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I'd gladly set fire to parents to demonstrate to them what hell is like.

Why do parents assume kids want to be bought into todays toxic world?

Thing is it wouldnt be fair to single my parents out, the unkillable ideas that govern, like govt, law, medicine, religion and royalty also deserve a demonstration!

Its interesting living in a house where 2 of the 3 males have died. Is it an Omen? Is it an example of getting the 3rd degree? Time will tell....

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darkclouds··on Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
Since the old stone age this planets population has been bumbling along at below 1 billion people until the 1800's. [1] And then by the 1970's they perfected the female contraceptive pill to bring the growth rate down from its peak of 2.1% to its current 1.2% and a projected 0.06% by 2100, which should see the peak population on the planet at 11 billion people.

But is AI a new source of wealth? That remains to be seen, it needs training on other peoples data which is invariably copyrighted, so it doesnt look like AI will be a new source of wealth imo.

[1] https://www.guibord.com/democracy/files-images/world-populat...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2016/03/ourworldindata_wo...

darkclouds··on TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu
> Windows can wake itself from hibernate.

The USB bus and sound system is still the weak spot on a windows computer in my experience, this website, reddit, youtube, or dailymail generally takes them out.

Surprised that people used sleep and hibernate, considering TSR's were invented in the dos days and the browser can do lots of fancy stuff.

Theres even a reg setting to clear the page file on shutdown.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ ClearPageFileAtShutdown Dword32 1

darkclouds··on UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible'
You really dont have a clue do you! Every part of the state you interact with takes notes, and the security services have access to it when they want it, bent judges do exist you know, and then they via Special Branch direct the Police.

When is an anonymous tip off by the public, just a cover for the state. They cant do it to everyone as the game would be up, but there is much more surveillance than you realise.

Alot of my relatives worked for the state, and as a kid I over heard alot!

darkclouds··on UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible'
HMRC can do the most unrestricted spy on the British population, and there is a lot of data sharing between all the different parts of the state, ie HMRC, Police, NHS etc etc.

Any employee of the state can spy on you and the press also do a fair bit of spying on the population.

Its a national past time when thinking of curtain twitchers and neighbourhood watch schemes.

darkclouds··on UK air traffic control outage caused by bad data in flight plan
It may well have happened before, but things like updates to new versions of a language, use of updated libraries, and other things which typically creep into new versions of programming languages to minimise bugs inevitably introduce bugs because they dont have a unit/component test to flag these things up. It also suggests different programmers have worked on the system.
darkclouds··on Making it clear when we’re on a call with you to protect you from fraud
Having loaded the app, wouldnt it be simpler to have the app show the name of the person on the call to the customer at the top of the screen instead of having to remember to go ‘Privacy & security’ in Settings by tapping your profile in the top left of the Home screen?

Too many sub menus...

darkclouds··on UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
Education is the best policy, but that would hold the govt and state to account even more so they try to blame others, whilst trying to be top dog.
darkclouds··on Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
Volvo, the vehicle company that started out making bearings, used to make a big selling point in the 80's about their knobs, switches and buttons were good enough for people wearing gloves in the middle of the Scandinavian winters and intuitively placed for drivers to use without taking their eyes off the road. Saab were the same, but fast forward to today and the lunatics are calling the shots.

Even the flappy paddle gearboxes still have a weakness, namely they dont have a clutch peddle to dip when the traction control/esp decides to have a nightmare and ends up trying to cause accidents, where oil, ice or snow removes the grip and temporarily freewheeling is the fastest way to get the vehicle back under control before reengaging the drive system.

And these tablets like displays ruin the night vision, I actually liked the old Saab displays where you could press a button and it switched the lights off to loads of buttons and gauges for night driving.

Cars have got noticeably worse with these tablet displays.

darkclouds··on Big effort needed on UK diet to fight ultra-processed food, say health experts
Alot of the fruit and veg that is sold in supermarkets today is not the same stuff from the 70's.

Orange juice has gotten sweeter, even shop bought blackberries are noticeably worse than wild blackberries so I just dont buy the fruit and veg now.

Naturally ripened bananas taste so much better than the artificially ripened bananas and you can taste the gas used to ripen the bananas even though they claim you shouldn't be able to.

Carrots today are horse stock carrots, big, bland and no taste. Spuds, you cant get a decent baker with a decent skin on it any more, come back Spud U like, all is forgiven.

The mince meat from supermarkets is just gristle that leaves feeling worse for wear.

Yoghurts, massed produced sludge, designed to forced through pipework for automated containerisation.

Successive Govts have allowed this to occur in the UK and then they wonder why the NHS cant cope.

Thing is, for most people they havent noticed this decline in quality food so they think you are nutter when you complain about the decline, which probably explains the rise of the influencer.

Cheap crap food masks the costs to your health.

darkclouds··on Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report
No its a 5 eyes psychological warfare program based on Maslows Hierarchy of Needs.

So shelter is an essential base layer, and by promoting home ownership, banks are now being used to mess people around if they get out of line in a deniable ops way. If you cant even afford a home, you have that psychological inferiority put on you by only being able to rent.

The state is always looking to reduce costs because it can claim to be a low taxation nation, and in reality prisons cost alot, so rather than feel the long arm of the law and end up in prison with todays global technology and ability to look anyone up, causing trouble in peoples home life is now the 5 eyes modus operandi.

All sorts of low level stuff going wrong designed to keep a individual busy rectifying said problem, whilst also getting flack from those around them.

Its thought people will fight/work harder trying to maintain their home and their life and their families life, so all sorts of low level bad things will happen to an individual or household.

Its actually quite nasty some of the things that get done to people, but its always in a deniable way, made to look like incompetence or bad luck, and thats hard to prove because of the way society works. You couldnt tell if a washing machine engineer has deliberately sabotaged your washing machine in a planned obsolesce way or not, but the military leak rumours about people and then people take it upon themselves to contribute to that harassment and intimidation.

Things like reddit malicious compliance can give you a taster of some of the things people choose to engage in, but others will take it to the next level which puts peoples lives at risk. Ultimately its called Karma, but the military will pursue you around the country so you even get hassled on holiday.

This is a list of some of the things thats been done to me. Stopped by the side of a busy road, engaged in conversation and casually positioned so my back is to the road before individual did something to make me step back into the road in front of moving traffic. Its a high curb so I would have fallen backwards into the road.

Head (nose) shot by someone using a silenced snipered rifle whilst walking my dog around a footpath in a farm.

Ex directory, countless unknown numbers, international numbered phone calls or call centres. Got a new phone line put in, and started to get the same on that number even though I'd only given the number out to one car dealership.

Hassled when holidaying in various places of the UK.

Post going missing.

Arrow fired into garden, drones flown into garden.

Someone filing tax returns for me, when I havent.

1mm diameter x 25-30mm long metal added to takeaway kebabs designed to get lodged in the throat, or do damage to the inside of you mouth.

Someone release a small deer in front of the car on an unlit section of dual carriage. Person was hiding behind the armco barrier that makes the central reservation and was trying to cause me to swerve and crash.

Over powered cars pulling out to over take forcing me into the verge to avoid a head on crash.

NHS claiming letters lost in the post. Fake stuff added to doctors notes, creating fictional events.

Courts claiming letters lost in the post in a bid to secure a conviction in my absence for speeding.

Countless malware forcing me out of business.

Program code being changed so my own software stops working.

GCSE Exam results marked down, A-level courses getting messed around with making it untenable to study.

Been drugged in social and home settings, and had things done to me.

You'll literally get driven to suicide but the ambulance staff will resuscitate you, for more of the same.

Reported to police, police not interested!

All of this has taken place in the UK. The people behind it are in a position to deny their activity as they automatically have more authority than I would have in court. It also coerces you to get more security, like cctv fitted inside the home and office which enables greater surveillance which is what the spooks want.

darkclouds··on On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
So is a chip off the old block and a chip on one's shoulder.
darkclouds··on Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's rig
Real world fencing company doesnt have good cyber fencing, criminals broke in and got to mess around with a windows 7 machine in order to steal loads of data.

I think these hackers have a comedic sense of humour.

darkclouds··on NATS report into air traffic control incident details root cause and solution
> This is the root cause of the incident. We can therefore rule out any cyber related contribution to this incident.

They were hacked. Obviously this is the first time this flight path has been filed, otherwise it would have crashed earlier.

Phone Phreaking, whilst not technically a cyber attack, is still a form of hacking of phone systems.

And email bombs exist which take out email servers and readers, and zip bombs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

So was this the first instance of a flight path being used as a denial of service and of course the "Blitish" playing down its significance because it doesnt want to offend any one due to its current isolated precarious state?

darkclouds··on The Guardian’s block on ChatGPT using its content is bad news
How to make ChatGPT a psychopath 101.

Step 1. Prevent access to socialist ideas.

darkclouds··on The UK home secretary on bannning end-to-end encryption
> Social media companies must take responsibility.

Start with teaching law, consequences of action, and feelings at schools, kids and young adults are exploited in so many ways, from being cheap labour to sex objects.

If people are not educated properly, the problem is not being addressed, but you know its easy to go on about straw men, to keep the pitch forks at bay.

Problem is the whole world is built on exploitation of various sorts, so we have constant rhetorical emissions which gives global warming a run for its money.

darkclouds··on So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020)
Its that age old problem where people send documents, that need to be edited by the recipient in a structured way.

Same thing goes on with Word docs being sent out, formatted in a particular way like PDF's, ie a questionnaire, and the recipient needs to edit said document and then send it back.

HTML forms are other examples.

All these years later, still no globally standard way to achieve this quickly and easily, and yet it would seem perfect for the Open Source world to tackle.

darkclouds··on Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
Does that include places like Switzerland, where every male is issued with a gun as part of their national service/canton militia?

I think the cultural problem is everyone wants to be like Stallone or Arnie, which would suggest the US population has an inferiority complex towards the old world.

darkclouds··on Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter
Histidine helps remyelinate the nervous system. If holes appear in the myelin sheath electrical signals wont get past the holes.

Lack of B6 can cause peripheral neuropathy which has symptoms like you describe. Can be linked to diabetes, some metals and B6 deficiency.

darkclouds··on British Court: Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will
This link provides a tiny bit more info about her possible treatment as a "experimental nucleoside treatment", so this is going to involve zinc.

Another question I have not see asked is why isnt a kidney transplant an option?

This might be linked to the condition, but not knowing what is up with her makes it difficult to comment, plus the courts et al have already "anonymised" her as ST, so I dont see why the condition should be hidden unless this is a courts way of accepting there actually isnt any anonymity.

Either way without knowing her condition, how can the public even know if she is getting the right treatment from the NHS. A mitochondria disease is like saying a respiratory condition.

darkclouds··on A plot to steal the secret Coke can-liner formula
Do you think the level of phosphoric acid is safe? Or is a company relying on the inability of medical experts to state the amount in a can is healthy or not.

Do you think IP should come before human health?

darkclouds··on A plot to steal the secret Coke can-liner formula
But not all laws are correct or exist when one should.
darkclouds··on Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice
IF you do an excess of iron (chloride), it reduces the CD4 cells and increases the cytotoxic CD8 cells.

I say chlorides because consistently for many studies, notably zinc but applies to Iron, phytates and tannins bind and inhibit the absorption of these two metals, but leave copper alone. Chloride based metals get into the body very quickly.

I'd also look at the mistakes in some studies, different parts of the world have different theories and its possible if you look at enough to see old theories being quoted and not assertions from more recent studies.

The jury is out on what is a good diet to consume for different types of cancer let along a healthy life, its contradictory at best, zinc is good for tackling some cancers, and bad for others. Copper is good for tackling some cancers and not others, and that just looking at two common metals in the diet.

So if the experts knew, I think they would recommend a diet to go on, but they are so steeped in patient privacy they undermine their own authority I think, not to mention come across in general as quite dictatorial.

I have also been messing with some body building amino acids and I liked histdine which is one of the four amino acids that start with zinc, the other three are glutamic acid (glutamate), aspartic acid and cysteine (N-Acetyl Cysteine). Histidine is precursor for histamine which helps immune cells migrate through tissue. Aspartic acid mediates some cysteine based immune responses.

Its also worth looking at vit D, a Wellcome trust study had reverse engineered the human genome about a decade ago and found that most of the Vit D receptors are concentrated around immune system genes (2776 iirc). But you need zinc and cysteine to build the zinc fingers found on these vit D receptors and vit D will switch on some genes and switch off some genes.

Oncologists have access to the testing and measuring equipment, I see no harm if interested in this stuff to get the data from their tests and check their theories against studies found in google scholar, if you wanted piece of mind.

These experts dont always publish their theories so there isnt the transparency, and they dont ask about diet which can be significant in some cases, so they undermine their expertise imo.

And thats before you get into the debate of hackers tampering with results and other things which seem to question the fragile nature of computer security.

And I'm not recommending anything other than question the experts.

darkclouds··on The UK is at risk of running low on water. Why?
The water seems to have got harder over the 6-12months I've noticed scale building up more frequently and in places never previously seen, so I wouldnt be surprised to see a rise in calcium related illnesses.

The water hardness has got so bad we now just buy deionised water for the kettle and are currently looking to purchase water filters to make the water as close to deionised water as possible, because having a relaxing soak in the bath has gone even though the medical experts claim ions cant be absorbed through the skin.

darkclouds··on I watched society collapse at Stansted Airport
Off peak travel offers so much more value for money and health, I dont know my more don't do it, especially as the schools are shutting down.

How many parents are going to sign their kids up to online learning where a global curriculum is offered not some backward resource starved national curriculum designed to trap you in the country of your origin on the sold off council estate turned slave box estate?

Surely this will reduce the demands for peak time air travel and such articles as this because the imagination of our writers flew out of Stansted along time ago?

darkclouds··on Beer is great for gut health?
I prefer consuming chloride salts to keep my (gut) bacteria in check along with deionised water. So refreshing.
darkclouds··on A plot to steal the secret Coke can-liner formula
Govts look at businesses as entities keeping people out of trouble, then there are the dietary elements which also reduce violence, Obese people are less likely to cause trouble, so Coke (and other soft drinks/food manufacturers) will always come out on top.
darkclouds··on Defcon 31 – You can track the police like an AirTag
You can track the bluetooth from cars using this. Mercedes advertise their bluetooth mac address even when the car is switched off. Want to know who the previous owners of a vehicle purchased at auction are, just use wigle.

So you can find out where people work from their bluetooth, and just leaving a few devices in public running wiggle, like inside parked vehicles. Over time you can track down who works where, their shift patterns etc etc.

Tracking your friendly journalists and photographers of the press has never been so easy. I dont think they will appreciate one turning up at their family home or second home for a statement!

There is no privacy.

If you zoom out of the wigle map, there is radio silence for ukraine.

darkclouds··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
I sometimes think the Bolshevik revolution, the death of Tsar Nicholas 2, related to the British Royal Family, Queen Victoria was first cousin to Tsar Nicholas 2, are not over.

Disputes run deep and span generations when at the top.

darkclouds··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
Well it does, because if you trust a bank to not freeze your accounts, then you dont need to hold so much cash.

As to having multiple bank accounts, have you heard of data sharing?

If you have multiple bank accounts in your name, across multiple banks, they can all be frozen, just look at how sanctions work of foreign entities.

You obviously dont know how credit reference agencies work. So in the UK, the electoral register (open and closed) is used by credit reference agencies to see if you are linked to an address. The credit reference agencies then pass on information to would be lenders and banks, and banks also update the credit reference agencies with your monthly bank account totals and your direct debit payments so they can see your monthly outgoings and see if you are paying your overheads reguarly, so other banks and lenders can see if you are worth lending money to.

Now even if you dont need to borrow money, pay your bills as soo as they come through the letter box if they are not handled by direct debit, that information is still passed on by your bank to multiple credit reference agencies who then disseminate the data around the world to different countries because programming teams can exist in multiple countries, different laws and then you get stuffed if you value your privacy, and thats before hackers get involved hacking the likes of Experian.

darkclouds··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
You obviously havent had your bank account frozen for no reason. I have!

Trying going without cash for 6 weeks, not knowing if transactions have gone through, direct debits have been paid etc etc. Going around in legal loopholes where the bank ombundsman wont talk to you until you have exhausted the banks complaints dept, but the banks complaints dept wont talk to you, so you get no where.

Its fucking legal intimidation and harassment and there is no legal recourse for it in the UK. Its why I have no bank accounts now.

The banks can and do freeze your accounts, just look at the sanctions done to Russians when the West decides to stoke a war!

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