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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Naw, stupid easy for automated systems to clean up.

    Your life, activities, and habits will be mined by machines in order to target to and to adjust and mold your habits to best fit your masters whoever wants your loyalty in ways sometimes imperceptible to you.

    Consumed by companies and governments alike to target people both for monitization, and for enforcement action against the laws or political views at the time. Purchased by employers or potential employers to monitor and analyze your personal life and habits, to determine whether you are or are going to be a good worker bee. Shared with health providers and insurance companies so they can determine how and when they need to deny you service or care.

    Mentioned something bad about the company CEO on the drive? Shouldn’t have done that. Talked about a pre-existing condition with your spouse? Shouldn’t have done that. Talked about your kids mental health problems in the car? Welp, now anyone with $ knows too for the rest of their life.

    You don’t want your detailed data in the hands of tyrants, it will be used against you or others near you.

    (Yes, everything I mentioned here already happens to some degree, yes employers can and do purchase your data from data brokers to judge your personal life. Yes health insurance will do everything within their power to deny anything they can)








  • Protocols are much more difficult to create and implement.

    The barrier for technical ability and maturity is much higher. Which is why you don’t see them as often, and when you do see them they tend to suck, have massive gaps, or some other significant failing that prevents them from really scaling out.

    Building reliable and robust protocols with a hobby project is a nearly impossible task, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of minds over a long period of time to settle on the specifications. And just as long to actually implement it.

    Usually this requires some sort of funding and dedicated resources from the get-go. Which many of these projects lack.