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normalaccess··on Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation
I agree, and it wont... We will all be tracked at all times as the new global economy is created.

Biblical times.

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And really when you think about it, all AI is is just the a statical recombination of (almost) everything that (almost) everyone has written.

So it's a kind of mechanical recombination of ideas.

normalaccess··on What podcasts are you listening to?
Security Now with Steve Gibson. Great podcast about the latest goings on in the tech world and often diverts into neat deep dives into technical topics. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Side note: Check out this ultra secure offline paper password generator he came up with based off of Latin squares https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm

normalaccess··on So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
This is the way
normalaccess··on Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explained
"Everybody was talking about the safety of vaccines"

Every platform on earth Shadow Banned and blocked people if you said anything other than "Safe and Effective"... Real conversation was shut down on a nation state level. Not exactly a scientific or logical way to discuss experimental injectable therapeutics.

normalaccess··on CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
Until the next round of lockdowns where we will all be forced to use controlled channels to communicate due to lack of mobility.
normalaccess··on "Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
An extent presentation (IMHO) by Sam Vaknin on how the very way modern social networks operate even down to their structure are deeply destructive and anti-human. Hate has been and always will be the easiest and most monetizable emotion used by platform operators. Hate requires little complexity or nuance making it ideal for short form viral content where every second counts.

The "Internet Hate Machine" is real and it was created that way by design by anti social deeply narcissistic nerds. Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Ef7bqgeHenU

normalaccess··on CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
Just wait until the AI "layer" gets fast enough to rewrite the web in real time. Text, Photos, Videos, even real time phone calls will soon be in the grasp of the corporations. Forever locking us into our own personal prisons, controlled silos of information perfectly crafted and tailored to extract the maximum value where truth is not just hard to know but is imposable to know.
normalaccess··on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
I'm not sure about computer image generation but you can (relatively) easily fingerprint images generated by digital cameras due to sensor defects. I'll bet there is a similar problem with PC image generation where even without the EXIF data there is probably still too much side channel data leakage.
normalaccess··on Martin Luther King was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool
It's still not cool.
normalaccess··on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
I'm sure there was some meeting where at the end of the pitch deck was some one said:

"...and after people acclimate to them, we'll put ads there! Advertising Directly in the UI!"

normalaccess··on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
First thought that popped into my mind is the quote from Bennett Foddy for his game Getting Over It.

--"I made a game for a certain kind of person. To hurt them."

normalaccess··on Are we tired of social media? (2025)
An extent presentation (IMHO) by Sam Vaknin on how the very way modern social networks operate even down to their form are deeply destructive. The "Internet Hate Machine" is real and it was created by anti social deeply narssistic nerds.

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Ef7bqgeHenU

normalaccess··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Anyone in a position to short sell from the inside?
normalaccess··on The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
The groupthink is real, and it's coming for a skull near you.

But in all seriousness I think it's a mix of bots on the dead internet leading the monkey see monkey do paradigm. If you see 80 out of 100 people doing a thing then you get swept up in the flood. Even if 50 of those 80 are bots.

normalaccess··on Show HN: I built alwayswith.us to easily add deceased loved ones into photos
Digital Necromancy.
normalaccess··on Show HN: I built alwayswith.us to easily add deceased loved ones into photos
Don't do this... You will overwrite core memories and the AI will "bleed" into your mind.

Life can be harsh and cold at times, but trying to bypass grief with a fabricated reality can only lead to disaster.

normalaccess··on You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
That's because AIs can't survive by eating their own output. The only solution they know to ward off model collapse is more human input. They need you to use AI to feed the beast. And if it's built into your office apps, they get that data for free.

That's part of why every service and system are getting integrations, It's not for us it's for data harvesting.

In the end that's what "Windows Recall" will be used for. Access to every moment of every user for every app... Can you imagine the training data that would provide? An AI that could run any program ever created.

normalaccess··on Some people can't see mental images
For me it's a gradient, depending on how tired I am. I can go from fairly vivid mental image to full on seeing things with my eyes closed. It's that window when falling asleep that is the most impactful visually and very close to lucid dreaming.

So I would say yes, it is like you are seeing things but in your "minds eye".

If you can "hear" music in your head when thinking about a song it feels about the same as "seeing" without seeing. It's imagery but from a different place.

normalaccess··on Backpressure in Distributed Systems
I recall this in the form of buffer bloat.
normalaccess··on Turns Out, Wikipedia Isn't That 'Woke' as Grokipedia Rips Off Most of Its Pages
I have no clue what you are referring too. The word Nazi gets used so much and for so many things that it has lost all meaning to me due to semantic satiation. You'll have to me more specific.

  Semantic satiation -- a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener,[1] who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. Extended inspection or analysis (staring at the word or phrase for a long time) in place of repetition also produces the same effect.
normalaccess··on Turns Out, Wikipedia Isn't That 'Woke' as Grokipedia Rips Off Most of Its Pages
I think all Grokipedia is doing is exposing Grok's internal LLM "facts" into a preloaded and formatted site. Modern LLMs already have all of wikipedia internalized and can act as a wiki so why not make it an explicit feature?

Once that is in place you can make Grok eat it's own tail by using Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Grok with Grokaiedia (that is now crowdsourced for updates).

This may offset the side effects of model collapse from AIs consuming their own synthetic outputs with enough humanity sprinkled into the mix.

normalaccess··on Show HN: Coyote – Wildly Real-Time AI
On the page it says:

  Coyote
  Stop waiting on responses. Add context anytime. Non-blocking, wildly real-time AI.
What is meant by "Context"?
normalaccess··on Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults
----TINFOIL HAT BLOCK START----

That's the idea. For too long people have been able to free-associate and share truth online. Now they finally have a reason to end anonymity online. Due to the raw power of AI there is a very real threat these new tools provide to bad actors in the generation of misinformation and disinformation and now we need to ascertain the providence of all content created online. With "AI" being injected into every site, app, and OS we will be forced to associate real world ID's to any and all actions int he digital realm in order to "protect" the public from the wave of fabricated reality they will create.

Of course these tools will be used by those that control the moderation systems to craft and shape global negative on a scale we have never seen before. A new kind of Dark ages are here. Not one where dusty tomes are changed to the monastery walls, no, our books write and rewrite themselves in real time as needed until every thought is controlled by the over-mind.

  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Happy Prompting.

-----TINFOIL HAT BLOCK END-----

normalaccess··on Reusable grocery bags durability test
Bingo... at the end of the day plastic manufactures are able to sell MORE plastic while looking like an angel.

not to mention stores get to markup the bags they do sell and boom, another revenue stream.

It's all a farce posed as roses and care.

normalaccess··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Good to know, it was quick back of napkin math. Slightly less tinfoil.
normalaccess··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Yep, I was thinking how convenient for Sinclair to "loose" Jimmy right now. I'll bet they are going along with it because his show was already really unpopular (at least for the ratings that I could find) and this is a perfect excuse to drop him while saving face.

Everybody "wins"... The right get to gloat, the left get to have talking points and Sinclair get's to freshen up their line up while we all fight it out in the comments.

I'll bet there was a cigar smoke filled back room chat when the discission was made $$$.

normalaccess··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
I am no fan of Jimmy's show but this seems out of line. My tinfoil hat thinks this might be a way for Sinclair to "justly" remove a show that has been loosing ratings by riding the popular wave and saving some face.

According to sites like https://televisionstats.com/s/jimmy-kimmel-live he wasn't even in the top 500 TV shows

Band of Brothers a show from 24 years ago still gets more viewers that Jimmy get's now.

normalaccess··on Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
If 'no counter-evidence is needed' were valid, we could dismiss anything we don't like without argument.

AKA: Argument from ignorance

normalaccess··on Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa
Here is the breakdown for illegal immigration by country of origin:

  By region:
  Mexico + Central America collectively made up 68% (~9.3 million)
  South America – ~12% (~1.7 million)
  Asia – ~6% (~851,000)
  Europe, Canada, Oceania – ~7% (~896,000)
  Caribbean – ~4% (~575,000)
  Africa – ~3% (~415,000)

  Source: migrationpolicy.org
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