LeftOnQuietRoad

LeftOnQuietRoad t1_j31t0r3 wrote

Reply to The year-in-review trend is a reminder of just how much commercial surveillance these services run on us by CatnipJ

It’s interesting the layers they have. They built the whole IT economy on it. So. It’s here. Might as well experiment with it guys and see what mistakes you can make the machine make. The more you whittle down your information supply the more urgent their promptings. Facebook shifts the log off screen so the initial click on a phone to logout only covers up the logout. Then it prompts you to explain why you logged out. That’s not even counting the meta data (haha)/shared browser pixels/DNS leaks/gps pings/tower triangulations/and on and on.

Reddit alone has 30 + redirects/browser hops/cookies/candies/poptarts and who knows what else.

Love ya Reddit, you quiet, sneaky, little brother you.

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LeftOnQuietRoad t1_iys629n wrote

Reply to comment by lughnasadh in Researchers claim a human trial with 90 people has shown a simple laser therapy improves short-term memory by 25%. The treatment, called transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM), has had claims in previous studies to also improve reaction times, accuracy and attention by lughnasadh

Yeah, or maybe heat and increased blood flow. Insensate vibration could be another way. Kinda cool, though. Hope it pans out in bigger studies.

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LeftOnQuietRoad t1_iyrzmzr wrote

Reply to Researchers claim a human trial with 90 people has shown a simple laser therapy improves short-term memory by 25%. The treatment, called transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM), has had claims in previous studies to also improve reaction times, accuracy and attention by lughnasadh

Honestly, depending on what they mean by transcranial, I wonder if it just mimics human touch and belonging. If you think about it, our society doesn’t touch the scalp very much. But it’s remarkably sensitive to it.

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