throwawayacc0430

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What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Obviously this is about the power outage in Spain.

While normally, if a card declines, people would probably have to leave their IDs with the restaurant while they went to get a withdrawl from their bank; this is a power outage, withdrawls wouldn't work. It would be silly to arrest people because of a power outage. So I'm assuming people just have to give the restaurant owner/management their identity info with a promise to pay?

And power outages shouldn't affect buses, since they run on gasoline/diesel, but the payment system processing transit passes might not work. Do buses still get run during a power outage and they just let people on for free, or do they just shut down the bus lines?

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Lol I find cats, even adult cats, are cuter than babies.

Like, no offense, but... babies are ugly

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The phone company knows what county I’m in but probably not what businesses and municipal buildings I enter on foot unlike GPS location services.

They have your approximate location. If you are in a densely populated city, they might not know which specific building or which specific apartment unit, but they'll have a small circle around the area, and if you are in a suburb, where things are more spaced out, they will know the exact stores you go to.

If you go to a walmart with huge parking spaces all around it, its obvious you went to a walmart.

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago

According to the subreddit’s moderators, the AI took on numerous different identities in comments during the course of the experiment, including a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor “specializing in abuse,” and a “Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.”

You don't need an LLM for that, you got Dean Browning with his xitter alts

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago

I use Lemmy be-
cause I want to shove this com-
ment up Uranus

😉

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I hope that person isn't in the situation anymore, but the only solution is turn on airplane mode and rely on public wifi networks for your communications.

Or use a prepaid phone with a separate plan.

(But seriously, maybe start thinking about divorce)

Also, please never take advice from telecom forums. Look at this comment I found in that thread:

way to give a lesson in how to be shady. Why do you all care if your HUSBAND knows where you are? He's your HUSBAND he should be the only one who knows where you are at all times! And Vice versa.

Bruh 🤦‍♂️

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37022405

This is a carrier in the USA (T-Mobile).

I did a quick search for the other 2 carriers using the term "[Carrier Name] Family Tracking" and Verizon and AT&T also seems to have it.

And according to https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/t-mobile-familywhere-app, it says:

FamilyWhere uses geolocation data from the T-Mobile network and is not affected by changes to device location settings.

So it appears that its using cell tower triangulation. Turning on Airplane Mode should stop it (assuming there isn't a separate tracking app on your phone)

Oh Wow, What a wonderful tool for abusive spouses and abusive parents. And telecom companies are making money off of it. 🙃

TLDR: Its a good idea to get your own separate cellular plan.

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Spy on your family member's movements for just 10 Dollars a month! Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back! (sh.itjust.works)
 

This is a carrier in the USA (T-Mobile).

I did a quick search for the other 2 carriers using the term "[Carrier Name] Family Tracking" and Verizon and AT&T also seems to have it.

And according to https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/t-mobile-familywhere-app, it says:

FamilyWhere uses geolocation data from the T-Mobile network and is not affected by changes to device location settings.

So it appears that its using cell tower triangulation. Turning on Airplane Mode should stop it (assuming there isn't a separate tracking app on your phone)

Oh Wow, What a wonderful tool for abusive spouses and abusive parents. And telecom companies are making money off of it. 🙃

TLDR: Its a good idea to get your own separate cellular plan.