I’m speaking from the point of view of the app you willingly installed that tracks your MAC address. Part of the reason iOS11 implemented built in spoofing, but I can tell you right now, I know Tim Apple ain’t on the users side anymore.
TheAsianDonKnots
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Unless they’re spoofing their MAC address, hardware fingerprinting is much more reliable and predictable. It’s easy to watch a MAC bounce all over the country/world in a matter of minutes.
At this point in history, it’s too late to implement identity protections. Your profile is already built, stored, and backed up. They even know your deleted edgelord MySpace account and that you unfriended Tom (you monster). I guess if you were born in a ditch without a SSN, and never signed up for anything, not even a house/apartment, you could go under the radar.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
Science@lemmy.ml•Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”
9·3 days agoTook me an hour and a half of my own time to get ready and commute 30 miles in heavy traffic.
Once at work, I would get invited to the cafeteria to get coffee with the boss, which also turned into a breakfast burrito. As I sat there getting fatter, my boss would mostly talk about his personal life and we’d wander back to my cube.
Other people would congregate around our area catching up on sports ball, check out the women walking through the parking lot.
When things broke the executive IT support guys sat in your lap until you fixed it. Then lunch… some place fatty because their spouses weren’t there to discourage them from the double bbq burger with fries and a few beers.
At this point I’ve done about an hour behind the keyboard. Stay on hold with a vendor for an hour. Then pack up and head 42 minutes home.
NOW, I roll out of bed, get my bowl of yogurt and granola walk over to my office, and I’m heads down and able to concentrate for the next 6 hours. Since the lock downs I’ve increased my work performance and received multiple raises for my efforts. I have more flexibility to watch my kids if they’re sick or on break, and I can get a quickie on my lunch hour… or grocery shop. Thriving indeed.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.ziptoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit banned me because I typed "Nazis should be punched"
2·4 days agoThey have a ton of tech to track you down. I just gave up the app all together. I don’t even click on the goggle search results for Reddit anymore.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.ziptoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit banned me because I typed "Nazis should be punched"
251·4 days agoYep. I picked up 2 temp bans, a sub permanent ban, and then a total ban after 16 years once Reddit went public. All of that in two months. I haven’t changed but the world sure did. One of them was me showing the medical gear you should carry to attend the first No Kings rally. I was “inciting violence” and got banned from my cities /r
Better here anyways. I just needed a push.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Our user profiles are little time capsules that your children and descendants can learn about who you are.
7·5 days ago“What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap? (Points thumbs to self) This Guy, Oh Yeah!” - This Guy.
My great grand kids will know exactly how lame I was.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Judge blocks LAPD request to lift restrictions on use of force against the press
251·6 days agoThe Nazi’s didn’t ask a judge, they just stripped the press of their rights and installed a propaganda mouthpiece. No, this is just sad, pitiful, and weak.
LAPD: Your Honor, can I beat up your little kid?
JUDGE: No.
LAPD: aw shucks, oooook. (sulks away).
No. Printer$ go brrrrrrrrr.
Yeah, what’s that about? Events like The Hunt and I’m completely locked out. Sober just puts a “totally normal, Roblox did this, and we’re sorry” message up but I’ve never know the why.
I play Roblox with my son using Linux. The program is called Sober and it’s more than fine, it’s free, and updated regularly when Roblox security/program updates.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Biggest invasion of privacy in human history
13·10 days agoATT has weird little rooms you’re not even allowed to think about. That’s a little exaggerated but still, no joke.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Biggest invasion of privacy in human history
173·10 days agoAfter watching Tim Apple give the president a golden statue of… something, I don’t think they need a backdoor. Mr. Apple clearly gave them the keys to the front door.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•MAGA figures back Bukele’s call for Trump to crack down on US judges
81·10 days agoTitle gore much?
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets fired
9·11 days agoI know you didn’t ask and this is just anecdotal evidence from my employer, but the people who tried to reverse engineer this guys work were given strict deadlines they never met. Pen testers to straight up turnaround kings, this guy buried them all and had to be bought out. It was cheaper to buy him out than it was to pursue the next step. Stay safe my friend, stay valuable.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Ramming speed!
42·11 days agoOuch, right in the emotion chip.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets fired
20·11 days agoWe recently had to buy out a director that kept all the technical knowledge to themselves for the last 20 years. They were almost always available 24x7 for outage calls and it became clear his teams didn’t know shit about anything, especially when said director was sick or on vacation. He was labeled a danger to the infrastructure and settled for a multimillion dollar buyout with a full knowledge transfer. Retirement age, fat 401k, company stock and other investments… yeah, he took that deal immediately, like no hesitation.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
26·14 days agoIt’s an OLD adage, “Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission” -Admiral Grace Hopper.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the InternetEnglish
720·16 days agoI mean, I didn’t watch this video because I lost interest when the channel started getting really dark around 2020. I just needed a laugh during the pandemic. I didn’t need 4 videos in a row about the end of the world, then a few about the end of the universe, followed by a future civil war. It was too much.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.zip•Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their wayEnglish
101·16 days agoNon-standard as in there’s no standard in cables. Some support fast charging some don’t. Some support hdmi, some don’t support data at all. They won’t catch fire to anything. If the bricks are under powered because they were meant for a kids toy it won’t catch fire, it just won’t charge as fast.
If a manufacturer suddenly decides to support 500W charging, none of us will have the gear to support that and companies like Anker or UGREEN will be more than willing to price gouge the cables and bricks we would need. It’s already happening at 65W.


I’m speaking from the point of view of the app you gave permissions to collect your hardware data. Y’all are talking like I think a MAC is transmitted over tcp. I don’t need an intro to OSI. Those apps use the hardware data to know if you’re using Samsung, LG, Apple, etc and they store large databases of MAC addresses on individuals. They can even build a local hardware profile to see if you sold your device, to whom, and what device you replaced it with.