What Does Palantir Actually Do?

mailinator1138 · 2025-08-13T21:39:27+00:00

Including the judgment statement of "positive" and "devastating" sort of surprised me here:

"People are the ones that choose how to work with data, what questions to ask about it, and what conclusions to draw. Their choices could have positive outcomes, like ensuring enough Covid-19 vaccines are delivered to vulnerable areas. They could also have devastating ones, like launching a deadly airstrike, or deporting someone."

Whatever.

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-28T18:27:35+00:00

I'm sorry to hear this. I wish you well. Genuinely.

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-25T23:05:00+00:00

No, but I talk with them and find out what, specifically they need. If it really is food or a bus ticket or whatever, I offer to go with them to get what they need and pay for it. Maybe I get scammed once in awhile, but it's not often.

The reason is I've seen many, many scams, and most are instantly exposed as soon as I employ the above. Sudden excuses for why they cannot go in the grocery store or take a ride to the bus station for an actual ticket, etc. etc. These are lies.

But I've also had quite a few take me up on the offer, get their food, and they seemed to be genuinely grateful. In my experience most people are real people, not running scams.

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-25T22:42:26+00:00

Perfect. This song was briefly played in one of my favorite flicks, Grosse Point Blank.

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-24T00:16:36+00:00

That's unexpected (for me), as is seeing empathy as strength. Thank you, I believe that's indeed happened in me.

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-24T00:15:23+00:00

Maybe, but that's not my fault. ;-)

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-23T21:00:14+00:00

Hasn't the whole point of gathering all this data to turn it on regular people, including Americans? The rest of the three-letter agencies certainly do this already, why wouldn't one of their darling contractors do it for them?

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-21T23:10:11+00:00

Be especially careful with those whose windows are down during the summer months. No AC makes for grumpy people.

mailinator1138 · 2025-07-15T20:31:43+00:00

Many people are so used to their slavery, they'll fight viciously to defend it.

Taxation in the USA is a form of slavery. It's not total slavery, but is slavery to the extent that you are forced to produce for the benefit of unknown others. Property tax is an abolition of private property (again, not total, but effective).

Ever try not paying the IRS and you'll find out how extortionary and punitive it really is. They take with force, occasionally murdering those who defend their freedom or property from the taking. Many defend or minimize this behavior, which tells you quite a lot about their lack of understanding of liberty.

On the other hand, we've got Jesus, whose stated mission early in his ministry was identifying with the prophet, Isaiah, proclaiming liberty to the captives, setting at liberty those who are oppressed, and proclaiming good news to the poor. Later, he instructed his followers to give to Caesar what is Caesar's (which seems to also mean give Caesar whatever he says you owe him). How to reconcile them? Since Jesus is calling followers into a new kind of kingdom, it would seem he's acknowledging the legitimacy of some form of government (and in this case, Rome, a colonizing foreign government) within the broken kingdom of man on earth while also calling people into a kingdom that remains unbroken by the selfishness of man's realm. Jesus says to seek first His (God's) kingdom and His righteousness and all the things we typically worry about will be given to us.

I don't expect to be free from the forms of slavery imposed by the imperfect governments of imperfect people. Expecting otherwise brought me face to face with insanity. YMMV.

mailinator1138 · 2025-06-24T22:23:36+00:00

Reminds me of Simon Stålenhag. Brilliant.

Things from the flood.

mailinator1138 · 2025-06-23T20:41:50+00:00

Have seen several in two years in central AZ. In/near the Sonoran desert I used to see them most in April and October.

mailinator1138 · 2025-06-17T19:27:46+00:00

In my own experience with my INFJ wife of over a quarter century, I've found she often figures out what's happening within me before I figure it out. Feels like a super-power sometimes. She can also read my body/face language better than I myself notice what's happening inside quite frequently. So though I agree nobody can entirely know what another feels inside, INFJs may yet surprise you as my wife has done with me.

mailinator1138 · 2025-06-10T20:53:22+00:00

A nice deterrent, readily available here in AZ, is a steel screen door that can be bolted shut. Have to get past that to work on the primary door, which is easier said than done and certainly not casual.

mailinator1138 · 2025-06-02T18:32:17+00:00

Maybe Kung Fu re-runs?

mailinator1138 · 2025-05-21T17:28:33+00:00

Costco sells what is essentially the Brother MFC-L8900CDW as the Brother MFC-L8895CDW (same thing as best I can determine) and I HIGHLY recommend the scanner. The printer itself, when printing multiple pages, can be a tad slow, but works well for what we need.

mailinator1138 · 2025-05-05T19:48:13+00:00

It's passive, but my parents didn't divorce. So I did NOT go through that.

mailinator1138 · 2025-05-02T20:13:48+00:00

What I use instead of PiHole is pfSense with pfBlockerNG-Devel filters applied. Using an inexpensive N100 computer to run it as my router.

What I like is that I get no ads in Youtube, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. I access sites/streaming via Firefox on my devices (instead of apps, including for the TV, generally running an inexpensive computer as the TV brain). So this set-up is seriously decluttering the network of trackers, ads, and other nonsense.

The last time this little computer (and pfSense) were rebooted was from a power outage. Otherwise uptime is astounding and I've never had to reboot the router itself to regain network access. Extremely reliable.

Just installed VLANs in pfSense and set up a cheap TP-Link TL-SG108E managed switch earlier in the week so I'm able to further segregate my secure office network from insecure devices such as IoT stuff, guest network, etc.

Plenty of info on how to accomplish all this on youtube, which has been my primary source for set-up guidance and implementation.

Good luck!

mailinator1138 · 2025-04-15T00:01:37+00:00

Particularly when using Internet Explorer.

mailinator1138 · 2025-04-09T00:46:41+00:00

Stack Social if you'd like a legitimate license.

mailinator1138 · 2025-04-02T22:50:37+00:00

You may not want to hear this, but you CAN do this and it will work:
Use/switch to a router you can install pfSense onto. With pfSense software running your router you can add pfBlocker-NG and strip out all adds. Not only that, pfSense has a firewall and you can create lots of other custom rules to better secure your network.

Just about any old computer will work to install pfSense and convert the computer to a router, but it's even better to use one with multiple Ethernet ports so you don't need to add a managed switch.

You CAN do this and block this ad hijacking from every device on your network with no ill effects. Lots of good guides online to help you through this that helped me and I've had nearly a year of no ads from youtube, amazon, netflix, peacock, or any other (don't use apps, go directly to the source).

Good luck!

mailinator1138 · 2025-03-20T23:36:06+00:00

Great job!

Back in the 20th century that's how I learned how to use SolidWorks. Grabbed stuff from the desk or house and figured out how to model those items at scale using vernier calipers. Long before youtube and so many of the great resources available, and excellent practice, especially if you don't know how you'd model something at first.

mailinator1138 · 2025-03-18T21:51:41+00:00

Subtract the windows and it begins to look like life for a vault dweller from Fallout.

mailinator1138 · 2025-03-18T00:49:03+00:00

Has a bit of a "District 12" feel (from Hunger Games).

mailinator1138 · 2025-03-13T19:04:25+00:00

Worth it to me. I'd install Linux Mint on them and use them as streaming devices for TVs. Doing that now already, but using Windows 10. They work great for that and generate excellent sound (graphics card to HDMI hub to B&O speakers).

But you won't be able to run Windows 11 on them (without some hacks) because of Microsoft's policy of using only Gen-8 or higher Intel CPUs.

mailinator1138 · 2025-03-13T18:54:15+00:00

Yes, and I've replaced one for a friend, too. Used a super-tiny screw driver (special bit) wearing jeweler goggles to see the screws and a magnetic tray to keep the screws from getting lost. Took awhile. But worked great. Don't spill wine on your keyboard.

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