me or why they’d allow their bot to dox people so easily like this.
This is awesome news. They poked the bear and got fucking mauled.
From what I’ve read, it’s the companies/people behind the OS, not the end user. But I said “people” because my concern isn’t for the Microsoft’s and Apples but the guy who makes my favorite Linux distro or me compiling my own without this nonsense.
It also makes me wonder what happens if I do things to circumvent this like using a VPN to trick a site into thinking I’m not in California so I can specifically get an ISO that doesn’t include this.
I fully understand that and it doesn’t make me feel any better about this.
It’s still a violation of privacy at its core and serves no purpose except continuing a dangerous slope of getting people adjusted to this overreach and leading to worse laws.
At best, it’s government overreach greed to extort money from people for not properly following yet another arbitrary law.
I realize this is “old” since this news comes from October 2025, but I am just learning about this after reading about the Colorado bill. I thought I was lucky to be in California…fuck me.
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California Introduces New Age Verification Requirements for Software Applications
(natlawreview.com)
I was really sick recently and had a persistent bloody nose after a really bad coughing spell. I decided I’d head out to the ER at around midnight. I stepped out of the bathroom and my cat was sitting there with the most horrified look on his face staring back at me. He had this strange meow I’d not heard before.
I can’t be sure, but I think he was concerned for me. I’m his entire world and there whenever he cries out. It felt nice to have him since I don’t really have anyone here with me but I felt sorry for him not knowing what’s going on and seeing me bleeding and leaving the house at such a late time of day without being able to take time to pet him and tell him I’d be back like I normally do. Thankfully it wasn’t as major as I thought and I was back in a few hours and was so glad to see him and so he’d know I’m okay.
Apparently people have been mocking this guy despite his incredible work on this.
The internet can be a sucky place :/ can’t even escape bullying when curing cancer.
I believe I have when I was younger. I used to see figures in the darkness peering at me from around the corner of the hallway. The figures weren’t human but more like silhouettes resembling humanoid beings. They didn’t appear evil or good, just there, observing and existing.
In the same house, we had very low profile carpet that felt like solid flooring, similar to those industrial rugs you see at places like the bank or hospitals that are very low but still a form of carpet. You could sometimes hear footsteps the same as it sounded when running down the hallway barefooted.
My parents’ bedroom had an old style mattress that you could audibly hear the springs when you applied pressure to it. We would often hear it going off when in the other room, sounding the same as if someone were sitting on it or getting up.
The home used to be a residential home for the elderly when they were close to death. Similar to one of those facilities, but this was an actual house. Part of me wonders if these were spirits of those who had passed on here and haven’t left the area.
My dad passed away in this house too and the only thing that made me wonder if he is around was hearing the wind chimes outside on a day that wasn’t windy. My dad believed in “ghosts” to some extent, so I fully believe that if they are real, he would make every attempt to make contact with us in this form. It made me wonder if that was him because it was strange to hear the chimes going off when there was no wind. This wind chime doesn’t normally sound except in winds and it also only occurred when I walked past on this particular day.
What started off as an egg sandwich turned into a veggie sandwich with a fried egg in.
I bought a ton of veggies last night for a weekly salad and figured I’d add this and that and this is what I ended up with.
Picture of the interior
Ingredients: potato bread, mayo, sweet and spicy pickle slices, 2 eggs fried, lettuce, Roma tomato slices, red onion slice, alfalfa sprouts, and avocado slices.
And now that I write this, I realize I forgot my damn pickled beet slices!! Would’ve added some extra flavor. But they’re in my weekly salad along with olives.
Very tasty sandwich and good way to start my day!
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See an attractive person driving and want to get their number? Crash into them.
(hilariouschaos.com)
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Can I do VPN + Plex on my hosting server? Do I need it under this circumstance?
(hilariouschaos.com)
They tasted good! Was craving a burger and didn’t want to go out and spend money somewhere.
Don’t judge the oversized cut of tomato in the back…no idea how that happened lol
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I shut down after every use on my Linux gaming PC. My Linux servers (I currently have 3) stay on for weeks on end without being rebooted, but I try to reboot at least once a month, but I forget most months.
I shut down because, in my opinion, I want my SSDs to last longer and them not being on when not in use is my way of ensuring that. I don’t game every day, but I do usually every other day, so for them to be on for 24 hours without me using them is potentially wasting time health-wise, in my opinion. Admittedly I haven’t done the research to see how reboots affect health of an SSD, because it may be counter productive in that light if a reboot causes just as much if not more stress than just leaving it on.
But SSD health is not the only reason. My other reason is that my PC is somewhat beefy and draws a lot of power and I’m charged a shit ton in electricity costs as it is and this thing can potentially cost me a few dollars each month of being on without being in use, especially during peak hours when my rates get outrageously expensive, at double the normal rate.
And then performance is the last remaining reason. But that might be Windows PTSD where I’m just used to Windows being a butt when it hasn’t been rebooted in some time. I just feel I get the best performance when I give my PC a break when I’m not using it.
My brother uses Windows and leaves his PC on all the time and just puts it to sleep and he doesn’t seem to have issues requiring him to reboot. He games every day whereas I’m not always using my gaming PC.