Or an eyeball iris.

They’re a comedy show on wheels. They always lighten my mood when I see them. I’m a little smug too, knowing if I had that much money to blow, it wouldn’t be on one of those.

Sorry about that.

Mojeek too.

It’s unclear how much damage tarpits or other AI attacks can ultimately do. Last May, Laxmi Korada, Microsoft’s director of partner technology, published a report detailing how leading AI companies were coping with poisoning, one of the earliest AI defense tactics deployed. He noted that all companies have developed poisoning countermeasures, while OpenAI “has been quite vigilant” and excels at detecting the “first signs of data poisoning attempts.”

Despite these efforts, he concluded that data poisoning was “a serious threat to machine learning models.” And in 2025, tarpitting represents a new threat, potentially increasing the costs of fresh data at a moment when AI companies are heavily investing and competing to innovate quickly while rarely turning significant profits.

“A link to a Nepenthes location from your site will flood out valid URLs within your site’s domain name, making it unlikely the crawler will access real content,” a Nepenthes explainer reads.

Revenge

I would love to know the answer to that as well. I know Artist & Craftsman Supply is employee owned and the employees are very helpful and seem content. I don’t know how it is to work there though:

Come join us! We’re always looking for new talent to join our ever growing team. Artist & Craftsman is a very unique place to work. We’re an employee-owned company, so you can think of it as coming to work each day for yourself.

https://artistcraftsman.com/employment/

Stay away from Temu. Also, same with Foxcon that Apple uses. We really have a medieval world we’re living in.

It can be that way. But if something goes wrong, you’re screwed.

• Ebay is owned by Paypal or vice versa. That should tell you a lot. They’re a last resort for me. Always buy from actual consumers, not companies.

• Aliexpress takes forever and will change the price will nilly from when you are looking and place the order. If it’s a cheap item, it’s not much usually. Always check on what what you buy after you purchase in case it never comes or comes incorrectly. There is a time limit and they don’t let you know. I buy from them once every other month or so.

• Temu looks shady as fuck so I never tried them.

I don’t think we get much credit for that part, tbh. It’s a US based politics community. Thanks anyway though.

They might be? Federation isn’t great for all of the big boys.

Choose a smaller instance. The biggest one isn’t accepting people right now.

“We can never work out the algorithm,” one of the drivers says, requesting anonymity for fear of losing work. They wonder if the app ignores them if they’ve done a few jobs already that hour, and experiment with standing inside the restaurant, on the pavement or in the car park to see if subtle shifts in geolocation matter. Retail assistants say they have to pay a fee if they want to receive their wages within a month. ‘So immoral’: gig economy workers charged fee to get paid quicker Read more

“It’s an absolute nightmare,” says the driver, adding that they permanently lost access to one of the platforms over a matter of a “max five minutes” wait in getting to a restaurant while he finished another job for a different app. Sometimes he gets logged out for a couple of hours because his beard has grown, confusing the facial recognition software.

“It’s not at all like being an employee,” he says. He is regularly frustrated by having to challenge what appeared to be shortfall in pay per job – sometimes just 10p, but at other times a few pounds. “There’s nobody you can talk to. Everything is automated.”

You’d think the Tesla stock would have gone down more after he did a Nazi salute.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla

To be fair, you’re probably more resistant than I am, since you’re on Linux. I’ve gotten ads and bought it if it’s unique and by local artists before. It has worked occasionally on me from Insta back in the day. Not recently though, so you’re right about that part.

I know you said you don’t think are all the way there, but without getting facial recognition involved. I don’t see how they would correlate the two in the first place.

If you have a phone in your pocket, they know who you are and where you are.

Device fingerprinting is a sophisticated technique employed to recognize, monitor, and track individual devices as they interact with websites and applications, by analyzing their unique characteristics. In the digital realm, it allows websites, advertisers, and security experts to monitor user activity, safeguard against cyber threats, and personalize content.

In device fingerprinting, various data points are collected to create a unique identifier for individual devices. Each data point provides specific information about the device or user, contributing to a comprehensive fingerprint.

https://www.appsealing.com/device-fingerprinting/

As soon as someone enters the virtual boundary around your business or a competitor’s, your geofencing advertising campaign will send a notification or mobile ad to that person’s phone that advertises your local store, service, or product.

https://www.webfx.com/blog/marketing/geofencing-marketing/

We get ads on television from our laptop usage. They could play your favorite songs when you go into stores or advertise when you’re geofenced (kiosk billboards or airports, etc.) I’m not sure we’re completely there yet, but we’re definitely in the TV and laptop talking to each other phase. Why do you think they insist your TV is hooked up? Basically, we’re not just talking about websites, think of how they advertise when you walk out the door too.

I think they get more data from your usage on mobile.

A recent study published in the journal “Environmental Science & Technology Letters” has found that many popular smartwatch bands contain high levels of toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. These chemicals are used in many products, from cookware to clothing, because they make things non-stick or water-resistant. The problem is, they don’t break down in the environment and can build up in our bodies over time. This can lead to some pretty serious health problems like cancer, immune system issues, and even developmental problems in kids.

“But H20 is a chemical!” /s

AI is probably making that a little harder though.