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Cake day: June 30th, 2024

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  • It’s more than just what you do in the app though. Check out some of the data any random website can find out about you here: privacy.net/analyzer/
    Expand that into an app, given lots of permissions, that is tied to your phone number and email account. Given enough time and logging, it knows where you live and work, when you commute and sleep, every WiFi or mobile network you connect to and where they are located. This metadata is linked to your account and in-app activity. They have this data for you, your friends, colleagues, that weird guy you see on the bus every day… Right now, the app just uses all this to influence “your algorithm” (side note: this is also why people think some apps are actively ‘listening’ to conversations). But imagine a case where the govt owner of the app wants to start pushing a specific narrative, gradually swaying opinions or sowing the seeds of discourse, reinforcing it with the artificial echo chamber that is your new algorithm. /TedTalk

















  • Leave the concrete in the ground, cut the metal (Line posts & Terminal posts) off flush with the concrete/ground, install matching vinyl fence with standard panel spacing.
    The metal posts are typically 16 gauge (~1.3 mm) tubing… walls are thinner than the fencing itself, which is usually somewhere between 11 gauge (~3 mm) and 12 gauge (~2 mm). Depending on how many posts you have, you could easily do this with an angle grinder (cutoff wheel) or reciprocating saw (metal or multi-material blade)