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I'm surprised someone registered a .ph TLD for a blog, it costs minimal almost $50/yr if not a bit more afaik.

I like rabbits. The domain came to me in a dream.

because sociey values TVs more then cars, education, health, etc

So, Rokos’ basilisk?

I hadn't heard of that before, but I just looked it up and... Sorta.

Roko's basilosk, it seems, knows we exist. This is like an infection which spreads by sneezing, but which doesn't actually understand what a sneeze is. It has found a way to balance its behavior such that its propagation continues, but it's not necessarily intelligence.

Roko's pox, perhaps.


It’s not just facial it’s also gait recognition too.

> It’s not just facial it’s also gait recognition too

Source? Where would they get the fingerprints from?


Every grocery store self checkout has cameras on the whole area as you walk up, then cameras on your face, and then pretty good self identification via your payment card/rewards.

Home Depot was already selling at least some of this to Meta in 2023 https://strategyonline.ca/2023/01/26/home-depot-found-to-hav...


Hypothetically speaking couldn't you collect it from any security camera in an area where you have positive ID on people? Airport security comes to mind.

With all the trade in personal data in the US I assume it's only a matter of time before places like grocery stores start selling it.

Why stop at just gait though? Geometric fingerprinting of various body parts is also possible. Palm geometry readers have been commonplace for a long time.


> couldn't you collect it from any security camera in an area where you have positive ID on people? Airport security comes to mind

Going out on a limb and guessing illegal migrants aren’t going through airport security.


That's just one that comes to mind. Anywhere that has positive ID would work. Which if we account for data brokers can potentially include anywhere you use a credit card. (Yes that will not be a perfect 1 to 1. Obviously that doesn't really matter in practice. LE is used to dealing with lots of noise.)

But suppose there's no hit. That's a hit in and of itself. Someone just needs to have the idea to have the software that ICE agents use flag anyone who fails all recognition methods (facial, gate, etc) because it means they haven't been through an airport, haven't crossed a border in a legal manner, don't have a passport, and don't show up with any of the data brokers.


Plenty of people overstay their visa. And then we have the administration changing the rules to make people that were legal, suddenly not.

Fingerprints?

Wrong appendages, unless I don't know what "gait" means


What’s the general term for the specific characterization of a personal identifier? We use “fingerprint” for browser identification, for example.

Oh, fair enough haha given the context I did not consider that definition of it

Perhaps "profile" might work?


Mostly gait probably. I wonder if there are any hacker techniques to scramble gait, like putting wooden planks or plastic parts inside clothes

IIRC that's exactly what a character did in either Person of Interest or Mr. Robot

(I have a very hard time to distinguish both in my memory since they were so similar in their themes)


I remember reading that early systems could be defeated entirely by putting a pebble in your shoe, but I’m sure they’ve improved a lot since.

gait recognition is a pseudoscience. this is also obvious from the way it is used: to fabricate a pretext to detain undesirables.

does rock in shoe work? That's the only way i've heard

The UK once had a ministry specialized on that /s

The community in question is https://x.com/frontiertower/status/1938258376913195251.

This is nothing new. Numerous “scenes” do the same. There’s the longevity scene connected to this one.

There’s the psychonaut scene. That’s a bit from the erowid/and misc scene of the early 2010s.

There’s the bodybuilding / gym scene which probably is the longest and oldest subset of members.

I’m not sure which niche communities I’m missing.


Maybe I’ve been gone from SF for too long but this just sounds like a cult. With a LLM generated pitch

It’s natural for these type of communities. It’s not really a cult in the traditional sense, there is enough evidence that some medication/chemicals are gatekeeped they are effective while there’s just enough evidence to prove how dangerous it can be.

It can be understood as hobby group that focuses on drugs instead of another topic. It’s a fine line between reckless and leading edge that most don’t follow imo but it’s a community with its own rules.


This is 100% what I see too.

I don't think SteamOS can run DRM content, meaning NetFlix is off the table afaik.


> I don't think SteamOS can run DRM content, meaning NetFlix is off the table afaik.

Can't you switch to desktop mode and launch a webbrowser?


That'll only support L3 DRM, so you'll only get horrible quality and are better off sailing the high seas.

I'm happy I got into the LED from the refurbished sale, the price point made it attractive. I was not much into gaming but I've been having a blast, the lowest price point also was ok for me since I am 100% comfortable with DIY on the SSD.

It is very much apparant I'm not Steam's ideal customer, but I'm happy I got it for about $249'ish? I hemmed and hawed alot thinking why am I buying a hand held pc for gaming but the switch 2 was sold out/to much work to reserve so I went for it and am really happy I did.


You need to lead, talk, make friends and be outside your comfort zone. You need to make an effort.


This 1000%! Two of the most important relationships I've made (my wife, and a boss who hired me, and later became one of my dearest friends) arose when I decided to act completely differently in the moment than I habitually would. In my wife's case, this meant immediately introducing myself to a woman I found attractive, in the other when I faced a financial crunch and resolved to apply for better-paying work even if I wasn't totally qualified instead of losing hope and going on a bender.


I’d like to think I do make an effort in a way, I try to go to the events that are being held at school, I’ve joined a few clubs and I talk to some of the people there. But it doesn’t go anywhere from there. But I will admit I’m socially anxious and keep to myself, but when I see an opportunity to crack a joke I do. But still it leads no where, I’m just that funny quirky kid who made a joke at the holiday festival. I’m still an irrelevant person nobody cares about, and even if I get a few numbers, I end up having ti hold the entire “friendship” on my back until I’m tired and then it ends.


You need to push it, you can not stop, you need to make it a simple repeat loop otherwise there is no escape. Once you establish friends, act out of your comfort zone, it can become stable and your new daily routine. It's literally exposure therapy, the exposure here is to be secure in yourself and go out.

Everyone has this issue, some people have it worse. I would give anything to be normal in this regard, I've succeeded but I have a stutter which is horrible-- so imagine being able to just talk normally and go out in the world!

That last line, thats just negtative self talk. Stop that.


Anxiety and ADHD are often symptoms of CNS disorder.

These, that, kept me away from a lot of “normal people” until I figured out what was causing them for me.


They use a service of Sabre but not Sabre GDS. it’s called Radixx.

Yes in other GDS, it can be enough to identify a full booking. That’s why airlines prefer ticket or coupon number since the first two digits are the airline ticket stock / identifier and then fare codes, etc

The requiring last name, and more info is more or less security since any pss system can query the airline first for that combination before requiring more info to return a match.


6 alphanumeric, case insensitive characters only allow for about 2 billion unique combinations. I’d have guessed there were more reservations made than that?

Or are PNR locators recycled after a while?


Yes, I've got in my drawer two physical boarding passes with the same PNR


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