rottingleaf
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- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 21 hours ago:
Steam is not the only means of distribution anywhere, and you can often buy the same game both from Steam and directly.
It’s too early to hate it.
(Well, I mean, I want a FreeBSD native Steam client with native Proton and all infrastructure, but I can understand that it’s a small percentage, even if not that different from Linux support.)
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 21 hours ago:
Chrome shouldn’t be worth more than an IMAP client. If it is, then the web should be torn down and built anew.
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 1 day ago:
as long as its secure and 100% recoverable by the user
These two are fundamentally incompatible.
And having a central authority obviously compromises security.
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 1 day ago:
I dislike this idea that government run is bad.
Nothing is inherently bad, but putting yourself into a hierarchy (at the bottom of it too) that you don’t need seems a dubious decision.
Having postal service support e-mail services is fine, maybe.
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 1 day ago:
People have invented cryptographic identities. Maybe unbinding email identity from service is long overdue.
I’m biased, but seems much better than what you are suggesting.
- Comment on You wouldn't steal a font 1 day ago:
Typical.
Especially when that ad was released, nobody considered piracy a crime seriously then.
Those making the ad could probably be thinking like: something business-made, with workhours put into it, shouldn’t be pirated, that’s theft, but something made by enthusiasts can, it’s taking what doesn’t have an owner, just toys in the Internet, and also GPL is dishonest for having rules, it’s cheating and poison, it’s ownerless too, only companies doing business should be able to sue for IP violations.
- Comment on In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM. 1 day ago:
The governments need encryption less than regular citizens. Wolves and sheep are not equal, one wolf among hundreds of sheep is still safe. It’s the sheep who need protection against that wolf. They’ll still have their hard power in any case.
- Comment on In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM. 1 day ago:
You can, you also can have very seamless and unnoticeable surveillance over those few who would put effort into protecting their privacy.
There’s a rule of the thumb here: if someone with power doesn’t yet do what’s clearly unacceptable and outrageous, but does painful things which are not but on the fringe, this means you just don’t know what they are really doing. It’s the same with Russia, it’s state security services were never hindered by any laws, but less visibility of that helps reduce public pressure.
When someone even approaches backdoors, surveillance, nothing to hide nothing to fear, we know better, we can’t have direct democracy here, we have institutions and rules, all that, - even in words, - then you should start killing them. Immediately.
It only seems to have many years to have totalitarianism and mafia rule all together. In reality this happens in a few weeks. You had transparency and rules and responsible citizens and democracy, a week passes, and you have undocumented prisons where people die without being convicted, surveillance of anyone even to walk near something of interest, “politicians” all knowing each other for decades, no real grassroot movements at all, even fake grassroot movements’ leaders being murdered in plain sight and never properly investigated. All this happens momentarily. The slow transition is only in appearance and only to reduce effort spent on damage control.
- Comment on In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM. 1 day ago:
No way, how can that be if they have so many laws protecting children, must make more, surely voting for something and putting it on paper always solves problems.
What it really does, though, is to give people authorization to use force with a stated goal of fulfilling them.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 2 days ago:
That’s the intended effect. People with real power think this way: “where it does work, it’ll work and not bother us with too much initiative and change, and where it doesn’t work, we know exactly what to do, so everything is covered”. Checks and balances and feedbacks and overrides and fallbacks be damned.
Humans are apes. When an ape gets to rule an empire, it remains an ape and the power kills its ability to judge.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 2 days ago:
An Alarming Number of Anyone Believes Fortune Cookies
Just … accept it, superstition is in human nature. When you take religion away from them, they need something, it’ll either be racism/fascism, or expanding conscience via drugs, or belief in UFOs, or communism at least, but they need something.
The last good one was the digital revolution, globalization, world wide web, all that, no more wars (except for some brown terrorists, but the rest is fine), everyone is free and civilized now (except for those with P*tin as president and other such types, but it’s just an imperfect democracy don’t you worry), SG-1 series.
Anything changing our lives should have an intentionally designed religious component, or humans will improvise that where they shouldn’t.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3) 3 days ago:
Why is ease of hosting a mail server rated so well ? How is “leveraging email hosting services” decentralized in any way ?
Because somebody there doesn’t even understand you’re supposed to host an email server as easily as hosting a web server with a website. While in reality you’ll learn all the Satanish obscene lexicon before making big email providers accept your mail.
I’m exaggerating probably, but ahem.
That said, in my humble careless incompetent “let’s-go-back-to-year-2005” opinion we need a new email standard, spiritually same, but qualitatively different, like the upgrade from prehistoric email with UUCP paths to something more modern, only this time cutting down all the DMARC and DKIM bullshit and simply using pubkeys in To: and From: headers, with the email itself signed by the author, by mail server and maybe by something else. One can make encryption of email content the baseline norm while we’re at it. One can even get rid of the attachment of identities to mail servers and use servers similar to how NOSTR has relays. I mean, what I described already is just NOSTR with nostalgic aesthetics. Maybe also similar to some kind of Fidonet reimagined.
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 3 days ago:
Do they host login servers and supernodes for the actual real Skype? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party is shutting down as Beijing leaves no room for dissent 4 days ago:
“Chinese imperialism” is a kinda old thing, it’s built a lot too, ya knaw, in a couple millennia
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Ah, yes. I’ll add to this that she shouldn’t be a sadistic torturer and probable murderer (just thinking of my first love).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.
That’s kinda sad.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Any girl
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
EU is not democratic. EU’s ruling entities are formed by governments of member countries. Which are supposedly democratic.
And about never voted through - sometimes putting pressure is enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.
Oh, let’s all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?
- Comment on "Autism is a modern epidemic" 5 days ago:
Yes, I meant they are relatives and a lot of D’s are often similar between relatives. RFK Jr’s ideas, but JFK’s sister getting lobotomized for behavior that might come with ASD too.
- Comment on "Autism is a modern epidemic" 5 days ago:
But I can tell you my uncles and ancestors who were farmers, engineers, etc (extremely conservative men too) - dont like how ASD is a disorder. “Back in our day we called that an engineer.”
Yes, that’s a bit like my aunts resist putting ASD and my grandpa into one sentence.
Also they are too somewhat conservative, and the reaction to a single F-word in a good article was textbook autistic. Similarly to how I buy a bottle of some soda, not seeing the “pieces of something” small text (pieces themselves are almost invisible), and then try to drink it and spit it out.
but given that JFKs sister was lobotomized for being too promiscuous and California had a mass eugenics program until the 50s we won’t know.
I’ll dare suggest that RFK himself seems autistic a lot. With the absolute idiocy my father believed about ASD, I think RFK’s ideas might be a result of some childhood trauma connected to that diagnosis.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 6 days ago:
It’s no different than shredding or burning paper files.
Both are normal if you work with information you wouldn’t like to leak. Or something very personal.
They are that thing you said only if they are unusual for the circumstance. When that gives information that a person did something not normal.
Because that’s a sign of something, kinda similar to shaking hands and missing shovel and sudden lack of time for guests.
Encrypting everything on Internet-connected machines is not unusual. It’s perfectly normal. It’s f* obligatory.
Encryption is also criminal in some contexts, like encrypted radio broadcasts on frequencies for public use.
Because that’s almost jamming, if everyone could broadcast all they can, nobody could use those frequencies. And since you have to make space there, private transmissions probably belong somewhere else. Doesn’t matter when using wire. This is irrelevant to encryption.
It definitely belongs as a talking point in a courtroom, imo.
No it doesn’t. Even if someone suddenly started encrypting everything, no. Maybe they learned how the world works and decided to learn to do it just in case.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 6 days ago:
Encryption is not just not a crime, it’s a republican virtue, those arguments usually used about guns, they are even better applicable to encryption. Encryption is actually a civil duty, because of herd immunity being damaged by people not using encryption. That public institutes’ erosion we are seeing in the last decades - it’s because the technological progress made the need for encryption to blow up, not accompanied with sufficient public perception. That erosion is a result of bad people having gotten orders of magnitude more information about everyone to plan their actions.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
Ah. OK. That’s nicer. Makes sense in the time of consumer hardware dominating frontlines.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
That be radar or the bombe’s?
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
Lasers are more useful in surveillance and navigation and guidance and precision work in production, for a weapon they are, most of the time, out of place. Both expensive, unreliable and weak.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
How is knocking out drone swarms different from knocking out any other communications?
I swear, such news are reminiscent of the notorious tech illiteracy in “Wraith Squadron” books from Star Wars EU. With that Bothan being, ya knaw, able to just check all of one planet’s communications from the orbit after arriving there. The author (not to insult him) didn’t even consider how preposterous it would be on our planet, which doesn’t know hyperspace travel and other SW-grade tech yet, to be able to process that amount of information, no “hacking” parts even being discussed.
Which is even worse when pre-Wraith parts of the series are pretty sane and Corran as a character knows what he’s doing.
Of course protocols used in such applications have DoS vulnerabilities that can be found and used. And a lot of existing equipment can be employed in that too. Just - why does the headline read so stupid.
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 1 week ago:
I also don’t know to what extent Putin’s power is limited.
To no extent, but it’s more of a gang than a monarchy.
If you have any resources comparing modern Russia to pre-Soviet Russia, I’d be interested in reading more.
I’ll look for them, what I say is a digest of a lot of little things learned, so.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
Rather they want new vulnerabilities to go right to the market and remain unknown for longer, because that makes the surveillance and other criminal activity by the government easier.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Oh, so NOSTR is not hated here anymore. Good Anakin good.
Seriously, an amazingly successful platform.
People always want to try subtler and subtler tech, and NOSTR’s dumb architecture with relays is something that could only be conceived by people not that fond of tech brilliance. And that’s good and right! And if those people are cryptobros, then so be it, they found the right way and this is what matters.
They had a task one can’t solve with classic P2P, because mobile devices and energy consumption and uptime. They solved it the old-fashioned way which is still right, kinda like Usenet, except reducing news servers to asynchronous relays.
NOSTR already has some standard extensions for moderated communities, I’m just not sure if there are any clients supporting that.