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by beeflet 11mo ago
not if you send em by boat
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Is google really a monopoly? You can just use another search engine or email provider. I would say it has a good moat in the minds of consumers, but not a good moat in reality.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
This comment is suspicious. I'm gonna need to see some ID
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by beeflet 11mo ago
it will not protect you from camera surveilance
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by beeflet 11mo ago
we should try to make a new peak
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by beeflet 11mo ago
this isn't europe
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The republican party has never represented "small government"
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by beeflet 11mo ago
cameras can still track you regardless
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by beeflet 11mo ago
They can be used to hold anyone responsible for anything I deem wrong. What's so bad about that? Let's say I'm partnering with flock to track anyone who drives to say, a political convention I disagree with, and basically mak
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Set up 1,000 shell corporations that take 1,000 photos of license plates. Maybe do it as a franchise or something. Make an app where you can install a camera near your house and the users are legally contractors: they get paid ~0.1c for eac
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by beeflet 11mo ago
How does it stop you from being observed by cameras? These cameras log more than just the plate numbers, they take note of the appearance of drivers, all sorts of things.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
There are no social norms problems. Social norms are always a response to technology and not the other way around.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
>Making observations at scale is categorically different than manual observations. No it isn't. It's evidenced by the fact that you will need to decide some exact scale at which surveillance becomes illegal and under which it i
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Okay, but in this instance it is a matter of scale.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Remove the legal requirements for license plates or tinted windows. We gimp the ability of the public to obfuscate their vehicle by forcing us to have license plates in the first place, when we already prove our license to drive with VIN an
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I am in the same boat. It is ridiculous and shows no signs of improving.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
okay but this should just be upstreamed into a real distro, we don't need 1000 distros that are all reimplementing the same thing
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by beeflet 11mo ago
No, it isn't
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't have time to fiddle around with some locked-in ecosystem in exchange a little more productivity or the ability to pretend not to be using my computer. And I don't even have a day job. If it was just a heads-up display for
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Maybe you could try to figure out linux TUI/CLI stuff with a braille terminal? May not help with some websites. NVDA looks like it is open source, it shouldn't be too hard to port.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
>The internet already is p2p infrastructure. No, it really isn't. Unless you mean like on the BGP level. But it's p2p in the sense where you have to trust every party not to break the system. It's like email or mastodon, i
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by beeflet 11mo ago
You don't have to suppress a cure, you can just choose not to release information that reveal one or spend research money in directions that lead to a cure. Also, not that vast if you consider the amount of people who have the informat
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't buy that the moon landing is easier to fake than the existence of a cure.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Rail was a dominant industry in the USA when railroad companies were able to exploit their unique control over property during westward expansion.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I think the alternative is to recreate the internet with more p2p friendly infrastructure. BitTorrent does not have this same DDoS problem. Mesh networks are designed with sybil resistance in mind
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't want governments to have this level of control over the internet. It seems like you are paving over a technological problem with the way the internet is designed by giving some institution a ton of power over the internet.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The problem is that the attacker isn't using a phone, they are using some type of specialized hardware. I still think it is possible with some customized variant of RandomX. The server could even make a bit of money by acting as a mini
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Good links, but this is just for email and relies on some (admittedly) pretty lofty assumptions
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by beeflet 11mo ago
betting against the nerd
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I made the mistake of going with intel because of SR-IOV, which they still haven't mainlined to the linux kernel

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