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rdevillayesterday at 11:34 PM4 repliesview on HN

The joke's on you all for willingly posting this content online for it to later be harvested by AI.

Nobody is forcing you to use these systems. The hackers have always said this moment, or something like it, would come, from beneath their canopies of tin foil. I've posted almost nothing online - not under pseudonyms nor real names - for over a decade. I sat on this HN username for almost 12 years before making a single post - and now HN forms the overwhelming majority of my port 443 footprint, where I state up front that everything is now associated to my real name.

Complete magick is possible when you simply refuse to participate in the things that society has tacitly assumed everybody does.


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phalangionyesterday at 11:52 PM

How do you propose a journalist work without posting their writing online?

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tempaccount5050today at 1:18 AM

Thinking that you can hide from it is absurd. Your country has been spying on you for decades. The Internet and phones are tapped. That game is so so so over and has been for a long time. I'd rather live free and deal with the consequences than hide in my basement with a tinfoil hat on. In fact, I was fired this year for my political views. Got doxxed at work. Now I'm somewhere better. Sometimes it's for the best.

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Retr0idtoday at 12:07 AM

I find it fulfilling to enrich the commons.

stavrostoday at 12:32 AM

Let's all just never talk to anyone unless it's face to face, for fear that an AI will read it.