ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.

  • ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
    94·
    1 year ago

    Clemens concludes the snippet with this closing thought: “My word of advice for anybody that’s feeling invited into the rage mob of the day, is, hey man, get off social media. Go buy a lake house, get a beach house. Do something. Get in debt and get off social media. Don’t get invited into all this rage.”

    Ah yes the classic pacifying debt

      • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        421·
        1 year ago

        I mean buying things wont and fuck this guy, but if I could just casually buy a lake house I would’ve fucked off to an isolated one a long time ago. Like all these rich fucks should have done the moment they made enough money to do so.

        • Alto@kbin.social
          27·
          1 year ago

          It’s why I maintain it’s some sort a mental illness. There is absolutely something wrong with you if you have more than enough money to buy whatever the fuck you want and decide that’s not enough.

          • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            1 year ago

            So here’s the thing, you aren’t incorrect, but what is really troubling is that it might not be something you have from birth, for some sure it is(Musk is a great example of how being a piece of shit is congenital sometimes) but having that much money and power is straight up bad for your brain. I don’t have a source handy as I’m on mobile while i cook dinner, but I’m pretty certain Cody’s Showdy did an episode on it not too long ago, as in this year.

            Doesn’t give an excuse for becoming a bag of severed dicks but it does tell me if I ever luck into some crazy money to get myself set with the smallest amount possible so I never need to work again as quickly as I can, and give the rest away

            • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              It’s a thing I noticed from self observation. My fantasies about a billion dollar windfall are things like provide free high-speed internet to the populated parts of the world. All of them. It takes about $30 billion to feed the entire human population for a year (mostly freight). A smaller package would be to become a (figurative) god in Haiti by unconditionally rescuing them from a handful of humanitarian crises. A bronze statue of you would be in every public park there for centuries.

              There are very real sometimes globe-spaning humanitarian projects that billionaires could afford with a signature (if costing them a Twitter, more or less) that would leave a mark in history dwarfing Carnegie or Rockefeller or Nobel or Gates. And we have thousands of billionaires and not one is trying.

              Leeja Miller did a video ( on YouTube ) on how the usual charities billionaires use do actually very little, and they could do way better paying that money as taxes and letting social safety net programs and public science do those things instead. (e.g. Philanthropy is wholly a grift.) So yes, we have zero billionaires doing anything with their money but hoarding it like so many boxes of unused pogs and Funko Pops in the garage.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    1 year ago

    Of fucking course the government is tracking all this shit through a private corporation that’s owned by someone who doesn’t believe in protest.

    And yeah, buddy, we can’t afford a regular house much less one for fun on water. I hope he dies of kidney stones

  • Nepenthe@kbin.social
    31·
    1 year ago

    “Why not take advantage of information the bad guys share willingly online? After all, they have friends lists, too,” one SocialNet video says.

    *monitors random citizens’ pregnancies*

    This is acceptable. This is definitely normal.

    Side note for anyone with a few days and $2 to spare, Orwell is apparently on sale and I encourage its consideration. It’s literally what the government has decided to do, but with the player in the driver’s seat and it’s really good if you’re into stuff like that.

    • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m kind of surprised this is the first comment I’ve seen mention the pregnancy part especially with Roe having fallen. This is terrifying.

  • The Barto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.

    This reads like that Stefan skit on snl.

    • ██████████@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      its literally just a python scraper script. the bar to become a TECHNOLOGY company is sooo low now im just going say f it and start my own Cyber Security company and grift these feds boy

  • Jeanschyso@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    Why are internal combustion engines spying on pregnant women and fortnite kids now?

  • GhostMatter@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Went on this website for the first time today. The giant newsletter subscribe pop-up with 404 written in big letters made me think the link I used was dead. Went back to check again and finally understood that it was an annoying pop-up.

  • mx_smith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Does anyone know the specifics of this app? Is it calling public APIs on these sites, or do they pay for special access, or is it just scraping. I feel like most of us aware of the data collection prob put very little public data out there. RIP babycenter.com they might lose a bit of traffic from this article.