You are better ordering from neither. Amazon group batches their inventory. Their “sellers” appearance is just a price fixing scam. There is no way to trace the stuff Amazon sources to any specific seller. So everything from them is sketchy. The same applies with eBay. Most people are legitimate, but there is no effective way to tell who is or is not legitimate.

There are two ways of looking at this. One, assuming you will install Graphene, the way Graphene uses the Trusted Protection Module TPM chip is to not trust any unregistered code. So a person will not be able to do much to the device to compromise it as far as I am aware. This is conventional type attacks. The second way is more abstract of what is technically possible but improbable and probably never happens in the wild. For instance, one unlikely aspect to be attacked may involve the modem. I am not certain what the Pixel’s actual architecture involves between the SoC and peripherals. Often, the modem on mobile devices is another sophisticated microcontroller. This is capable and entirely independent compute device. The OS is interfacing with some kind of API, but is not privy to what is actually running on this hardware. If it was eavesdropping and communicating over cellular or WiFi, you would not know about it. These devices are undocumented and proprietary hardware too. The orphan kernel scam used to artificially depreciate hardware is based on the proprietary undocumented SoC and modem.

Go hunting some time and try dressing an animal. Try and use a pocket knife or any other for that matter. You will quickly find the value of a filleting knife and that there is much to the technique. It is not at all like you imagine it to be, I promise it is much much harder than that and nothing like games or movies might have you imagine. It is more like cutting a tough steak. Some little knife is nothing more than superficial cutting at best. Even if you really hit an artery somewhere, you would be strangled twice over before that wound would lead to a loss of consciousness.

For me, as a former racing cyclist, you never want to be around my legs. My lower body is deceptively massive and stronger than you can imagine, especially at my size. All I have to do is bulldoze you with my weight and size. If you are expecting some kind of parried fighting you are wrong. I will put my weight and efforts into stopping and pinning your arm, but my objective is to physically dominate you by force and I do not care if you get a stab. In my crashes on the bike I lost one of the nerves in my chin for a quarter of my face where I am numb to pressure and temperature. I split my right hand between index and middle finger into my palm. I am covered in scars from road rash taking off large chunks of skin. I know pain on another level. If I am on top of you at all, you have no chance of overcoming the force of my legs. My thighs are likely around the size of your waist if you are a skinny 5’5". So yeah, good luck with former racing me. You would likely unintentionally push my head to my left. Even a mild blow there would likely cause me major trouble and maybe death. Likewise with punching at a my ribs that connect to my sternum. You could easily crush or collapse my vertebrae with little effort. The rest of me is a strong 42yo, but my mid to upper spine is something like 90.

Some people do not feel pain. I got that ability the hard way, but I have known two people that got it with genetics. They actually have trouble where they could bleed out before noticing it. Never assume anything when you are throwing out all morality to turn to violence. Your opponent is the smartest, most well armed, strongest and most agile person on the planet. To assume anything less is to wind up dead. Never pull a gun you are unwilling or unable to use, same with a knife. Make every threat real or you end up dead because luck is a killer that must never get called. Surprise is everything in fighting, so constrain every variable possible. If you are pulling a knife in defense, that means I am attacking. That means I have constrained the variables. That means I am prepared and you will never have the chance to draw your knife. I am not attacking you because, like everyone else, I am not motivated to harm you in any way. At your age, I had a 12 gage, a .243, and a .22 that helped me through that phase. Humans are not fully cognitively developed until the age of around 25. The logic skills and self awareness in this specific area are a major aspect of what is still growing and developing. Try to keep that anxiety in check as best as possible. It is natural to feel such anxiety. It is part of developing self awareness and logical scopes of vulnerability and hierarchy. We do not talk about this stage of development enough in US culture.

Because I will grab your hand. You could hurt me in other unique ways due to my chronic injuries. At the same time, I have spent the last 12 years in severe and unrelenting pain. As a former cyclist racer, I already had an enormous propensity for pain. Now, I’m nearly impervious to it. Nothing you could do would stop me until I lose consciousness. I don’t say that to be mean or a troll or anything. At your age, it is hard to fathom how perception of pain changes at double your age. Like in militaries, the vanguard goes last (older experienced people). We are more susceptible to injuries in some ways, but make up for it in experience and particularly in capacity for pain. Similarly in cycling racing at the amateur local levels, the masters races are often the fastest and most brutal. When you’re older, you know your real limits far better than the voice in your head screaming for you to stop.

I feel like my spine has a long sword shoved through it top to bottom all the time. I hurt in places and ways no human should be aware of their existence. When you are young, you likely imagine stuff like this is impossible; that everything can be fixed or means death. Such is not the case. It is possible to suffer terribly in ways where nothing can be done. I actually appear weaker in my hobbling and caution, trying to avoid cycles of injury, but under that façade, I am still capable, and mask the underlying ability to handle any pain short of death. My margins are on that line all the time. Even since my broken neck and back, I have broken bones riding a bike for physical therapy, and I just rode home with them and while bleeding rather seriously just out of my stubbornness and desire to say I have done so. The swelling actually puts pressure on my spine in ways that make my constant pain go away. Stabbing me, might actually help make me much stronger.

In most altercations, the first to use violence is the likely winner. Unless you walk around with a knife in hand all the time, it is unlikely to make a difference. Even then, you must always be prepared because even holding a knife, you have blind spots to be exploited.

I am tall with broad shoulders for my height. I think of my size as being an easier target for a bullet, though in practice I know that difference is rather insignificant. I look at displays of strength and force as weakness and fear. Even a kid can pull a trigger.

I primarily fear groups of stupid people, and the intelligent. I am probably biased because I am too large and intimidating to be worth the effort to fight, and have little that anyone would want. No one can fight off several attackers at once. The human propensity for dogmatic stupidity and confirmation bias is horrendous. On the other hand, I fear the domination of the intelligent, because the human capacity for cleverness is beyond the scope of anyone’s ability to counter.

In pretty much every situation, you are safer if you run. Instead of working on fighting back, having sure footing, agility, and confidence in your ability to run faster and further than any opponent is far more likely to save you. Your stride is much shorter than mine, but you are likely to be able to change directions faster than me and my momentum. Like in american football, I must increase the buffer distance before engagement when facing a smaller person in order to prevent them using my momentum against me. When I am all out in pursuit, it is the moment just before contact that is critical for awareness, confidence, and the agility to change directions quickly that will prevent me from catching you. It is also a mistake to assume I will tire or lack endurance to chase. You must have a stronger spirit than your opponent and the confidence that you can out agility them every time they try. There is no fairness in this type of altercation. I know that is scary. It is always better to turn to flight first in the fight or flight mechanism. Then come back with your fight when you control more variables.

I agree, but the tool is not to blame and never has been. This is not unique. The same thing was said with the advent of digital photo editing. Fakes predate that when people made them with film. In each instance, it is the ethics of the people that are the problem. At the deepest abstract levels, if you play out all of the implications, there is no difference between a tool and the thoughts in your head. Blaming tools is always a problem and only an illusion of a solution.

I have been able to edit photos like this since before AI, but have never done so. When I was a kid in school I drew stuff like this. So the problems is actually intent and social accountability more than anything else.

I don’t like that the issue boils down to this. I think it is ugly, but I think the alternative is far far worse. I think those that are pushing this issue are convenient idiots combined with people that are hell bent on a fascist authoritarian future that is truly horrendous. If posting dubious child nudes of me will stop fascism and WW3, what poses would you like me to strike?

Democratic freedom and democracy in practice.

It will culminate in revising “minor” to something scientific. Age is arbitrary and impossible for AI alignment to handle. Neoteny and the Tanner Scale is visually present and real. That fundamentally shifts culture in large ways because retention of childlike traits is neoteny, and the scientific definition of beauty. That is well outside the scope of Anglo cultural awareness, and will be hard for the Puritan backwardness to adjust. Like Riley Reid is so popular because of her neoteny. Even with actors like Tom Cruise, the reason people like ‘short people’ in media is the neotenous head to body proportions closer to 1 to 5. All cartoons are doing the same but exaggerated. “Minor” must be scientifically grounded better than the age when male children are large enough to carry the kit of grossly immortal mass murder orgies the halfwits call war.

Arbitrary age is irrelevant in purely visual media. Attempting to somehow mass surveil everyone to enforce it is dystopian insanity. The only solution is to be more scientifically grounded. It is ugly, and a bit ick, but whatever, those are illogical emotions fighting real justice and must be suppressed. Most countries like Germany and France have lowered their ages for minors. The only scientifically relevant ages are puberty and cognitive maturity at 25. Make it 25 and you will be supporting your kids until 25 financially, and the military will fall apart from people with the mind to question orders and think for themselves in mass.

Edit: To be clear, I do not want people fucking kids or what not, or exploiting them. I’m against authoritarian parenting by proxy with a state making up for terrible parents, but that is another thing entirely. I do not care about this personally or in justification of anything. It is simply an observation of inevitability as data expands and ages. Images in 100 years will still be around just the same. Their categorization must be derived from the pixels themselves. There is no other long term solution. How anyone feels about that is totally irrelevant stupidity and amounts to nothing more than stupid children putting their head in the sand and saying “nuh uhh!” Science and democracy are ugly. They always have been. If you cannot handle the ugly with the good, you are a fascist or authoritarian, and to that dystopian nightmare culture, fuck you for starting a war for democracy soon. Sincerely.

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Lol, the threadiverse has a slice of after dark waffles. The daytime crowd is mostly quiet local regulars. The staff are just the most skilled at running the place with the fewest of them as possible to make half decent money. Most of them have a small line in the door and every seat taken in the morning.

Probably contested region of Kashmir with someone in a mobile game, and a guy from Ukraine I knew before the war because we both made some similar uploads on YT. I got a book from a guy that I met on reddit that turned out to be the author and was from somewhere in central Africa, but I forget where exactly. As far as on Lemmy, this one girl from Turkey was fun to talk to. Most people here do not share that much personal information.

Overall? Of course.
People born today? Of course.
Most of us 30-50 year olds here? Probably not.

They never learned from Saddam

I keep separate devices and networks. It is not privacy as much as it is purging suggestive content and convenience. I only purchase something when I go looking for it specifically. I never browse or shop as entertainment or for endorphins. Investment apps are all about the stalkerware because it says you are a major target for unnecessary nonsense. Get a tablet and only use it for that junk.

Greatly depends on the person and their state of mind.

For me, no. Something about loyalty and trust is too strong for me to deal with. I need a clean break and to part ways.

Write a story you will never forget about whatever service. Like ‘when h is Y and won I; I would rather die than use google as a service.’ = “1wouldratYerd1etYanusegoogleasaserv1ce.”

I used to do that with Buying for bike shops where I had a bunch of accounts all over the place. I kept mental track of the starting key so that I knew my password rotation and history. I kept a hints book, but did not need it.

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Yes. Many. For a time, me.

People are a spectrum in all spaces. You are a product of your environment. When a person is racist, or prejudice, it typically means they are inexperienced and have a fear of the unknown with a fight preference in their fight or flight mechanism.

If they had the life experiences to have encountered diverse people, they would have realized there is no difference at all. If they are intelligent enough they will learn from the experiences of others with logical empathy.

Racism is telling you, the person lacks curiosity. That in turn tells you that they have not explored much in life and likely do not read regularly. They are not a life long learner and have likely lost the majority of what they learned in school. This means they are functional in their life niche but stupid and have no character depth. They may appear normal on the surface, but in the game of life, they hold a terrible hand and will always disappoint. Anyone that shows such prejudice has no real ethics or values. They are showing you their poker hand and daring you to be dumb enough to include them in your game. For some people, politics are a brand and team sport.

You have multiple devices and networks.

Maybe I do not understand the vector here, but I think you should be able to use a DNS filter log, like a whitelist firewall. Use the log to see what servers are blocked when you try to open the app. Then just whitelist those servers.

The proper argument is not for Ad Block. That is just a lazy hack. The proper argument is that you have a right to a front door on your home – a digital front door, a right to lock it, and a right to decide who may enter your home. This is what a DNS whitelist filter does. If you are not allowed to use a DNS whitelist, your home has had the door ripped off and are being forced to allow stalkers, thieves, and slavers into your home to manipulate and exploit you. Never talk about ad block. That is politically irrelevant. I do not care if the lock on your front door in the real world has great pick resistance. It is just as much a symbol as it is a device. The primary reason for losing rights is from people failing to argue well, and understand their rights like this. I am one of the few people that does DNS the hard way and run a whitelist filter.