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Tbh depending on what subreddit and how long ago you saw that comment, it makes sense. I can’t see the average 2010s techbro redditor that I remember not knowing what Linux is, but the 2020s more normie redditor, I could.

But using it for fingerprinting seems dubious. How many iOS users have never downloaded any extra fonts and all look the same?

The following is from https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

To determine your system fonts, tracking sites commonly display some text in an HTML <span> tag. Trackers then rapidly change the style for that span, rendering it in hundreds or thousands of known fonts. For each of these fonts, the site determines whether the width of the span has changed from the default width when rendered in that particular font. If it has, the tracker knows that font is installed. How is this used in your fingerprint?

The list of fonts you have installed on your machine is generally consistent and linked to a particular operating system. If you install just one font which is unusual for your particular browser, this can be a highly identifying metric.

You’re giving them way too much credit. It’s as simple as what a credentialed authority figure says must be part of some agenda but what a whatsapp/FB post or contrarian podcaster/blogger says is good and credible.

Tbh, surely these companies have way more granular data on users’ health and demographics from data users have supplied themselves or what these companies have gleaned from tracking users.

Elon, that you?

Not necessarily and this is something the article doesn’t even bring up. While people are triaged before seeing the ER doc, the ER doc’s job itself is to triage and determine whether the patient needs to be further worked up in the hospital or outpatient. Often times an ER doc may not have a clue about the diagnosis but the critical thing to be correct about is if the patient needs to stay to get worked up. They give an example about docs who think a clot is due to an anticoagulant when the AI thought it might be due to lupus. The ER doc’s concern is that the patient be observed/admitted and the internal medicine team would likely make that catch (or the rheumatologist).

People who review footage for Meta in general see all types of shit and end up scarred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbWn6iwHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZLr6w7C-xY

The site’s utter shit now, astroturfed to hell and back. Only the hobbyist subs that don’t exist here or aren’t active here are worth going to.

I’m you in 10 years except I got the high paying job after sacrificing my 20s. In the short term, these waves will wash over you and go away so just bear them out and do something in the meanwhile to feel fulfilled.

Also, introspect some about how much putting off a gf is about your goals and how much of this is avoidance. Given you probably don’t have kids or other obligations outside of studying, you could probably date now.

The president of Tunisia is one of those Great Replacement freaks who thinks Sub-Saharan Africans are intent on displacing native Tunisians. My understanding is that that applies to the society as a whole.

Annoyance shouldn’t be the goal, but will be a side effect. The main goal is to exert some sort of pressure. Like the Civil Rights Movement gave America horrid optics between Emmet Till’s open casket funeral and the state unleashing batons, fire hoses and police dogs on school children. It also exerted financial impacts through the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Movement was super effective though unpopular during those times.

I think a lot of people don’t understand protesting and it’s in the state’s interest that this be the case tbh. Hence why they keep pushing sanitized MLK

France used West Africans to do a lot of the fighting then massacred a bunch of veterans who wanted payment afterwards.

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251016-senegal-report-sheds-new-light-on-wwii-french-colonial-massacre

US police departments also have a history of training with the IDF and the US is learning surveillance and profiling strategies from them too.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/ https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/115009/documents/HHRG-117-JU00-20220719-SD003.pdf https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/12/how-the-us-and-israel-exchange-tactics-in-violence-and-control

This is a super broad topic and is going to vary a lot by who the exploited and exploiters were and what type of society was present. I’m going to stick to Africa and the US white/black relations because that’s what I am the most read up on though I am nowhere near a historian.

Generally, POC got to keep their wealth or amass it if they were performed some sort of function for whites or were not perceived as a threat which would invite confiscation. Sometimes Europeans were not interested in settling a territory but were interested in extracting capital from that territory. In such cases, Europeans would rely on a few natives to do their bidding and those natives may have even had some administrative role. Think the Dahomey raiders of Benin, the Tutsi of Rwanda, Americo-Liberians (although technically not natives). There were those like the Ethiopians who resisted conquest and colonization altogether but I don’t know much about them.

When Europeans settled/colonized a land and thus extracted resources and administered that land themselves, IMO those POC’s best bet to maintain wealth was to not draw white ire. In the US, black people tended to do okay in DC as there was some access to well paying federal jobs and for the most part the federal government prevented race riots in the capital city. To this day, the DC and broader DC/Maryland/Virginia area tends to hold more successful black people. There were some black enclaves in Wilmington, NC (“The place for black opportunity”); Tulsa, OK(Black Wall Street); Atlanta (Sweet Auburn) and elsewhere where black people were well off financially. They made money through commerce with other black people until that white ire befell them. The Wilmington and Tulsa Riots destroyed those black communities. Atlanta had a race riot as well though successful black communities persist there.

I don’t think it necessarily follows that omnipotence necessitates lack of emotion.

And they tried to work with Persona for age verification until they got called out and backtracked. Peter Thiel has a stake in it. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

The USPS is on Project 2025’s list to gut and privatize.

IMO there’s a significant drop off with local LLMs vs the mainstream ones. This can be mitigated somewhat though by using web search tools or using retrieval augmented generation.