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Richard by proxy your details and info are on FB via your sis in law. If not her, via someone, or some few that knows little about you. The like of FB can piece your dossier together.
You can be the most secure privacy oriented person, but your likely to have many tech illiterate friends that don’t understand they are giving their own data away nevermind that they are giving yours away on your behalf.
It’s not just FB either, lots of stupid apps ask to look over your contacts to see if you know anyone on that also uses their service. In the early days of smartphones, this “feature” was fully taken advantage of. Much cleaned up now. But none the less, unless you’re under 5, your details, names, phone house numbers, email address, anniversaries etc anything that people put in contact books, was taken many times over, and is probably available for purchase on many a darkweb site.
So all is lost for us all really ? something to ponder on though ???
Lol. Love a pasty, but pastry hates me.
You really should lie on your bank logins if nowhere else. The “secret” questions security was dead the day social networking arrived.
Two minutes on Facebook and you can figure their mother maiden names, dob, pets, old pets names, favourite sports team the lot.
The system should have been retired years ago.
I do love the irony that this thread and the RSB diet thread has been moving in tandem the last few days.
Your right, if some really want to know who is behind accounts you will be found out. You need to find a more secure way to go about tour business. This is for more not wanting to give out dob address phone numbers to app makers that are small, some are bedroom coders, that have no oversite.
Also for the site, i have got a longterm interest in and for sites i just don’t understand what they would need that info for.
I’d classify it as more spam management than privacy for me. But for young ones, i think they can’t be too young to start them being precautious. I don’t tell her about grooming, nonces, or stuff like that. But she understands target marketing and keeping yourself safe from internet robbers.
What i do find amazing about the net an is how young kids are that play online games. My 9year old plays a game called Roadblocks, its sort of Minecraft, you build levels and let another take part in the level, but is all online and social. My 9-year-old, has many online friends, so are relatives from back home, some are friends of them relatives she has never met, some friend from school, but as you get friends of friends of friends, you end up with Spanish, African etc.. Children all pre-teen play this game, typing to each other in chat. I often watch her chat, and its mostly actually cute, it had to look at my 16-year-old lad’s chats. Well, he speaks in earphones bit he too plays every day with a Spanish lad.
I don’t know what my point actually was, but i do find it interesting that kids don’t recognise today, or rather yesterdays leftover boundaries. A cool kid is just cool kids no matter their race, religion, location.
I’m of the age of probably the last racist generation, Alf Garnet was still on tv, and therms like nignog and Paki was accepted to ants uncles etc, and in the playground of my all white jr school we would tell these jokes.
Today with my kids especially the younger two, any type of pointing out someone’s colour i get shouted at. My best mates girlfriend is coloured, if i say “you know [name], you know [name] the coloured girl”, my 9-year-old will shout at me.
The point again not sure of, but stuff like this really interests me.
I wasn’t saying or really want to debate an issue with no [public] answers. I was just saying I found ed point of spoofing jets very interesting. And also a day of the flight incident Nato planes were picked up, I think by Dutch etc, blinking on and off the radar. Nato admitted it was doing exercises in the area.
I didn’t say they downed the plane, just it was interesting.
only the parties involved know the truth, hopefully, I’m my lifetime it comes out.
To go on a massive tangent (its what I do) the plane spoofing is interesting as the day the plane was shot down over Ukraine, nato is rumoured to of been just that close by.
Richard, you should have an online persona that is close to your own, so you don’t forget it, but doesn’t actually give out your details
If I don’t trust a service, I have my fake name, email, phone number etc . my 9-year-old girl already copies me. She, and I have her fake detail written down, cos children apps are the worst for harvesting data. So I teach the kids to be careful.
Sometimes when I log into a service, ill get a user not recognised, so first ill check for typos (no easy for me), then ill put the details of my alternate me, and ill get in. Well, these days its mostly automated by the last pass, but before LP it could be a slight pain.
However these days I’ve lost the will to be private, its almost impossible, well it is impossible to be private and lead what is a normal life. Easier to not let it bother you no more. As whatever details I don’t give, I know a friend, family or college has already leaked that info not knowingly.
In general its not, loads of bases you can see on google maps, I’ve looked up the bases I lived on in the nineties, and some have a frigging street view, so they have let Google walk/drive around the place. There are many bases/nations that tell Google to blur out.
however your base location “doesn’t exist.” It becomes an issue. Especially in active service. The like of Kandahar became a city the size of brum, now if we had these apps /trackers and wifi quite a lot of info about said sites would be I’m the hands of faceless corporations or worse, small startups with little oversite.
Kandahar is probably a bad example as it was full of shops, from fast food outlets to pubs, it was a real city by the end.
There are other situations where you may have to say a fit bit, and you’re being tracked full time, that data may not be public, but someone has it. And if some have data, there is always someone that either will want to buy it, or worse steal it.
Imagine the 1940s if we all had health tackers would we be breaking the Enigma code or the fit bit code. Silly example o know. But the fit bit would give exceptional intel on real-time movement, Whereas the enigma was breaking orders possible future movements.
If you had the two, you’d not loose, or it would be very hard to.
I know my examples are silly and far-fetched. But just look how far we have come, in giving away our data in gist ten short years of smartphones, and probably 5 years in smart devices, and the current rise of it.
It’s the unforeseen consequence/side effect stories I always like.
But you are correct, most bases are not secrets, my first batch had it’s own station platform discreetly knows as Lympstone Commando train station, you’d never guess what it was. Lol. Given its on a mainline, you can hardly miss it. Anyone can get off there, you just stuck on the platform until the next train arrives. And id imagine a normal person would get nervous stood next to the armed station guard for 30mins in silence.
You’re totally right bob, atm there isn’t one box to rule them all, every one has a compromise. Android tv on paper is the one with no compromise on paper, but it’s not there yet irl.
The new apple tv is meant to be real good, the remote is poor, and you get locked into apples echo system. So that’s only for those already invested in apple.
We had a mobile hog roast at the nighttime of our wedding. Had a few, always great, but heart attack material .
I’d get a roku box over the now tv stick/nox. They have the nowtv app, and quality wise the footy looks better than it ever did on sky hd.
If it’s not 1080p they are using some high bit rate stuff. Like what the bbc does when Wimbledon is on.
I think we be a little hard on computers. They work for more efficiently than any person and they have issues, but so do people.
Two weeks ago I personally handed a prescription, for my 9 year old, in to the surgery. The prescription originated from hospital, and just needed a signature of the doc, then it would be sent via fax to our local chemist.
The day I handed it in, was the last time i t was seen. It took 9 days to sort out! In reality, it should have taken on call from the doctors to the hospital.
No my wife has a lot of auto-renewal items, about 30 a week, at least once a month something goes missing.
Now my prescription once a month, 3 items, has been turning up at my chemist for over 5 years, me never needing to go the doctors. So that’s nice, as i spend enough time in medical places, without the need to attend for one’s self.
I feel people f up mores but computers f up more spectacular when they do.
Funny enough , I love curry that much that I bought a very large bag of capsicum tablets and at first id have a reaction to them but I kept going on morning one night, and after a month or so I was eating curries and the tablets with out reaction. I ran out and never got any more, and again I have a reaction to anything with a decent amount of chilli .
The mudroom business is strange, id simple chop mushrooms, usually button, a clove of garlic dices, chuck in a pan, until soft. I can eat, all the same stuff separate, with out issue, but cook together gives gut rot. No toilet issues , its as if it digests really slow and sits their tormenting.
I miss my mushrooms.
Love curries, however over the last 3 years I seem to have a reaction to chillies, but an antihistamine sort that out.
Now serious talk. Sadly I hated mushrooms until about 18, then garlic mushroom became one of my favourite foods ever. But since I turned about 30 they just destroy my stomach. If anyone one knows why this is id pay for the answer. I love garlic mushrooms. Thy make everything better, except my stomach.
Teo tronics bt bud on amazon around £15-20 are great and get 6h battery well the new ones probably a hour more. Mine are 18 months old. Though the kids have have the newer ones.
After the wife mentioned the monthly service that may be coming to my district to we decided the £125 screwfix shall limb chipper may be a must.
Looks like it clips on a standard sizes plastic storage box. So is small to.
I don’t think giff gaff has the issues it once did. The kids haven’t mentioned anything anyhow. Which is a good test.
My village has a one stop, a post office that is clinging to life 3 pubs and the masonic lodge, that sells a nice pint, a small 800 year plus old church and a roman bath house on the outskirts.
So we are good for beer and bathing.
Our closet town is all of a 20 walk, which was has a traditional high street, but the new (5 yearish) shopping complex , has killed the high street, and made summer traffic a pain, as we live I’m a bit of of tourist cut through. So traffic that was an annoyance is now a right pita.
I’d just shred the stuff that’s allowed in the blue bin, the council or whoever can sort it out or ditch it.
As to the off-gassing, that’s why I’d want a log burner over an open coal fire. Though the FiL has an open fire and burns all kinds in it, and cos it has a proper draft all hours up and out.
My fires have all been capped off way before we moved in, so should be relatively cheap too uncap and maybe reline if needed. All the neighbours have solid fuel fires, and they burn all kinds. You can smell it as soon as the cold nights come in.
Probably not the best for the environment but maybe the blue bin wagon should come weekly instead of fortnightly, then we wouldn’t have the issue.
Also that much goes I’m the blue bin the black one only gets half full over a fortnight before we bung the excess plastics in them.
We also have a green bin, bit my back garden is all of about 10 x 12 foot, so as long as i cut it weekly, the tips jist get mulched back in. If i forget i send it the inlaws to compost. I refuse to pay the £25 yearly fee for the green bin man.
For years we got away with bags, cos of our location, bit that changed about 2 years ago. Bags was good as everything went in. The only issue was foxes and badgers. We use to keep a couple of pint glasses full of water on the bedroom windowsill for when we heard the rustling.
Also, i just had a look for plastic shredders, they are expensive , probably why i looked down the diy route. However screw fix have a small garden tree limb shredder for £125. I may well look into that the next time i have a rubbish breakdown.
As i write this the wife said, the next council down, Conwy, is moving to a monthly pick up. FFS!
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