Op 05/08/2019 om 19:31 schreef Bald Eagle:
> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> 
>> the point is that you do not have to "indulge", it is all taken care of, for
>> your .. convenience, of course.
> 
> And through the unread all-encompassing EULA.
> 
> 
>
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/090716/7-ways-amazon-uses-big-data-stalk-you-amzn.asp
> https://www.theloop.ca/tech-companies-stealing-data-exactly/
>
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-sells-future-powered-your-personal-data-n870501
> 
> And it's not just online:
> https://www.amazon.com/Spychips-Major-Corporations-Government-Purchase/dp/0452287669
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrITx7_tTT0     (short)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcPdJ12bbs     (long)
> 
> http://techrights.org/2019/06/30/how-free-libre-software-comes-under-attack/
> 
> This is of course just the very tip of the iceberg.
> Look at what China is doing with facial recognition and "social credit".
> 
> It's not just any one single thing.  It's the totality of the data collection
> and correlation and cross-referencing, and machine learning and
> interpolation.....
> The sheer scale and scope and speed of which people could have hardly ever
> imagined, and still have no idea the extent to which what has already been
> collected can be applied to.
> 
> 
> 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
> 

I fully agree of course with that. In practice however, that would mean 
that you could not do anything nor go anywhere if you wanted to browse 
anonymously (Oh yes! there is VPN!); My philosophy is therefore: to hell 
and I don't care (within respectable limits) as long as I can protect 
myself from any targeted ads and such, which I have been able to do 
until now for the last thirty five years or so. It is a pain in the 
proverbial a****, but I feel more concerns about what is happening in 
the world at large at the hands of the ubiquitous fools (granted, also 
marginally pushed by the 1984 developments you so rightly mention).

To return to the original topic:
The problems Mike mentioned made me think of those felt by severe 
migraine or epileptic patients (believe me, I know what I am talking 
about from my immediate surroundings unfortunately). The solution is 
therefore to use plain, discrete colours as screen backgrounds instead 
of images/photos. I am not convinced about win10 itself being at the 
source of the complaints; or Mike means something else of course...

-- 
Thomas

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