Packet over radio does exist, and it’s sloooooooooooooow and there’s tons of loss. Imagine the first modems over phone lines, then slow it down more.
Legally, in the US, it can’t be encrypted, either. A single geostationary satellite would be faster, especially if latency wasn’t an issue.
As much as I love Cory Doctorow’s work, this is a stretch. The crack in the door only comes once everything supporting the consolidation and oligarchy of the tech industry comes crashing down. The broligarchs have their contingency planning in place already, so a crack in the door might exist one day, but it’s going to take a lot more than EFF and a few niche rights groups to make any change there. The tech money is digging in, and doing so in ways that are edge cases for even digital rights groups.
The post-WWII order is gone, the post-Cold War model of economics is over, and the post-9/11 surveillance state is now wearing a mask with hoses that feed it super-strength drugs. It’s that the costs of the old bargain are double for everyone that isn’t a FANG, and now gone for them. Just like the Western economy, it’s bifurcating towards different planes of existence that know of each other but barely interact IRL. Which is not sustainable, but for how long we’ll wobble, it’s hard to say.
Digital rights and privacy groups need to be proactive and demonstrate uses cases for both, and make use of them while expecting the non-sustainability of the current system to one day give way to something new.
So step 1 is, for now, strap the fuck in and get your house in order. Build skills, teach others. Step 2 one day is going to be on the heels of massive cultural and political change.
There does seem to be a cyclical nature to new users. Same with new communities. I’ll go looking for a niche community and find one, only to see a half dozen posts 2 years ago during the first big push to the fediverse, and then it’s dead after that. It’s entirely possible I’m looking at an entire ghost community where every one of those users bailed a couple years back.
Welcome! The thing worth knowing is that corporate social media has intentionally trained you to expect zero friction because that’s the basis of their business model - to trap you. Once you spend a bit of time or watch a YT video and understand how lemmy works, it’s not that complicated at all.
Consider that things worth doing in life are not so easy that they suck you in. No one gets in shape at the gym on accident. A small bit of effort pays off here.
To view and view alone, use an alt fronend - https://imginn.com/ You can “follow” by bookmarking the users within the frontend.
For everything else, just make a sockpuppet account or buy an account if you can find a reputable site (lol) selling aged accounts. You might be able to buy 10 for $40 or something and 1 might really work.
The discover page won’t work without an account because the algorithm is defined by the account.
A few weeks ago I dealt with my deceased Grandfather’s computer. He passed 12 years ago and once Grandma passed, there was no reason left to shrine it all off. He was a prolific artist. Played the piano, French horn and oboe. Painted, did etchings and lithographs, drawings.
He filled up the HDD on his first PC, a 2006 Dell Optima IIRC, and was on his way to filling up a spool of CD-RWs and his 2010 Dell Inspirion when he passed. Pulled the hard drives and connected them to pull what was on there. One part the mind of an artist - folders of 200 pics of clouds and rocks and mountains, paintings and works from the 60’s and 70’s propped up in the front yard (great light!), random pictures of cacti. Then, the mind of a grandparent - my cousins as babies, my youngest aunt younger than I am now writing this, baseball games and holidays. Most taken a decade closer to Gene Ziegler’s words than today. Saved and copied and backed up and copied again and uploaded for one more incarnation.
you may as well reboot and go out with a bang
Look, I know you’ll not want to hear this, but it’s not actually about screwing people as fast as possible at all. I have family in Vegas and used to live close to the Nevada border, with a few card game dealer neighbors. Casinos, to me, are where retirees throw away money to subsidize my buffet trip. I don’t understand people that play slots. In 2003 I won $13 at my second pull at some slots and never touched one again.
But casinos are truly evil in that they tease you perfectly. You win just enough to keep you hooked, but you do win. People winning keeps the dream of you winning going. They gladly comp you drinks and used to comp shit food which feels like a win. But casinos, at least, are not systematically invulnerable. May partner and I spent maybe 4 hours going between 4 or 5 casinos playing roulette once because she had never been to the Strip. We started with $20 I planned to lose, got a few comped drinks at Slots-o-Fun, never made some huge win but my partner and I had a fun time for less than the price of a movie in terms of value/time.
But, I’m also not addicted, and I never bet more than I plan to lose.
That said, I thought the vote count looked skewed so I threw an upvote because I don’t think the discussion in and off itself is bad. But no, I can’t relate and don’t care to change anyone’s mind.
Yeah, maybe that’s my bad. I think sports betting apps are one of the worst things ever done with a smartphone, so “change my mind” was more so asking anyone who is into these apps to explain why they’re into it. I didn’t expect anyone to take that literally and downvote in…disgust? disagreement? I dunno. Lesson learned that lemmy is still social media.
Yeah - I don’t generally gamble outside of 1 day a year, plus raffles don’t count and I go in for them once in a while. I’m up maybe $800 over my lifetime.
I would bet you $5 that if i asked about crypto, a much larger percentage of people here would tell me about how they made some money and it’s certainly not gambling.
It’s actually a similar to disease r-values vs. fatality rates. If the gambling scheme takes too much profit, it burns out. It can’t give up the promise of winning faster than stories of loss accumulate. I’m sure casinos have hired economists and statisticians to find the optimum percentage payout for slots in Vegas to keep people pounding the SPIN button like rats hitting a feeder bar in a lab.
No one cares, and anyone who does is an idiot
Hey now - plenty of doctors and lawyers and engineers are idiots, assholes, and dipshits. A degree isn’t magic, and a lot of those degrees were institutional methods of letting wealthy people get their wealthy kids a degree that holds wealth in the family. Many engineers, lawyers, and doctors are overworked and miserable, anyway.
Get whatever degree you want. Live your life. Happiness is your goal, not cosplaying being a person you’re not to impress people who don’t matter to your life.
The rule of thumb is that you’re not going to just find some hidden gem super stealth browser. If it’s not well-known in the privacy community, it’s a scam and scraping tool.
Browsers take huge amounts of work, even FF forks. This seems like bait and until you find a researcher going out of their way to tell you to use it, don’t use it.
In the context of the comment, “do shit” is explicitly not anything to do with the OS or packages or repos.
People need to put their egos aside and recommend a distro suited to a soft landing for a new person. That includes knowing that person’s technical skill and who around them will help when real issues pop up that require hand-holding and not just “Well, there’s a forum and you ask there.”
IMO that’s Mint, but I also haven’t found a distro that has tempted me away from Mint, either.
Please cross-post to a privacy community. Ultimately, this sounds like it’s going to produce a situation where a dumbphone that allows for hotspots and them a smartphone without UPI or a SIM and with a VPN are a workable solution.
Every algorithm is based around frequent posting and farming engagement. Everything is optimized to ruin the internet.
I love their work. No one shouts “hey, you fuckin’ Scorsese!” at cab drivers and then goes to a movie later the same day saying “God, I wish someone would shoot me like Gangs of New York” while they jerk off.
It’s also slow AF. It’s potentially faster to have someone read you text than get it by packet over radio.