Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.
While I always love a good privacy tantrum and throwing your toys out of the pram, I don’t really get why there has to be a public announcement of ”switching”.
But I guess it’s his blog, so whatever. Wish him the best of luck with the new HP 2-in-1. Hope he remembered to turn off all the tracking features in his Ubuntu.
It’s a fool’s errand unfortunately. Users stay in spaces because their friends and social circles are there. It doesn’t really matter how shitty the platform becomes. The social cost of moving is just too high.
The solution is interoperability and some regulation. Unfortunately we have neither. All you can do is inform your mom about the dangers and teach her to recognise propaganda and abuse.
Would recommend reading Cory Doctorow’s book ”Enshittification”
Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.
I still see and hear occasional traditional ads, as they’re hard to avoid in public spaces or in my snail-mail box, but I don’t see online advertising since I adblock and spam-filter very aggressively. If a site is tries to anti-adblock (like Twitch) I just stop using them.
I don’t think my “daily seen” number ever gets to three digits.
Well have fun with the lottery!
How about building a society where you have a freedom to do meaningful things without having to amass wealth?
How about building a society where the poor don’t have to rely on donations from the rich?
They will begin so, but the regulation means the authorities can backdoor your device way easier than they can today. It doesn’t mean your custom ROM device will be free of the scanning software forever.
It also means that you need to know that the receiving device you’re communicating with is clean custom ROM device, otherwise your messages will be scanned on the receiving side.
The regulation is a complete shitshow privacy nightmare hiding under CSAM trenchcoat. We’d do well to organize and fight against it, instead of trying to back down to the perceived safety of esoteric custom ROMs.
Why would I want to get rich?
Just a matter of time as soon as it gets passed. https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/
assuming the baddies don’t already have full access to your phone data
That’s the whole point of Chat Control 2.0
It’s great as long as you can guarantee that the person you’re communicating on the receiving side does the same. Otherwise it’s useless as your messages will be read on the receiving device. In practice it will make private communication extremely cumbersome and niche.
Also, the authorities can backdoor your custom ROM device at will, when seized.
ChatControl 2.0, if passed means your entire device is backdoored so it doesn’t matter what apps you installl, they can get your info pre-encryption
Yeah bud, very topical
Getting really positive reviews from techbro YouTubers though
Tell me, what data does Beehaw sell to the brokers?
Yeah, the poster above said “no wireless capability” though. NFC is wireless.
Or maybe we shouldn’t be allowing data collection and surveillance in the first place.
Hard to use when having to ID you on websites
A strange game. Only winning move is not to play.