• AnonymousCoward
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    4723 days ago

    One of the many reasons why I lost all faith in a person when I realize they’re a conspiracy theorist.

    The goddamn government tracking plans are on fucking wikipedia and they’re worried about chips injected in a vaccine from some twitter shitpost.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1123 days ago

      We didn’t know about these until 2004, which wasn’t that long ago for some of us.

    • @SupraMario
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      723 days ago

      The conspiracy people who post on Facebook are the ones that make me laugh, they’ll post about shit like 5g and Bill Gates microchips…on Facebook…while posting what they ate that day…no one needs to track you secretly when you post literally your every minute of your life.

    • @[email protected]
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      623 days ago

      Yeah, this was an actual secret conspiracy for over 20 years, though. This is an example of a real collusion between global governments and corporations to track members of the public.

  • The Pantser
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    2023 days ago

    So they are purposely using extra ink for this and slowing down my prints? Bastards.

    • @mkwt
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      2323 days ago

      Also why you need yellow ink to print a b&w document. Just in case you were actually trying to print out dollar bills.

      • LostXOR
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        1023 days ago

        Hands cashier a black & white $100 bill. What do you mean it’s fake??? It’s just vintage!

        • ivanafterall ☑️
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          322 days ago

          Put some yellow dots on it next time and they’ll be none the wiser.

  • @Docus
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    923 days ago

    So the yellow dots became public knowledge 20 years ago, and other than a one liner that other tracking methods may exist, nothing about these other methods seems to be published. Surely the three letter agencies haven’t given up on tracking.

      • AnonymousCoward
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        222 days ago

        No market for it. Printers have already become so fucking cheap to make that the manufacturers can’t survive unless they overprice their ink.

        • Captain Aggravated
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          222 days ago

          I’m tempted to see if I can’t get some old daisywheel printer running on a modern Linux machine.

    • @[email protected]
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      1223 days ago

      I thought they were unique per printer not just type. More akin to a serial number instead of a model number.

      • kersplooshOP
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        423 days ago

        That is my understanding. And I assume the dot patterns are made by printers worldwide. The article mentions Dutch law enforcement using them, and German researchers studying them.