The new Louis Theroux doco, Inside the Manosphere, is a phenomenal and chilling watch. I highly recommend it, especially because toward the end he delves into what is, as ever, the root of most if not all conspiratorial thinking: antisemitism.

I definitely do not recommend it if you're not in the headspace to witness a veritable torrent of shit; the entire final sequence is essentially a supercut of the raging antisemitism these men espouse.

I would however strongly recommend it to anyone who has difficulty believing that a lot of right-wing reactionary nonsense does tend to boil down to antisemitism (the "it's not always antisemitism" types, I'm sure we've all known at least one), because the reality of it is laid out in clean and thorough detail.

It's hard to allow every single piece of bad news to affect you, because if you let it, you'd go under.

But the report that every single person who was on a ventilator in a hospital in Cuba died the same night for want of power ripped from them by *that* dickhead? That one landed.

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
• Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

Finnish speaking comrades! Lend me an example of your favourite and possibly most incomprehensible bit of local dialect and its translation! Just for funsies!

Example and suggestion of form:
"Alakkonää?" which is transformed by dialect from "Alkaisitko sinä minua?" and meaning: "Would you please cordially agree to play with me right now or at a later time, perhaps today after school?"

#Finnish #Languages #Äidinkieli_Iäti #Suomi

Täytyy arvostaa idean pöpiyttä: Business Cityn älppärin pystyi viime vuonna ennakkotilaamaan toimitettuna maastokätköön, jonka GPS-koordinaatit saisi viestinä nyt keväällä, kun levy ilmestyy.

Jonkinasteista pöpiyttä oli sekin, kun viime viikolla koordinaatit saatuani liukastelin tuolla pusikossa happoteknokaiuttimen ja suksisauvojen kanssa.

#BusinessCity #musadontti