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Obviously a lot of people here hide a lot of information. What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering the possibility that a government is spying on your actions despite strict privacy practices? Considering my current situation and my extreme threat model it feels like the privacy walls around me are closing in. I'm very paranoid. I do a lot of risky and dangerous shit on the internet. Every knock on my door and phone call feels like the police. I don't talk with others about what I do and I'm always hiding my internet activity from others. Any thoughts would be helpful
I don't know what country you're from but at least here in the USA the things that therapists are required to report to police are pretty slim, mostly just things that could cause direct physical harm to yourself and others.
Beyond threats to hurt another person, threats to sexually assault another person, neglect of a child, or threats of harm to oneself... almost everything else is covered by HIPAA patient privacy rules.
If you live elsewhere perhaps you could look into your local laws in terms of what is required mandatory reporting for therapists?
I'm unsure if the consequence with HIPAA could convince the therapist to not tell the police. And it is a super long story and even some of it does involve threats to harm others, and it is not drugs and not CP
Edit: I agree with you though I do need a therapist. I'm going crazy
Hypothetically, if you were the most wanted man alive you would still go to a therapist and confess all your crimes as long as it is off camera and not a HIPAA violation?
I don't know, it might depend on the crime. I believe that clergy get a higher level of privilege than therapists. You can literally confess a murder to a priest and they aren't allowed to (and won't) tell anyone.
Famously, in the 1970s, Daniel Ellsberg stayed out of jail after it emerged that Nixon's fixers had broken into Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office to get his case files. These days they would just break into a computer.
IDK how it works exactly, maybe the secrecy only counts when you confess your own sins, not someone else's. I'm sure there is theological doctrine one way or the other.
It depends. In the US I think it varies by state. And it's only for big things like murder or child sexual abuse.
If you say "yeah I stole a piece of candy once" that's not worth reporting. If you say "decades ago I touched a minor inappropriately" they probably won't pursue it. If you say "yesterday I killed my neighbor and his family" yeah they're gonna fucking bolt from that room and call 911 as fast as they fucking can.
I do a lot of risky and dangerous shit on the internet.
Maybe stop doing things that would get the police at your door?? There's only a handful of things I can think of that would actually get police at your door for your online behavior and most of them are things that kind of make me ill to think about.
I mean, drugs are probably the most common illicit þing people do online, and it's debatable wheþer anti-drug laws þemselves are eþically sound, much less effective at what þey claim to want to accomplish. CP and oþer crap is probably a fraction.
In some states in þe US, it's illegal to try to get some kinds of healþ care.
Good point, where I live weed is legal as are mushrooms, I often forget that people might still be looking for drugs beyond those.
I guess I always lived by the old adage "always know your dealer" when I was still doing drugs, which is a long time ago now. The idea of getting them online from strangers just seems risky in general.
Actually, I would personally feel more comfortable getting them online than I would in person because then I can use a testing kit on it to make sure I'm getting what I'm paying for and if the stuff is of bad quality, I can leave them a bad review so that other people won't buy from them.
I would personally be afraid to do the deal in person.
That's why in the old days it was "always know your dealer" as interpersonal trust systems were built on people who weren't screwing with the quality of what you were getting and you could easily, by word of mouth, tell others to not deal with people who had done you wrong. Same idea, different technology and time period.
Some of us think the best way to do that is to build parallel systems of mutual aid (which isn't illegal) to support each other when things become difficult instead of violence. Especially considering the fascists are trying to foment violence as an excuse to clamp down with martial law and cancel elections. Parallel systems would instead allow us to house, clothe, and feed each other during something like a general strike, which is much more likely to cause a deep impact than fruitlessly trying to violently attack one of the best outfitted and funded militaries on the planet which commands surveillance systems that make our meager attempts at privacy seem foolish at best and downright fucking stupid at worst.
Except that fascists will invent excuses whenever there isn't violence at all.
True, but why make their jobs easier? The more propaganda they have to produce over reality means more truth slips through.
I believe it is worth combatting their surveillance. Our liberty is not a given but needs to be taken. What is stupid is holding too much defeatism.
Gonna just have to agree to disagree on that. I feel capable of privacy measures intended to stop basic corporate adware surveillance, but the idea that we as individuals can battle the tools and capabilities of well funded nation state with agencies like the NSA and CIA involved seems to smack of hubris to me.
Mutual aid, as you said, is good; but it should not be the only resort.
I agree, but I don't think you're going to be able to organize and mobilize the citizens against an authoritarian takeover without parallel systems being set up first. Otherwise fascist disaster capitalists will just use their control of such systems against us.
What's the point of life if crippling, paralyzing fear is all there is to it? I work on being a good steward of my privacy as much as it brings me joy and satisfaction, not so much that it consumes every waking hour.
Whatever it is, review your threat model. What's done is done and there is little that can be done to redact any evidence you may have left on the internet. Are you able to stop doing whatever it is that is putting you at risk of legal trouble?
If it's an drug or psychological problem, you need to seek professional medical attention. Many people die or suffer life-changing illness each year fearing that their doctors will rat them out for substance abuse. Don't be one of them. Patient privacy laws, at least in the US, prevent your doctors, therapists, etc. will protect you if you go and seek help. The main thing that they would have to disclose is if you make direct, credible threats to other people.
If it's a criminal operation or worse, lawyer up and good luck.
Im not sure what to say with the risky and dangerous shit but as a person living in a country where an unmarked, untrained,unregulated paramilitary masked militia are going after people on pure pretense. I can say Im going to live my fucking life and fuck them all. Never before have I more understood this part of the lord of the rings:
“I wish it need not have happened in my time.”
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Hey mate, besides the therapist recommendations, which are great, I would make a plan on how to make an exit from any criminal and all risky/dangerous activities you do. If whatever you're doing is seemingly necessary, someone else will fill that role. Make the plan and follow it. If it involves moving or even switching countries, do that.
Creating a plan to exit will probably be calming and at the same time helpful when you make your adieu.
I’m very paranoid. I do a lot of risky and dangerous shit on the internet.
I don't want to know what you do, however, if it's causing this much paranoia, perhaps you should not do risky and dangerous shit on the internet. I know that sounds overly simplified, but if it's that risky and dangerous, what's the roi? Sooner than later, risky and dangerous activities get noticed. When I constructed my threat model, it included a lot of potential adversaries. However, I do this because I am a rather private individual, not because I want to do risky and dangerous shit on the internet.
Because my privacy is already f'd. I don't like being tracked but the government would already have plenty of data on me if they really cared to collect it.
Maybe because I want them to try it. Like a fake tough bully you see in school taking other kids lunch money. I want them to try me so I can beat them into the ground. Never crack under pressure, transform into a diamond; hardened and brilliant.
I'm not sure what you do. Don't care, you want privacy here's my tips. Delete all your public information and only use Tor connections for the internet. If possible move and get a fresh start. Stay lowkey and don't go super sketchy should put you at peace. (If you have the ability to do it)
If you do "lot of risky and dangerous shit" then it's even more important that you do so mindfully. If you get careless because you are tired you increase the risk.
Personally my "trick" is to learn from others, e.g. in few weeks in Paris there will be splintercon.net/paris/ where tools and processes will be explained. I can learn from them.
Also my way to stay calm isn't just to be mindful or learn... but do stuff, no matter how small. If you learn about a new thread, address it today. It doesn't mean fix the problem entirely (it'd nice if you could) but rather do something, ANYTHING, about it. If it's not solved, write notes about it and resume tomorrow or whenever you can. Every small effort does add up over time.
Finally I find that sport helps a lot to "evacuate" stress. If I feel some pressure from work or the overall situation, I go outside and sweat it out. It doesn't magically make the World better but it insures I'm a bit more in shape to try to tackle whatever is thrown at me.
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Finally I find that sport helps a lot to “evacuate” stress. If I feel some pressure from work or the overall situation, I go outside and sweat it out. It doesn’t magically make the World better but it insures I’m a bit more in shape to try to tackle whatever is thrown at me.
I just usually rub one out, but sports are good too.
I dont do anything actually bad on the internet. I have never even went to the dark web with the onion protocol. Im just not interested in the shit i would find there.
I use privacy tools because thats what I believe should be default. People deserve their privacy. No company or government actually have the moral right to take it away. They are supposed to be elected by the people to work FOR US. That part is just forgotten now.
You can use and support Tor! It's easy with a bootable version of Tails, I use it to access Proton Mail since they make their regular services also available on an onion site (the link is on their regular website).
It is never a requirement to perform 100% of all "Privacy best practices" 24 hours a day and 7 days a week with perfect execution. Simply put, nobody has that level of threat on average unless they are someone like Snowden, a Journalist covering a story, or are working as an intelligence agent.
It is best to assess your threat level and choose Privacy preserving techniques and tools according to what best suits your life and situation first. Don't overdo it, don't try to achieve perfect privacy, don't try to keep up with the metaphorical Joneses. There will always be new threats to your privacy to assess; and you shouldn't be ignorant of them; but you also should not ever let that growing list of threats overwhelm you.
If you need to take time to stop reading privacy news...do so. Just like regular world and national news; it can put you in a state of constant panic. Manage your mental health and state first before you ever allow yourself to address your privacy issues at hand.
Once your mental state is clear and your focus is sharp; focus specifically on little things you can easily do to protect your privacy. Maybe make sure you have a VPN set up or ensure you go over critical privacy settings on your devices to ensure none have changed or shifted since you last visited them. Then consider other small things you can do; if you can say, for example, choose a new email provider, then do so. If not, pick a new thing to address and move on. Do not make managing your privacy a chore if you can possibly help it. Take improving it one step at a time, take breaks for your sanity and make sure you don't overdo it all at once.
I mainly protect my company secrets by encrypting it and hope for the best. Else, it's just the normal stuff, that is nobody else's business. But then, i am glad that i am old and likely won't have to live in a dystopian place like this world seems to be going towards.
The kind of "privacy" you get by using a VPN or avoiding Facebook tracking your web browsing is absolutely not appropriate for using against a threat model that includes three-letter agencies or even, frankly, the local cops. They can just, like, come to your house when you aren't there and bug it. Point a camera at your screen, station a dude in the closet, replace the computer with a cunningly painted cardboard replica of the computer which is a spy, etc. Or from the other end, they simply exploit a zero-day in every one of your seven proxies, because they care enough about catching you to burn them.
Sometimes the threat model says you just lose and you can't actually get what you want by using computers, because you have an information technology hammer and a fundamentally legal or political problem.
If you think the police are actually on to your crimes, stop doing those crimes! If the crimes needed doing for some reason, someone else less likely to be known to the police will probably do them instead, and you can surely find less-crimey ways to further whatever they were meant to accomplish. If you're in it for yourself for some sort of personal gain, quit while you're ahead.
If you think you're drastically overestimating the likelihood that the police are after you for your crimes, and it is affecting your ability to function, that's definitely a problem for your therapist. Presumably one who doesn't insist you explain your various crimes to them in detail, a thing which your lawyer (which you also maybe need?) might have concerns about.
What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering the possibility that a government is spying on your actions despite strict privacy practices?
Because I'm a fan of my fucking rights and I'll defend it against an authoritarian government. I don't need to be a terrorist to value free speech.
How do you all stay calm with all this pressure?
It's hard, but by using good tools, writing out my privacy model, being informed. It will not necessarily make you calm about the current state of everything but at least be knowledgeable about how good your entire environment is.
I don't really have anything to hide... but I still believe in a fundamental right to privacy and personal agency. For a lot of people, these tools keep them alive (ex. Targeted minorities in oppressive regimes etc).
But for me, this is more of an academic exercise - I find it interesting, and the things I learn can be shared with others who need them more.
If your activities are affecting your ability to sleep and have peace of mind, my only advice is to stop.
If your own conscience is haunting you, that's a good signal for you to fix your behavior so you can have a clear conscience and you won't need to worry about the law closing in on you. What a horrible existence that must be.
Hey I'm technically doing something illegal right now that I do every day all day long and IDGAF because the law regarding this thing is stupid & oppressive & I'm not hurting myself or anyone else.
But WTF is OP doing on the internet that makes him constantly worried the SWAT Team is gonna be banging down his door? That's not normal.
But at the end the goal is to protect the freedom for everyone and give everyone a chance to live without interruptions by any entity that wants to regulate that
The Onion Router, for internet stuff, or a (reliable and well reputed) VPN. But you have an entire community of people more specialised than me for how to not get noticed on internet anyways. Stays informed on the world, and reduce risky things, for you to get some better sleep. Dunno what businesses you do, but your priority is to stop depending on them. Hiding everything you do is just like putting yourself under the spotlight.
A physical diary that only you knows about, to free yourself from your stressful thoughts and ideas, (with a lighter always nearby) will ease a lot. It works very well for me.
All evenings, take 10 mins of your free time to yell the hell out of your mood in your pillow (gotta think about neighbors). Do sports, or things of your interests. Works too.
Oh and you shouldn't post things implying that much that you are doing suspicious things, anywhere on internet. Best irl stuff about you to talk about on corporate internet is none, even mundane things like your country. Illegal things must be done irl the good old way.
What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering
Not being prone to paranoia, as unhelpful as that is
I'm also a realist, which keeps my expectations in check.
Remember that you are one person. Nobody in government censorship or reconnaissance of the public cares about you enough to spy or hack you. You alone aren't worth the effort or resources.
Remember to play. Go outside for a walk, meditate, consume entertaining non-toxic, non-fiction media, have sex or masturbate. All work and no play makes Ringpop a dull person.
Not much there for me. 99% is worn-out tropes or boring telenovela and gameshows. The beauty of drawn media is, that experiments can be published on a budget.
What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering the possibility that a government is spying on your actions despite strict privacy practices?
Threath model analysis. I do enough to not be in the bycatch as more than a IP (no cloud & social media, encrypted private communication, terminating cloud services after use) and low profile enough to not be targeted directly.
I’m always hiding my internet activity from others.
Me, too. What's wrong with us?
I think the less stressful approach is limiting Internet activity altogether rather than obsessing about whether or not what I'm up to is hidden well enough. For example, you could write your own software. I, myself, obsess about whether or not my python scripts actually work instead of inveigling my friends to encrypt everything they put in the Cloud. See, for example:
I'm not sure about your situation. But I'd recommended setting up Buskill on your laptop/pc it can wipe the luks slots on your drive making it completely unreadable all by just disconnecting a USB (this could be magnetic so if they pull you it'll get auto triggered) but then again this is only useful if you live in somewhat free country where cops can't torture you to decrypt/restore your data.
i don't know why you need extreme privacy. But what I can tell you is it's OK you can take a break from whatever you are doing that needs this lvl of privacy.
Reporting on bad regime, they'll still be doing bad stuff once you come back from a break.
Privacy is like swimming in an endless sea: Oftentimes you find yourself barely treading water; often more you're choking, trying to find your balance and your breath. Never forget that you spent your whole life drowning until you decided to swim, though.
Reading the article, it seems similar. This was on a pine tree, except this was in NY and not the northwest where the mushroom you linked is apparently common.
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La paralisi della politica e il vuoto della rappresentanza
C’è un grande vuoto che attraversa la politica contemporanea. Da una parte, l’avanzata globale delle destre radicali — da Trump agli ultraconservatori europei — che cavalcano paura, rancore e identità ferita. Dall’altra, una sinistra ormai prigioniera del proprio linguaggio istituzionale, incapace di parlare alle persone reali. Nel mezzo, milioni di cittadini che hanno smesso di crederci.
Astensionismo record e crisi della sinistra libertaria in Italia
In Italia, questo vuoto si vede con una chiarezza spietata: l’astensionismo record è diventato il vero partito di maggioranza. Non è disinteresse, è un voto di sfiducia. È la risposta di chi ha visto la sinistra gestire le stesse politiche neoliberiste della destra, privatizzare i beni comuni, precarizzare il lavoro e chiamarlo “modernizzazione”.
Il mercato che ha colonizzato la democrazia
Come direbbe Noam Chomsky, la democrazia è stata svuotata dall’interno, mentre il potere economico ha continuato a dettare le regole del gioco. Non serve più un colpo di stato quando il mercato ha già colonizzato la politica.
E così, di elezione in elezione, ci ritroviamo davanti allo stesso bivio finto: o l’autoritarismo di una destra che promette ordine e sicurezza, o la gestione “più umana” di un sistema che resta ingiusto. Ma il risultato non cambia: il conflitto si sposta dai palazzi ai margini della società, dove cresce la rabbia, la paura e la solitudine politica.
Intanto, i governi — di qualunque colore — spingono nella stessa direzione: più spese militari, più riarmo, più fedeltà ai blocchi economici e strategici dominanti. È come se l’intero pianeta fosse intrappolato in una logica binaria, uno scontro tra potenze che si autoalimentano. Eppure, mentre i blocchi si consolidano, l’unica alternativa credibile — un fronte popolare, democratico e libertario — non riesce nemmeno a emergere.
E allora, la domanda è inevitabile: esiste ancora uno spazio per la speranza politica? O siamo destinati a scegliere solo tra due versioni dello stesso dominio?
L’eclissi delle alternative progressiste
La crisi della sinistra libertaria in Italia non è solo elettorale: è culturale, etica, perfino linguistica. Per anni, i partiti riformisti hanno scelto di convivere con il capitalismo estremo, limitandosi a gestirlo “con più sensibilità”. Ma la gestione non è cambiamento. Così, il risultato è stato un progressivo svuotamento della propria base sociale, un allontanamento dei lavoratori, dei precari, delle classi popolari.
Perché la sinistra parlamentare non convince più
La sinistra parlamentare italiana, nella sua forma attuale, non propone un’alternativa radicale al neoliberismo, ma una sua versione “umanizzata”. Il problema è che il neoliberismo, anche nella versione soft, continua a produrre disuguaglianze, precarietà e perdita di diritti. È per questo che l’astensionismo record e l’avanzata della destra radicale sono le due facce della stessa crisi: la prima è il rifiuto, la seconda è la fuga in avanti.
L’ambivalenza geopolitica e il rifiuto della libertà
Come ricordava Noam Chomsky, quando la politica non offre alternative, “la rabbia popolare viene catturata e indirizzata verso bersagli falsi”. Ed è proprio ciò che accade oggi: la frustrazione sociale viene trasformata in rancore contro i migranti, l’Europa, i poveri stessi. È una fabbrica del consenso al contrario, che alimenta la destra mentre svuota la democrazia.
Sul fronte più radicale, la sinistra extraparlamentare resta prigioniera di un’ambivalenza geopolitica: simpatizza per regimi autoritari solo perché anti-occidentali, ma dimentica che la libertà non è negoziabile. Si parla di BRICS e di “mondo multipolare”, ma un multipolarismo senza diritti e democrazia non è un progresso — è solo un’altra forma di dominio.
E allora, la domanda torna centrale: può esistere una sinistra libertaria e non allineata che rifiuti allo stesso tempo la logica dei blocchi e la complicità con il potere economico? Perché senza una proposta etica, popolare e coerente, la crisi della sinistra e il fallimento delle politiche neoliberiste continueranno a lasciare campo libero a chi promette soluzioni autoritarie.
Geopolitica del conflitto e logica dei blocchi
Viviamo dentro una geopolitica del conflitto e del dominio globale. Le grandi potenze — Russia, Cina, Stati Uniti, e l’Europa al seguito — hanno trasformato la politica internazionale in un campo di battaglia permanente. La corsa al riarmo non è più solo un riflesso della paura, ma un vero modello di sviluppo. In Italia e in Europa si parla ormai di portare le spese militari al 5% del PIL, come se la sicurezza potesse essere comprata a suon di missili e droni. Ma ogni euro speso per la guerra è un euro tolto a sanità, istruzione, ambiente, e al diritto a una vita dignitosa.
È una militarizzazione globale che serve a mantenere in piedi un sistema economico in crisi. Lo spiegava già Noam Chomsky: quando il consenso democratico vacilla, i governi usano la paura e il conflitto per riconquistare legittimità. L’“altro” — che sia il migrante, il nemico estero o il dissidente interno — diventa lo strumento con cui il potere si giustifica. Oggi la fabbrica del consenso passa attraverso la fabbrica della paura.
Dallo scontro tra NATO e BRICS alla militarizzazione globale
Ma il rischio non arriva solo dall’Occidente militarizzato. Anche i blocchi alternativi, come Russia, Cina o Turchia, mostrano un volto autoritario e repressivo. La logica dei blocchi alimenta l’estremismo su scala globale: lo vediamo nel sostegno acritico di molti governi occidentali a politiche estreme, come quelle del governo Netanyahu, anche di fronte ad accuse di genocidio. Questo estremismo si riflette anche nelle società: assistiamo a una fascistizzazione del dibattito politico che rende intollerabile la critica. In diverse comunità, incluse alcune comunità ebraiche, chi non accetta l’operato del governo israeliano viene marginalizzato e aggredito. Contemporaneamente, in paesi come i Paesi Bassi, le autorità arrivano a vietare organizzazioni antifasciste (Antifa), equiparando di fatto la resistenza all’estrema destra al terrorismo. L’obiettivo è sempre lo stesso: disciplinare il dissenso. Che si tratti di militarizzazione o di repressione interna, l’effetto è di soffocare la possibilità di un dibattito democratico e radicale.
La contesa tra poteri: nessun blocco è giusto
In questo scenario, le strategie di pace contro la logica dei blocchi diventano la sfida politica più urgente del nostro tempo. Come difendersi da paesi autoritari pacificamente? Come opporsi alla guerra senza restare disarmati di fronte all’aggressione?
Una risposta possibile è quella che alcuni movimenti definiscono “sicurezza umana e non armata”: costruire difese civili, sociali e tecnologiche che non passino per l’escalation militare. La difesa civile nonviolenta come strategia di sicurezza non è utopia — è visione realistica per un mondo dove le guerre non si possono più vincere, ma solo moltiplicare.
Serve un pensiero capace di andare oltre i blocchi, un non-allineamento etico che rimetta al centro i diritti umani, la sovranità democratica e la cooperazione internazionale. E qui si apre la prospettiva di una Terza Via politica ed economica, non come compromesso, ma come rifiuto di entrambe le logiche di dominio.
Una via che unisca libertà e giustizia, etica e solidarietà, riprendendo la lezione di chi — da Chomsky a Bookchin — ci ricorda che la pace non nasce dall’equilibrio della paura, ma dal potere condiviso delle comunità libere.
Verso una terza via libertaria e popolare
Ogni crisi è anche un’occasione. Se la sinistra è prigioniera del proprio linguaggio e la destra si nutre di paura e disuguaglianza, allora serve una nuova grammatica politica, un linguaggio capace di restituire senso, speranza e potere alle persone.
Costruire un blocco democratico, non allineato e pacifista
Questa nuova visione potremmo chiamarla “Terza Via”, ma non nel senso del compromesso blairiano o del centrismo riformista: parliamo di una Terza Via politica ed economica che unisca libertà, democrazia diretta, giustizia sociale ed ecologia. Un blocco democratico, popolare e libertario che rifiuti tanto il capitalismo estremo quanto l’autoritarismo di Stato, proponendo un’alternativa reale al dominio dei blocchi di potere globali.
Economia popolare e sovranità sociale
Il primo pilastro è l’economia solidale e la sovranità sociale. Non un’utopia, ma una direzione concreta: cooperazione locale, filiere etiche, comunità energetiche, mutualismo, autogestione del lavoro. Significa superamento del neoliberismo e della guerra come strumenti economici e culturali, sostituiti da un modello che valorizzi i beni comuni, la redistribuzione e la dignità. È la risposta a un sistema che ha trasformato tutto in merce, anche la vita.
Geopolitica etica: rifiuto dei blocchi (NATO-BRICS)
Il secondo pilastro è la politica di non-allineamento etico. Non si tratta di neutralità, ma di rifiuto dei blocchi NATO e BRICS, perché entrambi fondati sulla stessa logica di dominio e sfruttamento. Una nuova internazionale dei popoli per la pace e il benessere, basata su cooperazione, giustizia ambientale e autodeterminazione democratica. La vera pace non si costruisce con le armi, ma con reti di solidarietà e con un modello di sicurezza civile condiviso. Come suggeriva Chomsky, la libertà dei popoli passa dal controllo collettivo delle risorse e delle decisioni, non dalla dipendenza da superpotenze.
Municipalismo e coerenza morale: Bookchin e la base
Il terzo pilastro è quello che Murray Bookchin chiamava “municipalismo libertario”: una politica che nasce dal basso, dai territori, dalle comunità. Bookchin sosteneva che la democrazia reale non si costruisce nelle istituzioni centrali, ma nei luoghi in cui le persone si incontrano, discutono, decidono insieme. È qui che si intrecciano economia popolare, difesa civile nonviolenta e autogoverno locale: tre strumenti che possono liberare le società dal ricatto dei blocchi globali.
Ma tutto questo richiede coerenza morale. Non si può chiedere libertà senza praticarla, né giustizia senza metterla in atto ogni giorno. La vera alternativa politica nasce quando il discorso pubblico ritrova una dimensione etica, capace di unire pensiero e vita. Serve una cultura della responsabilità, capace di guardare oltre le ideologie morte per ritrovare un principio semplice: la libertà è collettiva, o non è.
La Terza Via: la forma più radicale di speranza politica
In questo orizzonte, la Terza Via non è un partito, ma una visione in atto: una rete di comunità, movimenti, lavoratori e cittadini che scelgono di costruire un’economia del bene comune e una politica della pace.
Non serve aspettare che qualcuno la fondi: esiste già in embrione nelle cooperative sociali, nei gruppi di acquisto solidale, nelle reti di mutualismo, nei municipi che sperimentano forme di autogoverno. Sono i semi concreti di una democrazia dal basso, i primi laboratori di libertà collettiva.
La nuova internazionale dei popoli che immaginiamo non ha eserciti né confini. Ha valori, pratiche e persone che scelgono la coerenza invece della paura. Solo così si può unire libertà democratica e giustizia sociale, superando tanto il neoliberismo quanto la deriva autoritaria.
La “Terza Via” non promette salvezza, ma restituisce possibilità. Ed è forse proprio questa — oggi — la forma più radicale di speranza politica.
Complimenti. Ottimo articolo e preziosissimo strumento di dibattito e costruzione culturale. La terza via è sempre più urgente e a bisogno di noi, tutt* noi.
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Il nuovo volto della paura ha dieci nomi. E tu, quanti ne hai già visti?
C'è chi dice che il cinema horror non sia più quello di una volta... ma noi non siamo d'accordo. Dimentica i soliti jumpscare: il terrore degli ultimi 10 anni è raffinato, disturbante, politico, viscerale. È nuovo horror d’autore.
Dall’inquietudine chirurgica de Il Sacrificio del Cervo Sacro al body horror femminista di Titane, fino all’incubo psichedelico di Climax… abbiamo selezionato i 10 migliori film horror del decennio, perfetti per chi vuole un Halloween fuori dagli schemi 🎃
Un viaggio tra cult moderni, registi visionari e paure che restano sotto pelle anche dopo i titoli di coda. E no, non c'è nulla di casuale in questa classifica. Ogni film è un pezzo di cinema che lascia il segno.
Vuoi scoprire quali sono e perché sono imperdibili?
The rule took effect in April 2024 after the FCC rejected ISPs' complaints that listing every fee they created would be too difficult. The rule applies specifically to recurring monthly fees "that providers impose at their discretion, i.e., charges not mandated by a government."
ISPs could comply with the rule either by listing the fees or by dropping the fees altogether and, if they choose, raising their overall prices by a corresponding amount. But the latter option wouldn't fit with the strategy of enticing customers with a low advertised price and hitting them with the real price on their monthly bills. The broadband price label rules were created to stop ISPs from advertising misleadingly low prices.
Find the place with the highest fee, roll it into the base price that you offer nationwide. Problem solved. In the place where it's exactly as high as that, you won't make any profit. Anywhere it's lower than that, you will make a profit.
Let’s be real here. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated” to list the fees. What’s complicated about listing a few numbers? The problem is that they don’t want to list a myriad of fees.
The fact that “tell your customers what you will charge them” is a rule that had to be instantiated in the Biden legislation is in itself a joke.
absolutely right. Just like airline tickets, hotels and the like. Marketing got in the way...... Look we only cost 5 euro but the 299.87 worth of fees we have to add and/or collect on behalf of others makes the price go up.
Well guess what, so has the competitors! And guess again: I don't give a shit about that break-down, just give me the final figure. That's what I have to pay. So that all matters doesn't it? No need for you to tell me how you spend it, the money yours after the sale.
It’s easy - ISPs just bribed the people running the FCC now (because that’s become an ok thing to do), and the FCC turns around and says “yep sounds good”
the first term they were angling to get rid of NN, which was distraction of the 2017 tax cuts, i remember tha tpeople were tired of the NN news they dint tune in the tax cuts.
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That just means the FCC will stop requiring it though. A class action can still beat them into submission. The lawyers benefit most from this but it still gets the job done.
U have the choice its up to u. U have the right to let ur ideology force u into getting fucked by other telcos. Just remember that its a choice u made.
I won't say who, but I used to work for a large telco. Seeing their charges, it was x plan with y equipment fee. I have had two other ISPs in the past 2 years, one of which was Comcast. I had x plan with no equipment fee (I just bought a cable modem, cause fuck leaving my router even slightly exposed). What fucking companies came up with these other bs fees? Or are we talking phones? Cause yeah, that's all kinds of fee fuckery
comcast was the worst. its thier tierd service, and trying to pedal thier "rent a router' service. sooner or later they will be allowed to slow down peoples internets, to force them to buy more expensive plans.
This title is something that doesn't make sense said in a way that makes it look logical. If they can't manage their fees those fees shouldn't exist. But that's not really why this requirement it's going away, it's because they were bribed.
I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
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The Proton prices are also misleading…I got 2 years for $71 on one of their regular sales. I’m sure the same is true for many of the other provider prices listed here.
As we’ve seems with steam, you can’t rely on credit cards for paying for things. A credit processor simply has to saw “well he could be using that to access porn” and block processing payments for it entirely.
Been nothing but satisfied with proton. I bought a years worth at once. The flatpack I got installed and works without issue. The only gripe I have is I can't figure out how to make it (mint) boot up with wiregaurd/proton as the default.
The age of a VPN isn’t a good indicator of how secure it is.
So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?
Also, heat map conditional formatting favoring free is a bad metric. Free VPNs steal data, and Tor isn't a VPN, so this skews all the other paid options to seem negative.
So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?
I can't speak for others, but I personally appreciate the info anyway. Because I wouldn't trust a VPN company that's been around for like 3 months. And it allows you to judge a track record with context.
The age is useful when considering risk of enshitificarion. A well established and respected vpn has probably figured out how to run profitably, and will probably only go to shit after being sold out or a similar major internal upset, a 3 month old vpn may be offering below cost deals to undercut (or just catch up with) the market whilst the startup funding lasts, in which case they’ll have no choice but to start turning the screws once they have some customers
Sure, but this is a heat map. It's only relative, not objective. If most of these were 3 months old, and one was only 2 months old, the 3 months would all be in the green.
If you're going to be giving out advice, you should at least know that Mozilla VPN is rebranded Mullvad VPN. So most of the information on your chart should be exactly the same for both.
Scroll down to "Convenient," then "More than 500 servers in 30+ countries," and click on the link "See our list of servers," which takes you to the Mullvad website server list here:
Unless something has changed, the VPN that Malwarebytes sells is also rebranded Mullvad.
In my opinion, if you're going to include a VPN like PIA, you should also include who owns them (Kape Technologies - owner of multiple VPNs), and instruct people to do an internet search for "Kape Technologies malware." I'm not saying don't get PIA, but people should be able to at least make an informed decision:
"Kape Technologies, originally known as Crossrider, has a history of distributing malware through its ad injection platform before rebranding and focusing on VPN services. While it has since shifted its business model, concerns about its past and corporate practices remain prevalent in discussions about its VPN offerings."
Adware.CrossRider is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a large family of adware targeting both Windows and macOS systems. CrossRider offers a highly configurable method for its clients to monetize their software.
Source and type of infection
Adware.CrossRider is usually installed by bundlers. Programs offering some kind of functionality are combined with the adware component.
Likewise, inform people to search for "Nord data breach," so people can again make an informed decision. It wasn't the fact that there was a data breach, but how it was handled that some had a problem with:
"Evidence indicates the attack most likely happened some time between January 31st, 2018, when the server came online, and March 5th, 2018. The attack was made via a compromised data center account, not an account managed by NordVPN. The data center deleted this account on March 20th, 2018, blocking any further access to the server. NordVPN claims not to have been notified about the breach until April 13th, 2019, more than a year after it happened. It took down the server the same day, and began an immediate audit of its 5,000 servers. The company wouldn't go public until evidence of the hack emerged some six months later. Why? The blog post stated: 'thoroughly reviewing the providers and configurations for over 5,000 servers around the world takes time. As a result, we decided we should not notify the public until we could be sure that such an attack could not be replicated anywhere else on our infrastructure.'"
Again, not saying there is a problem with PIA and Nord, just that people should know about these things before making a decision.
Do yourself a favor. Get a Digital Ocean droplet for $6/mo, Debian version, follow their excellent step-by-step directions to install OpenVPN Server. Done.
You don't have to know Linux, the instructions are tight. I only got hung on one step where they left a small thing out. Also, I was drunk. Got it going the next evening.
This thing has been running for years and years, can't even remember how to log in, likely lost my SSH key. 🙄 No worries about logging. It's yours, they can't take it away or change the rules. It's yours.
And BTW, not sure my rate has gone up in the ~7 years I had it. Maybe $1? That might have been because I enabled additional backups.
This will only satisfy limited use cases. DO operates primarily in the US, and global region availability is limited to a handful of countries. People like to be able to change their VPN gateway country, something not easily supported in your setup.
My data center is in Amsterdam (AMS3). What are you on about? No, you can't flip your connection all over the globe, but it's still outside of America.
Go with a commercial provider then. But don't bitch about all the issues and risks.
I honestly don't know why you took that as bitching, I'm merely pointing out that your setup likely won't satisfy the needs of many who are looking at VPN subscriptions. It's great that it works for you, but several folks I know aren't likely to (for example) maintain or provision a VPS over in the UK to use BBC iPlayer.
You only have one country (the one you run your vps in).
Costs more than any vpn provider (which come with many extra features out the box).
You are not maintaining your OpenVPN installation and having to is likely a pain for most people (you said you "can't even remember how to login", which tells you me are not updating your servers OS or OpenVPN itself, which is leaving you open to vulnerabilities in the old software).
There might be advantages too, but I can't think of any unless you are gonna use the VPS for other stuff too and creating the vpn is basically free then (but I still wouldn't do it personally).
I believe that supposed to be whether you can get to their website to download clients / register / etc through TOR. Not that the VPN can access the TOR network.
The concerns seem to be that the guide isn't particularly useful to novices which will be 99% of people getting a VPN.
They'll have questions like, "Do I need port forwarding to watch international Netflix" and "why shouldn't I just get the cheapest one what are all these other services".
Then guide tells you what VPNs offer what services, but unless you already know what all the terms mean other than price it isn't useful.
I'm not saying it's OPs job to make the guide intuitive but the fact that it isn't intuitive does mean that it's got a very limited audience.
This is a better one. Note - It is outdated since 2019, so take it with a grain of salt. However, it gives a general idea of where everything was and could still be today.
Just wanted to leave a comment to say thank you for sharing your findings and taking the time to write your post here. I am sure you spent a lot of time and effort researching all of this. These kinds of posts are why I love Lemmy and its communities.
Not currently in need of a new VPN, pretty happy with Proton and my plan is active for another 1.5 years. But I still wanted to say I appreciate your post.
Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!
Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly ("sideload" - I use Obtanium) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.
Never liked the "suscription" model, even with games. It's so goddam obvious that companies are the ones who decide what the fuck do, it's not "the future". Suscription model started like a experiment, you fell for it. You, the user, by using it, caused the future. Damn, now I'm pissed.
We need to make the Internet hostile to anyone looking to profit off the attention that is created with the Internet. We should have been guarding the fact that the amount of attention the Internet gets would be monetized. We should have fought with everything against Napster and the attacks on p2p and torrents. We should have stolen and shared every last song and art and movie that someone tried to post online for their new "business" the Internet should have always remained a place where data was "free". I remember early days people warning of how we would slowly lose the principals of the early days and recreate scarcity on a platform that was supposed to eliminate scarcity. That scarcity created technology's and business and special interests that draw a direct line to these groups like Cambridge analytical and Palantir and all the rest.
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Both you and people subscribing to music streaming, is to be mocked... I did play wow a lot of years ago, but I got the entertainment - music, I own all my shit there. 😀 Movies too.
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This is still a work-in-progress and a close-source project (This is what a honeypot would look like). To view the open source MVP version see here. NONE of my projects have been audited or reviewed. I provide them for testing and demo purposes only. NOT to replace your current messaging app (or any other app you use).
BE RESPONSIBLE WHEN USING UNAUDITED SOFTWARE... DO NOT USE FOR SENSITIVE PURPOSES.
Now that I've hit you over the head with caution...
Want to send encrypted WebRTC messages and video calls with no downloads, no sign-ups and no tracking?
This prototype uses WebRTC to establish an encrypted browser-to-browser connection. Everything is ephemeral and cleared when you refresh the page - true zerodata privacy!
It's a webapp hosted on AWS S3. That can be shut down along with the domain. I'd like to improve the functionality I have for the cacheing, so that it doesn't need to fetch the statics from online if it already previously fetched them.
The open source version has a mirror hosted on GitHub pages. You can fork it and run it yourself there for free: positive-intentions.com/blog/d…
In today’s digital age, the importance of privacy and data security cannot be overstated. Our decentralized chat app aims to provide a secure and private messaging experience akin to popular applications like WhatsApp, but with a significant differen…
This still relies on servers to prepare the connection (you need the web server for the page but also I see it tries to connect to wss://0.peerjs.com/), even if later the WebRTC communication is peer to peer.
There are ways around using a central server to establish a p2p connection. It isn't well explained or demonstrated, but the concept seems to work here: github.com/positive-intentions… .... I'd like to explore this more with exchanging the required data over QR codes or NFC.
Simplex is a great approach for p2p communication. I can easily recommend it over what I have done so far. At the very least, it's gone through things like a professional security audits and seem to keep a high standard in their practices.
(for testing purposes i use 2 separate browsers (not just windows) (there is a bug where you need a profile for this to work... you can ignore this bug for now, but for incognito, you will have to ...
Just to be clear, my app is not better than jami (or any other app)... because its unreviewed close-source code.
The key distinction in my approach is that it's a webapp-first approach. You can avoid registration and installation, which is a feature other apps don't provide.
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Da stamattina, purtroppo, regna la tristezza!!! Questo perché non sono riuscita a dormire 15 ore stanotte, bensì solo 10 scarse (facendo i conti senza Mi Band, visto che sto ancora senza cinturino)… Almeno, credo siano non più di 10 ore nette di sonno, contando approssimativamente anche le tante volte che mi sono svegliata perché non […]
la maledizione delle viscere liquidose e le conseguenze troppo umane (ho il raffreddore o qualcosa del genere e sto esplodendo)
Da stamattina, purtroppo, regna la tristezza!!! Questo perché non sono riuscita a dormire 15 ore stanotte, bensì solo 10 scarse (facendo i conti senza Mi Band, visto che sto ancora senza cinturino)… Almeno, credo siano non più di 10 ore nette di sonno, contando approssimativamente anche le tante volte che mi sono svegliata perché non respiravo, e una in cui sono dovuta andare stranamente in bagno, nonostante sono abbastanza sicura di non aver dimenticato di fare pipì prima di andare a dormire, e in genere quello basta per non dovermi alzare, che è cosa scomoda e pallosa. Alle 11 proprio non ce l’ho fatta più a stare nella mia caverna odorante di marcio, dove pure stando dritta nel letto a quel punto respiravo a fatica, e allora ho dovuto alzarmi. 😾 Tutto ciò, però, non è accaduto dal nulla… bensì, in fondo si è verificato solo perché si è avverato il mio vero incubo peggiore a parte tutti i meme, ossia che mi è ufficialmente venuta quella cosa per cui produco quintali di muco dal niente e non solo inutilmente, ma in modo grandemente dannoso; che non è allergia, perché non è stagione, ma non sono nemmeno sicura al 100% che sia raffreddore, perché il flusso degli eventi non mi convince riguardo tale teoria… per ora la chiamerò “maledizione delle viscere liquidose“, semplicemente. Non solo di giorno coi fazzoletti, però, cosa che già di suo è terribile… ma di notte a morire, perché il muco mi cola malamente stando stesa, soprattutto sul lato come mi è davvero comodo dormire, e quindi finisco col naso otturato, e mi sembra di finire all’altro mondo… quindi devo allungare il braccio per prendere il fazzoletto lurido, che se va male non sta al lato del cuscino bensì sul comodino, e soffiare, e pur soffiando e cacciando muco ancora non si respira…Non ha aiutato nemmeno fare la doccia bella calda ieri sera; o meglio, per qualche ora mi ha spurgata un po’, ma poi al momento di dormire si è rivelato tutto inutile. E tra ieri e oggi avrò buttato già 7 fazzoletti, che è tanto considerato quanto io li riuso fino all’essere impregnati, oltre a vari strappi di carta igienica, quando mi trovo a soffiarmi con quella. 😰
Per fortuna, da vecchia femcel socialmente isolata quale sono, il fine settimana non devo mai uscire (se non per boh, momenti rapidi per comprare cose magari… e dovrei anche ritirare il pacchetto con i cinturini della Mi Band, a dirla tutta), e questo fine settimana in particolare credo idem, quindi almeno la situazione dovrebbe non peggiorare, credo… cioè, lo spero sinceramente. Su una cosa non scherzo minimamente, e cioè che il muco è veramente il mio nemico non-umano numero 1 (si, è peggio degli spiriti malevoli); il freddo in sé dà fastidio, ma alla fine si va avanti… il problema è quando inizia questa maledizione, e tutto quello che comporta. E ormai quasi ogni anno è così da quando esisto, una tarantella allucinante… ora inizio a prendere lo sciroppo, ma questo sistemerà il problema solo per stavolta, mentre al prossimo incidente si ripeterà, e l’unica cosa che riesco a chiedermi è… perché cazzo non c’è una soluzione permanente a ciò???Sono una ragazza magica, io, dovrei in qualche maniera poter riuscire ad hackerare pesantemente la mia biologia per non finire mai più in condizioni del genere… e, invece, continuamente sono sconfitta. È davvero così troppo chiedere di smettere di soffrire, ma allo stesso tempo non voler morire? 🧸
“This is getting ridiculous and I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.
Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
Yeah that was kinda my point 😀 A cloud controlled device from a tech giant is supposed to ~~shit on the floor~~ start doing ads and invade your privacy. It's what they do. Like ponies pooping, you should expect it on purchase.
No. It's more as if you had to pay for the pony to get it, and then:
If you want to ride the pony, that's $2. The saddle has a coin slot to pay. It also has spikes poking both you and the pony if you don't pay. Any time you get off, the spikes relock, requiring another payment to unlock.
This is the exact same situation minus the animal cruelty part and with money being swapped with time.
Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
Personally, I disagree with the first and agree with the latter. I have a Nest Hub, and there are no ads on that. But I would still urge the redditor and myself to get acquainted with Home Assistant instead of bothering with the offerings from Google and Amazon.
Even worse than not-really-understanding-any-of-it is the wilful ignorance shown by some. "I have nothing to hide" is the epitome of obedient worker-ant stupidity.
That's from the ancient banking system designed in the 1940s that is still lurching around. The protection on a check isn't cryptographic - it relies on the issuing bank to confirm the authenticity by examining heuristics on the paper check like paper type, ink and font used, check number, issuing address and the person's signature. It used to be that you would deposit a check at your bank and then it would be mailed to the issuing bank to be cleared for transfer. You wouldn't just deposit it and get your money instantly, it would take up to 10 days.
Honestly it is bewildering to me that they haven't changed the system to issue cryptographically secure deposit-only numbers and unique withdrawal numbers that at least verify the authenticity of the check itself.
In the case of smart tv's it's obvious why it works. It's way cheaper to buy a smart tv vs a dumb tv now, and It's all companies make for consumer side, which only leaves business grade TV's/advertisement boards which cost more. Even if this isn't the case though, with how streaming oriented most people are, the general public won't buy a dumb tv because they would still need to buy some sort of device to allow them to access their stuff. It's just convenient to have it in the same device rather than buy a tv then spend another $25+ on a device that can allow access to streaming, when one device can do it all.
I upgraded to a "decent" Smart TV for my den (my previous one was an early stage Phillips smart TV that the store was basically deprecated on), and it converted 3 devices I had for my dumb tv, into that one device. It's just convenient.
I personally think that people should be focusing more on not buying slop-ware, and working on implementing legislation of what companies are allowed to do to consumer purchased products before trying to revert back to dumb tv's and spending 3x as much. The future is going to happen regardless, and people are going to take the easy way out, the easier way is going to be preventing the annoyances from being allowed in the first place.
I'd far rather have a dumb TV/monitor and a cheap, easily upgradable smart device connected to it, but I'm on Lemmy so that shouldn't come as a surprise.
I still have the first Google Home speaker I got for free via Spotify subscription years ago, and it's as far as I went, wouldn't have put money on this
While we still have that option... I'd bet money that the second when most people start deciding to DIY their own home tech, they'll lobby these techs as unsafe and dangerous and potentially ban their use outright, or require special licenses and degrees.
F*K the HDMI forum. Those people are the cause I can not run 4k 120Hz TV on HTPC using AMD video kernel drivers on Linux. Because these drivers are open-source and the HDMI folks do not want this support in the open source drivers.. FK them hard.
No. As a user of both Amazon and Google devices (with screens/sticks), Amazon is far more aggressive in their advertising practices. As the other guy said, neither is ad-free out of the box, but Amazon devices will literally make your screensaver/lock screen a full screen ad (even on your TV). Google just has a home screen ad about something that's going to play on streaming, usually.
If you want NO ads, set up DNS ad blocking or get an Apple TV and use that for streaming. But again, Amazon's devices are FAR more aggressive about advertising as much as possible. My father has one of those Echo Show things that's a speaker with a rotating screen attached to it. It's playing ads almost all the time.
I do not have anything from these MFs that's not jailbroken or hacked. They are partners, not competitors. But sure, as long as you get less ads for now, go with the other, I guess.
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
I've been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don't have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.
Kodi is the open source alternative and it is a terrible experience compared to the purpose made sticks. It is confusing to use, and worse, very unreliable (my install would regularly completely break and crash on startup).
Why anyone would want a corporate government surveillance wire tap that’s connected to the Internet and constantly listening for voice command is beyond me.
My friend used an Alexa and smart plugs to rewire all the lights in his house because it was cheaper to get the Wi-Fi connected lights and sockets rather than rewiring the whole house.
In order to keep the thing running, no one was allowed to touch any of the lights switches on the walls because it would break the system. It was fucking hilarious listening to him yell at his Alexa to turn on the lights in the living room and have it turn on the dining room instead.
He even had the screen on the base that would follow you around as you were walking in the house and this creepy screen would constantly be monitoring you while waiting for commands.
If anyone walked in it just looked like he was screaming at the top of his refrigerator about the lights in the house.
I assume that there's a segment of the population that:
Does vaguely like the idea of at least some home automation.
Doesn't have the technical expertise and/or time to wrangle with something like HomeAssistant. Wants something that works off-the-shelf.
Doesn't want to spend much money up front on a system, which creates pressure for an ad-supported model.
I will say that I'm still more than a little fuzzy on what substantial practical benefits people are actually getting from their deployed systems, though.
For at least some of this, like having a voice command to check the weather, a smartphone has to be pretty widely-deployed competition.
The convenience is being able to sit your fat ass on the couch and yell vaguely in the direction of a smart assistant to turn off the lights without having to get off the couch.
The idea that a smart refrigerator could tell you when you’re about out of milk or coming up on the expiration date instead of having to open your fridge and take a look is cool but the privacy and other implications outweigh the benefits.
It’s a mild convenience that supposedly frees up extra time to do something else. The sad part is that something else is usually staying glued to your phone, social media, or TV.
I want to believe that the accumulation of not walking and moving because of smart home devices is offset by a shorter life expectancy and health issues.
Isn't there a saying about this? "Leopards ate my face" or something like that?
It's like TVs... Google TV, Android TV, Chromecast, Fire TV... it's all ads, all the way down. Apple TV though? Just a grid of apps. Certain apps on the dock (the top shelf as it's called) could display ads because they're allowed to display content in the top half, but I haven't seen it done. Video apps typically just show what's up next in your queue and maybe something suggested. But you can control what goes on the dock.
Can't block ads on it and YouTube is fundamentally broken for it (despite there being no ad blocker between the app and the service). I'm looking into getting a gently used M1 Mac Mini for my TV, and wiring one of those Bluetooth keyboard/mouse things up to it. That way I can just run Firefox with uBlock Origin and call it a day.
Fuck all these "smart" devices. Can't win with any of them. Meanwhile you can get a Raspberry Pi and be running Linux on your TV. That might introduce some challenges, but hey, you got Plex (/Jellyfin/whatever) anyway.
Isn’t there a saying about this? “Leopards ate my face” or something like that?
"Leopards at my face" comes from claiming that your face would not get eaten while advocating for leopards eating faces.
If you would use it in the context of ads, it would be more along the lines of claiming you will not get ads because you are "special" while the thing just straight up says it will serve you ads.
I don't think the thing is advertised as something to serve you ads, so it's not the same.
Projectivy launcher for Android TV is great and will remove home screen ads, and provide a much more streamlined interface overall.
Apple TV is really nice though, clean, smooth, and stable. I honestly would recommend that to most people, especially if they already have Apple products.
Even without having other Apple products. The only real benefit I see with the Apple TV — I do have other Apple products — is I can AirPlay to it. But, it isn't very stable for whatever reason. The connection will just drop. So I AirPlay to the TV itself instead, and that works, though sometimes the audio doesn't, so I just route it back to the MacBook, which has very good speakers, and it's fine. Or I grab my Thunderbolt to HDMI and plug in directly, turn the TV into a monitor — but, this bypasses the Apple TV (but, so does AirPlaying to the TV itself). Oh, and I can use my phone or watch as a remote. All in all it's perfectly fine if you don't have any other Apple stuff.
The one thing it's really lacking is some Dolby codec that people need to play Blu-ray rips. People in communities like Plex and Jellyfin complain about that. But those are like 50GB+ per movie, I don't have that kind of storage to even come close to caring about that issue. It can still play 4K content, just not with that one codec.
In fact, it's probably one of the best Apple devices out there, just because the competition is so much worse. I'd also say the same thing about the iPad, and the MacBook. You can make a case for a gaming PC, but for a laptop that isn't gonna game because battery is an issue, you're going for efficiency, it's really hard to beat the MacBook. As for the iPad, it's hard to tell which Android tablets are good and which ones aren't — or which ones will never get updated. And iPad got a lot of love this year, it's basically a desktop OS now (it's like macOS lite at this point). No, you still can't install whatever you want — need an actual computer for that.
Yeah, it wins by default. I have to say though, I’ve had one for years now and aside from it noticing it not able to bitstream Dolby TrueHD (decoded internally and sent as LPCM) or play some forms of Dolby Vision content (falls back to HDR10), it’s worked flawlessly as a media appliance. Some minor connection issues with screen mirror airplay from laptop to TV or music airplay from phone to TV but not enough to keep me away. I have the first gen 4k and if a family member needed a streaming box I’d buy a used one off eBay and a new remote. A solid setup for cheap.
Look at it this way - how does a business make its money?
Google makes nearly 100% of its revenue from ad sales that are juiced by collecting every detail they can about as many people as possible.
Amazon makes most of its money off of AWS because physical logistics are extremely expensive but they commit endless amounts of federal crimes by ripping off consumers and sellers to subsidize their total market takeover of physical goods. Oh and they make money by selling ad spots to their sellers that are juiced by stealing as much information about its users as possible.
Apple makes most of its money on the app store subscriptions to apps it didnt write - like if you subscribe to spotify through the app they take a cut. It makes the rest of its money by selling devices that tend to have higher build quality than competitors. A very small sliver of its income comes from advertisements. Not even 1% and it is publicly declared as non-targetted advertising. They dont really have a financial interest in collecting your data.
That's the difference. They're all shit companies from multiple angles. But at least Apple doesn't actively disrespect you with unwanted advertising targetted to you by spying on you. They disrespect you by removing headphone jacks and making silicon valley executives behave like steve jobs who was notoriously a horrible person.
I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to google.
... Ah yes. Here we see that, while frustrated, the consumer remains largely undeterred from fitting into the boxes outlined by our fearless corpo overlords.
I made the mistake buying a Kindle Fire in 2015. A few months in, it was literal garbage. Everything lagged. Very few apps would work. Not much variety in the Amazon app store. Learned my lesson about Amazon products.
I mean…. Hasn’t been this with Amazon products forever? I had a Kindle Fire in 2012 and had to root it just to stop ads from showing up on the locked screen
I may remember badly but I think in the days, the small one was only with ads and tiers were for the bigger tablet 🤔 (more than 10 years though so my memory is hazy)
Well, kindle e-ink e-readers are different from kindle lcd ipad knockoffs. The ereaders do have a subsidized tier that is cheaper by like $30 and shows ads on the lock screen. The ipad knockoffs are trash that arent worth looking at in the first place so I dont even know if they show ads but I bet they do. Dont buy either.
Second generation Paperwhite was actually really good, and still works nicely. They were still in the capture the market phase with that, so they had to offer some quality.
But they have gotten significantly worse over time. I did buy a Fire Stick knowing i was getting ads, but it was so much better the Apps on my smart tv and cheap that it was well worth it. Now it’s gotten bad enough that I no longer use it but suffer through the TV’s apps
I do plan on trying Apple TV in case it stays useable but at this point I’m not buying consumer tech from three years ago
Similarly with the Fire tablet. I knew I was getting ads when I bought them way back when, but tablets were expensive. Fire tablets were much cheaper and quite usable so the tradeoff was worth it. That long since stopped being true, and this experience is e partly why I don’t have an echo show.
I do want some dory of home dashboard, but echo show had never been under consideration. If the Apple rumors are real I might try that but otherwise I guess I’ll see when I have the motivation to build my own
Edit: rereading the post, this is even on devices where people paid extra to be ad free
I feel like for all the effort you may spend pissing about you could just go to an electronics recycling center buy a relatively new laptop with a busted screen and just use that. Just get a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, hell I think there are remotes specifically made for this purpose.
And the pro tech nerds who told everyone to use local-only, non proprietary smart devices so they can still have a secure, ad-free smarthome laugh as we walk through the house without ever touching light switches.
I literally don’t believe you. Wi-Fi? Zigbee? Z-Wave? Not a single reset or re-pair because you changed some password or bridge or the power went out and one of them needed a little encouragement?
My smart switches have zero downtime. If I attack my server with an hatchet I lose smart functionality but pressing the switch still works, just like yours.
It doesn't take much to avoid the bullshit devices.
Exactly. It's not the smart part of a device that is the problem. That's an extreme overreaction.
The problem with most smart devices today is that they are proprietary, non-fully libre and open source, for-profit, cloud-connected, corporate committee designed spyware, adware, and bloatware.
Devices that are fully FLOSS (firmware, hardware, software) and based on open and free standards and protocols are awesome, but they get easily forgotten.
The Internet and your technology can be so much better. Demand it.
Actual tech nerds love the tinkering to make it work again until the moment they are tired of it and just want something that works. I'm in the tinkering phase.
Yet. Google is an ad company that pushes ads nearly everywhere else. Shareholders/Wall St. demand infinitely increasing year over year profitability. It's only a matter of time.
I get that we should expect shit like this from Amazon but at the same time, they bought something and the maker completely changed how the device worked after they bought it.
I’d be pissed too. We have to hold these companies accountable.
I'm kind of glad that I don't mind flipping switches and pressing buttons. I've never felt the need for a smart home, so this stuff hasn't affected me much personally.
Home assistant is the way to go, all run locally on a homePC, I have ZigBee lights and switches automated
An example is my front deck lights turn on at sundown, at 10% brightness, at 11;00 pm they drop to 1%.
If motion is detected they brighten up for a bit. On holidays they have appropriate RFB effects.
All of this is automated, none of it talks to the internet.
My current project is making a harry potter style "clock", with hands for me, my wife, and kids. Can set up some geofencing. Run off some ESPhome and the HA app, which reports directly to my install, without releasing tracking info.
My entire design goal is making it invisible for my wife, so things just work. As an example, I took our doorbell, and made it smart... Not a smart doorbell, but I have an esphome between the doorbell and the chime, so I can turn the chime off, or I can have our phonea get notified.
Smart Home is really good for me bc I have trouble remembering things, but I'm for building my own and running it on my own server vs using corporate bullshit.
This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.
Corporations are now so powerful they don't have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.
What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?
Its for families mostly. I dont want my small children coming up to me all the time asking for a different show downloaded that they heard about from school, and Erica's parents actually HAVE Disney+ and says anyone who cmdoesnt must be a loser omg etc etc.
I taught my brother how to do it years ago, and he got his shit virused so fast. I'm not sure if hes colossally stupid or just plain unlucky.
I think you are severely underestimating how computer illiterate most people are. Many people I know struggle to use their Iphones. Not long ago a friend asked me to help him turn on subtitles on a streaming service on his smart TV.
I didnt see it coming. I assumed that having a device always available to add shit to your shopping basket and listen to everything you say forever would be enough for them.
Why the fuck anyone needs a smart fridge is beyond me. Just open the door and write down what you need. The only thing a good refrigerator needs to do is keep shit cold
I was falling down that hole about 2 years ago. I've always been a tech nerd, big scifi fan, etc so the tech advancements lately were really cool to me. Integration was such a cool concept. A fridge that could see inside itself, track what was in it, and suggest when it's time to get more of something just seemed so futuristic. Screens everywhere with weather and useful info really played into my childhood dreams watching scifi movies and tv. I've since done a complete 180 and as of 2 months ago finally completely cut out all big tech, but there's a big push for people like me to fall into the trap of "I don't need it, but it's so cool".
I can see the logic of being able to set certain items that you always want in stock, and your fridge being able to tell you if you're running low or if it's beyond its expiry.
Can smart fridges do that? I don't think so.
Even if they can, it's probably not worth the extra expense, complexity, data mining, security concerns, or the fact that Samsung or whoever can shut down functionality whenever they want.
how would a smart fridge know whether a box of something or a carton of something was full or empty? Weight-sensitive shelves? Would you have to show it everything you put in or took out to make sure it registered? Seems like a faff.
i can see a very dull future of filling in individual details for all minor-brand/non-US/homemade items in your fridge because the fridge doesn't have the details in its catalogue. Or the company changes the size but leaves the branding intact (hi, shrinkflation) so the fridge gets confused...
This is a real “the scorpion stung the frog” situation.
There was never any other way for this to go. Is in the scorpions nature to cram ads and tracking into your devices. That was always the strategy even with their Fire lines of devices.
Ring will be next. It’s already giving them your address, neighbourhood, routine, device types, etc. That data gates correlate to census income data, network traffic, etc. to build a profile of who you are as a consumer.
Why would you buy that. Ten years ago I had an Amazon phone and it would fill my home screen with ads. I guess if you hadn't experienced that scenario but otherwise why would you pay for that. Besides the ads fuck Amazon why give them any money. Go to Newegg, Walmart anywhere else
Advertising..helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in.
Someone needs to coin a word to describe this type of infuriating corporate statement. They make astonishingly piss-weak arguments in a patronising tone, as if to insist that reality must be whatever they say it is because they’re a successful company.
It’s the kind of statement that’s not technically a lie, but still seems dishonest for them to present as though it were a sane response, almost like an attempt at gaslighting.
I think the person who wrote that response should be forced to wear it around their neck so that everyone can see what sort of person they are.
It's not just companies. Amazon started pushing ads to subscribers who pay for ad-free Prime video content. Some idiot here on Lemmy actually insisted it wasn't an ad at all, but a "promotion."
Companies are getting their customers to make infuriating, ridiculous corporate statements for them.
I guess? Someone also said "rhetoric", and although it counts as both of these, I'm specifically thinking about these kinds of statements you get in press releases that obnoxiously try to paint the world the way that the company needs it to be in order to justify what they're doing.
Things like "Customers don't like regulations that stop us giving them the best service", "Our users are clear that they want the freedom to choose what subscription models work for them", you know? Those kind of weaselly shit on my pie and tell me it's a blueberry statements, where they dishonestly attempt to pose as the good guys wanting to do best for the world. They clearly must know that nobody actually falls for it, but they say it anyway because they need it to be out there in order for their paid-off politicians and useful idiots to have something to support deregulation.
There's a certain amount of advertising I'll accept. If I go to see an action movie, 1 to 3 previews of other action movies that are coming out in the next few months is okay.
Of course, because they tried to force a Mission: Impossible movie down my throat, I might never go see an action movie made after 2014 ever again.
I have the end of life’d JBL smart speaker. It still works with Google. But doesn’t have the bells and whistles. But it’s the best system I have ever come across. I have one Google screen and I don’t see the difference between the two. And the JBL has amazing sound.
I have an Echo Show, it shows a bunch of ads. It's typically out of my view and I never use the video features. It has options to disable things and I thought I disabled them all but maybe they show ads now regardless. Because I'm definitely seeing ads. I only got one because I think it was bundled with something else or it was a gift.
I have an echo show in my kitchen. It displays ads, but they're super easy to ignore. They're just basically text pictures on the screen when it's not being used and on topics that I selected.
I'm pretty massively against ads, but the echo show's don't bother me in the least. If Alexa Plus starts giving me verbal ads or injecting them into things then it will quickly find its way into the trash can.
For me, there's no level of advertisement that is permissible, no matter how seemingly inoffensive the ad may be. It's still an ad.
In my own home on a device I paid for, it's simply not happening.
My tolerance is zero, because I am not willing to accept this ad-saturated society that we have somehow been generationally conditioned into thinking is acceptable.
I have one of those echo ball looking things with a clock on it. I mostly just use it to play atmospheric noise and set alarms and as a clock. I do get ads sometimes. Sometimes I ask it to play something and it will ask me to subscribe to something. Sometimes it will notify me of a price drop on Amazon. I'll probably get rid of it soon. My life has just been hectic lately, and I haven't had the time to set something else up to replace it yet. Going to completely de-big-tech soon (I'm mostly there already); I don't trust them, with them being so close to this fascist admin. I think it's likely these will be used for state surveillance; some of big tech's products and services already are.
I'm now reading Helen Philips' Hum and it feels so disturbing that the dystopian world depicted in the book is so real. Like all of those things actually exist already, we just don't think about them too often.
Kudos on the N64. What game is loaded? I bought me a Retro-Bit Tribute64 controller and got Rosalina's mupen64 Emulator going on. Oh my sweet sweet Perfect Dark...
Does the ad money in this case go to the creators of the content displayed on these displays, or does it go to Amazon who also got money from selling these displays?
I'm also in the market for one. Can't give you a recommendation from experience, but from what I read some smart TVs can be booted up and operated in "dumb" mode, which I think would be a good compromise - you might wanna look into that, because dedicated dumb TVs seem to be next to non-existent.
You'll pay through the nose, but look at digital signage panels. They are bristling with I/O, configurable to the nth degree, wonderfully over-engineered and utterly free from bloat.
I know, that's what I do. It's just so bloat ridden it's 5 clicks with a shitty remote to switch inputs. I want a tv with no UI, just a power button, volume, channel, and input. Maybe a menu for color settings. The menus on mine are built to push me to one app or another. Every time I turn it on I have to navigate pop ups and prompts trying to get me to connect it and spend money on one app or another. I just want to go to HDMI 1.
Advertising is a small part of the experience, and it helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in. If customers don’t like a suggestion, they can swipe to skip to the next screen card or directly provide feedback by tapping the Information icon or pressing the screen.
No fucks given, we're gonna shove em down your throat.
I regret ever getting mixed up with Amazon in the first place. I canceled Prime, stopped ordering from Amazon’s website, found a Kindle alternative, pulled the plug on my IoT crap, and unplugged my Echoes. No regrets. YMMV.
Can anyone recommend a similar type of device that's not ad-supported? I don't care about voice, but would like to have a desk clock with a synced calendar.
I don't really like the idea - I don't have an old one to use for that, but even if I had, I wouldn't leave it plugged in 24/7 with an aging battery inside of it. I'm looking for something that's either meant to be plugged in constantly or something that can last a few weeks on a single charge.
Cool, thanks. TRMNL looks good, with the only thing I dislike is that the ready made kits ship from the US (I'm in the EU). I see that there are EU resellers stocking DIY kits, so I might have a go at those.
Nuova Scena, il rap show Netflix prodotto da Fremantle, è stato ufficialmente rinnovato: la terza stagione arriverà nel 2026 e avrà una giuria ancora più stellare. Al trio composto da Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain si aggiunge Guè, leggenda della scena italiana. In palio per il vincitore resta il premio da 100.000 euro e la possibilità di imporsi come nuovo nome di riferimento del rap made in Italy.
Putin praised Trump's peacekeeping efforts and said the Nobel committee's decisions to award the honor to "people who have done nothing for peace" damaged the prize's reputation.
Adobe Zii 6 can only patch Adobe Acrobat DC v20.012.20048 – 21.005.20048
But when I follow the install instructions and run the commands in Terminal, it only gives me the option to install "Acrobat Platform: macuniversal - 22.003.20310.7" through 25.001.20756.7.
Adobe Zii then gives me the Warning that it doesnt support the matched version 21.007.20091.
I'm guessing that if I get a copy of the right version it will work, but, how?
OpenAI allegedly sent the police to the door of Nathan Calvin, an advocate for AI regulation, to serve him a subpoena asking for a trove of personal messages.
Città costiera che si affaccia sul Mare d’Irlanda, la capitale dell’Isola Verde avrebbe potuto costituire da molti punti di vista l’esempio di un porto perfetto.
Discord got banned where I live. I'm trying to find a way to route Discord to a specific proxy, or in other words warpring it around a VPN. I do not want to run a VPN system wide as this will significantly decrease internet speed, and also could affect connectivity in many games. Anyone has an effective way to do this? I'm running Bazzite on my system, and I use Vesktop as the Discord client, which is a flatpak. Any help is appreciated
Did you look into network namespaces? With these you should be able to dedicate a namespace for the VPN adapter and then move discord into it, at least with wireguard it works flawlessly.
I am not sure if this is helpful but I just created a systemd unit that sets up the network namespace in the background. Then, as I use nixos, I add the wireguard VPN to nix and with networking.wireguard.interface.name.interfaceNamespace you can then move it into the container. For running applications I cannot really comment because I have only one service making use of the VPN which runs inside a NixOS container for which the namespace can be configured with --network-namespace-path=/run/netns/…
you can use nftables or ip route to route discord's IP addresses through a different interface like a VPN, alternatively you could launch discord with proxychains, there's many ways to do it
I’ve come upon a solid amount of 4tb drives, 8 SAS drives for dirt cheap from a local biz. Never used. I saw a HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 Server on eBay for $80 and thought it was a score since it had been the best deal. I’d been wanting to upgrade off my think center m710. Curious any recommendations for this? My current setup is as follows:
Main server:
Lenovo think center m710
16gb, gt 1030, 2 4tb HDD sata, one 500gb ssd sata
Ubuntu lts
Docker compose
Arr stack -Gluetun with open on proton in Germany -qbittorrent -sonarr -radarr -Overseer -cleanuparr -prowlarr -plex -navidrome -audiobookshelf -Minecraft server (modded: neoforge itzg) -immich -bunch of others that aren’t fully working like tatuli or plex wrapped
Secondary Thinkpad x220 (loved this shit through college) 16gbRAM, 250ssd sata Arch Docker compose -searxng -pihole dns
I’m still looking in to some security system ideas as I’d like to use some storage and maybe do that with some of it. Or some cybersecurity projects or a banned book library or something. I’m open to any suggestions to help this go as smooth as I can make it and as fun as it can be.
I’m also open to new network projects and have been considering getting a domain name to make the Minecraft server easier to learn to route to a name for my friends to link to.
I think the real question is going to be whether your power bill is going to be worth it. Running a large chassis server to power such old and small drives seems like kind of a bad trade considering how much more sense storage is now.
A RAID5 array with these will yield you 28TB usable, and then you'd have to worry about getting the same drive dimensions to replace one if it goes down in the coming years, which is going to be tricky.
Power is something i'm taking in to account, and thankfully isn't too much to worry with around my area. Though I had received the server and i've now learned about SAS formfactors, so this one needs to go back since my drives are 3.5" and the proliant takes 2.5" and I didn't see it on the ebay page. live and learn. back to drawing board of research.
I suggest creating another account on some other instance. Start with Lemmyverse to find a nice one. Once you find an interesting instance, check Fediseer for more details. Click the little (i) next to the instance name in the Lemmyverse results, and navigate to Fediseer endorsements. If the instance has been endorsed, censored or whatever, this is the place where you'll find some info about it.
For example, here's what it says about Hexbear. As you can see in the "censures received" section, that list is pretty long. BTW all the biggest instances attract attention, so disagreement and conflict naturally follow. However, the way the instance is run plays a role too. If you want to access more communities, make an account on one of the less conspicuous instances that hasn't been blocked by others.
Eh, more accounts to keep track of sounds frustrating. And the kinds of people who call Hexbear unfounded insults on political grounds and defederate from us probably aren't people I want to talk to anyway. I come on Hexbear and .ml for an explicitly leftist experience. I think I'll stick with just Hexbear and the communities we are federated with for now.
My Laptop and Desktop have been windows free for years now. I Unfortunately have 1 box that it's only purpose is to run software for my Line 6 Helix and Power Amp, and my 8bitdo controllers for firmware updates. However, that box I debloated, and remote into it from a superior system.
USB pasthrough used to work, and I'd run a VM but I no longer am able to do this.
Nice. Always neat to see that virus removed from a home. Are you running a Windows free home, then, or is it just your own individual tech that's malware free?
All but my one box for proprietary hardware, and my work computer otherwise all Linux. Servers running fedora, or raspberry pi os, and laptoo and desktop running arch.
Maybe the NYT's headline writers' eyes weren't that great to begin with?
The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality — as we know it.
We already declared that with the advent of photoshop. I don't want to downplay the possibility of serious harm being a result of misinformation carried through this medium. People can be dumb. I do want to say the sky isn't falling. As the slop tsunami hits us we are not required to stand still, throw our hands in the air, and take it. We will develop tools and sensibilities that will help us not to get duped by model mud. We will find ways and institutions to sieve for the nuggets of human content. Not all at once but we will get there.
This is fear mongering masquerading as balanced reporting. And it doesn't even touch on the precarious financial situations the whole so-called AI bubble economy is in.
To no longer be able to trust video evidence is a big deal. Sure the sky isn't falling, but this is a massive step beyond what Photoshop enabled, and a major powerup for disinformation, which was already winning.
All those tech CEOs met up with Trump makes me think this is a major reason for pouring money in to this technology. Any time Trump says "fake news", he can just say it is AI.
You couldn't "trust" video before sora et al. We had all these sightings of aliens and flying saucers - which stopped conveniently having an impact when everybody started carrying cameras around.
There will be a need to verify authenticity and my prediction is that need will be met.
The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality — as we know it.
We already declared that with the advent of photoshop.
I think that this is "video" as in "moving images". Photoshop isn't a fantastic tool for fabricating video (though, given enough time and expense, I suppose that it'd be theoretically possible to do it, frame-by-frame). In the past, the limitations of software have made it much harder to doctor up --- not impossible, as Hollywood creates imaginary worlds, but much harder, more expensive, and requiring more expertise --- to falsify a video of someone than a single still image of them.
I don't think that this is the "end of truth". There was a world before photography and audio recordings. We had ways of dealing with that. Like, we'd have reputable organizations whose role it was to send someone to various events to attest to them, and place their reputation at stake. We can, if need be, return to that.
And it may very well be that we can create new forms of recording that are more-difficult to falsify. A while back, to help deal with widespread printing technology making counterfeiting easier, we rolled out holographic images, for example.
I can imagine an Internet-connected camera --- as on a cell phone --- that sends a hash of the image to a trusted server and obtains a timestamped, cryptographic signature. That doesn't stop before-the-fact forgeries, but it does deal with things that are fabricated after-the-fact, stuff like this:
Traditional news sources became aggregators of actual news sources and open source Intel, and have made "embellishing" the norm. Stock/reused visuals, speculating minutes into events, etc etc
It is increasingly faked. The right just pretends that means they're lies that feel "good" are the truth
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words, no longer a "smoking gun". Videos basically become like eyewitness testimony, well... its slightly better as it protect against misremembering or people with inadequate lexicon and unable to clearly articulate what they saw. The process wil become: get the witness to testify they had posession of the camera, was recording at the time of incident, and they believe the video being presented in court is genuine and have not been altered, then its basically a video version of their eyewitness testimony. The credibility of the video is now tied to the witness/camera-person's own credibility, and should not be evaluated as an independent evidence, but the jury should treat the video as the witnese's own words, meaning, they should factor in the possibility the witness faked it.
A video you see on the internet is now just as good as just a bunch of text, both equally unreliable.
If there's an edit that alters a detail that doesn't matter to the witness, it probably isn't important. And that kind of replacement is hard to do at scale without getting caught.
And that's perfect, that's the world that made all the due process and similar things evolve.
There's never been such a thing as independent evidence. The medium has always mattered. And when people started believing this is no more true, we've almost gotten ourselves a new planetary fascist empire, I hope we're still in time to stop that.
I'm just thinking, people thought Americans were faking the moon landing, we've always had conspiracy theorists. AI just spins them faster and sloppier, let's go back to humans lying to humans than a computer taught to lie and advertise by humans to do the same thing
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words...
We live in a post-truth world now.
It's interesting that you start with a bold statement that is IMHO correct, namely that namely what was once taken as unquestionable truth now isn't, but also it's not new, just yet another media, but still conclude that it's different.
Arguably we were already in a post-truth World, always have been, it only extends to a medium we considered too costly to fake until now. The principle is still the same.
I'm just holding out minor hope that people finally get with the program and realize the value of reputable news organizations and plain old grapevine again. Leave internet for nerds.
i think the point is to be able to say "this video was released by X, and X signed it so they must have released it, and you can validate that yourself". it means if you see a logo that shows CNN, and its signed by CNN, then you know for sure that CNN released it. As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc, but they can at least be held to account at that point. versus random ai generated video with a fake logo and fake attribution that is going viral and not being able to be discredited in time before it becomes truth.
Why not link to the original CNN source then, if you want to be trusted? You'd have to do that anyways if you want to use the CNN footage in your own video.
I don't think people who care about the validity of a news video will be helped much with this, and people who don't care about the truth can easily ignore it too.
As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc
But what if they can't anymore? News orgs don't only show video that they recorded. They have videos from freelance reporters, people who were at an event, government orgs, other news orgs in other countries...
sure, totally ok to incorporate those video items & publish your (signed) story. i think we've seen pretty clesrly that people want to publish and be recognised for their publications. building a web of trust has to start somewhere. currently we're in the "its all very difficult, we cant solve all the tricky things, so we're not even trying" stage. hopefully we find a way to move forward, even if its not perfect.
The NFTs tried to solve this problem already and it didn't work. You can change the hash/sig of a video file by just changing one pixel on one frame, meaning you just tricked the computer, not the people who use it.
so try again? also: if a pixel changes then it isn't the original source video, by definition. being able to determine that it has been altered is entirely the point.
The point was to sign AI footage so you know what's fake. NFTs can be used as a decentralized repository of signatures. You could realistically require the companies to participate, but the idea doesn't work because you can edit footage so it doesn't match the signature. More robust signatures exist, but none is good enough, especially since the repo would have to be public.
Signing real footage makes even less sense. You'd have to trust everybody and their uncle's signature.
What would that solve? NFTs don't have to be powerhungry proof of work, that was just for the monkeys. The public ledger part of this is not the problem.
How does that answer my question, how do NFTs help an organization prove that a key belongs to them?
NFTs and blockchains are an entirely virtual construct that can't affect the real world, or take trusted, non-key inputs from the real world. That's not 100% true, but it is mostly true.
So really, you need a way to tie or bind a key to an identity or organization. You could perhaps sign some data, such as a domain name with a key on a chain, but that doesn't prove anything. Anyone could sign anything with any key, so you need to approach the problem from the other direction.
You can install the key directly, or the hash of the key into DNS, verifiers can retrieve the key from DNS, then resolve it to the full key if necessary. You can then use the key to verify signatures of signed data.
Why DNS? Because that is currently the most standard way to identify organizations on the internet. Also, much of the security of the internet is directly bound to DNS. For example, getting certificates for websites often entails changing a DNS record at the request of an issuer to prove that you own the domain in question.
This is not an idea I invented just now, there are multiple DNS record types that have been defined for literally decades at this point which allow an organization to publish keys to DNS. Among the first is this: rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2535#sec… Not completely related, but it is a key of some kind published to DNS.
I don't think NFTs provide any useful functionality in helping organizations prove that a key is theirs, at least nothing much better than a simpler solution which already exists.
It's kind of besides the point. Yes they don't add anything unique and yes it was most likely because if hype, but NFTs is just what they used in the wip to store the signatures on, but the core principle is flawed no matter what you put it on.
Sorry I thought you suggested DNS to solve the core issues.
Cryptographic signatures are something we should have been normalizing for awhile now.
I remember during the LTT Linux challenge, at one point they were assigned the task "sign a PDF." Linus interpreted this as PGP sign the document, which apparently Okular can do but he didn't have any credentials set up. Luke used some online tool to photoshop an image of his handwriting into the document.
Someone doesn't know what mockumentary or docufiction is. There were lots of fake videos way before AI. This is just amplification because of better accessibility.
It's the accessibility and scale that's scary now. Anyone will be able to make convincing fakes of anything from their couch during an ad break on TV. The internet will be essentially useless for getting any useful information because the garbage will outnumber everything else by a million to one.
Commercial web over the years is slowly transforming from education and news into video entertainment platform, this is just next step. I hope AI slop will accelerate transition towards decentralized federated trust ring networks. I also hope it will destroy or at least largely damage current internet / cloud monopolies - google / meta / amazon / microsoft. Maybe public knowledge will be harmed but people will always find the way to pass information without slop.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
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