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by dmantis 4mo ago
> Or does this -just happen to be- the kind of shady data gathering that they're warning against? How? There are no forms on the website. Wouldn't it actually be logical for a person advocating for privacy not disclosing his id
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by dmantis 4mo ago
World is not black and white. Most people would probably prefer to live in a world with low-power petty-crime rings and ability to be free and safe apart from having their wallet stolen once in a while rather than with e.g. Russian-like sta
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by dmantis 4mo ago
The first law about building technical and legal infrastructure to enable website blocking in Russia in 2012 was passed under the name of children protection. Everything else is an addition. People from duma (the russian parlament) also pub
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by dmantis 4mo ago
>signed/sealed OS image This way we will just have unremovable age verification, spyware, online accounts to use the os, name another bs from other vendors. What's the point of Linux then? The moment big corps and the state can
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by dmantis 4mo ago
That only works for the infrastructure of one entity. It doesn't establish direct connection to my friend's device by a key pair if he is outside of the particular organisation tailscale VPN. p2p apps need direct connections.
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by dmantis 4mo ago
Isn't that a good thing in a way? If everyone has the weapon and defense at the same time, we will fix security holes and live safer lifes instead of having some three letter agencies and military backdoors in everything. Pandora box i
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by dmantis 4mo ago
That's called NSA.
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by dmantis 4mo ago
Studies say otherwise: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_... Cash is actually faster in many cases, the 'slowness' is the matter of perception and the need to make a cognitive o
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by dmantis 4mo ago
I don't feel that LLMs are replacing books for professionals. The problem with LLM learning is not that they can't explain a concept, but you have to know what to ask in the first place. To get a deep proper answer from LLMs you n
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by dmantis 4mo ago
> There will be businesses no human can comprehend or manage. If nobody neither fully created nor manages the business, then we probably shouldn't assume any property rights on it by anyone, therefore all the profits must go to the
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by dmantis 5mo ago
Law enforcement of another jurisdiction won't, but can try to snoop into the data.
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by dmantis 5mo ago
Why would it? It's a technology, not an artifical belief system to just disappear because people got tired of it. Hype might go away, along with some of today's usages, but the fact that we know about the technology means it will
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by dmantis 5mo ago
I hope regular people will stop using "national security" and "national interests" as euphemisms and framing, and will call these things a psychopathic fight for power. Assuming that some humans are worse than others bec
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by dmantis 5mo ago
Some anon hero cleans up backdoored garbage. This year looks very refreshing for software. My guess is because of the AI-assitance in grinding an unlimited amount of code. While I feel sorry for maintainers and developers who have a new CVE
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by dmantis 5mo ago
AGPLv3 does.
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by dmantis 5mo ago
> don't really care about open source. Exactly. You can sell the products of your work all the way you want. But pretending to share with the world and then push back when the world actually use it under these same open terms is a
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by dmantis 5mo ago
> Amazon doesn’t contribute changes upstream Are you sure that's the case with AGPL? Cause they can sue them and enforce the contribution. I doubt that's the case. And those who went with MIT/BSD openly allow distribution
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by dmantis 5mo ago
> You just have to use a secure device. No, you have to use government backdoored device. I.e. the most secure android rom (at least the only rom we know is not penetrable by state-sponsored celebrite based malware) is not covered by goo
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by dmantis 5mo ago
People who are actually interesting, are often aware of that fact and avoid surveillance at the moment. You can use tor/i2p, proper VPN setups, VMs, alternative mobile ROMs and other tech and cut most of the fingerprints, trackers and
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by dmantis 6mo ago
Just curious, out of your class theory, do we need to have worker solidarity with low-level street drug dealers? Or the worker must have an official contract?
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by dmantis 6mo ago
I don't see how their measures will help. It might have helped a few years ago, but one can literally ask to recreate the full book contents 1-to-1 with any local uncensored LLM just from a video of changing pages. You don't even
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by dmantis 6mo ago
I hope AA will make an onion version in addition to the unstable domain switching.
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by dmantis 6mo ago
I've been running RPI-based torrent client 24/7 in several countries and never experienced that. Eats a few TBs per month, not the full line, but pretty decent amount. I guess it really depends on the country.
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by dmantis 6mo ago
There are many hobbies with which people can kill themselves if they don't understand what they are doing. I don't see how brewing is different. A grown-up person has rights and bears the consequences of negligence and that's
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by dmantis 6mo ago
True, but there is yet a one major OS that allows you to run whatever you see fit on your computer. If you are really disgusted by those moves, you have a time to switch. If enough people switch, then we can just forget about that garbage.
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by dmantis 6mo ago
1. web is too slow compared to any decent desktop client. thunderbird navigation/deletion/message opening is basically instant from human perception, web version operations are visible to human eye. 2. doesn't cut trackers
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by dmantis 6mo ago
Well, it's all relative and depends on perception. I tried to briefly explain a typical i-own-my-computer mindset regarding the linux monetization question from the parent comment. I can pay for cool stuff I can trust, but the "I
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by dmantis 6mo ago
Many from linux crowd are slightly paranoid and ideological. I'm as a linux user very reluctant to install anything proprietary that has such sensitive info as my network traffic and would rather use opensnitch or any other foss fork.
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by dmantis 6mo ago
Just in one particular country. That hurts their labs, but there are ~190 other countries in the world for Chinese to sell their products to, just like they do with their cars. And businesses from these other countries would happily switch
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by dmantis 6mo ago
Do you imply that it's not possible for the US intelligence agencies to request this data from google per person of interest and deliver some information from the metadata? I heavily doubt that.

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