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Its a modernized version of Infinite monkey theorem but instead of typewriters and Shakespeare its importing libraries and Facebook.

Depends, on what you’re trying to protect. EMV transactions are far more secure and don’t actually transmit any bank info, they’re just one time transaction hashes generated cryptographically that are only valid for a short time.

You’re more likely to come across a skimmer at a gas station that’s reads you card details of the mag stripe, or having your card leaked in a data breach.

The only time I’ve seen RFID really being attacked is red teams tricking employees to clone security badges outside office buildings. So I guess put your security badge in an RFID sleeve around your neck lol

I’ve always considered sciences like psychology to be more susceptible to the reproducibility crisis. It seems if someone decides to pursue a career in academia the criteria becomes publishing, and well publish or perish as is goes.

I think some researchers areocing towards things like prerigistering hypothesis and open data+publishing source code for calculations and using that as references in there paper so it can be updated afterwards.

They’re have definitely been a lot of papers where results were later determined to be wrong but is still referenced because well you can’t update a paper from the 1970s.

This is hearsay from friends I’ve never done any serious research or published in journals. As a side note I do enjoy reading taking a scroll through https://retractionwatch.com/

Just to like the radio, television, internet, etc…AI slip is here to stay, it might die down, but the cats out of the bag. I would take the same steps you would regular parental controls for tv/phone/internet if you’re concerned.

Secondly and more importantly you should be teaching your kids critical thinking skills and not to believe everything they see or hear…just like that old quote

“Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.”

The reason I say that is regardless of what you think of AI, it’s good enough now to where you can grab a few minutes sound bite of someone from Facebook or YouTube and be able to imitate there voice.

This generation is going to have to be much more viligant not just about spam emails, but audio and video calls imitaing a manger or a significant other…it’s going to be very interesting

Tax exempt status for religions applies to federal income tax. Sales tax is per state and state taxes vary between states.

I’m not a tax account or attorney, but maybe if they keep the receipts they can file there taxes and report it and maybe get the money back.

Since taxes are filed every year is this the first year they’ve been a pastor or whatever and doesn’t know? If it is their first year and they’re complaining about taxes on apps and phones or whatever, then it sounds like theyre kind of trashy to be honest.

I think the biggest i.paxt isn’t from self hosting necessarily but for local government/city municipals to start providing their own services.

My two biggest prices are: Internet should be a utility and not owned by like 3 companies.

Cities need there own forums/messaging board or whatever instead of Facebook/Twitter. So many cities/towns use it for official messaging, even for emergencies since I don’t have either I’m blocked.

I have a few ham radios and whenever there is some natural disaster it’s one of the few places I actually get information.

I wonder how many people are still waiting on their million dollars Musk “offered” for votes.

https://epsteinify.com/ https://www.epsteinarchives.com/ https://epstein-docs.github.io/

Found after a quick search, I didn’t check how active they are or try and confirm any of the data. Looks like they indexed and categorized it into people, businesses, etc

They make fridges, which typically sit in a room until it decides to die. Shareholders got pissy the enormous bill for ecs doesn’t have the correct permissions

The last “novel” thing IBM did was helping the Nazi’s to create one of the most efficient genocides in history. In the last few decades though they just buy existing IP and keep it alive as long as it can make them money

Nvm soon as I looked it up, Michael Burry is calling bullshit on it https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/12/02/michael-burry-just-sent-a-warning-to-artificial-in/

You know it’s always a good sign when there is a constant stream of fortune # company executives in the news all week trying to pump up their stock.

With all the current events going on I’m surprised none of the big funds are trying to short these fuckers.

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Sorry I hated to ask it originally and I still hate fucking asking but how does it work for a victim like in a shooting or something?

I’m not sure if you know the answer but since you work in 911 dispatch, how does it work if a person is a suspect in a crime or something? I assume if they would notify your parents/immediate family?

The problem is the primary goal of project 2025 was to focus heavily on the “mandate for leadership”. Which is to replace key federal leadership positions with like minded conservatives within the first 180 days of the presidency. The reason being that even long after the Trump is out of office they will still have control.

This was something they believed hurt Trump the most during his first term and were so focused on in his second term. Funny enough he whole Doge/Elon Musk actually fucked up and slowed down their effort. Maybe that was a factor on musk leaving who knows.

Regardless though, it doesn’t matter what health issues or whatever happens to Trump now, he’s pretty much already help pave the way for them. We will be dealing with the consequences of this for decades.

I think right now companies are competing until they’re only 1 or 2 that clearly own the majority of the market.

Afterwards they will devolve back into the same thing search engines are now. A cesspool of sponsored ads and links to useless SEO blogs.

They’ll just become gate keepers of information again and the only ones that will be heard are the ones who pay a fee or game the system.

Maybe not though, I’m usually pretty cynical when it comes to what the incentives of businesses are.

It’s not an ocean liner but America got pretty pissed at Germany for doing it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania

I think one the biggest sells, especially for these custom rom’s is privacy to be honest. I don’t really trust Google or Apple with the data they probably collect. During COVID parents were being reported to law enforcement for CSAM when sending pictures of there kids medical issues to doctors(Archive Link).

One I guess could argue that sure shit happens when it comes to that scenario, but with the political climate in America combined with the fact that some of the largest tech companies seem to be kowtowing to whatever the current administration is doing, probably makes a lot of people rethink privacy and to find alternatives.