Shouldn’t have looked

They have quite a bit of work to do though, with all the slander they’ve endured.

I don’t know of examples of dual licensing (maybe redhat?) But Wordpress is a GPL project that still has an industry around it

It wasn’t really Singapore-based; the Chinese company relocated to Singapore to circumvent the Chinese regulations on sales to the US, that’s why they put a stop to it

Even in the EU there isn’t really an alt store ecosystem apart from the epic game store

Chinese death sentences are usually imprisonment unless a new crime is commited, and generally reserved for corruption & other crimes where people nuke trust in public institutions for personal gain

Holy, and I thought “Vöedtæmhtëhactått” was bad

Every single animator has been taking inspiration from everywhere all the time tbf

Could they not “just” use FPV drones with nades to take those flimsy radars out anyway? Instead of expensive ammunition. If it’s possible then it slashes down the price to take out these radars to a few thousands at most

These kinds of situations are inevitable in capitalism

Not updated but it still works fine

Some stuff that you can use are

• AdNauseam, visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them, nuking the usefulness of ad trackers
• TrackMeNot, spams queries on search engines, clicks some links here and there, all in the background. Works perfectly with AdNauseam, nuking both ad & search profiling

Then there is this experimental (HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising) paper on using ML to obfuscate online tracking, it’s a research paper so my understanding is limited to the excerpt 😅 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05792

Could be done on another device though, a computer could pretend to be your phone and start sending tons of useless data maybe? I don’t know how feasible it is.

You’d have to automate the retrieval of IDs for each data harvesting platform (including web based cookies to be feature complete) and manage to send the properly formatted data on each platform.

Funnily enough though, the kind of fuzzy data generation that just looks plausible enough could be a great usecase for LLMs

Nah, a reverse faraday cage, something that would make telemetry useless by flooding it with trash. We can try all we can not to be spied on, but it’s an uphill battle. If we start being so noisy that they’d have to sift through tons of crap to maybe perhaps get a tiny speck of useful data, it won’t economically make sense to continue harvesting the data.

It’s one of the things I do with a combo of trackmenot + adnauseam, spam web search & click websites and all their ads automatically while I use my computer. Good luck profiling me correctly

Yeah it’s the program, ~ is not an issue in filenames, Vim even uses it as a character in the temp file it creates when editing a file. Is a VM something that could work for that specific usecase? I know I have one just to upddate my logitech devices

Why is nobody thinking about the poor lil wannabe-brown-people-killer 😭

You really ought to rethink your angle. Beyond “whataboutism” which is a useful tool to avoid any self reflection, do you really think we should first pay attention to protests, while Iran is getting bombed, i.e. every Iranian, including protesters, is in grave danger of death?

You’re telling us we should disregard deadly danger to all Iranians and instead pay attention to some danger to some Iranians?

To wrap this up, YOU are asking “what about the protests”; nothing in this post is about the protests. YOU are guilty of that nonsensical “whataboutism” pseudo-fallacy.

Edit: Less personal attacks (sorry)

1. The protests weren’t a wholesale denunciation of Iran’s government. There was some who protested for that, but most protested because of the result of US sanctions resulting in a devastating degradation of Iranian people’s quality of life.
2. The protests and their supporters were mostly in urban centers, which the US and Israel hit. Anti-government sentiment was annihilated the instant they were attacked (or became so low on anyone’s priority that it’s functionally the same).
3. US and Israeli bombs don’t magically spare protesters ⁉️⁉️ Like, what could possibly go in your head when hearing that Iran is defending itself, to conclude that it’s bad for Iranian people? The best thing for Iranian protesters is that Iran wins unequivocally

Your weak ass defense of the US would be ridiculous if Iraq didn’t happen; the fact that you’re unable to learn from it is sobering. Iraqis being freed was one of the reasons given back then; as a reminder more than a million Iraqis died to it.

Do you think Iraqi protesters were spared?

Nooo you gotta debate them in the marketplace of ideas /s

Because the dollar being the reserve currency is a direct result of the US being the world hegemon. As the US is falling, and China is expanding trade but not asserting itself as the hegemon, the world is becoming multipolar.

The EU’s economic situation doesn’t allow it to become the new hegemon either, and their political fragmentation makes them unreliable anyway.

The concept of a reserve currency might be outdated because of that multipolar world. And if not, the EU is in no position to impose the euro, as China is way more stable and has much better economic relations with everyone, including both US economic allies and enemies.

There would be no contest if China tried to assert the RMB as a world reserve currency, but AFAIK they’re not interested in doing that.