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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Things i Hate (Or: Rants by an Old Man) Post 303030615 by Neo on Wednesday 13th of February 2019 02:32:54 AM

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I don't see point in the "rants" about issues with vendors related to computer parts and components. Vendors are vendors and they have always been vendors and will always behave like vendors. Selling is selling and is a professional as old as old can be.

What hardware and software vendors are doing, the same thing all sellers do everywhere, pales in comparison to what the information-based companies and networks like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and more are doing to pollute the very information-space and human conscious which rips at the core of human civilization's social fabric.

The major issue we all face is not how venders sell or market their goods and services (that's always been an issue, from the beginning of time), but the fact that high-tech, high-flying information-based companies and networks like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and more are building machine-based systems with the sole goal of world-domination (read number of users, profit margins, influence etc) with machine-based AI in all aspects of our information-based lives, disrupting countries, societies, seeding hate and social mistrust, partitioning humans into groups and pitting them against one another.

AI in the commercial space means "targeting" and "classification" and it is this "targeting" and "classification" of every aspect of our lives and using this information without our express permissions, selling our most intimate details to anyone willing to pay, and using machines to process this information in order to exploit all of us on the planet. Witness the rise of hate, populism, supremacy, and more which is getting worse, not better, year-over-year.

That is something to be worried about and to "rant" about, in my view.

Everything else is "noise" compared to what is happening to the very fabric of human society and is getting worse and worse because of the push by all major big tech players ..... their answer is always: "AI will solve all these problems", when in-fact it is "AI" (and these high tech companies goals and objectives) causing these problems (well, it's the companies pushing AI causing the problems).

It's evil. Pure evil. Really. Believe me.

Profit, greed, influence.... it's the cause. The cat is out of the bag and there is no going back. The future is not very bright because of this certain dystopian world we have created.

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CREEPY(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CREEPY(1)

NAME

       CREEPY -  A geolocation information aggregator

DESCRIPTION

       creepy  is  an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image
       hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with rele-
       vant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation.

FEATURES

       Map providers available :
	      Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps

       Location information retieval from :

       Twitter's tweet location:
	      Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device.

	      Place  (geographical  name)  derived  from  users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates
	      using geonames.com"

	      Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the  bounding  box
	      is selected randomly.

	      Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API

	      EXIF tags from the photos posted.

       Social networking platforms currently supported:
	      Twitter

	      Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter).

       Image hosting services currently supported :
	      flickr - information retrieved from API

	      twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

NOTES

       Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates.

       GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information

       4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use.

       Open locations in Google Maps in your browser

       Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files.

       Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application.

       User/target search for twitter and flickr.

AUTHOR

       creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <jkakavas@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation which includes the keys descriptions is in /usr/share/doc/creepy/README.

								   MAY 08, 2011 							 CREEPY(1)