Download and use my Hotkeys for Sublime Text 3.
This file goes into your (Sublime Text Directory)/Data/Packages/User folder. Don’t overwrite your own settings, open this up and take what you like.
You can also examine this code on my GitHub.
“It’s one thing for a pile of data to be gathered about me or you and crunched [to send us ads] designed to persuade us to buy [stuff]. It’s quite another when it can potentially shift election results.”
“[Micro-targeting] cuts out the noise of all the alternative viewpoints that would otherwise complicate a person’s political decision-making”
Scary.
Here’s an excellent profile-piece of a man who gets paid to buy people’s private data, to target them for propaganda.
It’s ironic that this global-scale privacy-violator is himself very reluctant to reveal any details from his personal life. It was touching to read how, after Eton, he studied Art History because “It was something that I always have been incredibly passionate about” So, after all that hype, he’s not even a “Math Man” after all. Nevertheless,
“I just thought this was the last opportunity to study something that I cared about. I was pretty adamant I’d go into finance.”
It’s disgraceful to mislead people into surrendering their data, then using this data to maximise how manipulative your ads are to said people.
Check out the barefaced lying in this Youtube Keynote Speech
23:15 How did you get the emotional profile of people? “There’s no reason why people should give up any data at all, and there’s certainly no obligation to. We managed to collect millions — hundreds of thousands — or millions I should say, of emotional profiles in the US by people volunteering this information to us. We can then match these emotional profiles against the data attributes that we hold on those individuals who have taken these personality inventories.”
25:00 “They’re voluntarily giving up their data, they’re doing this in full knowledge of what’s happening here, this is not anything Machiavellian or out-of-order.
This is a lie! The US data-set Cambridge Analytica used was largely harvested without consent, using an exploit that, if one person volunteered themselves through a survey, the rest of their entire friends-list data would be scraped as well.
Nix defends Trump’s election as “free and fair … the will of the people” after having spent 20 minutes taking credit for manipulating people into voting for Trump. Can ANY advertising exec say in good conscience that their adverts exist to provide “fair representation” of their product? The very act of targeting the delivery to exploit people’s specific personality faults is coercive.
Back to the Article:
“[Nix] doesn’t [shy] from Cambridge Analytica’s contribution to the Trump campaign. “We’re a service provider and we’re just trying to provide the best possible service for our clients.”
Nix acts like a respectable professional, but he’s really just a mercenary, willing to exploit people’s data for the highest bidder.
Taking a step back, it needn’t be all dooms-day. Your data is out there, including psychometric tests and shopping habits (if not even porn habits). But can they REALLY use that already? Surely that’d take too much effort and processing-power. Surely Cambridge Analytica would profit if they exaggerated their effectiveness, so they can’t be as powerful as they claim. We can debate about today’s data-hotshots; how nice, nasty, naive, or nefarious they are. That doesn’t matter. It’s the NEXT round of predatory advertisers who’ll buy (or steal) your data that we should be concerned about. Even if the data can’t be abused today, the fact that it’s ALREADY out there means we have no way of preventing it from being abused tomorrow.
I want to be able to live a quiet life, where I control “who knows me” and I opt-in to any political choices I make. That’s no longer possible. You can’t browse, shop, or communicate online without your clicks and eyeballs being tracked, manipulated, and monetised.
"”Remember, Google’s customers are advertisers, not users,” says academic Vanessa Teague. “So the service to Google’s customers is that they can get good data about how effective their ads are.””
From now on, I refuse to consent to Google violating my privacy. Recently I was making a new email account. I’ve attached Google’s current Gmail ToS (dated 2018.03.20). After reading that, I closed the Gmail signup window immediately, and made this account instead Vanitas.V@protonmail.com
The cat’s largely already out-of-the-bag, but there are still some basic improvements you can make today. There exist other, high-quality, free Email providers, beyond Google (e.g. Proton Mail). Same for Instant Messaging, screw FaceBook (which also includes WhatsApp and Instagram), use Telegram instead! Consider sacrificing some of the convenience of Google Chrome, to switching to Mozilla (or even TOR) and using a VPN.
The bad news is our default, free, convenient web options are abusive. The good news is we can still do something about it. Share this article with your friends, and we can start making privacy (not profit) the priority.
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Here’s where I’m dumping all the how-to customization info. Instead of having lots of code in quotes, I’m going to expect you to examine this page’s code on my GitHub.
Mention where to find the right files (i.e. about, 404, categories)
Put all your own details into _config.yml
GitHub Pages builds your site, so if there’s an error, it will say what it is when you click on a file’s history and hover over the ✗ red error mark.
Hydeout introduced an easy way to customize the biggest layout changes, by modifying /assets/css/main.scss
If you want to use a code indent block with a list, make sure the first character of the code block is aligned with the first text characters AFTER the list numbers.
Here you need exactly 3 spaces
---
# Use a comment to ensure Jekyll reads the file to be transformed into CSS later
# only main files contain this front matter, not partials.
---
$sidebar-bg-color: #E5BB00;
$link-color: #ac4142;
$layout-reverse: true;
$sidebar-sticky: false;
@import "hydeout";
adding Disqus is SUPER easy, simply register your site and make an account on Disqus.com , get your shortname, and put it into your _config.yml file
disqus:
shortname: your-short-name
To make pages show up in the sidebar, add sidebar_link: true to their front matter.
This post has a manual excerpt <!--fla--> set after the second paragraph. The following YAML Front Matter has also be applied:
excerpt: “put custom text in here to over-ride default generated excerpts” excerpt_separator: “”
This post has been updated and should show a modified date if last_modified_at is used in the layout.
last_modified_at: 2017-03-09T13:01:27-05:00
Plugins like jekyll-sitemap use this field to add a <lastmod> tag your sitemap.xml.
This post tests YouTube video embeds. <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/K2r4ujFeuqk?controls=1&list=PLqLno2B-jEzbqT7hPT2R7Th-RQfeM9b99" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div>
This post tests Twitter Embeds. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">@HolyRapQuotes "if God's gon' take me as I am, I guess I already got on my church clothes." - @lecrae</p>— ♥Nthabiseng♥™ (@Its_PortraitII) November 4, 2012</blockquote>
advanced content
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italicize text
keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code> element.
line-height: 1.2; and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE element handles it and to find out how it overflows;
bold text H2O E = MC2
Create an endnote with this code:
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GitHub Gist embeds can also be used:
<script src="https://gist.github.com/mmistakes/77c68fbb07731a456805a7b473f47841.js"></script>
Which outputs as:
Lil Changelog: Changed the _layouts/category.html and layouts/about.md setup, for links to come before tabs, so that my big pictures don’t obscure everything and come-in at the bottom