I have a similar joke, but for hell.

Turns out Hell isn't so bad, and Satan does the introductory tour.

They go past a bunch of fun, normal stuff like movie theaters and amusement parks, and eventually they go past a burning building.

People at the bottom get stabbed with pitchforks until they go inside the burning building, screaming as they're burning, and they run up the stairs to the roof just to jump off and do it all over again.

A concerned soul asks what's up here?

And Satan says "Those are the Baptists, and they wouldn't have it any other way"

Nothing advertises hostnames, and the DHCP table is dumped and every client gets new address at the same time, too.

Just make sure the MAC addresses randomize, too, and then you've got yourself a proper fucking mess for a hacker to sort out.

Sure, you could. But you'd be going out of your way to setup an internal IP scope you'll never fully utilize.

I suppose it doesn't really matter, but it just feels wrong.

How big of an IP scope do you use at home?

Do you really need something larger than a /24?

What they always do is send out personalized links, and they can see who responded by checking which links clicked through and completed the survey.

So it's just flatly not anonymous.

As a consumer, it is my right to vote with my wallet.

I do not like this big AI push across all markets, and I am concerned about the long term consequences of AI usage.

Sure, AIs can write code, but unless we're going to implicitly trust the output of a machine that is going to hallucinate at some point. The reason why computers name so important across the board is because they're repeatable. You give a computer program the same inputs, you'll always get the same outputs.

AI doesn't have that consistency. It's been shown that hallucinations are a mathematical certainty, so someone has to be able to read and understand the output of an AI.

But if we're no longer hiring entry level positions for writing code, opting instead to have AI be the junior developer, then we will run out of people who can check the work of an AI.

I will not support a company that can't see the long term security implications of relying on AI to write anything at all, and the CEOs comments about 'fast and secure' tell me that he doesn't care about those implications.

Mark my words, companies that become too reliant on AI will suffer from their AI usage. When another company owns the expertise you need to run your business, they'll make sure you're paying as much as possible for it. Because they have what you need.

Okay, and?

The voting laws in Alaska are already upheld by the Alaskan supreme court, and Republicans love to play the "well, this isn't technically against the rules" when they pull stunts, so I'm all outta fucks.

As a man with two daughters, I'll never forget Republican hypocrisy about timing to nominate judges WRT Merrick Garland and Amy Coney Barrett.

The alt-right playbook says rules only matter when they can be used against your opponents.

She had made several healthy decisions in regards to a situation she was in, it was her Dad invading her privacy that blew this up.

I suppose if you want to hold corporations wholly blameless, the dad isn't the worst person to blame. But it's not like those brochures are sealed. Or have you never received a brochure in the mail?

You're really going to call the dad reading a non-sealed advertisement brochure "invading her privacy", but Target building a shopping behavior database isn't invading anyone's privacy?

there’s some people out there who will always be assholes and taking away this particular tool will not solve anything.

"Aww nuts, we can't wave a wand and fix literally every problem at the same time, why even bother trying?"

We can't prevent murder either, but we can recognize that people have a right to not-be-murdered. IDK why it's not easy to understand that I vehemently disagree with the implied notion that I don't have a right to digital privacy, and that is wholly at odds with the entire advertisement industry.

In the end, it's your right to open your private life to companies so they can try and advertise to you. But that data isn't innocuous, and it will one day be used against people.

I'll keep running my network ad blocker and script blockers.

The thing people actually get angry about is the predictive ad which feel like it removes their autonomy.

Negative, it is the farther reaching effects of this data-mining hellscape that bothers me.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

It's not a matter of my autonomy being removed, it's a matter of privacy. Full stop. This is the very first time in human history where people's lives aren't private. Your attention is a commodity traded on the open market, whether you want to be or not. And that's the part I have a problem with.

Today, it's being too aggressive marketing to pregnant teens. Tomorrow, it's your insurance company buying your advertising profile, analyzing your past shopping habits to determine that you're at a high risk for Chron's Disease, and jacking your rates up over it.

You said it yourself, the line must go up. It's not just about charging fair prices for goods and services, it's about separating people from as much money as possible, by any means necessary.

Data aggregation can be weaponized against you. How many times do you think people struggling to make ends meet get shown ads for predatory loans? Or gambling addicts getting shown sports betting ads?

It’s like the guy today complaining that his TV is always listening to him. Yes, because Samsung can make a few cents for putting a Domino’s ad on the TV when the word pizza is said. Of people talking in front of their TV. Of Hundreds of thousands of people.

In the days of AI chatbots, is this really a far fetched idea? Just pipe the data into an AI and tease anything useful you possibly can out of it. The computers handle the raw data processing, you just collect what comes out the other end.

After all, the line must go up.

You don’t like personalised advertising not because it feels invasive, but because you’re scared of being predictable and\or manipulable.

No, I specifically don't like targeted advertising because it's invasive.

If it was an individual following you around learning what you do and what you like/want, you could charge them with stalking. But because it's not just one person, it's a multi-billion dollar company working for a privacy invading industry, it's suddenly OK?

Go fuck yourself.

Why anyone would ever trust Brave after their affiliate link hijacking is beyond me.