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- Comment on Securing a 'public' service for family 1 day ago:
If you’re going to self-hosted instead of using a VPS (I know you said you’re looking at a VPS solution, this is just in case) make sure you can segregate your networks. A router that allows you to create virtual LANs, same with the access points and switches if needed.
You don’t want to expose all your devices to the internet for a few services.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal 1 day ago:
I would like to get my hands on one of these. They look amazing. However, with the current state of affairs in companies right now, I’m going to wait until it comes out, and see what the complains are. If I still want it then, I’ll get it, even if it costs more.
For now, the best fully functional option I’ve found that (sort-of) respects privacy are Garmin watches,so I’m using a Venu 3.
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 1 day ago:
news.bloomberglaw.com/…/ai-training-on-pirated-da…
todaysgeneralcounsel.com/federal-court-decision-s…
And many more. Use any search engine, and look for “list all news about Ai training breaking ip laws”, knock yourself out. And that’s only AI.
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 2 days ago:
They already do. Where have you been?
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 2 days ago:
You are aware that IP only applies to the masses (us) not to big corps, right?
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 2 days ago:
I guess it’s all about choosing what each of us deems worse. “Do I want a saner life even if it means not having some convenience, or is this change going to mess with my life for little benefit?”.
7 years ago I told everyone I was leaving WhatsApp and moving to Signal on day X. Some installed signal and we started using that exclusive, some others didn’t, and we stopped chatting, just did phone calls.
Fast forward to today, most of the people in my life use Signal, some of them exclusively to use it with me, and the rest, I haven’t missed (they call every now and then though).
It is a scary move, 100%, but well worth it, in my opinion.
- Comment on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force 3 days ago:
“Attempt”? 🤔
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 days ago:
I’m not a developer, but I can certainly understand your position. It’s unfortunate that companies rely on this type of company to decide if someone is worth hiring. There’s a need for companies to have streamlines that look at the actual capabilities and values of potential hires, regardless of where the evidences are hosted.
This world is way too broken, and getting worse every day.
- Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service 4 days ago:
Your point? 🤔
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 4 days ago:
Yup, same here.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 4 days ago:
It blows my mind that so many devs did not see this coming the moment Microsoft bought it. I was waiting for this to happen the moment I found out about the acquisition.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 5 days ago:
Wao, I watched this video yester, precisely about how detrimental all this bullshit is to us right now. How disconnected from reality and self-reliance it is making us.
Here’s the link to the video if anyone is interested (yes, I know, it’s YouTube, but I saw it in newpipe, Sue me) :
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 5 days ago:
I kind of agree with you. Things in the US (and most of the rest of the world) have taken a turn for the worst. I’ve been digging into all that’s been going on since January, and comparing it with how the nazi party came to be in power in Germany, and the similarities are scary, to say the least. Sure, it’s towards other races more than anything, as well as religions, sexual preferences and other key differentiator, but the core is exactly the same. How the Nazi party got most Germans to believe that being German meant hating jews, blacks and who knows what else, and that’s what made the holocaust so effective. Propaganda pushing hate and dividing the same country. If we go back in history, we can see all the same bullshit propaganda from those days today.
And, full disclosure, I am not opposed to countries controlling illegal immigration, as not doing so is extremely detrimental to any country, however, there is no need to completely destroy people (mentally, spiritually and sometimes even physically) to achieve these goals.
It is as you say. Americans are focused on the lie that surveillance will make them safer, and this government has exacerbated that exponentially in just half a year, using fear as the tool, and fear of immigrants, LGBT people, any skin color difference, and many more.
Now, let’s look at the other side of this. By promoting all this crap, the US has managed to make previous allies look at the possibility of moving to the other side. China, Russia, India and a few more countries have all but created their own “UN”, and contrary to what the media is showing us, they are actually flourishing, which points to a dramatic shift in global politics.
The UK, EU and Australia are leading the surveillance regimes, even for the US (visa, mastercard and steam are US companies, and all 3 were bullied into submission by a fucking Australian NGO, fucking up millions of US gamers in the process, and the authorities of the US haven’t even blinked, WTF?), which is building rapidly into a distrust climate among all allies (assuming they still are).
This is way more complex than war, surveillance, racism, xenophobia and finances, this is the decline of the Roman Empire all over again, bringing with it all the disasters to civilization that comes with this fall.
Money as we knew it doesn’t exist anymore (it hasn’t been based in gold for decades now, and now there is no physical base for it either), values have been stripped from morals in every single community (religious or not), existing weapons could destroy every living being on the planet within a couple of hours, and everyone seems to be blindly following so-called “leaders” that are only looking after their own benefits (and I’m talking about every facet of our civilization: business, work, families, governments, nobody gives a fuck about the common wellbeing anymore).
From my perspective, it falls on each of us to take the best care possible of our families, if and when we achieve this, do the same for our immediate communities, and if that pans out, then each of our countries. But I’m not counting on any “leader” to do what is needed to reverse the downward spiel the whole world is in right now. At this rate, we’re all just going to crash and burn.
Sorry for the horrible and long rant, I am extremely frustrated watching the world my kids will have to try to survive in, and the feeling of helplessness is overwhelming.
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 6 days ago:
You can still run the smart switches locally if you have the ones that support matter. But yeah, the old ones do require internet connection, which sucks.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 6 days ago:
You’re evidently an apologist for these crappy companies.
2 or 3 parents can’t do jack shit to avoid this, short of removing the kids from school and having them homeschooled.
There are 3 main factors that allow this shit to happen:
- Companies with absolutely no values and only focusing on revenue, which ends up creating these bullshit AI “systems” that are broken as hell (Chatgpt 5 anyone?)
- Lack of legislations to serve the people that voted for these legislators to live in a better society, but they choose to self-serve and allow the same shitty companies to do whatever they want AND sell their shit to institutions, like schools, law enforcement and such, so that they can get money from them
- Authorities that use these same broken “systems”, don’t even test them correctly, and take for granted that they will work because they are too fucking lazy to even care, such as schools (that have authority over our kids because we have allowed it) and law enforcement (if they can even still be called that).
There is no way to justify any of the 3 factors.
That there are parents that could be doing more to avoid this kind of shit? Absolutely. Will parents pushing for change do anything towards fixing it? Not if the other 3 factors don’t play their part as well.
Get fucking real.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 week ago:
Or we could have a legislation that would punish the companies that run these bullshit systems AND the authorities that allow and use them when they flop, like in this case.
Hey, dreaming is still free (don’t know how much longer though).
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 week ago:
You’re parenting the right way. Let our kids know about our past and how it compares to theirs, live it. And joking with my kids and their friends without immediately jumping to “that’s bullying”, you can tell my kids are a bit happier than the rest because everything is a joke to them. I applaud you.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 week ago:
I’ve been cursing a lot lately, and I blame what I listened to in Spotify. By no means was it because I was playing my pirated Eminem music all weekend 🤣🤣
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
Well, I’m keeping mine. I’m actually very happy with it. This article is full slop, with loads of disinformation, and an evident lack of research. It looks like it was made with some Ai bullshit and the writer didn’t even check what that thing vomited.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
This I can agree on. They would have been better served and made it clearer to their users by clarifying that it is not ‘zero trust’ and not e2ee. At the end of the day, once the masses start trusting a company they stop digging deep, just read the first couple of paragraphs of the details, if at all, but some of us are always digging to make sure we can find the weakest links in our security as well as our privacy to try and strengthen them. So yeah, pretty stupid of them.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
It does not say “zero-trust” anywhere, it says “zero-access”. The data is encrypted at rest, so it is not e2ee. They never mention end-to-end encryption for Lumo.
Zero-access encryption
Your chats are stored using our battle-tested zero-access encryption, so even we can’t read them, similar to other Proton services such as Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Pass. Our encryption is open source and trusted by over 100 million people to secure their data.
Which means that they are not advertising anything they are not doing or cannot do.
By posting this disinformation all you’re achieving is getting people to pedal back to all the shit services out there for “free” because many will start believing that privacy is way harder than it actually is so ‘what’s the point’ or, even worse, no alternative will help me be more private so I might as well just stop trying.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 week ago:
Where do I apply for citizenship. Non-resident citizen, as I still need to work to survive 😕
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 week ago:
Let us know when it’s ready for Alpha testing. Most of us will gladly give it a shot and help iron it out.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 week ago:
No, still required. However, you can have a username of sorts to give to people and block finding you by phone number in the platform.
- Comment on Campaign's Interactive Tool Tracks How Much Trump and GOP Are Raising the Cost of Living 2 weeks ago:
Oh, NICE! Thank you so much. Great idea.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 2 weeks ago:
Cars, yes, driven by humans. But not by AI bullshit.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 2 weeks ago:
I would argue that, if that is a requisite for them being your friends, they are not your friends. Win - win.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 2 weeks ago:
Some times, to both statements 😂
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 2 weeks ago:
This is not only very similar to my experience and entirely possible, but it’s also extremely healthy mentally and, date I say, physically.
