Spare a moment to think of the poor technofeudalist serf working hard to put food on her family.
kbal
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I think the fediverse has a better chance of doing more good, and Mozilla should've stuck with it.
Mozilla: For the foreseeable future, there's a lot of money in advertising, and we want some of it. It's all over the Internet. Why shouldn't some of the profit go to people like us, people who wish things were different even while bravely facing the harsh reality that there is no other choice but to devote ourselves to commercial advertising?
We know that everyone in our community will hate the idea, but surely this too is a sign that we are on the right path. By doing unpopular things, we demonstrate the courage that's needed to save the Internet from the kind of future where Mozilla can't get a piece of the biggest market on the Internet, the only one that matters, the market for advertising.
Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be "you should've stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago."
What was the problem again?
Except it wasn't just a notification that there's been a complaint. It was "no more unwanted messages, please."
Aside from that it could be somewhat reasonable if there really is sufficient evidence to suggest that a criminal complaint is warranted. That seems unlikely, but I suppose we should keep an open mind. In the absence of someone digging up some really damning stuff from social media it looks a whole lot more like a lawyerly — and presumably therefore less illegal — attempt at something like "swatting", albeit a less violent version. The police should know better than to let themselves be used like that, but a lifetime of experience leads me to suspect that maybe they do not.
Thing is, they didn't seem to have brought anything to inform her of. If they want to come out of it looking like anything but witless fascist goons trying to intimidate someone, they're going to need to be a lot more specific than "unwanted messages" to unspecified persons.
She seems to think it was someone she replied to on twitter. I reply to random people on here all the time, just like I'm doing now. If it's unwanted, by all means send the netiquette cops to my house I guess, we'll see if I'm able to suppress my derisive laughter long enough to get a video half as good as this one out of it.
That's generous of you. If I'd mistakenly bought one that wouldn't work without ever having a network connection, I'd be returning it and demanding my money back. Hasn't happened yet, though.
They are presumably referring to SimpleX. Although I don't actually see anyone blaming it for the existence of Nazis.
That seems like too fast for night driving. At that speed you'd want perfect conditions including maximum visibility.
You'd be correct to point out that not all of them waste energy like Ethereum did until later in 2022 and Bitcoin still does, but wrong to pick Monero as an example of one that doesn't.
Meh. It's not a problem of scale. It's a problem of we have no idea how the fuck to do that. Scaling up existing techniques is neither necessary nor sufficient.