Contrary to what others here are saying, instead of trying to install Linux on something random, I would highly recommend getting a Linux-first / Linux-friendly hardware at first instance, if possible. If not, that’s fine, you could just go for any random off-the-shelf PC, BUT you run the risk of certain things not working or perhaps not fully optimised. For instance, for laptops, one common issue is standby/sleep mode not working properly - either you may experience battery drain during sleep, or things like the graphics or audio might break after resume (or worse, might even crash). Or you may experience higher battery drain in general compared to Windows, or certain things like some Fn keys for brightness may not work etc. Certain sensors not working is another common issue, which may cause your fans to run at 100%. And if your system has an nVidia card, there’s a good chance you may run into issues - if not during installation, perhaps after a system (kernel) upgrade. These are all just examples btw, just because you’re buying something random doesn’t mean you may face these issues, but it’s something to keep in mind.
The general rule of thumb for buying Linux-friendly hw is: avoid nVidia. Both Intel and AMD onboard graphics are fine (for the most part - at least, they have a better track record than nVidia anyways).
There are some PC/laptops which come with Linux loaded out-of-the box, which would be the ideal Linux machine to buy. I call these Linux-first machines. Examples of such machines include System76, Star Labs, Slimbook Fedora, Tuxedo, Purism, Juno Computers and Entroware to name a few. There are also some laptops from mainstream OEMs which come with Linux, such as the HP Dev One and Dell XPS Developer Edition. You can’t go wrong with any of these machines, as they’re Linux-first machines and have been tested by the OEM.
Then there are Linux-friendly laptops - these are laptops which may not necessarily come with Linux, but have been either confirmed by the OEM in some capacity that they’re Linux compatible, or they’re widely supported by the community due to their Linux-friendlyness and popularity. Examples of these include the Framework laptops and Lenovo’s ThinkPad series. You generally can’t go wrong with these either.
For other machines, your compatibility can be a hit-or-a-miss. Some laptops may work fine, but might need some extra configuration steps to get it all working - eg Microsoft’s Surface laptops need a special kernel to be installed (and some additional steps to be followed, depending on your distro), but otherwise work fine once you’ve installed all the extra bits. If Linux-first/friendly laptops aren’t an option for you, you could go for something random, but you’ll need to do your research (Google/reddit search etc) and see what their compatibility is like, whether everything works, if there’s any issues etc. In fact, this would apply for most of your hardware purchases going forward. Eg, say you’re buying a printer or some external webcam, you should check for it’s Linux compatibility first before buying it.
Finally, if you want to run Linux on a device you already own - you can (generally) try it without any risk, using a Live USB (bootable). Just download the image, write it to your USB drive and boot from it - this will give you a good feel of things, and highlight any potential compatibility issues. Ventoy makes this a very easy process - just install Ventoy to your drive first, and one it’s done, you can download multiple ISOs of various Linux distributions and just copy it to your drive (no need to install them). Then you can boot from the USB and select the distro you want to try and boot from it. This is extremely handy for trying out various distros, or just keeping some “rescue” ISOs handy. You can even boot a Windows ISO from Ventoy (and other OSes too, like the BSDs).
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I would not suggest mastodon for such low powered hardware, its also overkill for a personal instance. Akkoma or GotoSocial would work much better on a Pi. The annual cost is pretty much just 3-15$/year for the domain name.
What it looked like was an email program with a list of subject names like mail folders, each containing subject lines of conversation threads. The threads were fully branched, replies under the correct messages, like Lemmy. Not a simple list, like email.
Also unlike email, the messages were posted publicly instead of to you.
There was a list of newsgroup names for different subjects, you’d pick which of those to get messages from to appear as the “mail folders”.
The names were in a hierarchy, so computer subjects were comp.something, hobbies/recreation were rec.something etc. a bit like website names, only back to front, general to more specific, e.g uk.rec.sheds, alt.startrek.fanfic , rec.humor, rec.humor.funny.
You’d download messages from (and upload your replies to) a server and it would share messages with other servers, like Lemmy federation. So each group would be a merge of all messages from all around the world. Effectively there would only be ONE alt.folklore.urban for instance.
Usually your isp would run a server and you’d use that.
At first it wasn’t mainly used as a way to share binary files encoded as text messages, but eventually that took over, isps dropped having servers and big paid ones took over.
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Tailscale would be the most “secure” as you have no ports open and only you can access it. Keep in mind your services will only be accessible by you along as all your devices connect to your tailscale instance. Sharing access is possible but will require some explanation.
Wireguard is another option, just as secure as the first option, it will need one port open but the port only responds if you are connecting with proper keys/authentication. Like tailscale you can only access your services if connected to your wireguard instance.
Reverse Proxy, any version you choose will work, it depends on your preference of layout and user interface. Nginx proxy manager, haproxy, traefik. Each accomplish the same with different levels of setup, I listed them in my ease of use. If you use pfsense as your router haproxy installation is easy and there are plenty of guides about setup. Nginx proxy manager you can also find a bunch of setup videos where it’s running on home assistant.
With a reverse proxy you will open port 443 and in your firewall rules point it at your reverse proxy. Your proxy will then direct traffic to any one of your services. You will need a domain name so you can access service1.mydomain.com or service2.mydomain.com from anywhere on the web.
With a reverse proxy and any public website I recommend to run them behind a ddns like CloudFlare. You can do this for free and it helps protect your services against DDoS, bots/crawlers, and it obscures your HomeLab IP, as all incoming traffic goes through CloudFlare and then get directed to your HomeLab.
Additional security that can be implemented within your firewall is to block all traffic not originating from your country, or even only allow specific IP addresses.
I use a combination of all this above where a few services run publicly accessible, and everything else is accessed through tailscale or wireguard. Internally I run haproxy on pfsense where public service are proxied.
I also run nginx proxy manager for my local services, this allows me to access my local services such as service1.local.mydomain.com with a full SSL certificate. So once I connect to my home network with tailscale/wireguard I can type in these domain names into my browser. At some point I will move these into haproxy with its own frontend for internal services.
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dynamic inventory on AWS means the ansible interpreter will end up with three completely separate sets of hostnames for your architecture, not even including the actual DNS name. if you also need dynamic inventory on GCP, that’s three completely different sets of hostnames, i.e. they are derived from different properties of the instances than the AWS names.
btw, those names are exposed to the ansible runtime graph via different names i.e. ansible_inventory vs some other thing, based on who even fuckin knows, but sometimes the way you access the name will completely change from one role to the next.
ansible-vault’s semantics for when things can be decrypted and when they can’t leads to completely nonsense solutions like a yaml file with normal contents where individual strings are encrypted and base64-encoded inline within the yaml, and others are not. This syntax doesn’t work everywhere. The opaque contents of the encrypted strings can sometimes be treated as traversible yaml and sometimes cannot be.
ansible uses the system python interpreter, so if you need it to do anything that uses a different Python interpreter (because that’s where your apps are installed), you have to force it to switch back and forth between interpreters. Also, the python setting in ansible is global to the interpreter meaning you could end up leaking the wrong interpreter into the role that follows the one you were trying to tweak, causing almost invisible problems.
ansible output and error reporting is just a goddamn mess. I mean look at this shit. Care to guess which one of those gives you a stream which is parseable as json? Just kidding, none of them do, because ansible always prefixes each line.
tags are a joke. do you want to run just part of a playbook? --start-at. But oops, because not every single task in your playbook is idempotent, that will not work, ever, because something was supposed to happen earlier on that didn’t. So if you start at a particular tag, or run only the tasks that have a particular tag, your playbook will fail. Or worse, it will work, but it will work completely differently than in production because of some value that leaked into the role you were skipping into.
Last but not least, using ansible in production means your engineers will keep building onto it, making it more and more complex, “just one more task bro”. The bigger it gets, the more fragile it gets, and the more all of these problems rears its head.
A few days ago I shared some news that the Eurovision song from Israel would be named “Your land is mine now” to later realize it was from an onion kind of website, lol....
I currently have a very comfortable lil home server with the arrs and plex (would like jellyfin but it’s not there yet for me, currently fielding emby given how Plex is going), basically all sources are usenet....
I can’t comment on questions 1, 3, and 5 but I have been using Real-Debrid for around four years now (through Kodi mostly because I don’t want to have to manage a huge server again, occasionally I download directly to watch later/on a different device/non-video stuff) and I’ve been pretty happy with them so I’ll answer from that perspective.
Quality is great. As you mentioned in Q4, it works via torrents so if a torrent exists you’re free to grab whatever you want. You can stream or download from RD once it’s been cached by them. Even 50+GB Bluray remux streams fine directly from them. As for file naming, in the thousands of downloads I’ve gone through, I think I’ve come across two incidents where something wasn’t named properly and I ended up with something I didn’t expect but I believe both of those were Kodi issues, not RD. One was a movie where I got a foreign movie of a similar name and one was a TV series where it kept trying to play the wrong season/episode. In both cases I was able to just manually add the torrent/magnet and RD had it fully downloaded basically instantly or I was able to manually select another file in Kodi. The file names are what you expect with a torrent though with the title/year and all the quality and codec info in the filename so it’s hard to get the wrong thing. I don’t think I’ve ever come across deliberately misnamed files. It would get nuked pretty fast, trackers usually take stuff like that pretty seriously.
Assuming something is relatively available RD seems to be able to grab it very quickly. Like as fast as the page refreshes after adding the torrent/magnet. You also download very quickly from them; I typically see over 100MBs down over my wireless connection in a house with several other people using our connection which is pretty much fully saturating our bandwidth lol. Occasionally I have had issues getting something, but like with most things, the older and more obscure you get the harder it is to find sources for. In that case you may want to be on certain trackers. This is kind of why I like Kodi because there are plugins that focus on different types of media and some may have better luck finding, say, old 90s cartoons while others are better for anime. Once it gets added to my debrid I can go back and grab it/rewatch later. But for more popular stuff, I typically just use one of the big name public trackers. RD grabs it and I get it securely and privately from them. I’ve never bothered with a VPN and have never had issues.
One thing that I didn’t see mentioned was downtime. Occasionally RD has had some downtime. If you’ve ever been on the addons4kodi subreddit you’ve probably seen the posts with people freaking out about it within minutes of it going down. Downtime is typically minimal and usually back up within minutes to a few hours. In a few instances (like maybe twice?) it went down for like 12 hours or longer? Not really sure, if it goes down I just find something else to do and check later in the day or the next day and it’s back up. RD has also been known to compensate days worth of service for hours of downtime which is pretty nice. I haven’t heard the same about Alldebrid or Premiumize.
RD also gives you tokens based on the service package you buy (called fidelity points). 1000 points will convert to 30 days of service. I buy 180 days at a time which is currently around $17.33 USD and I get 800 points, so buying a year (~$35) gets me an extra month with points left over. Then the next several 180 day purchases also get extra months with them.
Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around 200,000 people on land using next-wave nuclear technology: small modular reactors....
Personally, I don't care about these statistics. The point I was trying to make was that under capitalism any industry has the goal to make huge amounts of profit. Coal, nuclear you name it. Nothing is about sustainability, unless it is related to greenwashing. So I don't trust their approach, including the safety of these places. Also the need for more power is for industry expansion, not to heat our homes for instance.
[By the way, I am not a communist. Mondragon is a model of non-capitalistic industrial development that has been successfully expanding since the 1950's. By no means am I saying their approach is perfect, nor that perfection is the goal. Their example is important tho cause we can learn from them. For the Cleveland Model, they used Modragon's input. They refers to Gar Alperorovitz amongst others]
Hello everybody! I just learned that I can get a free .eu.org domain, but I’m not sure I understand the domain creation process. Any of you has one?...
My understanding of name servers are where is your domain going to be recorded. For instance, my domain may be something.com but the name server tells the browsers to send the web traffic to 50.50.50.50 where the server lives.
<p>In a recent scientific paper published in <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1232177" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frontiers in Psychology</a></em>, a team of Italian researchers have developed an innovative approach to assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) using a humanoid robot named Pepper, integrated with OpenAI’s advanced conversational artificial intelligence. This novel system aims to enhance social interaction, communication, and cognitive skills for individuals with ASD, offering a promising avenue in therapeutic and educational settings.</p>
<p>Autism Spectrum Disorder presents unique challenges to individuals and their families, often requiring tailored educational and therapeutic approaches. Traditional methods, while effective, can sometimes fall short in addressing the diverse needs and preferences of those with ASD. Recognizing this gap, researchers were driven to explore the potential of combining advanced robotics with cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Their goal was to create a more dynamic, engaging, and adaptive learning environment that could cater to the specific requirements of individuals with ASD.</p>
<p>The use of technology in ASD therapy is not entirely new, but the integration of a social robot like Pepper with AI technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a novel approach. This combination aims to leverage the predictability and consistency of robotic interactions with the natural language processing capabilities of AI, creating a hybrid system that is both reliable and responsive to the nuances of human communication.</p>
<p>“As a multidisciplinary group, we were interested in exploring the intersection of technology and healthcare, particularly in the context of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDDs), which present a significant challenge to families and society,” said study author <a href="https://www2.unical.it/portale/strutture/dipartimenti_240/fisica/personal_pages/ebilotta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eleonora Bilotta</a>, a professor of general and cognitive psychology at the University of Calabria. “The potential of AI and social robotics, like the Pepper robot integrated with ChatGPT, to support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) represents a promising, innovative approach in educational interventions.”</p>
<p>At the heart of this study is the Pepper robot, a humanoid robot designed for social interaction. Pepper is equipped with cameras, microphones, and various sensors, enabling it to perceive and respond to its environment. The robot’s operating system, NAOqi, supports its physical movements and interaction capabilities.</p>
<p>The innovative twist in this research comes from integrating Pepper with OpenAI technology. This integration enables real-time processing of language and speech, allowing Pepper to engage in natural conversations with individuals. The system uses advanced speech recognition to convert spoken language into text, which is then processed by OpenAI’s language understanding algorithms. The AI generates appropriate responses, which Pepper delivers using speech synthesis.</p>
<p>“The adaptability and responsiveness of the ChatGPT-integrated Pepper robot in simulating real-life interaction scenarios with ASD subjects were particularly striking,” Bilotta told PsyPost. “The nuanced and context-aware dialogues initiated by the robot demonstrated a level of engagement that was encouraging for future educational and possibly, with the support of an expert, therapeutic applications.”</p>
<p>The researchers outlined two primary interaction scenarios – informal and structured – both tailored to enhance the learning experience for individuals with ASD. In the informal scenario, Pepper engages in open-ended conversations, allowing for spontaneous communication and social interaction. This setting aims to create a comfortable environment for individuals to express themselves freely and build a rapport with the robot.</p>
<p>By engaging in casual, unstructured conversations, individuals with ASD can practice social skills in a low-pressure environment.</p>
<p>In contrast, the structured scenario is more guided, with Pepper leading problem-solving tasks and structured activities. This approach is designed to develop critical thinking, decision-making, and cognitive skills in a supportive and methodical environment. The robot guides the individual through various stages of problem-solving, offering feedback and encouragement. For many with ASD, predictability and routine are essential and structured scenarios would provide a consistent framework.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>Both scenarios utilize Pepper’s capabilities, including speech recognition, facial expressions, and body language, along with OpenAI’s natural language understanding and generation. This creates a dynamic and interactive experience, adapting to the individual’s responses and promoting engagement.</p>
<p>“The key takeaway is the potential of advanced technology, such as AI-integrated social robots, to aid in cognitive functioning for individuals with ASD,” Bilotta told PsyPost. “This study shows how these technologies can be adapted to meet specific educational needs, offering personalized and interactive experiences that can complement traditional approaches.”</p>
<p>But the benefits at this point are only theoretical. “One major caveat is the need for extensive real-world testing to validate the effectiveness of such systems. Questions regarding long-term impacts, the generalizability of results, and the integration of these technologies into existing educational/therapeutic frameworks still need to be addressed,” Bilotta explained.</p>
<p>She added that “it’s important to consider the ethical implications and ensure the development of such technologies is guided by a human-centric approach, focusing on enhancing the quality of life for individuals with ASD, while respecting their autonomy and privacy.”</p>
<p>The ethical implications are multifaceted. Firstly, there’s the matter of informed consent: ensuring that guardians of individuals with ASD fully understand and agree to the use of such technology in therapy. Privacy and data protection are paramount, as personal information and interaction data must be securely handled and used responsibly. It’s also crucial to ensure that the technology does not replace human interactions but rather complements them, maintaining a balance between technological and human engagement.</p>
<p>“We are actively working on a project that aims to enhance the capabilities of our existing system by integrating not only ChatGPT’s advanced conversational and visual features but also incorporating the creative prowess of DALL-E,” Bilotta said. “This initiative is particularly focused on enriching the experiences of individuals with ASD and those with visual impairments. Our multidimensional approach is designed to foster more engaging and impactful interactions, catering to the unique needs of these individuals by leveraging the combined strengths of conversational AI and visual creativity.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1232177/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A social robot connected with chatGPT to improve cognitive functioning in ASD subjects</a>“, was authored by Francesca Bertacchini, Francesco Demarco, Carmelo Scuro, Pietro Pantano, and Eleonora Bilotta.</p>
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Software engineering is just what any “engineering” field would be if they didn’t have standards. We have some geniuses and we have some idiots.
Mechanical engineers, civil engineers, electrical engineers, etc. are often forced to adhere to some sort of standard. It means something to say “I’m a civil engineer” (in most developed nations). You are genuinely liable in some instances for your work. You have to adhere to codes and policies and formats.
Software engineering is the wild west right now. No rules. No standards. And in most industries we may never need a standard because software rarely kills.
However, software is becoming increasingly important in our daily lives. There will likely come a day wherein similar standards take precedence and the name “software engineer” is only allowed to those who adhere to those standards and have the proper certs/licenses. I believe Canada already does this.
Software engineers would be responsible for critical software, e.g: ensuring phones connecting to an emergency operator don’t fail, building pacemakers, securing medical records, etc. I know some of these tasks already have “experts” behind them. But I don’t think software has any licensing/governing.
Directly opposed to “engineering” would be the grunt work which I do.
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I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is...
<p>An analysis of data from the Twins Early Development Study and the UK Adult Twin Registry has uncovered that the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and depressive symptoms is bidirectional between the ages of 12 and 16. In this age group, depressive symptoms contribute to subsequent weight gain, and an increased BMI leads to the emergence of depressive symptoms. After the age of 16, however, only depressive symptoms contribute to later weight gain. The new research was published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723002155"><em>Psychological Medicine</em></a>.</p>
<p>Obesity and depression are two of the most frequent adverse medical conditions. The share of individuals suffering from them has been increasing strongly in the last few decades. Obesity is a medical condition characterized by excessive body fat accumulation that presents a risk to health, often defined by a body mass index of 30 or higher. Body mass index is calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters.</p>
<p>Depression, on the other hand, is a common and serious mental health disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and a range of emotional and physical problems, significantly impacting daily functioning. Both obesity and depression carry an increased risk of socio-economic hardship, cardiovascular disease, death from different causes, and other adverse consequences. They also tend to appear together, with obese individuals suffering from depression and vice versa.</p>
<p>Study author Ellen J. Thompson and her colleagues wanted to investigate whether there is a causal relationship between depression and obesity and, if there is such a relationship, which of these two conditions causes the other. They note that it is possible that obesity and depressive symptoms do not cause one another, but that they are both caused by the same environmental processes. There could also be common genetic factors influencing both disorders.</p>
<p>To try to answer this question, the researchers analyzed data from two large, longitudinal twin studies in the UK – the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) and the UK Adult Twin Registry (TwinsUK). TEDS followed twin pairs born in England and Wales between 1994 and 1996, encompassing about 10,000 pairs, and collected data at ages 12, 16, and 21, including body mass index and depressive symptoms. TwinsUK, established in 1992, includes 14,575 adult twins aged between 18 and 101, born in the UK, initially aimed at studying osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.</p>
<p>In the TEDS study, participants completed the Short Moods and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) for depression assessment and self-reported their weight and height, which researchers used to calculate BMI. The TwinsUK study employed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for assessing depressive symptoms and used whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans to measure participants’ height, weight, and body fat percentage.</p>
<p>Because these databases contained data from different timepoints, it was possible to make inferences about their cause-and-effect relationships. Namely, if one of these conditions causes the other one (if one is the cause and the other is the consequence), then the association between past cause and future consequence should be stronger than between past consequence and future cause. Since causes cannot work backwards in time, this reasoning allows researchers to make cause-and-effect inferences even though there was no experimental manipulation of factors involved in the study.</p>
<p>Results showed that depressive symptoms increased with age. Depressive symptoms were associated with body mass index values measured at the same time point, but this association was weak at ages 12, 16, and 21. However, there was a strong correlation between depressive symptoms at one time point and body mass index in the future. Depression scores at different time points were also associated.</p>
<p>Further analysis showed that the relationship between body mass index and depression is bidirectional between ages 12 and 16. Higher body mass index at 12 led to higher depressive symptoms at 16. However, higher depressive symptoms at 12 also led to higher body mass index at 16. Between 16 and 21 years of age, this link was no longer bidirectional. It was only depressive symptoms at age 16 that led to higher body mass index at age 21, but not vice versa.</p>
<p>Analysis of genetic and environmental influences showed that body mass index was highly heritable at ages 12, 16, and 21, while environmental influences were low. Depression was moderately heritable at these ages, but there was also a high influence of environmental factors not shared between twins (those that affect each twin differently, their unique experiences).</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>“The current study demonstrated a bidirectional association between BMI [body mass index] and depression from ages 12 to 16 with stronger directional effect from BMI to depression,” the study authors concluded.</p>
<p>The study sheds light on the nature of links between depression and body mass index during adolescence. However, it also has limitations that need to be taken into account. Notably, the study was conducted on twins. Results on singletons might not be the same. The study design also assumes that there are no interactions between genes and environment and this might not be the case.</p>
<p>The paper, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723002155">The relationship between weight-related indicators and depressive symptoms during adolescence and adulthood: results from two twin studies</a>”, was authored by Ellen J. Thompson, Georgina Krebs, Helena M.S. Zavos, Claire J. Steves, and Thalia C. Eley.</p>
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There are a lot of instances where that may not be practical. The maintainer may be indisposed or may be even passed away. Perhaps we shouldn’t attach too much significance to the name. Instead, make projects more discoverable and get creative with the names.
@actuallyautistic Fedihive, urgent help needed. I'm in dire straits mentally and need a good an active enough peer support chat. Preferably something IRCish, but Discord and others will do too. If you know one, please let me know.
I know people here have offered to chat with me via PMs and I appreciate that (and apologies to all I've snubbed and ghosted, PMs are not my forte...) but right now I'd need a more communal setting.
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😂now you got me all mixed up with former and la😂tter. I get your meaning though. I believe trust (or lack thereof) is a crucial point in this. Could it be that trust is at an alltime low right now? Could it be that we would have to create a whole new platform for interpersonal relationships now?
All I can say is that I really struggle to name what i want, all I know is, it's not what I see.
What I want would have to include all the careful respect and learning about each others differences and needs and reasons why, that I have occasionally found here for instance. Adn there are so many more differences than there used to be, as many more groups now have a voice and terms to declare themselves by. And so many people haven't learned to navigate that yet. It requires a new culture. And when someones main problem is anxiety for example and trauma, well. They will have some difficulties while they learn.
NSA is buying Americans’ internet browsing records without a warrant::“Web browsing records can reveal sensitive, private information about a person based on where they go on the internet,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.
Yes, there’s a balance that has to be struck between protection and liberty. Years ago I speculated what could happen if everyone was chipped into a system that monitored their vitals, with the resulting data we could track morbid outcomes (say heart attacks) to their core roots and then track people who are currently experiencing early warning signs and show the TRUE POWER OF PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
The problem is, of course, so much data can be used for purposes against the interests of the public, and will once there are technicians privy to all that information. This was the original business model of Google: no-one looks at the data except its owner (e.g. I get to look at my own contacts lists) and Google profits from analysis of multiple data points. Only the police got the power of courts to look at the data, to the point where they wanted everyone who happened to websearch a given name, or whose phones were in a radius of a crime scene at a certain time.
You don’t want to be a non-white or a known protestor who had business near a crime scene in the US.
So yeah, until we’re able to lock up data so no-one but their intended audience has the capacity to read it, even when a court writes a warrant, we can’t trust such all-encompassing systems, especially if the state is at risk of turning into an ideology-driven regime. (England, for instance, still has hard feelings between Catholics and Anglicans, and the Irish / UK border is a bit tense these days.)
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Debrid vs usenet and the *arrs?
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New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it (www.cnn.com)
Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around 200,000 people on land using next-wave nuclear technology: small modular reactors....
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Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ?
I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is...
Happened to me multiple times (lemmy.zip)
NSA is buying Americans' internet browsing records without a warrant (techcrunch.com)
NSA is buying Americans’ internet browsing records without a warrant::“Web browsing records can reveal sensitive, private information about a person based on where they go on the internet,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.