GPS? as in Global Positioning System? yk beam has the BeamNavigator right? --- Post updated --- one of very very many of these
The funny thing about the second part of this meme was that there was a vocal minority of people who said that the Amazon Echo spying on you was just a dangerous conspiracy theory until WikiLeaks proved that the NSA had backdoors to pretty much every device ever made.
Somebody have just f**ked up my college life lately Don't want to talk about these sh*t more but I just simply hate those 3 or 4 guys.I hope they won't pick on me again in the future
I freakin love It when a modder making a great mod, starts making other mods at the same time, gets overwhelmed, and then cancels all of them because their "Overwhelmed".
Firstly, modding is a hobby. Secondly, a hobby should never become overwhelming, it should be something you enjoy, and cancelling projects to alleviate any unnecessary/unwanted "stress" (self inflicted or not) is entirely understandable. I understand it's different for everybody, plenty of modders out here don't experience this and I can only speak for myself, but for many "creative types" it seems an easy situation to fall into when you have lots of ideas and you're invested in them all. It can be difficult focussing on just one of them because you feel like you are neglecting the other, possibly better ideas, and sometimes you work on something so eagerly that you get burnt out, or you get bored of it and realise it perhaps wasn't such a good idea in the first place - and so you pick up another project to "take a break" from the previous one (then the cycle repeats when you get burnt out again, I am well aware). Before you know it, you're sat knee-deep in projects and none of them are finished, and motivation is at an all time low because you have nothing to show for it. Sometimes you might feel like you've disappointed people because they seemed to be looking forward to your project, but now they've lost interest because it took you a year to tell them it's been on hold since you started something else - or someone has decided to make the exact same thing themselves since you were taking too long, they've done a better job than you, and now you don't see a reason to continue with that project anymore despite being so passionate about it before. It's then that you need to sit down and remember why you chose to start those projects in the first place: is it because you enjoy it as a hobby? Is it for yourself or is it because you only wanted to impress people? And if you no longer enjoy it then why continue it? Especially when people have the audacity to complain that you cancelled it for whatever reason, yet you owe them absolutely nothing and they should have no influence on your life in the slightest. Personally, I've never explicitly cancelled a project, but I've started many, and working to stop that cycle has been incredibly difficult as I am prone to having new ideas (that I always think are pretty cool, and want to work on almost instantly) very frequently. Unfortunately, I never set deadlines and I never limit myself, and projects snowball into bigger and bigger things before I've even realised it - then I get sick of looking at BeamNG and decide to take a break, then during that time I have many more ideas and am reluctant to return to the one I grew tired of. Perhaps the difference there is that I am also more reluctant to share my projects publicly until they are very nearly finished and ready for release, and therefore avoid having other people complaining that I've cancelled things. I also have an irrational fear of finishing things, wanting to add to it and change it even after it has been mostly "completed", so this does not help at all. So yes, I also hate when modders cancel things due to being overwhelmed, because they shouldn't be letting themselves become overwhelmed in the first place.
That one is highly debateable to say the least. You have one side of the debate that the false alarms can be unsettling even tramatic for those who never needed it. But the other side of the debate is that the technology can reach people who really really need it and prevent suicide. What is more costly, Trauma? Or Loss of Life? That is what it really boils down to imo. Right now the tech is new(ish) and imo it is too early to definitively say. But, it sounds like it could be a step in the right direction.
Do you want what you search on the internet, what you chat with your friend(s) or even your diary/logbook that stored locally, to be constantly monitored and can be used against you at any time? I don't, so I hate this. Then again it's just me expressing my opinion about why I hate this, not forcing others to feel the same or saying "everyone should hate this".
Ok, someones "privacy" (privacy does not exist on the internet) or actual lives. Since ads get your crap anyway, why can't the lack of actual privacy save lives? That's my viewpoint anyway.
They don't. I use an adblocker(uBlock Origin) to block them, use container tabs to split work, personal and entertainment to prevent cross-site tracking and a CanvasBlocker to block device fingerprinting. Because the lack of privacy cost lives, when your privacy is at the mercy of someone else, your insecurities and vulnerabilities will be targeted and exploited. For instance, due to the sophisticated target advertising algorithm of social networks, teenage girls have more self-harm behavior than ever. Spoiler: How it works What you post on the internet is public, not in private. What you didn't post are privacy-related stuff. One way for adversaries to harm you is that they have algorithms to use what you posted to calculate what you didn't post. What you didn't post can reflect your worst insecurities. Then they send the calculated result to advertisers to exploit you, sending subtle messages such as "if you don't use <insert advertised item> you will be excluded by your friends group" or "if you don't use this <insert cosmetics> to enhance your appearance, no one will love you". Hence the increase self-harm because teenagers' insecurities about body image are being amplified and exploited. Fortunately, calculations can be inaccurate. Unfortunately, as mentioned above the link, there are backdoors to acquire local data that shouldn't have sent outbound in the first place. If your adversaries have your private massages with your friend, they can push contents with different, conflicting ethic values to you and your friend, spiking arguments and possibly ruining your friendship in the process. In the case of police brutality, they can use said private data to silence civil rights activist and whistleblowers, detaining them for "wrongthink" even they did nothing incriminating. This promotes distrust among citizens and lowers the credibility of the government. There are many ways to enhance privacy(as I mentioned on the first quote). Doing so shields your well-being from adversaries' harm, which leads to lower possibility of having suicidal ideations in the future. Define "who really really need it", in my opinion only the person who explicitly send a request for help is in need. An AI algorithm has no right to override said person's own will and send unnecessary or sometimes even harmful "help" to a person who never asked for it. I think I should shut up for now, feel free to disagree.
J/I agree --- Post updated --- By "really really", I meant people who are actually suicidal and have not come forward at all. I thought that was obvious. --- Post updated --- Well in this case that lack of privacy is being used (or attempting to) do good instead of tear down and depress. Sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also have a feeling there might be some privacy related trauma here...
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There are Nikola Tesla fans who often hate Thomas Edison.................then proceed to buy a Tesla car, not knowing that Elon Musk is a modern day Thomas Edison.
