Ronald Rihoo
@ronaldrihoo.bsky.social
Technical founder. Privacy capitalist. Small Al models. Local offline Al tools.
The guy who'll get you the useful next gen tech that no one else will make, like robots that won't spy on you.
Privacy is a luxury.
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The guy who'll get you the useful next gen tech that no one else will make, like robots that won't spy on you.
Privacy is a luxury.
threads.com/@ronrihoo
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Ronald Rihoo
@ronaldrihoo.bsky.social
· Sep 13
What I'm up to:
Products:
- full-privacy apps/gear
- productivity & personal health
- ML core w/ AI plugins
Services:
- media portal
- mini social
Open Source:
- modular tooling
- AI integrated inference environment
Market Development:
- local genAI book series
- topics: text, code, image, audio
Products:
- full-privacy apps/gear
- productivity & personal health
- ML core w/ AI plugins
Services:
- media portal
- mini social
Open Source:
- modular tooling
- AI integrated inference environment
Market Development:
- local genAI book series
- topics: text, code, image, audio
After seeing how wrong and useless the data is from two of the top data brokers, I can't help but not take any entity seriously that uses their data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
After seeing how wrong and useless the data is from two of the top data brokers, I can't help but not take any entity seriously that uses their data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
Greed, itself, is good in the sense of the economy. Otherwise many good things, like innovation and supply availability, would probably not happen often.
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Greed, itself, is good in the sense of the economy. Otherwise many good things, like innovation and supply availability, would probably not happen often.
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
The data broker story is going to be a refreshingly thrilling podcast series one day...
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The data broker story is going to be a refreshingly thrilling podcast series one day...
Blog Post:
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
I Asked Two Data Brokers What They Know About Me; What I Learned and How New Laws Made It Possible
Plus, how you can make the same request
medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Blog Post:
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
(The way I perceive data acquirer reactions would be.)
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
(Just in case the algorithm and the data available to it are good enough to resolve this...)
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
(The way I perceive data acquirer reactions would be.)
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
(Just in case the algorithm and the data available to it are good enough to resolve this...)
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
(Just in case the algorithm and the data available to it are good enough to resolve this...)
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
We have enough to see that the gov't institutions are not hiding things for the elite.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We have enough to see that the gov't institutions are not hiding things for the elite.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
I really wish there was a social platform that only Americans (verified by multiple forms of ID) could join and access, because in times like this, we could communicate a bit more comfortably online. I don't even want to post my thoughts about certain things on here. Feels so freely exposed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I really wish there was a social platform that only Americans (verified by multiple forms of ID) could join and access, because in times like this, we could communicate a bit more comfortably online. I don't even want to post my thoughts about certain things on here. Feels so freely exposed.
It would probably be a really good idea to stop releasing that s***.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It would probably be a really good idea to stop releasing that s***.
2017 was a hell of a year for the human race. Pivotal.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
2017 was a hell of a year for the human race. Pivotal.
I saw a document just now on here. The comments were ridiculous. I was going to respond to one. Then I realized I'm the dumbass.
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I saw a document just now on here. The comments were ridiculous. I was going to respond to one. Then I realized I'm the dumbass.
I wonder whether anyone's been able to map out the analogy space with enough density to predict the next packet where some amount of preconditions are defined. I think maybe leaping closer to that may be one of the biggest advantages in LLMs, but the inference mechanism blows.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I wonder whether anyone's been able to map out the analogy space with enough density to predict the next packet where some amount of preconditions are defined. I think maybe leaping closer to that may be one of the biggest advantages in LLMs, but the inference mechanism blows.
Am I just an a**hole or am I right to be annoyed by all of these empty lines that LLMs like to put in Python code? (Even when the instructions stress that they must not.)
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Am I just an a**hole or am I right to be annoyed by all of these empty lines that LLMs like to put in Python code? (Even when the instructions stress that they must not.)
That may sound confusing. It's a reference to how a single unit of anything, give or take, is only approximately a single unit of whatever it is, based on the expected bounds.
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
You want signs of our inability to reason well in this complex universe? Just ask the most respected thinkers: did we invent mathematics or did we discover it?
We co-invented it with our design and not-so-impressive capacity to reason.
There's no such thing as a single "unit" of anything here.
We co-invented it with our design and not-so-impressive capacity to reason.
There's no such thing as a single "unit" of anything here.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
That may sound confusing. It's a reference to how a single unit of anything, give or take, is only approximately a single unit of whatever it is, based on the expected bounds.
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
On that note, we have the ability to evolve by training. Perhaps neuroplasticity can help out, too.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
Abstraction (via the miraculous ability to produce analogy arbitrarily) is how we've reasoned this far.
Our conscious experience -- while incredibly beautiful -- is not what's really going on around here. But I'm glad we have this. It's nice.
I just wish we could reason at higher capacity.
Our conscious experience -- while incredibly beautiful -- is not what's really going on around here. But I'm glad we have this. It's nice.
I just wish we could reason at higher capacity.
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
On that note, we have the ability to evolve by training. Perhaps neuroplasticity can help out, too.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
I should define what I mean by "basic."
I'm talking about the "bandwidth." Or more simply: the width.
The amount of understood content that fits in the width of that stream of reasoning.
How much can you pack into the width? I'd be happy enough, if we could just widen it on demand at avg quality.
I'm talking about the "bandwidth." Or more simply: the width.
The amount of understood content that fits in the width of that stream of reasoning.
How much can you pack into the width? I'd be happy enough, if we could just widen it on demand at avg quality.
Complexity -- it kicks my ass, sometimes. There's so much of it in the real world.
Our conscious ability to reason is too basic, even at its best.
Sometimes, we can have moments of widening thought streams where things make sense at high scales, but they don't last long, and they're not invocable.
Our conscious ability to reason is too basic, even at its best.
Sometimes, we can have moments of widening thought streams where things make sense at high scales, but they don't last long, and they're not invocable.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I should define what I mean by "basic."
I'm talking about the "bandwidth." Or more simply: the width.
The amount of understood content that fits in the width of that stream of reasoning.
How much can you pack into the width? I'd be happy enough, if we could just widen it on demand at avg quality.
I'm talking about the "bandwidth." Or more simply: the width.
The amount of understood content that fits in the width of that stream of reasoning.
How much can you pack into the width? I'd be happy enough, if we could just widen it on demand at avg quality.
Complexity -- it kicks my ass, sometimes. There's so much of it in the real world.
Our conscious ability to reason is too basic, even at its best.
Sometimes, we can have moments of widening thought streams where things make sense at high scales, but they don't last long, and they're not invocable.
Our conscious ability to reason is too basic, even at its best.
Sometimes, we can have moments of widening thought streams where things make sense at high scales, but they don't last long, and they're not invocable.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Complexity -- it kicks my ass, sometimes. There's so much of it in the real world.
Our conscious ability to reason is too basic, even at its best.
Sometimes, we can have moments of widening thought streams where things make sense at high scales, but they don't last long, and they're not invocable.
Our conscious ability to reason is too basic, even at its best.
Sometimes, we can have moments of widening thought streams where things make sense at high scales, but they don't last long, and they're not invocable.
And now Google is probably up against some bank.
Google files lawsuit to disrupt massive ‘Lighthouse’ smishing scheme #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy
Google files lawsuit to disrupt massive ‘Lighthouse’ smishing scheme
According to the tech giant, the accused criminals developed the “Lighthouse” phishing kit, which provides custom tools to scammers to deploy “smishing” — or SMS phishing — attacks and to build fraudulent websites designed to steal victims’ credit card information.
therecord.media
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
And now Google is probably up against some bank.
So, I'm using generative AI to fast track development of the book writing app, but LLMs tend to be pretty damn bad at creating algorithms (or procedures for requirements) with which they're "unfamiliar" (a.k.a, not included in their training data and/or fine-tuning).
This means:
This means:
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So, I'm using generative AI to fast track development of the book writing app, but LLMs tend to be pretty damn bad at creating algorithms (or procedures for requirements) with which they're "unfamiliar" (a.k.a, not included in their training data and/or fine-tuning).
This means:
This means:
Hey, y'all. My Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended. 🙄
![Screenshot of a phishing message, in the Bluesky app, from an account using the handle blueskybot33, stating:
"We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended due to security-related restrictions.
To prevent the permanent termination of your account, it is imperative that you complete the verification process within the next 24 hours by using the following link:
[A shortened link ending with "bluesky supp".]
If the link does not open directly, please copy and paste it into your browser's address bar.
Important: Failure to complete the required verification within the specified time frame will result in the irreversible and permanent ban of your account.
We appreciate your immediate attention and cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
Bluesky© Support Team"
At the bottom, the regular options are provided: "block or report," "delete," "accept."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4mvuid35746rf3qkw2jbyd7n/bafkreig7gabi5rsyws564da6nwggqnc747yx646ezetxvj3yzipz5m4vdy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hey, y'all. My Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended. 🙄
The Internet is supposed to be kind of like a swimming pool. You go for a swim, then you get out and go do non-pool stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The Internet is supposed to be kind of like a swimming pool. You go for a swim, then you get out and go do non-pool stuff.
Word processors suck when it comes to writing books. Formatting and navigation are so much unnecessary work.
So instead of a word processor, I've developed a "book processor."
It keeps the focus on just writing books -- nothing else.
I'll post more about it. So, if you're interested, stay tuned.
So instead of a word processor, I've developed a "book processor."
It keeps the focus on just writing books -- nothing else.
I'll post more about it. So, if you're interested, stay tuned.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Word processors suck when it comes to writing books. Formatting and navigation are so much unnecessary work.
So instead of a word processor, I've developed a "book processor."
It keeps the focus on just writing books -- nothing else.
I'll post more about it. So, if you're interested, stay tuned.
So instead of a word processor, I've developed a "book processor."
It keeps the focus on just writing books -- nothing else.
I'll post more about it. So, if you're interested, stay tuned.
Sigh...
So much work, in parallel.
When I sought to do impactful work, I had shrugged off the duration that it would take to hit milestones.
It's a dynamic playing field, especially now with AI and (wishful) attempts at order-grabbing. Y'know? Things are always on the move and changing.
So much work, in parallel.
When I sought to do impactful work, I had shrugged off the duration that it would take to hit milestones.
It's a dynamic playing field, especially now with AI and (wishful) attempts at order-grabbing. Y'know? Things are always on the move and changing.
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Sigh...
So much work, in parallel.
When I sought to do impactful work, I had shrugged off the duration that it would take to hit milestones.
It's a dynamic playing field, especially now with AI and (wishful) attempts at order-grabbing. Y'know? Things are always on the move and changing.
So much work, in parallel.
When I sought to do impactful work, I had shrugged off the duration that it would take to hit milestones.
It's a dynamic playing field, especially now with AI and (wishful) attempts at order-grabbing. Y'know? Things are always on the move and changing.
Remarkable.
Hi! I study how cells form memories. Our lab's most recent study in Nature Commmunications shows that non-neural cells, including kidney cells, can count, detect precise time patterns, and form lasting memories in ways similar to neurons.🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53922-x
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Remarkable.
Operating systems like Android will eventually be seen as scams -- for taking advantage of consumer trust and lack of awareness, while exploiting common cognitive limitations.
Exploring their policies and settings is a deep maze.
It can take hours to set privacy settings on a new Android device.
Exploring their policies and settings is a deep maze.
It can take hours to set privacy settings on a new Android device.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Operating systems like Android will eventually be seen as scams -- for taking advantage of consumer trust and lack of awareness, while exploiting common cognitive limitations.
Exploring their policies and settings is a deep maze.
It can take hours to set privacy settings on a new Android device.
Exploring their policies and settings is a deep maze.
It can take hours to set privacy settings on a new Android device.