Nothing to described is unheard of in Canada/the States. I’m kind of waiting for the “SIKE I WAS DESCRIBING THE US ALL ALONG” but figured I’d comment in case it was useful to anyone.

This isn’t some trick question. I was born in Guangzhou, China. My knowledge of these employement stuff from my parents experiece in Taishan and Guangzhou (there as Taishan Hukou-holder migrant workers, so basically second class residents), as as for the US, its from Brooklyn-NY and Philly…

Which might be kinda limited in scope…

Its kinda interesting both US and China has these “grass greener on the other side” type of people…

We as a species are so similar no matter where we come from

Is rural America different?

My immediate family has only been to Brooklyn-NYC, and Philly

So maybe my experiences are limited… 🤷‍♂️

Damn y’all have even more fucked-up parents.

Like every time I feel frustrated with my relationship with my parents, I go online and read the internet about shitty parents, and I always felt a relief that like at least my shitty parents are so much nicer variant of shitty

Before I learned how to solve rubik’s cubes, I just took them apart and re assembled them

xD

You could do that with electronics…

Its $1000 lego 👀

Average people need their phone service to work…

I tried using LineageOS on a motorola phone and I get zero data…

So… Yeah… I doubt the average person has time for troubleshooting this shit…

Also those phones require specific devices, you cant just flash random linux into your current phone.

Now look up “carrier whitelisting”

so yeah… good luck trying to get a carrier to allow you to use an “unapproved” device on their network…

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)

I have this memory of getting a 3x3 Rubik’s cube from mom for… I think either X-Mas or New Years… Not sure if “favorite” but definitely most memorable…

I think this is the only time I didn’t have to “beg” for stuff… usually I only get stuff if I really nagged my parents a lot… and my requests get denied frequently (cuz money issues being a new immigrant) but this time I kinda just mentioned “I want that magic cube thing that I had before, I wanna solve it now”, I mentioned it like with the past two weeks, and she just went ahead and got one for me… (but its those cheap ones with the weird stickers that would eventually fall off… I kinda destroyed it cuz I’m bad at keeping stuff lol, like I broke or lost a lot of things I had) But hey, she didn’t get it because I begged, she actually wanted me to be happy… like that felt more emotional, more like a real gift than just being a “bribe” to keep me quiet and stop being annoying.

That was during my… I think early teen years, and before that I had a cube in my early childhood like at least few years before, can’t remember much about those earlier cubes I had except as a memory of recalling another memory.

I used to closer to her… I think I just got older and… um… life expectations (careers, sucess, expectation of being able to be independent and acquire wealth and win this game of capitalism)

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.

Offtopic but:

OMG I can just imagine if my mom gave birth to another kid who grew up in the US and only spoke English, mom’s English would be like: “Go where come back?” (去邊度返來啊？)

Lol that sound so weird to a native English speaker but that makes complete sense in my multilingual brain xD

(“Where did you just come back from?” would probably be a more grammatically correct translation)

G.E.M.【單行的軌道 One Way Road】

No subtitles, but quick search for English Lyrics: Here

Has the word “Train” in it. MV has train. This qualifies???

I just randomly came across this song not too long ago xD

(Not really about trains per se, but more of used as a metaphor)

It’s an object, that’s flying, and you haven’t identified it…

So it’s a UFO

What happens when it lands tho? A ULO? (Unidentified Landed Object???)

You are being bombarded by BROTHERLY LOVE

Please do not resist

🚁
💣
🏘️💥

His last question before getting banned was: “AITAH if I don’t feel anything about my best friend’s dying child?” 💀

Lemmy told me that I’d get kidnapped by ICE the moment a non-white person stepped outside…

I went to a post office in a predominently white neighborhood to apply for a passport (earliest available appointment cuz cities are always filled), the guy working at the post office was a brown guy with an “Indian Accent” (which I did not expect to be working in a white neighbood btw).

I’m ethnically Chinese and did not get harassed by anyone… Lemmy would have you believe there are lynch mobs and white-hooded KKK people trying to shoot you on sight, did not happen…

Also none of my family had been harassed by ICE yet… I heard some relatives and friends of my parent’s social circle cross the border just fine… my aunts be going on vacations and cruises… (my parents so jealous of their wealth and keep telling me “why can’t you be like them” 😭)

That being said, maybe me being Chinese and not Hispanic/Latino made the risks lower, not trying to invalidate the fears that other more vulnerable communities might face.

THE POLICE BOMBED A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD!