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New comment by trinsic2 in "I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you"

trinsic2 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:21:46 +0000

This is one of those things that is hard to quantify. Although I'm sure someone has. It negatively impacts society overall, very slowly over time. It has the effect of eroding private life in subtle way that it's barely noticeable until we find ourselves in a surveillance state where corruption is everywhere. Let me know if that sounds familiar to you.

I did a presentation on surveillance capitalism awhile back[0]

[0]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/presentations/overcoming-survei...

New comment by trinsic2 in "Deus Ex"

trinsic2 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:47:33 +0000

Best game soundtrack ever made IMHO. I still listen to it all the time. Well, the modern version anyway[0]

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5YdnLKkg2U&list=PLczA8pMWxl...

New comment by trinsic2 in "Tencent Hy4"

trinsic2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:23:44 +0000

Yeah.. I totally trust them with my data (Not)

New comment by trinsic2 in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

trinsic2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:11:40 +0000

I think we can all agree that Trump is the most corrupt we have seen for a long time. but It doesnt change that carrot and the stick problem. There are people operating to destroy freedom using these people as figureheads to push an authoritarian agenda, on both sides of the isle. Until people wake up to that, we have no chance to change this.

New comment by trinsic2 in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

trinsic2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:56:16 +0000

No. We have to direct our energy to a different way of doing things. Voting inside of a corrupt system not working. Its like going into a mafia controlled city and voting for criminals expecting different results. How many decades need to elapse for this to be clear to you?

New comment by trinsic2 in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

trinsic2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:52:39 +0000

> The only solution is to elect better people. I know some people who hoped that Trump would be that in 2016 but he is just more of the same.

The system is rigged in such a way where that isn't a possibility. Look at the history of our country. ITS NOT WORKING.

The system has to change before we can elect better people. I cant believe I have to point this out with all thats going on... Every election the same arguments and the same responses.

New comment by trinsic2 in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

trinsic2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:27:46 +0000

Yep this authoritarian movement is much bigger than the parties. We will see, again and again, how much it matters and the go back to the same old game every election and everyone will forget about how they have been played the first time. Im so sick of this corrupt system.

New comment by trinsic2 in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

trinsic2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:21:52 +0000

You know what I love? We have spent over 100 years going back and forth on party politics. It has done nothing to move the bar on justice. The democrats silently allow the same things under the radar while the republicans do things out in the open. Its the carrot and the stick approach. Populism isn't working. We need to focus on systemic change. Both parties are filled with institutionalists that will do nothing to stop the real abuses because they gain significantly by keeping things they way they are..

New comment by trinsic2 in "Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI"

trinsic2 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:40:26 +0000

The Disturbing Bias In The Rest Is Politics - Barrys Economics[0]

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti0o4RhOtjQ

New comment by trinsic2 in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

trinsic2 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:26:18 +0000

Illinois is one of the most corrupt places in the country for criminal law.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:58:08 +0000

Well I thought these things were torries related but I'm less sure about that. Not that it matters either way. Authiratianism seems like an epidemic that's affecting everyone with strong egos.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:45:01 +0000

We have ICE agents rounding up people of color and disappearing them, so I'm not saying our problems are worse than yours I'm just saying we have common ground.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:41:40 +0000

The age verification laws using third parties to store digital id data that can be accessed and misused by 3rd parties is one example to me across the board that is part of an authoritarian agenda happening in many countries including the UK. We have a poster boy Trump that is being propped up as a dictator in the U.S by special interests (Instutionalists) that only have an interest in making money off the backs of the people by using our political offices for these corrupt practices. I read about the postal scandal in the uk and that seems remarkably similar to how our government and corporations work togeather to disenfranchise its people. I guess I'm saying we have more in common around these topics than we do differences. And trust me I'm not trying to lesson our role in what the U.S. is doing to the whole world. I'm doing my part to stand against what our government is doing. You can see what I'm doing on my website https://scottrlarson.com/blog. It's not much but it's the best I can do right now.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:13:46 +0000

I'm not seeing how it's any different except you have a whole political party doing the damage of the same scale.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:32:48 +0000

Well for me, I'm looking at the U.S problems first and foremost. And I see the UK is having problems under the authoritarianism banner same as us. But I don't judge UK's problems with the U.S. I see the UK as having big problems with freedom and corruption of the political system but I'm not a UK citizen so I have no idea. I always start with my own country and feel sad about what's happening across the world. The topics that are important to me are surveillance and censorship, and those issues are happening across different countries. The point I was trying to make originally was that we the U.S. need to focus on our own problems and stop worrying about other countries problems until we fix our own. And here in the US we have problems with corruption that needs to be fixed. We need to stop allowing money to affect our political system first and foremost and secondly, we need to stop corporations from making the world worse by enforcing antitrust.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:27:17 +0000

What the hell are you talking about? We have the same problems as the UK and they are just as bad. We are at the cusp, while the UK is further in, but we still have the same problems..

New comment by trinsic2 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

trinsic2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:08:54 +0000

> I wish them luck in that important work. In the meantime, we Americans have plenty more work to do on this side of the pond to protect our border and prevent the British, Australian, Russian, and other foreign censorship regimes from crossing it.

We got our own problems with Authoritarianism. There is no need to protect our borders from something our own government and corporations are practicing day in and day out on our own people, in our own country. You might want to acknowledge that first, before assuming we got problems across the pond.

And BTW the real answer is to enforce antitrust and put an end to Citizens United to prevent money from flowing into our political institutions and reign in these corrupt business. You might want to add that as well to your point about the GRANITE Act

New comment by trinsic2 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

trinsic2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:09:46 +0000

That information doesn't stay with you domain provider. It's a 3rd party data collection system that will be used to surveil people eventually.

New comment by trinsic2 in "Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account"

trinsic2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:03:39 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something but didn't micron exit the consumer DDR market for HBM? I don't see a rollback from that. When you say DDR will ease last, in what reality would memory makers go back to a market they left behind?

New comment by trinsic2 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

trinsic2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:37:01 +0000

You either see the long term ramifications of data collection, Or you don't.