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by digiown 8mo ago
The WWW has never been a high-trust place. Some smaller communities, sure, but anyone has always been able to write basically what they want on the internet, true or false, as long as it is not illegal in the country hosting it, which is cl
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by digiown 8mo ago
Daily reminder that these tools are made possible by the power of general purpose computing, and corporate interests want to take it away. In a hypothetical future not too far from us where your devices become "trusted", you will
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by digiown 8mo ago
SingleFile does the archiving fairly well. > no privacy worries This is harder than you might expect. Publishing these files is always risky because sites can serve you fingerprinting data, like some hidden HTML tag containing your IP an
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by digiown 8mo ago
IA has always been in legal jeopardy without offering paid access. For that to work we need to get rid of copyright first.
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by digiown 8mo ago
As an aside, it seems cool that the bar to reverse engineering has lowered from all the LLMs. Maybe we'll get to take full control of many of these "smart" devices that require proprietary/spyware apps and use them in a
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by digiown 8mo ago
So everyone and their mom and all the foreign governments can buy the data, but not your own government? Do you really think this is a sustainable arrangement?
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by digiown 8mo ago
The whole point of a regulation is to ban something they are currently allowed to do. There was a time before the civil rights laws where you can discriminate by race, you know.
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by digiown 8mo ago
It can be banned explicitly as a regulation on surveillance cameras. Like: - The footage must be secured / only stored locally, and can only be used in legal proceedings or liability, and can be stored for maximum 1 (or a different num
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by digiown 8mo ago
Thanks for the legal clarification. I don't disagree that the third part doctrine is rather overbroad. I would still prefer legislation and tech that actually reduce data collection though. Fifth amendment protections are much stronger
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by digiown 8mo ago
I think we clearly both agree that mass surveillance is problematic regardless of whether it is done by the government or corporations. With that said > normies would probably say it shouldn't be allowed Despite knowing about this,
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by digiown 8mo ago
A private company can rat you out the government in the same way that a private citizen can report you to the police. I don't see a reasonable way to change this. The government should be held to higher standards in terms of being able
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by digiown 8mo ago
I don't think there is an expectation of privacy for things you literally post to the public, like social media. Even the government doing the scraping directly I believe would not violate the 4th amendment. The third party doctrine a
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by digiown 8mo ago
That's why it doesn't make sense to ban governments from doing things while still allowing private companies. Either it is illegal to surveil the public for everyone, or the government can always do it indirectly with the same eff
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by digiown 8mo ago
Reminds me of these Reddit API protests for.. one day. Of course it didn't work.
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by digiown 8mo ago
You can't because there is a network monopoly and barrier to entry is sky high. Realistically, your only option is to piggyback on Android by developing an Android-compatible OS like Huawei did. However this will soon become impossible
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by digiown 8mo ago
RCS on Android seems to require Google services, which is just as bad as Apple, and seems to not work well with GrapheneOS.
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by digiown 8mo ago
Agreed. Doorbell is one thing, it terrifies me that people put these inside their homes. It's like 1984 but they're paying for it.
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by digiown 8mo ago
I wouldn't trust E2EE implemented by an entity against itself that can also push arbitrary updates in principle. Also, any E2EE product that has a non-E2EE mode seems prone to accidental leaks.
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by digiown 8mo ago
Frigate and some cameras that can stream to an NVR. No cloud, you can use a VPN for remote access. https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware/
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by digiown 8mo ago
I'm sure your server will be fine. Now if you put up a big declaration like that on your website, some bureaucrat might just decide to pick on you when they get the chance like France with Durov.
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by digiown 8mo ago
Oops your plane had some issue on its way to a different European country and now has to make an emergency landing at Heathrow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978
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by digiown 8mo ago
Discord has always had dark patterns which basically ban anonymity. If you aren't fingerprintable enough (using VPN, etc) they will force you to enter a phone number. They also encourage guild admins to require it, although it is techn
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by digiown 8mo ago
If you get rid of a lot of inefficiencies (unnecessary parking, land use segregation increase travel distances, and restrictions on multi family apartments), there will be so much more space available that it would lower housing prices by a
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by digiown 8mo ago
Value creation not captured is the definition of a positive externality, and landlords being able to extract that value despite not creating them is an example of rent seeking. Aiming to address these does not somehow question capitalism.
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by digiown 8mo ago
It can be transferred by lowering sales or corporate taxes. It is also indirectly transferred by encouraging more valuable land use around the retail like public transport or complementary businesses.
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by digiown 8mo ago
> which can only destroy value One of the stronger arguments for LVT is that land is inherently inelastic, and thus taxing it doesn't create inefficiency (deadweight loss). Other taxes like sales tax destroy value because they creat
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by digiown 8mo ago
KDEconnect over a VPN works extremely well for clipboard and file and notification sharing. You don't have to use KDE for it. It works with Linux and Android. It also doesn't require an account and accepting terms, so it is strict
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by digiown 8mo ago
Linux has few defenses against the compromise of individual programs leading to the whole system being compromised. If you stick to basic tools (command line) that you can fully trust, it might be somewhat resistant to these types of attack
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by digiown 8mo ago
We have a word for this: a backdoor. It wouldn't de-legitimize the secondary access market. It would just delegitimize Apple itself to the same level. Apple seems to care about its reputation as the defender of privacy, regardless of h
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by digiown 8mo ago
This reminds me of those side channel attacks in crypto. Maybe it works, but any adversary most certainly has easier ways of surveilling you, like hidden cameras with facial recognition.

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