Twitter is asshole. Pro tip: when your Twitter app asks you this, click "Don't Allow".
Here's a better Pro tip: delete the Twitter app from your phone because that bad boy is spying on you, and it looks like it wants to spy on everyone who lives with you.
Borepatch, I only ever access such things through a browser - Twitter least of all, although one can find breaking news there in a way it is not otherwise available.
ReplyDelete(Off topic but curious: How is The Queen of The World's hand healing up? Been praying for her. Thanks).
I just saw a video on Amazon Sidewalk setting up a mesh network via Alexa Echo and Ring doorbells. What's your take on this?
ReplyDeleteI'm asking here because, while I don't trust Twitter, I do trust you. ;-)
Not on Twitter... It's a useless time sink.
ReplyDeleteNot a tweeter.
ReplyDeleteNever was, never will be.
Yipe!
ReplyDeleteThat's way beyond my reasons for not having any of those apps on my phone (or, if they come unavoidably pre-installed, for never logging into any of them).
Anyway, Twitter is a broken implementation of a broken concept, and it's recently gotten even more broken for members of the public who don't have accounts. (If you're not logged in, you can no longer see attached images; various official government announcements are posted on Twitter as images; Twitter bans users for political reasons; isn't there something illegal here?)
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have been banned from everything in the house save iPads. Those don't have anything on them to steal. I'd ban them there as well, but I'm not allowed to.
ReplyDeletePro tip. create entries in your hosts file for the above and their various permutations. That way, even if there is something on your machine that wants to go there, unless they've hard-coded an IP address it will be stymied.
Another pro tip. Wipe and reformat your machine, then make the hosts entries before allowing it on the Internet.
Yet another pro tip. In your router, you can enter rules that block them, adding another layer of security.
I do not twit. I will go there via my laptop if I see a link to something of interest, but other than that... Just scrolling through some twits or tweets or whatever make me feel dumb and dumber within minutes.
ReplyDeleteYa know the joke:
I walked into the living room last night with my pistol strapped on. My wife asked what that was about. "The FBI, they are everywhere and listening." She said I was being silly and laughed. Then I started laughing. Then the Alexa started laughing. So I shot the Alexa.
If you have a cell phone with a battery in it you are being tracked. And a particular phone conversation made a friend realize that they are also LISTENING.
ReplyDeleteYou are closing the barn door after the horses got out, fellas.
ReplyDeleteIf TPTB want you silenced then law enforcement agencies will simply frame you and manufacture evidence to incriminate you. That’s why all those Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” are rotting in jail with no access to lawyers, phones or a public voice. You can turn off the puter, throw away your cell and rip Alexa out by the roots…but all you’d do is make yourself suspect.
Forgive the fedpoasting… to correct this state of affairs, you will need to shoot the perps driving it… not Alexa and their tools.
Glen's right. The treasonous bathroom tissue known as the Patriot Act came along years ago. If you've utilized any form of modern communication, They know.
ReplyDeleteGlen's right. Even if you still have and use an old-school copper landline, your analog signal goes digital somewhere along the line. Analog voice is cumbersome to store and archive. Digital, on the other hand, is neat and compact, and goes through some server somewhere and is archived for future incrimination.
ReplyDeleteWhat we really need to do is to NOT shut up. Let those bastards know how you feel! Honestly; how long are we going to cower?...
Oh; and SCREW Twatter and Faceplant!
ReplyDeleteJamming!
ReplyDeleteThe Prisoner, "Hammer Into Anvil."
Insert obvious (but meaningless) code phrases into everything. Share encrypted photos of your pets. Share encrypted files of random bits. Mention specific dates and times in the near future at which nothing will happen. Publicly predict that certain events Won't Happen.
Tell tall tales about what you saw one (named) bureaucrat or another doing on his day off.
And leave perfectly ordinary cuckoo clocks lying around.
Also, absolutely nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12 today. I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm.
ReplyDeleteI've was purged from twister a while ago... and yes.
ReplyDeleteTwitter told me to stop being so paranoid.
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