Dave The Retro Hexican Nerd.

If your trying to find RH products on other chains, perhaps to onboard or whatever, I have made a list here: linktr.ee/ate_bit_dave PS: if you know of others like Hex on Arbitrum or whatever please Reply below so I can verify and add it. Lets bring pHex and Pulse to where the people are!

On May 4th, a Swedish privacy lawyer caught Google Chrome silently installing a 4 GB AI model on every desktop computer it could reach. If you delete the file, Chrome treats the deletion as a temporary error and downloads it again at the next opportunity. The file is called weights.bin. It lives in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside the Chrome user profile directory. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model. Hundreds of millions of devices now carry it. Two thirds of every desktop browser in the world is Chrome. Alexander Hanff, the Swedish privacy lawyer, installed a clean copy of Chrome on a fresh Mac, ran a script that visited a hundred webpages with no human input, and watched the system logs as Chrome silently wrote 4 GB to his disk. Chrome 147 ships with an "AI Mode" pill rendered in the address bar. A reasonable user, knowing Chrome just installed an on-device AI model, would assume that visible AI Mode feature uses the model sitting on their hard drive. Local query. Local processing. Local privacy. Every part of that assumption is wrong. The visible AI feature ships your queries to Google's servers. The 4 GB file on your hard drive does nothing visible. It powers obscure features buried in right-click menus that almost no Chrome user has ever clicked. The invisible binary sits on your disk and waits for the version that does. Chrome is the most-installed surveillance product of all time. Two billion users. Every URL you visit, every search you type, every form you fill out, every site you stay on, every site you leave. The advertising model that pays for Chrome requires every one of those signals. Chrome holds 64% of the global desktop browser market. Two-thirds of every reader of this sentence is reading it through software that just took 4 GB of their hard drive without asking. Until last year, Chrome's surveillance ended at what you typed into the address bar and what your activity log showed. The model can now read the page you have open, the text you have selected, the draft you are writing inside a Gmail tab before you have decided whether to send it. Google's "Help me write" feature requires that capability by definition. Help me write means read what I am writing. Locally. In real time. Pre-send. It's time to switch browsers. The cartel cannot watch the screen it is not running on.

@Aliathewhite youtube.com/watch?v=2gCk9y…

🚨 Day 49 fighting for my channel My 13-year-old YouTube history channel (@Panzerpicture) full of WW2 archive footage, tanks & veteran stories was suddenly deleted in February over **false** "sexual abuse-related content" claims. No warning. No real appeal. Locked out ever since. This was a massive historical archive I built for over a decade. Now gone in minutes. I have Crohn’s disease and the stress is destroying my health. All I want is a **human review** from YouTube. If you believe in preserving history and fair treatment for creators, please: → RT & share widely → Tag @TeamYouTube @YouTube @YouTubeCreators We need real human oversight, not broken AI strikes. #YouTube #HistoryMatters #WW2History #TankHistory #RestorePanzerPicture #CreatorRights

I have to call out all you cowards out there. Privacy is a human right, and your forefathers died for the right for you to have privacy. Some large portion of you dgaf, and are gross for it. Cowards. Even worse, are those that actively work to destroy what your forefathers died 4

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history. He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough. RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

@brockpierson Cbm basic on C= Vic-20.

Which operating system did you grow up on?

@oculus_grift @QuoteJung To me, your only meaning in my life was your clever post. However I will pray you find your true overall meaning. It's probably nothing to do with Oculus, go have some kids, the meaning becomes self evident.

@QuoteJung The fact that everyone comes up with their own meaning underscores the fact that life is objectively meaningless.

What are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson's views on the meaning and purpose of life?

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

🧵 FINLAND V RICHARD HEART 🧵 19 months. 4 maximum extensions. 2 state agencies. €2.6M seized. 0 charges filed. Here's the full chronological breakdown of why I believe this saga is almost over - and why the outcome matters for crypto. A thread 👇1/15

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds. Not a guess. Not a theory. A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it. Samsung TVs: every minute. LG TVs: every 15 seconds. Even when you're just using it as a monitor. Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

You know why I still have any belief in this stuff? The community, that’s pretty much it. Maybe I’ve just been here too long… but crypto communities are often nothing but paid shills. Even when it was just $HEX everyone else thought we were just paid shills and bots. Never was the case, just a bunch of people who cared about core principles. I think a lot of people are of the mindset that the core principles don’t matter and only price matters. Yeah, I understand that sentiment. But I also disagree just on the fact that if price was the only thing that mattered, surely no one would be around anymore. So yeah for better or worse, that’s my motivation. Anywhere else feels less genuine. Not that’s it’s always been sunshine and rainbows mind you, but people care. And a lot of them care for the right reasons. That’s the important part.

@C0NN01SSEUR @realRetroPC That's a great setup!

@Ate_Bit_Dave @realRetroPC DVDs and games

Show me your physical media! Here's (some of) mine! 💿📼💾

@realRetroPC Junk at the farm house basement, no internet here. Lol.

@C0NN01SSEUR @realRetroPC Let's see games 🎮, I'm jelly. Lol.

@realRetroPC These are just the cds, dvds and games are in a different room.

@toys_retro Did it work?

@RetroMoviesDB Mine as a kid in the early 80s.

My first mobile phone....solid 7. Never really liked em.

@DeFiTriggs @HexxyPLS #metoo

I’m still buying this garbage 🗑️ 🚮 Is anyone else buying $Hex, $PLS, $INC OR #PLSX?

The #backroom I go to at work to get a drink of water... kinda my own #liminalspace. @liminal__dreams

This was may favorite version of windows with win32s. Running in 386 enhanced mode. I wish we where still using this. 95 can keep it's start button. And windows 11 can keep it's requirement for constant internet Spyware and ads.

HOT TAKE: IF BUSINESSES ONLY HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON PROFIT, NOT REVENUE, THEN I SHOULD ONLY HAVE TO PAY TAXES AFTER I'VE PAID ALL MY BILLS AND RENT.