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New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

WrongOnInternet — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:06:06 +0000

https://deflock.org/map provides a crowd sourced map showing the known locations of flock cameras for anyone interested in knowing where Big Brother is watching.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

WrongOnInternet — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:35:14 +0000

"I've got nothing to hide" is another way of saying "I don't have friends that trust me," which is another way of saying" I don't have friends."

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

WrongOnInternet — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:23:02 +0000

What would the gear shifter even do though?

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23%"

WrongOnInternet — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:42:49 +0000

Or the price of said product ($190)

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product"

WrongOnInternet — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:21:04 +0000

When I see the word "illustrated," I expect to see graphs or something that would help me visualize how linear algebra works. The only thing "illustrated" about this post is that he hand drew some table which could have been easily with some basic HTML+CSS.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Aphantasia and Psychedelics"

WrongOnInternet — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:48:55 +0000

You rub your eyes for a few seconds, not 10 minutes. Read the first Q in the FAQ.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

WrongOnInternet — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:42:35 +0000

IMHO, this is just another example of something that would be better off as a website/webapp than a native app. If anything, having an app that tracks ICE agents installed on your device seems more like a liability than an asset.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Email immutability matters more in a world with AI"

WrongOnInternet — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:38:09 +0000

The problem with this approach is that it is easily bypassed. Simply point your camera at a high quality monitor playing an AI generated video, and there you go, and authenticated AI video. In the future, video evidence is going to be as convincing as it was for 99.9999...% of human history. We survived with out it in the past. We'll survive without it in the future.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

WrongOnInternet — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:21:34 +0000

Some crop dusters fly under telephone wires. Not that its a good idea, but some do.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

WrongOnInternet — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:10:49 +0000

In 1942, Jewish doctors conducted the Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Study used the man made famine to study the physiological and psychological effects of hunger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Hunger_Study Not all scientific studies need to be replicated.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Aphantasia and Psychedelics"

WrongOnInternet — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:37:04 +0000

Apparently it is possible, at least for some people, to "cure" aphantasia with a training technique is called "image streaming." I'm on the aphantasia side of the spectrum, and it has certainly help me see more vidid images in my mind's eye. Here is a link to the article where I learned about it, which also includes a video explaining the technique. https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photogra...

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "The stripper who ushered in the subscription-based internet"

WrongOnInternet — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:47:50 +0000

It was always Rage Bait, except Bait was spelled "Bate"

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "The stripper who ushered in the subscription-based internet"

WrongOnInternet — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:43:21 +0000

Did you read the same article I did? The one I read seams to be celebrating her, not blaming.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law"

WrongOnInternet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:54:23 +0000

...And also lets make it so they can't encrypt their messages either. Big Brother needs to make sure they aren't sending nudes to people that shouldn't be seeing them.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately"

WrongOnInternet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:46:50 +0000

I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but that picture of him looking like a cult leader from an episode of Star Trek is all the explanation I need.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

WrongOnInternet — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:28:30 +0000

I've always chosen piracy for the privacy. I don't need a bunch of services building a profile on my viewing habits and tastes, then sharing that data with other businesses and governments. If I want a recommendation, I'll ask a friend, not an algorithm.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "How Potatoes Evolved"

WrongOnInternet — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:15:00 +0000

You say tomato, I say potato.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "The mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndrome"

WrongOnInternet — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:18:03 +0000

Surprised that the article never mentions psychedelics, because I experience something similar almost every time I am under the influence of one.

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

WrongOnInternet — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:03:47 +0000

A bit more from the book (which is a great read, and available in it's entirety on archive.org): "To enable its agents to communicate over greater distances, the government had installed “repeaters” at high elevations to relay the signals. The agents’ radios transmitted on one frequency and received on another; the repeaters had an input frequency to receive the agents’ transmissions, and an output frequency that the agents listened on. When I wanted to know if an agent was nearby, I simply monitored the signal strength on the repeater’s input frequency. That setup enabled me to play a little game. Whenever I heard any hiss of communication..."

New comment by WrongOnInternet in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

WrongOnInternet — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 03:57:29 +0000

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