Microwave ovens are Faraday cages as well!
That poor kid lmao
Why does anyone believe this shit?
Because they don’t wanna admit how little control over their lives they have so they do stuff like this to imitate control. The material reason is because institutions in America like healthcare and education have failed and so people escape into alternatives no matter how ineffective.
All it takes is to double down when wrong, and it’ll spiral from there. It would start by something very small but wrong and they get defensive when challenged on it. They do their own research and
confirmation biaspresent it as proof they were correct. Counter-proof sends them further into the spiral with even more energy. All of this is magnified once it becomes part of their identity.If you wanna be a bit more positive about it, I think this could be labeled benign superstition. The male equivalent of healing crystals. In the age of the internet, what used to be believing in evil spirits or demons has been replaced with this kind of crackpot science for a lot of people.
This is admittedly a rather generous interpretation but this isn’t much sillier to me than hanging a dreamcatcher above your kid’s bed. It doesn’t actually protect them from anything but it shows the dad cares, kinda.
it’s not benign at all, and neither is crystal bullshit. this crap gets people killed, usually the children of the fools.
There has to be at least one instance of someone getting fucking obliterated by a steering column airbag healing crystal claymore after rear ending someone and we just don’t hear about it amidst the 2,000 people that die every week in the US from vehicle collisions (that’s one 9/11 per week every week, and getting worse over time, for any patriots in the room)
I would bet any amount of money that they also did not get their child vaccinated
Yeah I don’t have a problem with this. I’m also kinda open to hearing people out on some of these fringe issues, the datacenter complaints about adverse health caused by audio have been real. Unseen forces having health effects seem like valid fears.
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This is about teaching your son to download stuff on local devices instead of scrolling.
to all kids dealing with parents’ weird hang upsThe next version of windows and the next iphone won’t have local storage AT ALL. Cloud storage only.
You wake up one day and poof, all your memes are gone. You’ll never be able to prove they ever existed. Then they’ll make offline storage illegal because it might have pizza with walnut sauce on it.i can boomer my way till death with my existing hardware :built-different.jpg:
i doubt local storage stuff, but i do think piracy might get very restricted in next 10 years, so start storing slop now
a cage for your son? weak.
my CrossFit instructor (Jaxx Powerz) and wellness consultant says if you confuse your muscles enough with free weights, you don’t need any technology to protect yourself from any of this shit.
cavemen survived diseases and wars and tech sicknesses just by being completely jacked, not bathing, and eating raw hamburger.
my CrossFit instructor (Jaxx Powerz)
it’s short for jaxxwell
Jaxx Well sounds like an Austin Powers character.
Jaxx Well by name, Jaxx Very Well by reputation.
cavemen ate whatever they could find, so when i’m devouring an entire chocolate cake like a beligerent opossum it’s actually paleo
I’m just a modern John Kellogg making sure my son can’t access the internet in bed to save his immortal soul from the sin of onanism
what if we frosted those flakes
Only after we’ve boofed so much coffee that we’re awake for days
A simplified, 2-dimensional implementation of a faraday cage is termed corona ring
I feel like putting that flag there is redundant, but I appreciate the set designer’s commitment
being amongst all these flaghumpers, American nationalism seems like the most pathetic substitute for self-esteem. like being super into how cool your unborn choice was to be born in the hegemon. they see America bullying other countries and think they get to feel strong and powerful because they put up a flag in their bedroom which makes them part of it, I guess?
Samuel Johnson said patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel, but I agree with Ambrose Bierce that it is usually the first.
i worship the nation that’s blasting my brain with 5g waves that give me cancer or whatever!
Who wants to tell him about the em radiation coming off the lights under the bed?
hell yeah finally, a place to play electric guitar with no emf gettin in my way
Protecting my son from the waves of satan by enclosing him in a perfectly fuctional, if crude, orgone box.
Shittiest mosquito net ever.
Who sleeps in the bdsm cage under the bed?
SPONGE-BOB SQUARE-ASS !!
I bought a faraday cage wallet for my phone. Any time I want to have a private conversation I put my phone in it. No signal. I got two, one for mine and one for the person I’m talking to.
I bought a faraday cage wallet for my phone. Any time I want to have a private conversation I put my phone in it. No signal. I got two, one for mine and one for the person I’m talking to.
That sounds useful for the scenario where malicious software on your phone wants to exfiltrate audio and the software isn’t sophisticated enough to store data when there is no signal and then transmit it later? 🤔
(I don’t think faraday bags are completely useless - if it actually blocks cellular and GPS, wifi, and bluetooth (which many/most actually don’t completely), then they can be helpful for preventing location tracking by phones or other devices with malware which makes them appear to be off when they’re actually still on. But, if you’re worried about the phone listening to you then a faraday bag is insufficient to stop it from doing so - and so are ovens, refrigerators, and various other things people assume will stop sound - if you do some experiments you’ll quickly find that modern phones have surprisingly sensitive microphones.)
Hmm, I’ll try setting it on record and see if it gets muffled. I usually use it it noisy environments anyway. Maybe put tape over the microphone slot. I’m not worried about malicious software, I’m worried about da gummint. The other day I said “big brother is watching, you know” to someone when I got questions about my faraday wallet. The next day on Taobao an advertisement is there for a pin of the 1984 movie logo of the “V” Ingsoc with the black and white hands shaking. You can’t make this stuff up.
I’m not worried about malicious software, I’m worried about da gummint
“Malicious software” is a big category, and includes any scenario where a government (or anyone else) is able to cause your phone/computer/etc to act against your wishes.
Well I know for a fact that it scans my phone for photos because I’ve taken photos of things and get ads for them on Taobao. I’m on the cusp of finally being putting together my application for permanent residency and people keep bringing up my shady past. I don’t want some damn AI reporting to Beijing that I worked for cash off the books for years. I’ve got a good cover story and I’m sure I can make it fly. They’re getting more and more strict. The latest story is how even Ph.D.s aren’t immune. Used to be they cleared a fast lane for you.
It’s worth noting that with a bit of signal processing speech can also be recovered from very muffled recordings made in noisy environments.
So? Make it hard on the bastards. They don’t have infinite power.
How about some solutions instead of this “Ha! give up!” B.S. The only way the bastards win is if we quit.How about some solutions
Keep your phone entirely out of range of the capacity for the mic to pick up audio of your conversation when you wanna talk about sensitive stuff?
Problem is, I keep losing my phone and when it’s in the faraday cage the “ring the ringer remotely” command doesn’t work. I took a trip yesterday, bought a lanyard to keep my phone on me at all times and still nearly left it in a taxi. Just merge with the machine already. Used to be in my pocket, now I keep it around my neck, the next step is to keep it bolted onto my temples as permanent glasses. Your phone is basically an cybernetic limb at this point.
I’m not suggesting giving up but rather trying to be being realistic about adversaries’ potential capabilities as well as the efficacy of the many countermeasures available.
There are myriad ways to decrease the chances of having malware in the first place (many of which I think are very worthwhile!) but none of them are a complete guarantee, so, when the confidentiality of a given conversation is truly paramount it is sometimes better to avoid having it in the presence of recording/storing/network-capable devices at all.
Our entire lives are on wechat already. The US government freaking out about it means it’s secure. From the NSA, that is. It’s probably better than Signal at this point. The CPC don’t care about individual Americans who don’t speak Chinese and who don’t talk to Chinese people.
Start using GOS and foss apps
