For those curious: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41330543

While I respect that everyone should have freedom of speech and expression, this guy was a complete moron:

Ismael was certain he wouldn’t be imprisoned, saying in a stream: "I know for a fact that I’m not going to go to jail. Not one day in jail. I’m going to laugh my ass off when all these motherf***ers are saying I’m going for 30 years, 20 years, five years, 10 years. I’m not even going to do one day, bro. They’ll give me a fine and say, ‘Don’t come back to Korea.’ You’re the one that’s going to look so dumb when I don’t get any jailtime or anything. Bro, I’m going to laugh like a f**king villain.”

Like, my God. “Don’t go shake those venomous snakes. They’ll bite you.” “No way, bro. They won’t even bite. Watch.”

This is known as gatekeeping. There’s no such thing as a “real fan”. People from all walks of life want to be involved in a conversation about a thing they find enjoyable. If anything, we should welcome those looking to be involved or experienced with things they don’t yet understand.

This is a bit different if they’re confidently incorrect and argue, but I have to imagine this is not the majority. You can take on the role of an educator to help those that don’t know understand more.

For anyone interested in a more practical alternative, I recommend checking out the XTEInk X4. Its firmware is open-source and there are already a couple custom community firmwares. Been really enjoying it as a pocketable option. Also less than $100.

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They credit the image to David Slater, but I’m on team Monke. I am not on team AI. Monke will always make a more interesting picture than AI.

I can imagine the guy having to print this at the factory just pictures someone with schizophrenia making the board somewhere out there.

Oh, so like imaginary friends for adults!

You are correct that this is normal for the OS. The OS will use this data to determine your location. What is not normal is abusing the Bluetooth permission to send a list of scanned devices to app vendor. They should only be collecting the location, not the raw Bluetooth list. I don’t know what the app is to confirm, but the way they said it, they would be handing all of the local device data along with the standard location permission. This is the extra data that can be used to isolate you more than just a location could.

This is similar to browser fingerprinting, but worse because your phone goes with you everywhere.

One final mention is that the app is likely not collecting that list once, but rather regularly, so they could build a profile on what devices you’re in range of and by extension where you are regularly, even if you chose to disable your location, since they’re using Bluetooth MAC addresses as their workaround.

Except that it sounds like this hooked into an app and sent all the info about those Bluetooth devices to the manufacturer, which some data collectors can use process of elimination to isolate you. Normal (privacy-respecting) Bluetooth devices do not pass this info to the service provider and only your phone uses it to pair with the device.

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Try that again, but this time happier and with your mouth more open.

Can’t you read the sign? You get an invisible hotdog.

Thankfully I didn’t need to read it because the headline was something I knew when the program was initially announced.

This is an excellent two-sentence horror story.

Ladies, does this do it for you? Are you all just looking for an Onion Sack Guy and I’ve been playing it wrong this whole time?

Um, that would be his sister, D.W.

It’s weird seeing a breakdown of the character that I got my username from.

I might be guilty of this. Used to go every week with a friend and eventually started figuring out my stride. Now I’m the one that does better than a casual player and it’s weird.

I’ve heard the explanation being that it’s a defense against treating dead bodies as alive and spending resources on them at a primal level. Just imagining when we first developed empathy and tried at length to care for those who we lost and evolution needed us to focus on the live ones.