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by benevol 11y ago
Yes, open-source hardware would be the next step.
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by benevol 11y ago
Open-source software benefits everybody and is economically the most efficient solution (the wheel does not get reinvented; instead, you just clone and fork). One scenario could therefor be that open-source development is financed via taxes
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by benevol 11y ago
This, it's so important for society. If we want real democracy, software needs to be open-source. Please everybody, never stop promoting open-source solutions to your friends & family.
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by benevol 11y ago
The data vacuuming companies (FB, Google, ad networks, etc.) collect the information about us required to know how to manipulate us and technologies such as this one represent the tools to actually get it done .
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Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos [video](youtube.com)
160 points by benevol 11y ago|35 comments
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by benevol 11y ago
Note that it's not open source.
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by benevol 11y ago
Has anyone compared Rocket.Chat VS Mattermost? What are the significant differences (advantages/disadvantages)?
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Denmark the 'happiest country'(bbc.com)
4 points by benevol 11y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 11y ago
In a WebRTC architecture, the media (video call stream) gets sent over a TURN server. I don't see where they say that you will set up your own TURN server.
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by benevol 11y ago
> How is it doing this? Good question. Until now, with WebRTC, you always needed a STUN, TURN and signaling server [0]. And I would be very surprised if they somehow managed to create a whole new architecture. It certainly seems like the
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by benevol 11y ago
Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists This is as "classic" a move as the "t
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by benevol 11y ago
Google is NOT opt-in. You know very well that their analytics product tracks everybody all across the Web (and techies are the only ones who know about noscript). And what do you do when you are forced to reply to Gmail emails because other
553.
by benevol 11y ago
At the end of the day, mass surveillance and the resulting manipulation of each and everyone of us kills our democracies.
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by benevol 11y ago
> consumer data-mining and targeting may be a net lose It is at net lose. And our current society's concept of ever-increasing growth, based on ever-increasing consumption (aka "the latest iPhone is out, you must buy that now
555.
by benevol 11y ago
> sell better without the Dell branding Of course it would be nice, but you can't seriously ask a commercial company to remove its identity from its products.
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by benevol 11y ago
When the President himself declares encryption a thing of the past, it means the US economy will lose: a) US businesses will massively lose sales, or b) US businesses will have to move to more democratic countries
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by benevol 11y ago
He's also a President who implicitly expresses support for the view that "Snowden is a traitor", by refusing to "pardon" him (which should never even have been necessary). Sanders may be the only current candidate
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by benevol 11y ago
> Can I incorporate somewhere else in the EU In case you want "Europe, but without EU law and surveillance", there is Switzerland.
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by benevol 11y ago
All these new US & UK laws literally scream "Snowden is a traitor!". Who wants to live in such a society?
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UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors(techcrunch.com)
280 points by benevol 11y ago|150 comments
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by benevol 11y ago
Sorry in advance if this is somehow not a "substantive" comment, but it really needs to be said very clearly: This country is so f#cked now. What are the remaining options? 1. Those who accept the new reality will be forced to beh
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by benevol 11y ago
> he was seeing things 5 steps ahead of everyone else, and had such an extremely deep insight into every day things I had a period when I experienced this for some time. I can confirm it's deeply frustrating. You see all the madness
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by benevol 11y ago
Mass surveillance is in Google's/Schmidt's DNA. It's their business model: More surveillance => most precise profiles on Internet users => most precise ad targeting => higher margin => more $$$
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by benevol 11y ago
They have replaced that motto. Which, I suppose, means that they can feel better about themselves now. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil )
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by benevol 11y ago
Translation: "If you have private data, please put it on our servers so we can add it to our internal profile we have on you." This is surreal.
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by benevol 11y ago
You seem to take for granted that technology will never be used against citizens.
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by benevol 11y ago
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
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by benevol 11y ago
The combination of personal profiles on everybody (Google), soon a massive AI engine (Google) and the military-industrial complex gives me some serious chills.
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by benevol 11y ago
Everybody knows that history runs in cycles, just like fashion. The people before us have fought (and died) for freedom. We are the ones giving it up. And some day after we're gone, some people will fight for it again. And the whole th
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by benevol 11y ago
> superior outcomes for consumers You're not factoring in the fact that the Internet creates huge monopolies (just like money also has a natural monopolizing effect; in other words "rich get richer, poor get poorer"). We e

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