411mrc

It's been around for a long time.

It's not difficult to imagine evolution has discovered a way to segregate us into different personalities for the advantage to form cohesive social groups with specializations for survival. Who hasn't observed the difference between introvert and extravert in their own interactions? Is it a stretch to envision a couple more dichotomies exist?

Ask people to answer questions that will sort them into 16 bins and isn't it logical to assume those bins might have traits in common?

There are plenty of problems with MBTI and by all means, develop a better science. I tend to characterize people into their MBTI type in order to better interact with them. I find it useful and understandable, even predictive. Parlor trick? Perhaps, but on a couple of occasions now, I've accurately predicted a new friend's MBTI type simply by observing them and then having them take the test to confirm. You then have a useful basic mental model of them.

Unfortunately, while I can fly in a 777 nearly halfway around the world now due in part to the Wrights, there is no personality tool 777 equivalent.

https://dalneitzel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fennboree-...

He claims all you need is the map, then leaves more offline clues in interviews than on the map, e.g. above 5000 feet, near pine, near a road from which he could make two trips in an afternoon. That is sort of annoying - seems a treasure map /poem should be self-contained.

Bind9 seems to be better for blocking. RPZ is made for it. I don't think dnsmasq supports RPZ though projects like Pi-Hole use dnsmasq. I'm not positive, but I think RPZ is more flexible. Bind9 seems to do anything you like. I may want to resolve DNS myself and not just forward.

I'm starting to look into configuring Bind9 to have different blocking per user using "views." Some want Facebook, some don't, so I can block accordingly. I'm not sure you can do that in dnsmasq. I did discover subtle things break, like you can't block Facebook and still access Instagram, thus the "views" approach. I don't want to change hosts file on every device, especially mobiles, and can even provide some protection for guests this way. I might do a captive page for a blocked domain and let people bypass in their view if they like, then I can have a "block-first" approach.

I do like network-wide blocking for the malware lists - if anyone acquires malware, it can't phone home (if it's on the list) and I can detect via logs. DNS as firewall seems to be a trend. I'm looking into blocking IPs via iptables as well using public lists. Maybe I'll even setup Snort or Bro. The possibilities are endless.

A personalized router is very powerful.

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/involuntary-profiling.html

FB goes so far as to buy your data from others, which is why I block all trackers. I'm sure I still leak data to FB, even though I never joined, and never will.

http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/11/

The magical thing is that you can actually know that the distributed system is consistent by how much work was performed.

Now a tagging system that could be built over time from search results could be very useful. Apply tags as you go in batches in other words to aid future searches.

If I were designing a new OS, I'd force each piece of software to auto-tag and index the file contents in meta tags and feed it to a global OS search function.

I'd find another doctor if Facebook ever showed up on there.

I would think it would be illegal for the medical side to share and for Facebook to use their massive data collection in this manner if it's not buried in their impenetrable privacy statement.

One thing it does do is incentivize the banks to monitor transactions. They know my card # has been stolen before I have a clue, calling me nearly immediately.

I don't use Mac. Windows 10 "Cortana" is no match for where Google Desktop was 10 years ago. I rarely use it unless I have to. Google searched the contents. Cortana just searches filenames and tries to route searches to the web. Linux...I don't see anything - Ubuntu has Cortana-like feature, but it's not Google Desktop. It's very odd to go backwards technology-wise.