Pass it on…

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

governments and surveillance, name a more iconic pair

Umm, if I understand you, it should be fine, you’d have the app and also proxies available on 8388 and 8888 or whatever you prefer on a different tunnel… It’s pretty much the VPN swiss army knife. Use wireguard if you can, it’s a lot faster (but more CPU intensive).

Spin up a gluetun instance, which will give you your proxy. I use two to have a local exit node and an international one.

No idea, I was just using it to illustrate the existence of compromised exit nodes, which to my mind are a pretty fatal flaw in TOR, perhaps someone knowledgeable can chime in.

Compromised ? Maybe, but this guy doesn’t provide any evidence one way or the other. He’s using at least 7 other possible vectors (apparently Calculator Photo Vault just hides the gallery, no encryption, so it’s over right there) which is way too many for good opsec.

With Tor the question has always been compromised exit nodes as I understand it.

Truthfully, I usually double-check with Strava heat maps to see where people are actually riding…

Agreed, and the chance of it backfiring on them is indeed pleasingly high. If the compute moat for initial training gets lower (e.g. trinary/binary models) or distributed training (Hivemind etc) takes off, or both, or something new, all bets are off.

Oh hell no to subscribing, thought didn’t cross my mind. Save us from MBAs with revenue streams on their mind, wannabe rentiers.

They’re talking about a Trackball mouse e.g., not the pre laser mice (or they’re nuts). Good ergonomics, useful for carpal tunnel etc.

FWIW I’ve found their high-end mice pretty robust, my MX Master 2 is still going strong 5+ years in, if cosmetically challenged. Amortised over time, the price is not so bad.

Please let local, open equivalents be available (see LocalAI for an example of not being far off) before this. The sheer scale of data harvesting this will enable boggles the mind.

Ditto on the hate, technical, but important distinction here, they support open-weight ML. They do not release training source code or data sets to actually make your own (granted you’d need millions in video cards to do it, but still). Open-source gets thrown around a lot in AI, presumably virtue signalling, but precious few walk the walk.

Never underestimate the value of getting hordes of unpaid workers to refine your product. (See also React, others)

Or violence, which is justified self-defense when tyrants are trying to destroy everyone’s property rights.

Valid option. Burn it all down and start again is always possible, and probably more efficient than fixing things at this point.

I’m not American either, but law precedents are contagious, once enough judges think it’s reasonable, others start to as well, even across borders. A lot of the world runs on Scottish common law at base. If you really want to get to root causes, I’d go with greed, the tendency of the rich to seek rent, and Late Stage Capitalism.

The original idiocy here is the DMCA, this and the other idiocies practised in its name are consequences. Over time the idiocies build up as case law precedents until new and ever more egregious cases are made, some of which stick (as in throw shit at the wall and see what sticks) and the cycle continues. Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.

does rclone not work?

Hmm, Church and State… I much prefer having a separate RSS reader (FreshRSS in my case) for news, as I see it, and lemmy for more frivolous purposes. YMMV.

If it can be read (i.e. used) it can be copied. Self-destruct is a possibility, thermite FTW ;). There are encryption technologies that will resist even this level of resources however, I’m guessing 1024-bit encryption is good until Q-day, probably more with a quantum ready algorithm, although none of those have been tested yet.

That’s when they bring out the rubber hose…

Certainly wouldn’t hurt, tunnel out via vpn to swaziland or whatever. I’m still going to be searching locally, but if all they know is I’m looking for bikes and hopefully don’t link it to my shadow profile, I can probably live with that. Still, don’t they require ID and phone number and shit these days ? IDK, I really don’t follow them.