Exactly.

Statistically, there might be somebody. And there’s a small crowd worth of people who possibly were, to within the minute.

Text is light. Images are a bit heavier, but there’s not too too many.

Hmm. I wonder if anybody’s compiled a modern text compression algorithm onto whatever machine they have.

Even setting aside deliberate cruelty, there’s the political unpopularity of letting the words “prison” and “upgrade” get anywhere close to each other. Unless the upgrade is to the guns and razor wire.

Yes, doxxing has always been possible. When I think about how you could dox this account, though, it’s not ways that would show up on a simple tool like that. An LLM might be able to piece together a chain of thought for it, though.

It’s the bible verses on the side OP was focusing on.

And then the lowest rung of all has to deal directly with meatspace in it’s smelly, sticky, 360 8K glory.

I mean, you can still be anonymous, but it’s mildly technical and a lot of extra work.

Most people won’t bother, though, you’re right. And that’s not great, although not different from before the internet, but then again a system like this is a lot cheaper than a human Stasi agent which is scary.

Yeah, so this was always going to happen eventually, right? It’s yet another reason you’re not anonymous online unless you actually are.

Next stop, AI-powered doxxing.

The difference is whether there’s any room outside the system to exist in, right? Can you jailbreak your implant? Can you live in a shitty illegal slum, or are they all carefully dispersed before they can begin?

It’s all about technologies of control. Ironically, the places seeing democratic backsliding are not the only or even the main ones developing and implementing them.

Truly the new Coke of websites.

I’m still holding out hope for cyberpunk. At least it comes with skylines and cool back alley markets.

And the choice given is if you want your car deliberately crippled, or you want to cough up money.

Ah, the classics. Nothing like a weird dictatorship giving themselves medals.

Yes, you’re technically right, that’s at least what I was trying to say. “Linear” and “everything is in a multiplicative relation” are really close in my head, though, so I made a mistake.

It bugs me that so many people far richer then me aren’t competent or confident enough to roll their eyes at that.

Yup.

Unfortunately, is still runs slower than Piefed on Python (IIRC) because the database code is godawful. Hopefully there will be a fix eventually.

Yeah, journey length is a huge factor. Over, like, a block or two walking is as dominant as a million years ago. Over continental distances airplanes are the thing to beat. Ordinary rail is promising, and vactrain concepts seem like the best very-long-term option. I did some napkin math once that shows for an antipodal trip, even orbital travel can be energy-competitive, given one of a couple improvements beyond existing rocketry.

I also wonder how trains traveling in opposite directions will handle passing each other at 1000km/h given China is already working on next gen trains with that speed as a goal.

You have to adjust for Chinese truth in advertising a bit, so we might not find out, although apparently their rail infrastructure is a notable bright spot. You have to think the shockwaves would be loud, and potentially damaging to the trains, and the solution would be preventing them from ever passing close by, either with barriers and a wider allowance or careful scheduling.

Are smaller companies not falling into the FOMO mentality as much?