Read “Nudge” by Richard Thaler. Choice architecture is a real thing that has impact on whether things we want to happen actually happen. It’s not because people aren’t smart enough.

What is the furthest you’ve connected to on Meshtastic? I’ve yet to buy hardware, but I see a lot of complaints on the Meshtastic subreddit about range and low activity. On the other hand I’ve watched a couple videos about big Meshcore groups, connectivity from Vancouver to Oregon, stuff like that.

Wow if its rumoured it must be true

If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.

If it’s not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.

The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don’t keep the sort of records that governments ask for.

Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).

Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.

Didn’t Frank Lloyd Wright use the term “Usonian”?

The article says they suspect this was done by people who have an interest in hunting, since those people often complain that the eagles target birds like pheasants.

Sorry for a casual, what do you mean cap at 60hz?

I just use Firefox on Ubuntu, which fifteen years ago seemed like enough.

Which also doesn’t seem that casual, but this shit is too much to keep up with. Today my engineer dad was complaining about search engines having too many ads and I asked what he used, and he said besides Google on the one computer he uses Bing on the other.

Thanks for sharing. Although I’m an enthusiastic open source user, I haven’t written any code of significance, so I’m not aware: has anyone made a license where use is restricted to individuals and democratically controlled organizations? I’m picturing that would allow for some degree of profit motive while encouraging things like worker co-ops and excluding venture capital controlled entities.

That’s what I was getting at, I was trying to understand the mechanism by which they were doing this

When they say access to social media on smartphones does that mean restricting connectivity to certain sites on devices using mobile IP addresses?

I assume they have no mechanism to remove apps from individual devices.

I see what you’re saying, thanks. They come with firmware, but it’s open source. What I’m saying is it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where governments say “for public safety, we now require every manufacturer to modify their firmware to include this fingerprinting” And even in that scenario individuals could still probably manage to install clean versions. But it becomes much more of a nuisance and the most common arrangement would be people deciding it’s not worth the hassle.

Can you share which electronics don’t have firmware? I’m using a BambuLabs machine that certainly does. Any machine that’s supposed to work right out of the box would.

I understand you to be saying it’s possible to 3D print with an open source stack, which is good it’s at least possible vs most 2d printing. But that’s a very different thing than imagining a scenario where most 3d printers come from a store with this sort of fingerprinting enabled.

2d printers already print yellow dots which contain information about the printer for tracking purposes.

The question isn’t whether a manufacturer would play ball (or be compelled to) it’s whether it’s possible to do in a way where the information persists and doesn’t compromise the functionality of the print.

I think it’s bad, to be clear. I just think it’s not unreasonable to imagine manufacturers including that capability from the factory.

You’re right it’s bad that they shut down. Does make me wonder about the use of “traitors” since I don’t think tiktok could ever have been considered on the side of the people.

I hope these events result in better lives for Indonesians.

This is helpful, thanks.

You’re right. But the headline is “the days of custom android ROMs are numbered”

After reading the article seems like a sensationalized headline. One of the major ROMs is on hiatus and may never return. And the process of installing custom ROMs is challenging. Not good, frustrating, but different than “soon no one will be able to do this”

I think the main thing is even if they were using the same underlying model (like chatgpt or Claude), they give them different prompts. For example, the one you linked seems more clearly prompted to give you a humorous roast style summary. Just from the screenshot from Reddit I get the impression they gave it a prompt about “you are an assistant for community moderators who are evaluating what course to take with a user” or something like that.

To be clear, the link you’re sharing is not what reddit is using