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Because it is. The question is why a good product needs to be forced on users.

Have you already forgotten when the exact same people wanted to know why prices were going up but absolutely didn’t tolerate that anyone mentionned tariffs in their reply?

Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?

I don’t see the beginning of anything to rein in the power they get from just being overrich assholes.

Ironically, the only countries on Earth that control tightly (some of) their billionaires are Russia and China. I rememer Vietnam also executed one for tax fraud. Something for which they are barely slapped on their hand in western countries.

But there will be more satellites, and not just from SpaceX. They are already disturbing astronomers work, and it will only get worse.

There was no real debate about whether the world population is ok with it. Big corp has money, big corp acts for its interest and nothing else.

And I’m not denying the benefits of low-orbit satellites and having vast but lowly populated areas at last getting access to a fast Internet. I’m jùst pointing out that this whole thing is happening mostly out of control (or very very few control).

If you add that now international laws was shot and its body discarded in the toilet, also note that getting too much dependent on these satellites makes you very vulnerable to a military strike. I have no doubt that Russia, China and other countries (Iran?) are actively working on satellites destruction, with or without creating debris and giving us a Kessler syndrom. If you look at climate change, on-going life mass extinction, water scarcity, etc. there is little doubt that world leaders will make the worst possible decisions in the name of pragmatism (or religion, but it doesn’t really matter).

I wasn’t serious. More of a satire about the absurdity of our “modern” world.

Until throw these fucks in jail this shit will continue.

You think? Send Zuckerberg or any of these billioraires to jail.

1.They will use their lawyers army to be moved to a for-profit prison. 2.They will buy that prison. 3.They will make changes inside, turning them into a resort for them, but an absolute shithole for all other prisoners, guards, etc.

GrapheneOS is not a company doing business. If they’re banned, that just means Motorola can’t sell pre-installed phones, but that doesn’t change anything about the phone compatibility with GOS. You’ll have to install it yourself, just like today.

Ok, all personal efforts are good to take, but we will never emphasize enough that the energy transition is not and cannot work solely at individual or households level.

In our current world, we use oil to make fertilizer to grow food, we use extensive gas-powered machinery for everything in the fields and for cattles. Then we need gas-powered trucks to transport food to the supermarkets, themselves dependent on transportation of an army of low wages jobs: the ones who will struggle more with rising costs of transportations.

In winter, a lot of food is growed in greenhouses heated by burning gas.

Almost all of complex devices around us are heavily dependent on globlalization, so cheap transportation of goods thanks to oil.

Even after the war, damages on natural gas infra already made will have repercussions for years.

And even beyond that, we know that the conventional oil reserve worldwide is depleting, and non-conventional will get more and more expensive as the most accessible deposit will also deplete.

We urgently need ambitious public policies.

It is genuinely useful for people with limited programming experience to write simple scripts that will never be released in the wild.

That market is way too niche to justify the billions needed to achieve that result. Companies should just have professional human coding assistants.

Altman knows. He still has devs in his company, and he didn’t lay them all off. OpenAI is set to go bankrupt in around 1 year. He needs to keep the hype to get as much more money in, and himself generous bonuses, before it goes down.

Metadata. They would still know where you were, for how long, who you talk to, when and from where. Then they combine these info. ex: you call your pop and mom, théir fridge broke down, and you start receiving ads for fridges. Was Meta listening?? No: pop and mom hinted the fridge was down (Google search or other), Meta has established your family links a long time ago, and you usually visit them after a longer than usual conversation (as they have an issue and yuu go help). Here: you fridge’s ads.

They could always do that, and basically anything you can read on your phone, they can access if they need.

Encryption is a math thing: generate a pair of keys: one te encde, one to decode. I broadcast the one to encode (“public key”), and the whole world is tu use it to send me encrypted messages. I keep the decoding (“private key”) only for myself.

In client to erver encryption, we exchange keys with the server through which go all the comms: it decodes my messages and re-encodes them for my contact.
In e2e, the key exchange is between contacts: the server does not have the private keys.
In Meta, the proprietary app can send your private key to the server and then they know what you wrote. You have no way to know it doesn’t do so!

Opensource audited software is the only way to make sure.

That contradicts the very definition of end-to-end, but I would not even be surprised anymore if they spinned that as “fair marketing”.

You may want to revisit that

https://www.pcmag.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-that-whatsapp-has-no-end-to-end-encryption

No, it’s not robust. It may work for your TV, but it can be worked around.

DNS is like a phone directory for Internet: it translates domain name to IP addresses. If you block the DNS (what pihole does), it blocks the directory access. But if the IP address of the servers are hard-coded in the firmware, the TV does not need a DNS, it can reach the server directly.

To trick the TV, you need to restrict the IPs it can reach. It might be delicate: it probably tries to ping some comme IPs to check it’s connected, then call the brand’s server for ads/updates/etc.

“People like you aren’t in for the money!” – always and only said by people who are in for the money

After the initial amazement, reason kicked back in: of course there would be an app for that, and of course some people would use it and share their intimate life with a company they know nothing about, because it has a bold line “We value your privacy” somewhere on its website.

As long as they don’t encounter any resistance, they have no reason to renounce their enshittification process.

Will the sales slow because of this? Unlikely. I would assume the power users are in the noise.

Will they make more money? Probably, either through their own data collection and brokerage, or from third party editors paying to have their app bundled in the OS.

So, no catch! (for them…)

I’m tired of people falling for this kind of shit every single fucking time.

Authoritarianism is never passed through a bill overnight. It’s one step in the wrong direction after another, multiplied N times.

This is a step in the wrong direction. After that you’re one step away from “improving the verification” and you would reject that step only if you have nothing bad to hide.

Do you remember when it was only a few cameras to evaluate their efficiency? Now they’re everywhere and are to use AI for behavior assessment and face recognition.

It’s the same pattern every fucking time!