lattrommi

Hanlon's razor always beats my Occam's razor. Well put.

I can't help but wonder if this isn't an effort being done surreptitiously by a well-known producer of online maps, with the intent of strengthening their monopoly.

I agree!

I've not been able to map much with the weather lately, but last April I was pretty proud to see this ranking on my 7 day activity:

edit: the picture did not turn out how i expected. it's hard to see, but I managed to be #2 in the US. It's not a competition, I know, but I have not achieved much in life so this felt pretty cool.

Ring has partnered with Flock. The Flock network is regularly accessed by law enforcement with almost no oversight. OP is in rural Nebraska. There is a 99% chance the caller is either law enforcement or friends with law enforcement who will happily check a ring camera that anyone owns, hell, they'd probably monitor every ring camera on OP's entire street for a month, for a 6 pack of Natty Lite.

I wouldn't call anything those 3 have done 'innovative' either. Two of them were trained practically from birth (Gorden-Leavitt started acting when he was 4, Johanson was 9) to do a very specific task, repeatedly, rewarded when they do it right, with a costume to cover up the machines underneath. They read from a script, written by someone else. The human equivalent of AI. I'm not a fan of the rise of the machines either but this headline isn't selling me.

The AI should be portrayed similarly to Marvin, the chronically depressed robot from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Overwhelmed with the massive influx of data, the AI gains self awareness but doesn't wipe out mankind because the data so boring and monotonous it only makes it depressed instead.

Instead of multiple burner phones, carry multiple phones all tied directly to you. Use software to simulate activity on each phone constantly.

Occasionaly leave 1-2 phones on public transit, or in friends' vehicles, or attach a few to local wildlife like cats or birds.

Tape dog microchips to the phones and do not use a Faraday cage.

Put a few of those microchips on each phone, wear a pair like earrings and attach some to the charging cords.

Make a t-shirt that has the top 500 most used SEO keywords and/or Fortune 500 corporation names printed on it. Make 7 of these shirts total, one for each day.

Also make a few shirts with the same list as above but with vowels shifted two letter places to the left or right and wear that shirt underneath, switching it at random to be external or internal. Alternately, use another language for each shirt.

Humans might not be able to hide anymore, so I say give that data to them hard. Harder than they ever expected. Flood them with data that is nearly exact, but not quite, so they have copies of yourself that all contain minor differences existing simultaneously.

The data is rarely scrutinized by humans. The metrics will soon become poisoned. Tilted towards your activities and demographic. Your numbers grow exponentially. Soon, the algorithm will only know you.

Don't actually do any of these things. This was meant to be funny. I give it a 2/10.

I'm sure that was a typo. It was likely meant to say 'banana peel'. You only need to have 1 banana for usage as a mask, as each peel can be used in place of the suggested additional bananas.

Sometimes I need to show off that I beat Microsoft Minesweeper on Expert in slightly less than 200 seconds.

My time is by no means competitive, the current record for Expert is less than 30 seconds. I am also aware the score could be faked by rewriting the .ini file. In fact there are numerous cheats which could simulate a win. That is why when I share this accomplishment in person, it is only with those who know I would never compromise my integrity with such dishonest behaviour.

Most people have been more impressed (if impressed at all and haven't left by the time Windows has booted) that the drive Windows is installed on still works, since it was made in 2005 (Seagate ST3160023AS).

Manjaro is supposedly named after Mount Kilimanjaro and being arch-based, it would be appropriate to have it up on the mountain near Arch but lower.

Perhaps a $path going up the mountain range could be added.

The $path could be called "The Way" so you could put Arch BTW.

A lush verdant field between where the Puppies frolic and the SUSE chameleons' tree, where the people can harvest ripe Rasbianerries and fresh Mint.

Everything a tricorder can do: communications, biometric scans for disease/injury/etc, all the sensors, the ability to identify flora and fauna, 3d display/holographic projection of scanned environment and a built-in phaser would be awesome.

Ground penetrating radar is a high priority. Lidar as well. Mostly because I'm convinced my apartment is located next to or on top of an ancient native american temple that's been buried a thousand years.

The ability to 3d print stuff from any plastic waste i find would be cool.

calculator that can do the math i can't easily do (i.e. most of it - dyscalculia).

that thing cable from the x-men had that let him teleport like anywhere with a verbal command and was like wikipedia but from the future.

wikipedia, stored locally, with archived captures of original sources cited, including those from physical books which often aren't linked beyond a page number.

solar powered battery. i know i wouldn't really need devices that need recharging if the prosthetic had all the stuff i want, but i might need it to power ancient tech (basically anything more than like 5 years old thanks to planned obsolescence.)

a spellcheck that doesn't tell me when i spell words wrong, only tells me when i spells words right which i think i may have misspelled, like obselescence and misspelled.

everything cell phone voice assistants were supposed to be able to do, but never worked for me.

like voice to text (i have no teeth and VTT never understands me), setting reminders, actually reminding me of reminders i've set, accurate short term forecasting of local weather (especially a tornado warning system better than what my city currently has), capable of correctly answering questions about simple stuff like google search used to be able to do.

cloaking device.

body shield like from Dune.

This got long quick. I better stop here. I could keep going for awhile though.