I don’t think its inherently “AI”, its more of the boilerplate “your life matters, people do care, sEeK hElP, jUsT cAlL 998 bRo”

Like… c’mon, so overused and cliche

Its supposed to be “AI”, why not say something new and useful jesus christ, they act like those “therapists” that say the same “oH wE rEaLlY cArE aBoUt yOu” shit that makes you feel like just reduced to a number in their system, and feel even more suicidal

Pro Tip: Take long bathroom breaks at work and spend the time reading labor laws.

Hopefully when they start complaining about your bathroom breaks, you’ve already understood most of the labor laws to file a lawsuit against your shitty employer.

I have no idea what you mean. AFAIK China does not have healthcare for all, or free healthcare. But apart from that IDK how healthcare actually works in China.

Common rhetoric I get told in the Fediverse… I mean if you look in World News comms, you’ll see those…

Which just confuses the fuck out of me since its a contradiction to my parents first-hand accounts (and also some of what gets told by my aunts (and other relatives/people in my parent’s social circle in China))

“America” isn’t the only country with these issues

My family emigrated from China… its about the same on the other side of the ocean… (honestly don’t know what the “free healthcare in China” stuff came from… certaintly didn’t apply to my family from Taishan with Taishan Hukou)

They’re so used to this lol, they think this is just normal

Also: Young people are expected to fund their parents retirement… its a crime to just abandon your elderly parents who cannot afford their living (unless you have proof of abuse)

Great Firewall of Europe

So now Chinese who managed to bypass the firewall cannot access western sites behind Google’s new Captcha-wall?

Wow, great job, Google. 🙄

(I mean unless they managed to import a Googled-phone into China too)

“Earth Court? Mars Court? What Inner Court gives Belters justice?”

One of my most memorable quotes from The Expanse

As for the privacy issue:

The only counter to this is to move to a closed end-to-end encrypted groupchat so it can’t be mass LLM analyzed…

If you want a public forum, well… its public…

You can’t stop a script from just grabbing all the posts/comments… and its also federated, so the bot only needs to be able to access one instance and get it…

I mean they could simply just set up their own instance and pretend its just a benigh single-user instance… like what are you gonna do, defed all small instances preemptively? Use “login walls” to make the forum private? And somehow trust all other admins that are federated and make them also enforce a “login wall” policy?

Its a PUBLIC forum…

the only solution for privacy is a groupchat and only let in people that can keep a promise to not screenshot everything and give it to a LLM.

Lol my mom taught me to never trust ATM machines and always go inside the branch.

Also for gas stations, never pay at the pump, always go inside to pay…

search “[Carrier Name] default SIM PIN”

if you get it wrong twice, then just forget about it (max 3 attempts), I mean just be careful and don’t let your phone get stolen lol

(Or if you have the PUK (its on the back of the plastic card that comes with your SIM Card (for physical SIMs)) you can just get it wrong 3 times then use the PUK to reset the PIN)

That feels worse…

At least you can change a phone number

How do you change your personal info? Its permanent and unchanging… One databreach and you’re fucked

Soon on TERF Island:

They’re gonna have AI cameras to detect if you “went to the right gender bathroom”, and if AI decrees that you’ve entered the wrong one, they’ll flag you as a “sex offender”, then activate the terminators posted at the store to “eliminate sex offenders”

All bank accounts require a phone number. VOIP numbers does not work.

Online banking through a computer requires a phone number for them to send a 2fa code to before letting you log in. (Phone number 2fa is the only 2FA option, and even if not, its often used as a recovery option to whatever other 2fa method there is, effectively making the phone number the weakest link)

But I guess if you don’t like that, you could tell them to disable online banking and avoid using electronics for banking, but then you’d have to either go to the bank every week and wait in an annoying line to verify you’re getting paid and that the amount is correct (cuz you can’t trust employers)

(Or use the sketchy ATM machine that could have card skimmers and fake PIN pads, can sometimes be much more dangerous than online banking IMO)

(Also some people need online banking like my parent have a small bussiness and my mom has to do a bunch of bank transfers every month through online banking…)

SIM PINs are 4-8 digits

The SIM Chip itself is supposed to limit entry attempts to 3, idk if anyone managed to bypass it

After that, it required a PUK Code, 8 digits I believe. Its sometimes found on the big plastic card thing (its like the size of a credit card, and you pop off a physical sim from it). 10 Attempts.

I think the carrier also has it.

So an attacker needs to either:

1. Guess the SIM PIN in 3 tries
2. Somehow hack the chip to bypass the limits
3. (a) Obtain the plastic card thing or (b) Social engineering to get customer support to provide PUK (I mean if they can manage to trick customer support, they could probably just get a new eSIM (which is immediately issued to their phone through the internet) anyways
   or
4. Somehow guess a 8 digit code in 10 tries

The thing is, I as a kid/teen messed with tech stuff a lot (got my parents SIM cards locked a few times 👀, they got so mad at me lol) and I found that sometimes I can reboot a phone and the 10 attempts on the PUK code would reset… idk how, maybe the SIM card had issues… or maybe it’s a T-Mobile issue.