kornhole

44 ms·

601.
by kornhole 4y ago
Thank you for explaining that you only used it for one day to add context. It is a different experience that takes a little time to understand. I do not remember how long it took me to get familiar with Twitter as it was long ago, but I am
602.
by kornhole 4y ago
RSS + Ublock Origin is all you need for that.
603.
by kornhole 4y ago
When framed as extremes in a false dichotomy, centralization seems the better option. In the reality of decentralized social media servers, thousands of community servers of various sizes rather than individuals make up most of the nodes an
604.
by kornhole 4y ago
The pace at which this happens is determined by the barriers and limits of the context. This is why centralists want to have big barriers such as proprietary technology and government backing by laws and other force that protects their mono
605.
by kornhole 4y ago
How does it get cancelled out? Take this example: Company A has $1M revenue from creating services or products. Then my company B invoices company A for $250K. GDP is $1.25M. I do not report who I billed to the government who compiles GDP.
606.
by kornhole 4y ago
The gig economy boosts GDP. If I work as an employee, I am just an expense to a company. If I setup an S corporation and contract my services to that same company, I am now growing the services sector and increasing GDP. I am still doing th
607.
by kornhole 4y ago
It is not just Canada. The US and other countries justify their debt levels by this and it is used by bond traders to measure health of bonds issued. Military spending as percentage of GDP is also cited. So if military spending and borrowin
608.
by kornhole 4y ago
I am referring explicitly to using Mastodon instances and not about other platforms or software. I run Mastodon and other instances and know what is collected and what trackers are enabled from server which is very little. Yes some informat
609.
by kornhole 4y ago
I suppose I have been lucky in location or keep some kind of good balance. Chemical warfare would be my last resort if I was ever faced with it.
610.
by kornhole 4y ago
If you don't trust the administrator of your instance not to sell you out to the government, you simply use an anonymous email address at sign up and use a VPN or TOR to access the server. It is as simple as that since Mastodon is desi
611.
by kornhole 4y ago
It seems that Mastodon or other fediverse projects could be quite popular in places like this. With minimal effort, it is easy to be anonymous in the fediverse. Many independent federated instances also makes it censorship resistant.
612.
by kornhole 4y ago
Your skepticism is warranted. Of course the negative affects of these chemicals is down played by those who sell them. Many leech into ecosystems, our homes, and our bodies causing obvious and latent issues. I personally love insects and pl
613.
by kornhole 4y ago
We Americans are against chemical warfare in other countries but not when it is done in our own homes or farms against other species.
614.
by kornhole 4y ago
I think it depends on how invested people already are and the sunk cost fallacy effect that will keep them on when there are no real signs that government, AI, corporate controlled social media will improve us.
615.
by kornhole 4y ago
Check out Jeffrey Sach's recent take on that. You can skip right to 4:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_SpW-DyQg&t=318 He was instrumental in the neo liberal conversion of the Soviet union.
616.
by kornhole 4y ago
This is not unique to duckdns. My own domains with completely innocent content get flagged as unsafe by the big gatekeepers. This is a growing problem for any of us outside their walls.
617.
by kornhole 4y ago
I don't participate for ethical reasons which implies that I believe those who do are unethical, ignorant, or trapped. Some call me radical, but I take it as a compliment.
618.
by kornhole 4y ago
People act when on the precipice. Decentralized e2ee messengers and servers will thrive now in India: xmpp, matrix, session, tox, briar, Jami..
619.
by kornhole 4y ago
I also use similar browser isolation strategy. I use one browser for real-ID activity such as banks, domain registrars.. and avoid entering real creds in the private browser to keep an anonymous fingerprint. This is one of those gray areas
620.
by kornhole 4y ago
Resistance is fertile. I will demand they call the embassy if they push it. I travel for work and need functional devices.
621.
by kornhole 4y ago
It is centralized and mostly not E2ee. It has mainly the same problems as WhatsApp.
622.
by kornhole 4y ago
Answered in above response. They took it long enough to make a copy. These were random searches. I have flown around the planet way too many times.
623.
by kornhole 4y ago
This happened to me at airports in Israel and Germany. I am a US citizen and was not in any category of suspicion. This happens with US airport security too. I was dumb back then and did not encrypt my drive. They did ask me to boot up the
624.
by kornhole 4y ago
Mastodon and the dozen or so other fediverse projects are free which means they are not advertised and promoted. I have a personal rule not to buy anything that is advertised. So this is great for me. The masses don't know about it and
625.
Ask HN
6 points by kornhole 4y ago|18 comments
626.
by kornhole 4y ago
Or if you travel on airplanes. I have twice had my laptop taken in the backroom by security where I am pretty sure they copied my hard drive.
627.
by kornhole 4y ago
People trapped in Apple's ecosystem will put up with all of this. Only a small minority wiil be able to rewire. Apple played this very well.
628.
by kornhole 4y ago
In that calculation of how much non subtle ads they can push will be how much it will take to actually drive people to leave and rewire some deep circuitry. I know I am generalizing, but Apple users are quite captured and often unable to sw
629.
by kornhole 4y ago
I had this going well with worms in my compost but then had a mole make home under the compost. These cute little insectivores will eat all the worms.
630.
by kornhole 4y ago
No single or consortium of companies should have this data advantage over the many small companies to ensure competition.

More ›