Another method to get facial recognition data. This goes hand in hand with the other ID submission crap. Fuck off, Google.

It makes me think of the rich assholes in Altered Carbon. They’ve lived so long in the most athletic and pristine “sleeves” that they’re essentially bored of life and their whims just get more and more unhinged, because they have zero moral checks and balances. It’s affluenza. Parasites in society that drag us all down with them.

I have an old iPad Mini that is long outside the support deadline for Apple. It’s using AltStore instead now, but when I tried to install a patched version of Spotify, the app and even the web app, completely blocked both the OS version and the WebKit version. I can’t even use the web version of Apple Music on it. The amount of artificial locks these companies use is annoying as fuck.

I made Claude work around this by having it write a Python script to use instead that split the letters and provided a count. A script I could’ve written myself, for a task that’s completely pointless.

I have AdGuard setup on mine! Worth it and dead simple to configure.

No problem! They’ve got quite a few of them, so hopefully something there works.

I love my GL.iNet router. It runs OpenWRT. I swapped to it a few months ago after getting a service upgrade and having my ISP try to force an Eero upon me.

Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).

I wonder if you could setup a virtual drive that gets picked up as an SSD and then automate and randomize everything that happens within it so it’s just noise. The problem is that this hack probably gives insight into every drive on the system, so the exploit would still grab that data; it would just run alongside the bullshit stream of data.

I guess when you have no knowledge of engines and your car doesn’t have one, you have to fixate on other stuff. Shame they don’t fixate on the fact that they’re driving mass surveillance tools.

I saw a gearhead on YouTube refer to a Tesla as an “appliance” and thought that was great.

You’d have to be incredibly stupid to not be able to see how easily gamed this whole thing is. All it takes are insiders to submit “outlandish” bets on things they know are going to happen. Like… this is the stupidest pipeline for upward wealth shift there is right now. You’d have to be 100% devoid of intelligence to be a working class participant.

Something like 70% of all Polymarket bets are won by roughly 0.04% of the users. It’s the same capitalists winning every time, while working class folks lose their shirts.

Everything in the US is a massive unhinged, unregulated grift now. This is a scam economy in a scam country.

More Perfect Union video about this.

Wow, that’s brilliant. I always hated editing registry values because I was afraid I’d mess something up, and then having to manually clean up sucked.

I wish I knew how to do this back in the day. In the early to mid 2000s, I was getting free internet by uninstalling and reinstalling NetZero. It would never check to see that it had already been previously installed and the days were used up. Probably could’ve gone the route you did instead.

Containerize the game somehow so that it thinks it’s the same day every day. That way it never knows when to reach out and check. Groundhog Day hack.

Disney is going to be sorely mistaken when they realize very few people will pay to watch movies made with AI slop.

No problem! It’s a bit violent and has some gore. Just a friendly heads up. Jesse Plemons is amazing.

Bugonia. Skip trailers and go into it knowing nothing but the basic plot. It’s a wild ride.

I guess they’re the group that was behind the Itch censorship.

The group rose to prominence in 2025 after lobbying for the digital distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io to remove hundreds of video games that they said featured themes such as rape, incest, and sexual violence, which resulted in Itch.io temporarily deindexing all not-safe-for-work adult games.[5] Collective Shout’s campaigning against violent adult games, in collaboration with payment processors, has raised concerns about financial censorship,[6] effects on LGBTQ+ games,[5][6][7] and creative freedom.[8]

Eyyy I love that this link is making the rounds. Can’t take credit for the graph, but happy to help broaden visibility.

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