BowTiedPrivacy

Online privacy | Degoogled phones | Self-hosted autism | Helping you get out of the matrix

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Spent the last few days building something.

A privacy quiz that gives you a real grade (1 to 100), shows your top vulnerabilities, and gives you a specific action plan.

Most people guess they'd score around a B on privacy. Actual average so far:

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@melissa Proton search works fine, but by design you can only search addresses and subject lines, since those are stored unencrypted.

There is a setting (only on web, I think) that basically downloads your inbox to your local machine, and then you csn search messages directly.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@LundukeJournal Uncommon Lunduke L

Proton is part of the woke mob.

[CR1337 @CR1337]

I didn't know you can create QR codes instantly via @DuckDuckGo, nice to have

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@melissa I saw a fold

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Linux solves this, btw

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Zoomers may not know this but your computer used to not turn itself off or apply updates without asking. You could leave your desk comeback in the morning and everything would be right as you left it.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Had to sit and listen to two people discussing how 5G radiation induces tumors by heating the body, and it took everything I had not to call them fucking idiots.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@lporiginalg We used to be a proper country

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Been a while since I heard from a crazy person.

This one thinks her VPN has trashed her laptop, and Rob Braxman hacked her phone.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

My solution - two sliders to control your feed.

The first one determines how much of the FYP is from accounts you follow.

The second sets the temperature of your feed. At low values you only see posts in your niche and from accounts closely connected to you. At high temperature it brings in more random stuff from other niches.

Maybe even a third slider for average post length, letting you bias your feed towards long form content or much shorter stuff.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

https://t.co/eQqcH61MWF

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

"Name something you can't turn into a subscription."

"A fence."

Peter Thiel:

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@0x0kazi @JaidCodes If Deepseek is glitching it goes to the next cheapest provider which is 4x more

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@BobMurphyEcon @grok explain the day of the pillow

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Someone signed up for posh mark with my gmail and listed a pair of shoes. Now my inbox is being flooded 🤬

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

I have a gmail account. The address is my first initial, last name, and a 1.

The stuff that gets sent to me by mistake is wild.

For example, this person had their DL renewed, and a temp ID was sent to me, with ALL of their info.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@BobMurphyEcon "Engaging with boomers is self-trolling" -Tom Woods

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

"private google drive"

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

remember when the public health profession doused its credibility in gasoline and lit a match

the open letter with signatures is still available online and ive backed it up to a private google drive if anyone's interested in doing a "where are they now"

link in next tweet

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@boneGPT I have people like this contact me on a regular basis, usually by hand-written letter. I never respond. If you challenge their delusions, you become part of them.

https://t.co/BuwUT4yetl

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Someone just paid $34 to overnight me a hand-written three page letter asking for my help in dealing with a hacker.

Unfortunately it's written in neon green ink on white paper, so I'm not going to strain my eyes trying to read the whole thing.

Also it was five days from the time it arrived until I checked my po box, so they wasted their money on express mail.

I now get at least one of these a month from mentally ill people.

If you are unethical, you could make $10k per month helping mentally ill boomers deal with their imaginary hackers.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

Good, good...

[bone @boneGPT]

Disabled Showfeets.

Google sucks so bad. I'm done with them. Every AI studio project eventually leaks the API key. It's trivial to steal. Why do they release something that allows people to fuck their customers with no recourse?

How can I in good faith recommend a product that let's people rob from you? 857% increase in spend for no reason overnight and you don't stop serving the fucking requests??? You don't have a fucking system to detect the Indian raping my API nonstop out of nowhere?

So now I gotta go in there and do a fucking security audit because AI studio can't ship a secure nanobanana wrapper. WHAT A JOKE. ITS YOUR FUCKING NANOBANANA. YOU CANT SHIP A SECURE NANOBANANA WRAPPER IN AI STUDIO IN 2026??

@OfficialLoganK @demishassabis why would you ship a casual product that lets people rob your users?

Last week should have cost me 30 bucks but some cunt is exploiting my API because Google AI studio is an insecure piece of shit, Gemini is a retarded model that will lie to your face about security, and the Google team is worthless third worlders that provide no help.

I've spent thousands and what have I gotten? Nothing. Nothing. Not a single fucking API credit.

Well, they did a zoom call with me with four stinking indians who can barely speak english trying to get me to buy a Firebase subscription. Then they told me I can't get any API credits because I'm not some flunky startup from Silicon Valley.

OK then. Support your retarded startups. I'll just shit on you from now on from my little soapbox. You had the mandate of heaven and you fucking blew it. Your employees are all trash. Nobody has the fucking balls to fix your company.

Your new model is a piece of shit. Your video model looks like balls. You can't even get AI gmail right.

Garbage company. Stick to TPUs.

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@xwanyex Got married about 10 years ago and it felt like getting the last chopper out of Saigon

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@BobMurphyEcon Boy do I have some bad news for you...

[BowTiedPrivacy @BowTiedPrivacy]

@notadvice @brave solves this, btw