Has anybody run into this new reCAPTCHA?

WAVE at the camera!!

👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋 (<-- there's 21 of these to make a point)

The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping:

✓ your finger joints
✓ your palm geometry
✓ the way you move in real time.

Me, I'll wave in my head, saying bye bye byeeeee if I run into this.

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

Hey Julie! What happens when you wake up at 4am and check your phone?

*points at her soapbox*

#LongCovid #MaskUP

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THAT "workaround" goes through google playstore, not the OS.

READ & SHARE this *OPEN LETTER* written by keepandroidopen.org, signed by 71 orgs from 23 countries:

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Anyone want to place a wager on how long it will be before there is a google approved "ping" app with a monthly subscription fee?

2/

...developers with apps on F-Droid have to "register" with google.

To register, they must:

✓ pay a fee to Google
✓ agree to Google's ever-changing ToC
✓ provide evidence of their private signing key

🛑 How does one provide "evidence" without giving it up?? 🤔

✓ list all current AND FUTURE application identifiers

ANDDDDDD....... 🥁🥁🥁

✓ provide their GOVT ID

🙄🙄🙄

Oh and lest you get cocky, thinking you have a workaround using Developer Mode...

2/

Might as well rename them aPhones or #aJunk

Why did you buy an Android instead of an iJunk (iPhone)?

So you weren't LOCKED IN to their ecosystem? Freedom to install whatever app you want instead of only pre-approved ones?

Welp, that ends in Sept.

That's like really really soon!

In Sept, google will run a silent update that you can't decline

And any app not given the OK from google will be blocked

That includes sideloading using F-Droid

Even...

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#infosec

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When you've forgotten when you got here, your mood when you got here, how and why you got here, then your break is officially a success and you can get back to work.

OK AT&T what do you got for me?

Because the micro-second that Musk takes T-Mobile, my 12+ years of loyalty is fucking GONE.

The 2 setups that started having issues at the same time:

✓ Roku (tried 2 different types)
✓ Monitor (5ish years old)
✓ HDMI cables

For days Netflix was stuck on the "N". Now the whole Roku home screen goes in & out like a bad connection but it's happening with both systems.

!=coincidence ‼️

✓ Roku
✓ Dumb TV (yes they were still available till about a year or two ago at Walmart, go figure)
✓ HDMI cables

Now I'm wondering if it was because of a Wi-Fi router update that likely happened a week ago. 🤔

I don't have fucking time for all this bullshit.

I'M WORKING on a launch (soft launch todayyyy 🤞) and would just like to take the occasional break to eat and chill.

So all of a sudden multiple streaming apps aren't working.

Then Roku throws up this (sorry it's kinda blurry)

They can go fuck themselves if they think I'm going to buy new cables for their copyright bullshit security.

I can watch just fine on my phone.

Is "mosh pit techno" a genre?

New neighbors.

So far had been quiet but today... I just hadn't heard such aggressive techno before. GenZ WTF??

I'm coding with not one, not two but three Russian nesting dolls of code floating around in my head and that was... difficult.

Guess I'm not going to worry about blasting Elton all day tomorrow.

Ugh. It just started up again. Same damn song. Quiet but it has ingrained into my brain so 😵‍💫

Can't get an interview for a job?

If you get passed over at one place, chances are you'll get passed over at all the places you apply.

✓ 90% of employers use ai to screen resumes

✓ most employers use the same handful of third party ai tools

✓ ai tool sends the employer a score it has given your resume

✓ it keeps that score up to 330 days

✓ then it sends that score to the next employer you apply to.. & the next & the next..

It's called
Systemic Rejection

(or by definition, insanity)
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Just watched a video of someone making strawberry brownies. Ok I'm intrigued. But why are you cutting strawberries on a cutting board with a big knife??? This is what paring knives are made for 🤦‍♀️

Ok i need someone to splain me.

I wiki'd but when I read about bull worship, my brain fills in because it's *counts* ~2000-4000BC and ALL the stories, no matter which religion, talk about the Precession of the Equinox during the Taurus aeon (bull, duh).

*returns to the question* (but will gladly elaborate if anyone is interested)

What is "the Golden Calf"?

And why is everyone saying that Trump statue is a golden calf?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYH8SocOnmT/

*giggling*

From the website of a place of business down the hill from the Overlake Freddy's:

"We're right in the heart of #Bellevue."

Oh darlin, you're not from here are you? 🙄

Yeahhh... That's not the flex you think it is.

"The contract was awarded directly to Palantir. The USDA stated no other firm possessed the same depth of federal approvals, data systems and ties required to carry out the work promptly..."

USDA Signs $300M Deal With Palantir for Farm Data

https://businessoutstanders.com/big-data/usda-palantir-300-million-contract-farmer-data-platform

That's it.

I no longer know what's real or not real and how it's real or how it's not real.

The Onion bought InfoWars? Like a year and a half ago or just recently or is this an Onion story? Why did he sell it to them? The Onion has a set? Why is Alex Jones shirtless?

Aaron's trigger warning for Alex Jones being shirtless 🤣

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXhXdm1jgkJ/

What's the oddest thing in your #ApocalypseKit?

I'll start.

Brazil nuts.

Bonus points if you can tell me why!