How many fucking letters can I use? I’m sick of editing this shit, just fucking accept the bio, damn.

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Cake day: October 14th, 2023

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  • I’m saying they try to. My specific version of e/os traps apps in a box and lies to their data requests if they pretend they need a permission I won’t give them.

    Even without a specific app having mic access, it has RAM access, so if any other app does have mic access, the data can be skimmed as it’s passing through.

    Facebook has been, and is currently being fined for ignoring privacy laws, and is known to have profiles on people who don’t use their services. How do they build those profiles if you never gave them permission?


  • Any of the people in here saying there’s no proof that apps access your microphone don’t understand that you don’t need microphone access to listen in. Something on your phone has mic access, so all an app needs is access to your RAM. If not your phone, your tv. Or any voice activated device nearby. Microphones are not ears, they can be significantly more sensitive.

    Or an even simpler possibility, the companies are lying because there is no consequence.


  • Yes there is. I track all data on my home network and on my phone. I can see exactly how many times every app on my own phone tries to access my microphone and camera, and how much data is being sent from my friends devices when supposedly not in use, and even supposedly turned off.

    Anecdotally , on the rare occasion I use a computer without my general ad defenses, the only ads I see relate to the most recent conversations I’ve had with one particular friend in person.










  • I think most movies are dogshit, but the bad ones are fun to riff on with my friends.

    My criteria for what makes a good movie seem straight forward to me, but apparently I ask too much as shown by the vast majority of movies being frustratingly bad.

    I can suspend disbelief for lore and character, but not for blatantly dumb decision making, plot holes, or forcing a story event. Entire plot lines based on simple misunderstandings ruin stories immediately for me, as do hamfisted agenda pushing, or stories hinging on “common knowledge” that’s known bullshit. (Looking at whatever that movie was a few years back that started with the narrator stating we only use 10% of our brains, fuck off.)

    Horror movies have their own indurating problems, which is too bad since it’s my favorite genre when done well. For some reason, people always act like they’re in a horror movie. Gotta check something in the basement? Better walk slow and look nervous, it’s not totally unreasonable for someone to be afraid of their own fucking basement. Or the polar opposite, everything is fine no matter what, and I’m sure the several missing people are just playing a prank.

    Can this problem be solved with simple communication? We better find some bullshit way to get rid of cell phones. uh, the battery died. Uh, ghosts aliens and monsters block signals. Uh the antagonists is a tech expert who jams phones. Uh, they’re in the woods, there’s no signal. (I’ve been in the woods, there’s a signal.) Or they just decide to give up and base the plot in the 80s.

    Lazy writing, in other words.

    This took too long and I’ve lost interest in my rant, but I’ll post it anyway.







  • My main office has 8 employees. We clean our own place. If you need a cleaner, hire one. If you’re not big enough to support that, clean it yourself. Maybe you need phones answered, hire someone that can clean when they’re not on the phone.

    If you needed to have a composer, they become part of your team, or you buy music from them. The composer wouldn’t be a contractor from a company, but rather somene who produces their own art and can sell it as they see fit, or they work on the payroll for the project. This not only gives more power to creators, but cuts out every leech middleman driving up prices and lowering average wages. Mass communication through the internet has killed the necessity for giant advertising firms to get your name out there.

    For franchises, I would argue anyone running a McDonalds works for McDonalds. Hit that cap of 2500, and suddenly there’s room for competition and innovation, instead of a sea of the same trash everywhere you go.


  • Easy laws that could stop this bullshit:

    1. A company can’t own other companies.

    2. A company cannot have more than 2500 employees.

    3. A company cannot employ contractors, outside or temporary workers numbering more than 10% of it’s total work force.

    No mega corporations, no buying out competition, no loopholes to employment standards.

    Edit; forgot a main one

    1. The highest paid individual cannot make more than 40x the lowest paid employee.

    No c suite billionaires avoiding paying the workers.


  • Polycarbonate has one of the lowest ABBE values of any of the optically used plastics, so it scatters light pretty badly the thicker it is. As compared to eyeglasses, telescope lenses are really thick, so the poor light transmission would ruin the clarity. On top of that, poly expands a lot under heat, and so any coatings on the lenses will eventually start to craze and delaminate. Glasses don’t need to last more than 5 years before being replaced, so it’s not as big of a deal. If your telescope became unusable in that time, you’d be furious.

    Poly, while being impact resistant, is not nearly as scratch resistant as glass, and is nowhere near as chemically stable. Didn’t realize there was dirt on your cleaning cloth? Ruined scope. Cleaned it with regular window cleaner? Ruined scope.

    There are other resins that would be better, but nothing nearly as simple and durable as glass comes close to the optical clarity.

    Eyeglasses would still be made from glass if they weren’t so heavy and potentially dangerous, Not to ignore that nobody wants to wait two months for custom lenses to be made.

    Source: I’m an advanced optician running three offices and a lens lab.