jabjoe
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- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 days ago:
There are groups to support:
And in the UK:
Some political groups are better than others, but most politicians are clueless.
The key is to get muggles to understand we are living in Technofeudalism and why being digital serfs is bad. The problem is ineffective competition law and that monopolies are bad. That monopolies and standards are not the same thing. I have no idea how. Most people are just naturally compliant and unquestioning of something seemingly so abstract.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
The goold old analog hole.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 weeks ago:
This is the dub of the issue. Markets need effective competition. Without it, you get fiefdoms and serfs, and shit products. Antitrust laws have been terrible for decades. Thanks broken political thinking. Slash up the tech monopolies and not just tech will improve.
- Comment on The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine 5 weeks ago:
I agree we should be trying stop the ethnic cleansing Israel is doing. But I do think we should be catching those who want to take refuge here due to connections here. Also, Britain did create the Israel/Palestine mess.
I can’t speak to want Arab countries are doing or not doing. It seams they are interesting in maintaining good relations with Israel more.
- Comment on The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine 5 weeks ago:
While I’d like to see this, in our rising fascist anti-immigrant political climate, where even the BBC mix up migrant and refugee, it seams unlikely. These are brown Muslims compare with white Christian of Ukraine. Despite attempts to make it illegal, there is a lot of pro-Palestine support, but I don’t think that will translate to a lot of support to bring them here. It should, but won’t. Britain is losing it’s soul.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
They just got a motivation.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Yes plan law makers needs to have a clue on what they are making laws about. Teenagers looking for porn are going to learn.
- Comment on [PDF] Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why 1 month ago:
Single standard, but multiple implementations.
- Comment on Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why 1 month ago:
Private health companies often use the same facilities and stuff as public health. It ends up basically paying to jump the queue. Also the private health companies take the low risk, glamorous stuff and leave the complex, high risk, unglamorous stuff to public health.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 month ago:
Classic podcast on why printers are terrible. Planet Money with none other that digital freedom fighter and SciFi author, Cory Doctorow.
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 1 month ago:
Being that post war Britain has defined itself as Britain’s greatest hour was defeating the Nazis, this isn’t a wise thing to say.
This is a weak point of the British Far Right. They can’t wrap themselves up in the Union Jack and claim to honour Churchill, while actually being Nazis. It’s a weakness of us those opposed to the far right need to be pointing to a lot more.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
Have used it actually, but it’s not as good. Also we know some dairy farming families and they aren’t torturing their herd. Though you are right, I don’t really care about the fate of them. As long as their isn’t real sadistic cruelty. In that instance, I worry more about what it says about the people.
I’m far more interested in the environmental impact. I can’t seam to digest meat substitutes (even when they are meant to be coeliac safe). We make a point of restraining our beef consumption due to the environmental impact, as it’s the worse meat impact wise. I’d jump on lab meat and milk.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
You need people to choose it. Pricing dairy and meat away from the masses makes it a social inequality thing. I don’t think that is the answer anyone wants. It can’t be a hair shirt thing. (Though if history is to go by, there will be affordable meat from somewhere, legal or not.)
It has got to be a better option thing. Like EVs vs ICE. Climate and pollution advantages are nice, but it’s 10x running cost difference that sells EVs. It has to be a jam today option.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
Agreed, but the problem is butter is really nice. We something as good, or better, that doesn’t use so much land and water create so much CO2 (well CO2e).
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
Solution for butter at least : cbsnews.com/…/butter-carbon-bill-gates-batavia-il…
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 month ago:
This could be great, but “proprietary”. Gates is still the same Gates. If you want to save all the land and CO2 this could, release the IP free to all. Flood the market with cheap indistinguishable synobutter, real butter can’t compete with. Milk, cheese and yogurt next please.
- Comment on Norwegian police say pro-Russian hackers were likely behind suspected sabotage at a dam 1 month ago:
One of the Russian’s proxy groups?
- Comment on ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head 1 month ago:
Authoritarian governments need to be pointed and condemned. Make it clear this not the way to go, to own governments as much as anything.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 month ago:
They call themselves news but don’t follow the rules of TV news, you know, be balanced and truthful, because they say they are entertainment. The whole point of a license is to stop that kind thing. It should been long gone.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 months ago:
Antennapod with gPodderersync & Nextcloud? There are podcast apps for Nextcloud to play in the browser.
- Comment on How a high-speed ocean chase led to an £18m cocaine seizure in Cornwall 2 months ago:
There is no way the system isn’t riddled with officials making money from drugs being unregulated and untaxed. So they want it to remain as is. Then there are DailyFail idiots who just want drugs (but not their wine) illegal.
Anyone with half a brain can see we should just legalize, regulate and tax drugs. We waste so much time, energy and money fighting ourselves.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 months ago:
They should be being sued for doing anti repair tricks.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
It’s doesn’t fall over, it just slows down. Or appears to much more than OpenVPN. There could be something else going on, but for what ever the problem was, OpenVPN was coping better and just spitting out errors about a possible replay attack and continuing like nothing was wrong. I’ve not looked again as OpenVPN is working fine. For everything else, I’m using WireGuard.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.
It’s not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It’s the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Man in the middle can be part of it. It’s just basically recording and sending stuff back. Generally I use WireGuard, but on unhygienic networks, were OpenVPN is warning about possible replay attacks, WireGuard doesn’t work as well. Could be something else of course, but I’ve got one end. It’s not constant or always.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
To be honest, I’ve found WireGuard’s performance is harmed more by reply attacks than OpenVPN. Least that is what I put it down to when I tried them both from a VPN provider that offered both.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Easy enough to do when it’s mega corps. They don’t really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.
So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can’t win. All very Cory Doctorow’s “Unauthorized Bread”.
If you care about this stuff:
UK: action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-donation US: www.eff.org/pages/donate-eff EU: my.fsfe.org/donate
There will be others too, those are just in my head’s cache.
Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.
The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It’s terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
This ends with just another war on encryption.
When encryption is legal, they can’t know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?
It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.
- Comment on VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in 2 months ago:
Shocking and completely unpredictable…
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 2 months ago:
They get their tech advice for laws from big tech.