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I intuitively understand AI psychosis to be a real phenomenon. We joke about NPC reddit midwits but what happens when you give them a relatively primitive LLM? They become delusional out of convenience.

I see it in my real life too. "Regular people" completely outsourcing their brains to a hallucinating chat bot. They believe it. They don't check it. They just think it's true. It's crazy. Midwits who just stuck to their lane out of intellectual helplessness will suddenly start doing crazy and dangerous things because ChatGPT told them how, but only enough to be dangerous.

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djsumdog

Exactly. I know the world police have been exasperatingly annoying, but words are important here. The random next word guessing machine cannot lie or hallucinate, because it has no intent.

The biggest danger of LLMs isn't their output, it's peoples' trust. Like this moron who asked Grock, and less than 3 minutes of basic lookups (along with a court case I knew from actual previous research) showed the answer was entirely wrong: djsumdog.com/@djsumdog/posts/A…

Most of my friends do not know what the term "LLM" is. Some have gone to "AI courses" at their schools and don't understand the core mechanics that all these chatbots have in their models is just a massive lists of parts of words, with floating point values to ever other part of a word. That's it. Nothing else. No one is teaching the very basics of what the models are. They literally only get things "right" by accident and people keep asking "Grock is this true" no matter how many times it obviously generates random words that are verifiably untrue.

DJSumDog

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Zur Hölle mit dem Krieg! Von Smedley D. Butler - eine Buchrezension von Jonny Rieder


Was vereint #Politiker, #Rüstungsunternehmer, #Bänker, #Generäle? Sie profitieren vom #Krieg. Und was vereint #Soldaten und #Zivilisten? Sie bezahlen.
Das tatsächliche Interesse tarnen die, die nicht nur profitieren sondern den Krieg provozieren unter den immer gleichen Vorwänden und hinter den immer gleichen #Lügen von bösen Feinden, die nicht anderes im Sinne haben als uns zu überfallen und so gefährlich sind, dass man sie am besten sofort vernichtet. Das Traurige daran ist, dass viele Menschen die immer gleiche #Propaganda nicht erkennen und auf immer gleiche #Feindbilder herein fallen, ja, sogar ernsthaft glauben, man bräuchte nur mehr Waffen, dann würde alles gut und friedlich werden. Radio München stellt sich jedoch gegen jede Form von Krieg und #Kriegstreiberei, gegen jede Form von #Feindbild-Propaganda und außenpolitische Aggression. Wir erteilen Waffen und #Aufrüstung eine klare Absage. Radio München steht dafür ein, Brücken zu bauen und #Friedenstüchtigkeit zu erlernen: Tag für Tag. Neben den #Friedensnoten jetzt auch mit der Reihe Bücher gegen den Krieg. An jedem ersten Montag im Monat stellen wir eine starke Stimme gegen den Krieg vor, egal ob alt oder neu.

Hören Sie in der ersten Folge: Zur Hölle mit dem Krieg! von Smedley D. #Butler, vorgestellt von unserem Autor Jonny #Rieder.

Sprecherin: Sabrina Khalil

Das Buch ist im Verlag FiftyFifty erschienen, hat 48 Seiten und kostet 12 Euro.

#radiomuenchen

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UK - sharing this this video could get you 14 years in prison..

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#Gaza #Gazagenocide #Palestine #middleeast #Starmer #LabourFriendsOfGenocide


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Sounds like a concentration camp! Israeli Defense Minister Unveils Plan For 'Humanitarian City' In Gaza Where Palestinians Won't Be Allowed To Leave @palestine

latintimes.com/israeli-defense…


Israeli Defense Minister Unveils Plan For 'Humanitarian City' In Gaza Where Palestinians Won't Be Allowed To Leave

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he instructed the IDF to establish a "humanitarian city" in southern Gaza where people will be screened to be allowed entry and won't be able to leave
Demian Bio (Latin Times)

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Here an important list of lesser known spices and seasonings. This list has been on my desk for months
1. Asafoetida - A pungent resin from South Asian cuisine, used sparingly in lentil dishes or curries. It mimics onion-garlic flavors and aids digestion.
2. Black Lime (Dried Lime) - Common in Middle Eastern cooking, it adds a tangy, fermented citrus note to stews, rice, or soups.

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Karl Auerbach

I have dozens, perhaps hundreds of FreeBSD systems - several of our products are based on platforms running Freebsd. Most are headless, but we've recently begun adding screens and using Xfce as the desktop (Xfce because most of our platforms have weak graphics engines.)

It is very stable - it is not suffering from the Linux problem of too many (code) cooks in the kitchen. But it does tend to run behind Linux in terms of support for the most recent changes in hardware.

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𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

That's exactly why I like FreeBSD, there's not an insane number of dependencies for a full featured system. And also why XFCE is my favorite... and I mod it with the good old CDE/Motif theme, because those were the days when the most thought was put into the user experience and productivity.

The modern desktops these days are astonishingly cringe and right out of Redmond😬

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In #Dänemark ist die #Burka im öffentlichen Raum seit 2018 verboten – ein klares Signal gegen falsch verstandene #Toleranz!


Während wir in Deutschland einknicken, schützt Dänemark seine Werte und lässt #Islamisierung keinen Raum. So geht konsequente Politik.

#Asylwende #Migrationswende #Politikwende

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TIL the US govt has spent AT LEAST half a billion dollars training soldiers in "subterranean warfare" over the last four and a half years

TL;DR - If you're under 25, you're gonna die in a Tehran sewer

Will World War 3 Be Fought Underground?

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🇦🇷Wer hätte das gedacht?
#Marktwirtschaft und weniger #Staat — und plötzlich wächst die #Wirtschaft! Muss man erst mal drauf kommen...

#Argentinien legt unter #Milei im zweiten Quartal 2025 um satte 7,6 % zu – so prognostiziert es Econométrica.


Langsam wird die Luft dünn für diejenigen, die Milei das Scheitern vorausgesagt haben...

Während andere die #Kettensäge auspacken, findet unsere Regierung nicht mal ein Buttermesser, um unnötige Kosten zu beschneiden und die Bürger bei der #Stromsteuer zu entlasten...

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Bom dia para quem é de #TerCinema!
Toda semana, às terças-feiras, nos reunimos no Fediverso lusófono & agregados para compartilhar filmes com um tema sugerido pela comunidade e sorteado previamente.

Nesta terça, 08/07, o tema será: filmes com a temática pós-apocalíptica, sugerido por @andreigolemsky ☢️

Quer sugerir um tema? Mande-nos uma mensagem!

Nos vemos terça!

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@TagsBR @filmeseseries

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I love how intellectually fragile lefties are. I just felt really cute during a con, so while sitting with an obvious leftard, I decided to explain to him that the unavoidable conclusion of gender role theory is, not, that we can decide our own gender, but that 99% of western humans are clearly and definitionally men.

It shut hum up completely, and for the rest of the evening, I could see the gears in his head turn so fast, his hair were boiling.

We truly couldn't have wished for dumber enemies 😁

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_New York May Get Government-Owned Grocery Stores_

FTA: Government-run food stores aren’t new. The Soviet Union practiced decades of collectivist control over food prices, supply chains, and market competition under the guise of “equitable” redistribution of wealth. The outcome? Soviet grocery stores experienced frequent shortages, long bread lines, and preferential treatment for Communist Party members. In fact, the USSR’s experience in state-run food services led to some of the worst atrocities in human history, one being the Holodomor, a man-made famine which killed millions of Ukrainians.

More recently, Venezuela’s routine food shortages have been attributed to Chávez’s and Maduro’s chokehold on price controls, land expropriations, and the national subsidization of food distribution. Under the Comité Local de Abastecimiento y Producción (CLAP) program, advertised as an equitable distribution of basic food items, government officials only provide supplies to Venezuelans who prove their support to the regime and show government-issued ID.

Socialists Enrich Themselves, While Everyone Else Is Left Behind

Zohran Mamdani claims that “New York is too expensive,” and that he will “lower costs and make life easier.” If socialism’s history has taught us anything, it is that no one eats for free—if they are lucky enough to eat at all. Mamdani’s goal to inject government into every aspect of New Yorkers’ lives—especially their food supply—will leave Americans hungrier and less safe than ever before.

As Friedrich A. Hayek succinctly warned: “The more the state ‘plans,’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”

fee.org/articles/new-york-may-…


New York May Get Government-Owned Grocery Stores - FEE

Zohran Mamdani has moved forward in the New York City mayoral race as the Democratic nominee, after beating out former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo
Foundation for Economic Education
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Silver Spook Games

"Neofeud is packed with passion, personality, and powerful political commentary. When you play, you're stepping into someone's bold and deeply personal vision of the future." --Steam reviewer
store.steampowered.com/app/673…
#indiedev #indiegame #retrogames #dystopian
"Neofeud is packed with passion, personality, and powerful political commentary. When you play, you're stepping into someone's bold and deeply personal vision of the future."

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Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
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When I was a kid, I sometimes wondered how a sprinkler "knew" how to change directions without being powered with electronics. I think it wasn't until I was in my late 30s that I came across this GIF and I realized how insanely genius a simple sprinkler really is.

EDIT: Some people have kindly pointed out that this GIF was in fact from a demonstration on how different gears function and not from an actual sprinkler as I had originally led to believe. Other people have been assholes about it.

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@Tfmonkey about the whole ‘will Trump print money to reinflate the bubble leading to hyperinflation to save Israel’ thing, yes, it will happen.

The Boomers running the world are simply too stuck in their ways to change their minds and actually care about what happens later. And given their track record of suicidally-retarded decisions they will definitely keep going.

Honestly the only thing that can save us now is either a revolution or J.D. Vance launching coup and becoming dictator.

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@mutagenus
They will continue to invent or roll out new technology and new technology is the only reason we have not collapsed so far

Because of inflation a higher percent of your time is devoted to useless bureaucracy, so you have less time to produce things

If you have half as much productive time per day and produce twice as many things per time you will end up producing the same amount per day

You will toil with no collapse and wish there was a collapse

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Not sponsored, but if you play mobile games and enjoy TTRPGs; they shut down the servers to my Final Fantasy Tactics game. I enjoy tactical RPGs because they feel like a TTRPG. The art style and setting are also Grimdark like Myth the Fallen Lords. play.google.com/store/apps/det…

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Zeb 摆烂

I played Final fantasy war of the lions many times in the PSP emulator for android. Works pretty awesome and has so many good games, like disgaea and others (roms from piratebay or other site).
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PPSSPP - PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS - PPSSPP

PPSSPP is a free and open-source PSP emulator with a focus on performance and portability. Play PSP games on your phone in high resolution with improved graphics. Continue from your PSP saves. Save and restore game state anytime.
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Cretans "welcome" cruise full of Zionists.

On Tuesday 8 April 2025, as expected, a cruise ship from #TelAviv docked in #Heraklion with about two thousand Israeli citizens on board.
Locals, in antifascist context, reacted on zionists presence in their city. Check the video to see the reaction of #zionazis.

thinkofothers.espivblogs.net/2…

#ZionistsAreTerrorist #zionism #Israel #PalestineGenocide #genocideenablers #Greece #BDS #BoycottIsrael #SmashColonialism #israelTerrorists #FreePalestine

Ενημέρωση για τα γεγονότα που συνέβησαν την Τρίτη 8 Απριλίου στο κέντρο του Ηρακλείου με αφορμή την επίσκεψη χιλιάδων Ισραηλινών τουριστών – thinkofothers

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Proletarian Rage

Without following social and greek media but just the fediverse as source for news, already met dozens of cases of provocative actions of #zionazis who go for tourism (or terrorism maybe...) in #Greece. They spread hatred and threats all around and especially against working people. Be aware and act accordingly against fascists.

#Heraklion: Israeli "tourists" told the waitress that if she doesn't change her shirt they won't tip her
rosa.gr/koinonia/i-blouza-egra…
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Proletarian Rage

Provocations of #zioNaZis.
#Volos, #Greece: "At noon on Tuesday I was at the swimming pool and headed to the small pool area where our children used to change. That's where the team members from Israel were, some were coming out of the pool others were changing in the stands. Forced to pass between them, I said the phrase "Free Palestine". I said it but I didn't shout it. At that moment 2-3 people turned around and looked at me and started talking to me intensely and asking me what I said, and then more people gathered. The expressions and gestures that followed from their side afterwards were quite vulgar, and at one point a female athlete, she was not 12 years old hit me on the head with a bag, not hard, but she hit me, and an older teammate picked her up further. Then the coach of the team approached, using the expression "shut up"."

The parents of children of this pool wrote: "When other Municipalities around the world prove their dignified attitude, choosing the right side of history, and decide to cut all ties with the genocidal formation, while respecting the decisions of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Municipality of Volos displaces its citizens and shakes bloody hands."
eksegersi.gr/politiki/volos-xe…
#fightfascism #zionism #AntifaAction


Βόλος: Ξεσαλωμένοι σιωνιστές, έβρισαν και χειροδίκησαν κατά πολίτισσας που είπε «Free Palestine»Εξαλλοι οι Βολιώτες με τον Μπέο που εκτόπισε τα παιδιά από το κολυμβητήριο για να το παραχωρήσει σε σιωνιστικές ομάδες

10 Ιούλ 2025, 17:46 - O Μπέος είναι ο... Μπέος. Δε θα μπορούσε ποτέ να έχει την ευαισθησία και τη λεβεντιά του εστιάτορα από το Βίγκο, που πέταξε με τις κλωτσιές τους «πουτάνας γιους σιωνιστές» από το μαγαζί του.
Eksegersi.gr (Εφημερίδα Κόντρα | Eksegersi.gr)

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Proletarian Rage

Plomari, #Lesvos: Local businesses expressing solidarity with #Palestine are targeted by #Zionists. According to complaints from residents and workers, in recent weeks there have been cases of aggressive behaviour, negative and defamatory comments on online platforms and direct intimidation of workers by people of Israeli origin.

...The incident came to a head when a store employee was subjected to ironic comments and insulting treatment inside the store by members of a family of Israeli visitors. One young man mockingly called her a "supporter", leaving clear hints about her political stance, and shortly afterwards his mother allegedly stopped her in the street to take a photo and directed an ironic remark at her, which was seen as a clear attempt at intimidation.
Reactions in the local community were immediate. Residents expressed their strong annoyance at the occurrence of such phenomena, stressing that Plomari was and remains a hospitable place, but not a silent one. Village society, they argue, has historically demonstrated solidarity, humanity and political sensitivity, and will not be silent in the face of pressure or intimidation practices.

Report in greek stonisi.gr/post/93917/stoxopoi…

via @_Wiesenthal_S_
#zionazis #EatTheRich #colonialism #StopZionism #settlers


ΡΕΠΟΡΤΑΖ - Στοχοποιούνται επιχειρήσεις που εκφράζουν αλληλεγγύη στην Παλαιστίνη

Ισραηλινοί κατηγορούνται για πιέσεις, προσβολές και αρνητικές κριτικές σε βάρος καταστημάτων του Πλωμαρίου που πήραν δημόσια θέση για τα γεγονότα στη Γάζα
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Proletarian Rage

Israeli settler Stav Ben-Shushan was vacationing with his wife at Bolivar Beach in Alimos, near #Athens. He told reporters that a Syrian man approached them, shouted “Free Palestine” and “I am Hamas,” and began filming them. Later, he claimed, the man assaulted him and bit off part of his ear.

Greek police arrested both men.

While chants like “Free Palestine” are common at protests and among activists, the phrase “I am Hamas” feels oddly theatrical, especially in the context of a random beach encounter.

In recent months, dozens of viral videos have shown Israeli travelers being confronted by pro-#Palestine demonstrators around the world. In many of those cases, Israelis were seen provoking, mocking, or even physically assaulting protesters, only to later claim they were the victims. The pattern of escalation, followed by selective storytelling, has become increasingly familiar.
qudsnen.co/israeli-tourist-cla…

It's obviously another provocation by a zionazi. These incidents have nothing to do with #antisemitism. All of them are #antifascist.


Israeli Tourist Claims Syrian Bit His Ear in Greece, But Doubts Surround His Story

Athens (Quds News Network)- An Israeli tourist claimed a Syrian man bit off part of his ear while on a Greek beach. But as Israel faces mounting global condemnation over its crimes in Gaza, the detail
Editing Team (Quds News Network)

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Captain Jack Sparrow

isn't "israeli settler" just a nice way of saying "ethnic cleansing land thief"?

Would you like someone to come along, beat your family up and steal your house at gunpoint, while they were backed up with the might of an entire army? And if you raised a hand against them you would be labelled as a terrorist and shot.

Would you still use the term "settler" for that person?

#Gaza #Westbank #Palestine
#israelterroriststate #Israelwarcrimes

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Proletarian Rage

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow Maybe you saw it already. todon.nl/@prolrage/11439206596…

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2025-04-24 08:46:44

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The trick of declaring war against the armed resistance and then attacking the resisters’ unarmed kin as well as the surrounding population with the most gruesome products of Death-Science — this trick is not new. American Pioneers were pioneers in this too; they made it standard practice to declare war on indigenous warriors and then to murder and burn villages with only women and children in them. This is already modern war, what we know as war against civilian populations; it has also been called, more candidly, mass murder or genocide.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that the perpetrators of a Pogrom portray themselves as the victims, in the present case as victims of the Holocaust.

...If I went on I would probably come to results already found by W. Reich in his study of the mass psychology of Fascism. It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications.

Fredy Perlman
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
theanarchistlibrary.org/librar…
#Israel #antisemitism #Palestine #Lebanon #history #Sabra_Shatila_Massacre #zionism #holocaust



Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom

Fredy Perlman Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom 1983 Fifth Estate, issue number 310 (Vol. 17 No. 3). 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201. Reprinted...
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Zionazi Ben-Gvir on a video

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Gaza Doctors Under Attack
The whole thing. Not a preview.
Not a link to another site. No sign in, no sign up. Watch it here and now.
Thanks go to
@prolrage

todon.nl/@prolrage/11481274767…

#Palestine #GENOCIDE #HOLOCAUST #ausPol

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2025-07-07 15:51:38

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Gaza Doctors Under Attack
archive.org/details/gaza-docto…

The documentary chronicles Israel’s targeting and destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and medics, 1,500 of whom have been killed.

It's a 2025 documentary on doctors working during the #Gaza war, detailing the killings and #torture of #healthcare workers and attacks on #hospitals by the Israel Defence Forces (#IDF) during the conflict.

#warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #crimesagainsthumanity #gazagenocide #health #medicare #Palestine
via @ecpoir
@palestine @israel



Gaza Doctors Under Attack : Channel 4 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Channel 4 Documentary about doctors in Gaza
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Alfred Schafer, an FTJ streamer in Germany, was just arrested, simply for his speech. He's just a sweet old guy who says the Holohoax didn't happen. Both he and his sister have served prison terms in Germany for the same thing in the past. Germany only has those vile blasphemy laws because of jew run America. These people are considered criminals in Germany, while Arabs rape girls, both of these conditions exist because of jews.

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The SMART Home is a DUMB idea, and a privacy and security NIGHTMARE

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"Privacy is Dead" Video:

The more obvious threat is to your home security, and to who inhabits that home. Most devices use a cloud service to store data. But while YOU can't access this data, hackers definitely can, and have in the past.

Look at EUFY, the smart camera system that proclaimed everything was local and not in the cloud.

lifewire.com/why-ankers-eufy-c…

In March 2021, hackers breached a server for security cameras, gaining access to live feeds for hospitals, women's health clinics, prisons, police departments, and even schools.

finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers…

Alexa speakers were also hacked, with malicious actors getting access to banking details, voice search history, and even access to the various skills and commands you could ask Alexa.

avira.com/en/blog/these-are-th…

Or, still on Amazon, their Ring range of devices was also easily hacked.
nordvpn.com/blog/ring-doorbell…

With access to your smart home devices, hackers could remotely disable the alarm, disable the cameras, and just wait until you leave to go and grab everything they want. They could even have a full map of your house thanks to your robot vacuum which diligently created that map for them.

Same applies for privacy, but the main people who benefit from that are the companies that sell you the products.

Most companies that make smart home appliances don't care about the smart home, they care about the data these appliances can give them, and how they can sell access to that data to advertisers.

And again, why would that matter? We're already giving away most of our data to Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and a lot of others.

But it's not just data about YOU, is it? It's data bout your home, and everyone who lives in it. Your significant other, your kids, your visiting friends, family. As long as they stay in your house, their data is also going to the company who made your appliances.

But why you probably SHOULD care is because that data isn't going away. And it's available to any government that has laws that gives it access to.

Basically, here again, if your data is going to a server that's not yours, then the company that hosts it probably uses that data for profiling, and various governments around the world probably have access to it as well.

Now, of course, you CAN set up a smart home without using cloud based products. There's a very cool thing called home assistant. It's open source, it can run on something as small as a raspberry pi, so you can self host it, and all the data stays on your local network, where it's not 100% safe, but it's still way safer than being on the open internet.

Home Assistant integrates with tons and tons of services, like homekit, alexa, google assistant, zigbee, philips hue, samsung smarthings, google cast, Z Wave, and more.

BUT home assistant isn't perfect. First, out of the box, it's local only, so no controlling your stuff when you're not on your wifi network. You can solve that using Home Assistant Cloud. But guess what: you're still using other cloud services like a voice assistant for example to communicate with Home Assistant.

Why Anker’s Eufy Cameras Upload Scandal Shows the Dangers of Home Automation

The whole eufy camera debacle raises a good point; even if you choose a reliable brand, how do you know your security cameras won’t leak data, or worse, be hacked to spy on you?
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La gelé de compte de banque c'est déjà commencé au Canada... Suffisait de faire un don de 1$ au convoi de la liberté pour perdre son compte... La ministre des finances de l'époque avait même rie de cela publiquement... Ce genre de criminels devraient passé à la guillotine!

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FLASHBACK: Chrystia Freeland Laughs at Canadian Protesters Getting Their Bank Accounts Frozen

Chrystia Freeland Laughs at Canadian Protesters Getting Their Bank Accounts Frozen
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