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Warm white christmas lights. Diffuse lighting is so much better. Induction cooktops. Because gas cooktops are toxic both inside and outside the home.

First things first they need to just hire my autistic ass for something.

That's not the computer doing it, that's the services you use going out of their way to gather one by combining data which has other legitimate purposes. Not so much being "sent" as it is being "abused". Unless we want to count Microsoft's "advertiser ID".

Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs.

Source?

www.integrazionemigranti.gov.it/en-gb/

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That’s $1,000 per employee laid off. They might have been making $60,000 a year each. $30 million is way too much to pay anyone (especially shareholders) but firing the CFO is not a silver bullet.

Why not. Not like that money would be put to better use elsewhere.

In the case of email, security is more important than privacy. The country your provider is based in doesn't matter. Hypothetically if we were talking about something like a VPN, it would need to be a country which values privacy and which has a vaguely hostile attitude to America. I have no idea what country that would be.

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I'd have paid the fee for ad-free YouTube if it didn't also come with an (expensive) subscription to YouTube music. Nowadays though I don't want to give Google money for anything, even incidentally. I just use Ublock Origin.

The carbon intensity wont make the product go away, but the economic cost will.

The product won’t go away either way. I can’t foresee a scenario where Musk kills Grok. Short of a catastrophic global energy crisis that makes anything AI basically impossible to sustain, but that’d never happen.

Inference is dirt cheap. Short of a botnet, nothing we do will at all impact Grok's finances. EDIT: I haven't actually done the math if it is actually dirt cheap. But assuming it isn't, then that makes it even more important not to use such a carbon-intensive AI.

Grok is one of the worst AI’s you could possibly be using. The electricity used in training it is dirtier than any other company’s and it is owned by a Nazi.

Firstly, the ID requirements for renting a place to live are a more apt example. Secondly, it depends how the ID is used. If my ID isn't being associated with my online traffic then it isn't the end of the world.

You need ID to drive a car, which is essential in modern America. Worse still you need ID to rent a house and that's normally getting fed straight into a massive insecure database. The advantage of Linux is that we could theoretically choose who we give our ID to (whether that's Red Hat, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Arch, etc). Handing over your ID is necessary for some essential parts of modern life, and while I wouldn't want to hand it over to access my operating system, I would be able to accept it. Thinking critically, let's imagine that only government approved companies could verify your ID and those companies are Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Persona. At that point I'd ... really hate it but I'd hand over my ID. Then I'd double check my operating system isn't logging and sharing my internet traffic. There's no indication that our online traffic will be required by law to be linked with our proven ID. If such a thing does happen, then firstly we are totally screwed, and secondly it would likely involve all major websites participating. We fundamentally won't be able to get around it in that case.

Your response again doesn't really follow from what I wrote. It retains some key words but not the ideas. Browser fingerprinting which exists because the average person can't be bothered concealing it and the theoretical sharing of your ID with the sites you visit due to a government mandate are two entirely different things. The relevant difference is that the government doesn't mandate browser fingerprinting, it exists because it is technologically possible and the mitigation measures are more inconvenient than the average user is willing to deal with. As for normalizing OS-level ID checks as a slippery slope towards sharing your full ID as part of a HTTP request ... firstly that is not something you can get around with an alternative distro anyway, because it would involve all major websites. Secondly, that is a hypothetical within a hypothetical. Thirdly, if that really is the path that we're on, now is not is not the most effective time to oppose it, because the slippery slope argument is far more persuasive from the bottom of the slope. EDIT: I think I just did the same thing I accused you of, talking past you. My response basically just rejects your core conceit, that being a distinction between the private power-user experience and the non-private normie experience, and nothing else. I'll need to edit this. EDIT 2: Okay, fixed.

Parts of what you just said are not really a proper response to what I said, either because of accuracy or relevance. So I'm just going to address the one important part of what you said, metadata. I didn't consider metadata because I treat proof of age as what it is, proof of age with proof of identity being incidental. If visiting a website requires handing over my full birthday, "hardware ID", or real identity then I would be concerned, but we're not there yet. It's a widely held view in the general public that you should be able to browse the internet privately just like you should be able to browse a library without the government seeing a log of every book you read, and I hope that would be enough to resolve this. The general public is not very concerned about browser fingerprinting, which effectively erases user privacy, but government mandated sharing of your identity online would be a red line that would get the normies involved.

I think it’s helpful to put some thought into why you use Linux and what you really need from it. I use it primarily for choice, privacy, and to just not be using anything by Microsoft/Apple/Google. Security is nice to have but it’s not the reason I’m using Linux, so handing over my photo ID to a third party I trust is an acceptable if disappointing risk. Sure, my OS will be tied to my ID, but as long as my online traffic isn’t that should be fine. If they wanted to monitor my online traffic it would make far more sense to do it at the VPN level instead. Not by having my open source operating system redirect my traffic so that it’s associated with my ID. The big risk is social media requiring proof of ID. Bots are becoming more and more common and proof of ID available at the OS level on Windows, Mac, and Android would be very tempting for social media. That’s a different concern though.

The stereotype of pedophiles in cop shows is that they use desktop computers anyway, not phones. Don't know how true to reality that is though.

I think both approaches are too extreme. Supporting every device leads to poor security, poor stability, and therefore a poor user experience, but only supporting just Google devices (while there is a good reason for that) is a step too far for most people. If I were in the position of e/os I'd just support probably three manufacturers. Going through the major ones that I know of: Motorola and Google are obvious picks. Next would need to be something cheap and popular. Samsung is way out of the question. Xiaomi and Vivo I've never seen their phones mentioned outside of China (which is a country that generally doesn't have the same privacy considerations as people in the west do). That leaves Oneplus and Tecno Mobile for the third model.

They're two sides of the same coin. Can't have privacy without security and can't have security without privacy. Looking at the post though he's specifically talking about advanced security as a means of preserving privacy, security you'd need if (based on his model) targeted by a government (whether foreign or your local police forensics team). I don't think his model is correct though because while extra hardened security is useful to protect privacy in such an instance, it's also just best practice because it's better to have too much security than not enough, just to keep your bank account secure at least.

I find iPhones themselves dystopian.

The Democrats would not do something as self-destructive as invade Iran.

If I remembered it, it wouldn't be overrated.

Do people rate that highly, or just play a lot of it?

Alternatively I’d somehow stop the Taft-Hartley act from passing. It prevented trade unions from making political donations until Citizens United vs FEC.

Any conflict of interest in the source needs to be considered, including the degree to which the source is permitted to criticize it’s home nations government or it’s allies.

Time-limited. The recent changes to how the digital world operates are not conducive to open operating systems and I imagine this trend will accelerate.

When Epstein was arrested everyone photographed with him had to explain themselves. Anyone associating with a sex trafficker nowadays would not want to be seen in public with them. As for Elon Musk, firstly he is definitely not smart enough to run a sex trafficking ring, and secondly he has a plausible path (if improbable) path to his wealth.

Who we’re looking for who: Is rich (at least $100 mil) Is implausibly rich considering his skills and career history Is very well connected among the rich Nobody wants to be publicly photographed with (Re: The mistakes they made with Epstein) Definitely has a private jet Lives close to were rich people tend to gather (New Zealand?) Keeps a low profile If we’re going to find this guy, the first thing we need to do is figure out where all the world’s billionaires are hanging out.

“Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application. Meaning basically, from Apt, RPM, or Pacman.

Way better than Mozilla.

A CEO should be paid enough to live comfortably if you work at a non-profit, but if you need to be paid market rate then you’re probably not passionate about the position. When your job is fulfilling a public good rather than delivering shareholder value, that and a decently generous salary should be reward enough. That said, I think Signal is better than Mozilla on this front, because they don’t have a long history of terrible decisions each of which coming with increased executive compensation.

15:16 He is not reading that right. He skipped the “or” part. A covered application store includes, for example, the RPM package manager. The package manager can supply the age bracket. IBM does not need to be the one supplying the age bracket.

Having used PIA in the past, PIA is faster and cheaper but I find it suspicious for various reasons.

Strictly speaking the text is “A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched” and the video didn’t address the “or a covered application store” part, whatever that means.

Normally when I encounter a game issue I just put the game at the bottom of my MAAAAAAAASIVE backlog.

Correction: It hasn’t had a real left wing since Truman. The Taft-Hartley act effectively excised the trade unions from having anything to do with the Democratic party. Half the Democratic party voted in favour of it, which allowed them to override Truman’s veto.

That bit about requiring app stores to query an online account to get the users age, that’s probably the most concerning part.

It was a rhetorical question.

WHY ARE THEY LOOKING?

Why not? It’s consensual, anonymized, and doesn’t include my browser traffic.

The system has the newspaper barons onside.

I like being able to choose my desktop environment. I like knowing I’m not being spied on (although I did set my telemetry to max telemetry). I like how Linux will keep supporting my hardware near indefinitely.

Better than American owned and operated.

There wasn’t exactly anyone else it could be except Motorola.

Not really, I’ve mostly just heard about their security problems on the grapevine, I don’t have specific concerns in mind. Arch is pretty famous for being lax on security. Debian for having a pretty scrappy organisational structure.

The five major upstreams are Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, and Arch. Three of those are corporate, two have some questionable security practices. So there’s no perfect distro.

Red Hat has a lot of control but it’s open source we don’t need to trust them. In terms of security Fedora is doing better than Debian and Arch, and in my experience RPM-based distros have been the best I’ve used. If you’re concerned you can always use OpenSUSE Leap. I would use it if I needed to distrohop for some reason, I’d just need to figure out what to do about RPM fusion.