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Wes_Dev

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Wes_Dev ,

Automated content farms to sell ads. So basically, instead of teams of people in Russian content farms like 5 Minute Crafts siphoning money from Google, the AI does it instead.

Another reason why advertising-based economies are stupid. It's a race to the bottom, and every single content creator has to make their content worse and worse, with more and more ads, just to break even. Fucking podcasts have automatically inserted crap now, just shoved in randomly, based on your IP when you download them.

Wes_Dev ,

God, I want a THC vape. Had one once when I lost my job, apartment, roommate, etc, all at the same time.

I couldn't afford my overpriced-yet-shitty $2,000 apartment, plus utilities, by myself on any of the jobs I found. There was nothing to do but wait for a couple of weeks for family to come pick me up, so I said screw it and got a THC vape pen. It was the most relaxing two weeks I've ever had.

The pen had a nice big cartridge of Charlotte's Web. I used it A LOT. Woke up in the middle of the night at one point, still buzzed, and decided I should take a break from THC. I needed to sober up to handle adult crap, so I threw the thing away.

Proud of myself for not letting myself become and addict, even though I was high at the time. But still miss it.

Wes_Dev ,

God, I only use Ublock Origin on Firefox. No TOR, VPNs, or anything like that.

Despite that, there are a handful of Google-related websites like Virustotal that now permanently trap me in repeating captchas. Youtube will occasionally decide to block my IP entirely for a week.

Let me tell you, this shit doesn't make me more inclined to disable ad blocking. Instead, I've starting finding alternatives and using a sandboxed vanilla Chromium for problem pages.

Wes_Dev ,

What if you don't have an Android or Apple smartphone, or refuse to get one on privacy concerns?

I know SMS isn't very secure, but how is one supposed to use 2FA if they can't, or won't, accept spyware to do so?

Wes_Dev ,

That's a good point, and I do have some 2FA set up like that. The problem is I have to be logged into a computer, have a browser open, have the 2FA extension installed, and be able to copy and paste or type the code in before the timer expires.

That's not hard at home, but if I need to sign in to my bank account while at a library or anything like that, I'm screwed.

I think SMS is popular because it's so easy to reach the people that need the codes, regardless of platform. I just wish it wasn't so bad security-wise, you know?

Wes_Dev ,

100% agree.

Wes_Dev ,

I've got some older unopened v4 Yubikeys that work let me have when they upgraded to v5. I've been meaning to try them out. Problem is there's no backup. If you lose or break the thing, you're screwed if you didn't have some alternative 2FA set up.

Wes_Dev ,

...squeeze your meat?

I guess that does make me happy.

Wes_Dev ,

Meanwhile, my gay ass is just sitting here thinking about a chubby bearded nerd with a kind face, and how nice it would be to cuddle together under a blanket and watch an underpowered laptop compile Gentoo.

Oh, and give me a cat to pet too.

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