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[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It was twenty years ago for me.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 7 points 3 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.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 points 4 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.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago

ink

Well, toner. Searching, I don't think that color inkjet printers can do this, would guess that the bleed is too much. Just color lasers.

I don't think that it'll slow down your print, believe that that's independent of ink deposition.

[–] Docus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have another question as to why we don't have an open source paper printer.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you buy the same printer in different counties do the dots persist or change?

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 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.