It's depressing how few people in the free software space seem to be aware of and understand the implications of California's GunCAD lawsuit
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20It's just another tentacle of the ongoing push to ban general purpose computing for the masses
Oh, and Colorado is considering a bill to require operating systems to verify users' ages in a way that can't be tampered with
I give it until 2030 at the latest that we'll see a draft of a TLS specification with a client identity/age verification mechanism that makes it impossible to interact with the modern web without associating your legal ID with every request
@scathach what do we do about this? Like, say this happens, what can one do to remain anonymously in contact with people online, engage in piracy, etc?
@mirq As long as open sores software exists and can be ran on arbitrary hardware there will be a free underbelly
I expect fedi and piracy sites will continue to thrive and all sysadmins who care about privacy would disable ID verification
I expect fedi and piracy sites will continue to thrive and all sysadmins who care about privacy would disable ID verification
@mirq Unfortunately we (people who value autonomy and privacy) are slowly being forced out of the corporate internet, but considering how much of a wasteland that is I don't consider that a huge loss
If it gets to this point I'd probably get a secondary computer to do banking, healthcare, and government interface stuff, like how a lot of people in Europe are forced to have a second phone just to do bank 2fa
If it gets to this point I'd probably get a secondary computer to do banking, healthcare, and government interface stuff, like how a lot of people in Europe are forced to have a second phone just to do bank 2fa
@shibao @scathach @prettygood this is how i feel and why i was asking what can be done
i really hope that there is something that someone much much smarter than me can figure out to keep this going.
the Internet is such an amazing, impossible, beautiful thing. decrepit power-hungry pedophiles shouldn't be able to take it away from us entirely /:
i really hope that there is something that someone much much smarter than me can figure out to keep this going.
the Internet is such an amazing, impossible, beautiful thing. decrepit power-hungry pedophiles shouldn't be able to take it away from us entirely /:
@mirq @shibao @prettygood @scathach people are stubborn and resistant, but the issue will always be inertia, how many end up just throwing the towel and just going on with what happens? The extremeness of this could backfire and make people (even normals) care about stuff for real this time so maybe...
@mischievoustomato @shibao @prettygood @scathach
>The extremeness of this could backfire and make people (even normals) care about stuff for real this time so maybe...
do you talk to normies? they don't see an issue whatsoever, or even buy into it
nobody cares about their data
when equifax leaked 150m people's sensitive data, their execs should have been dragged through the streets and beaten. instead, nothing of value happened. like maybe a 500m settlement? that's what, like, $3 per person after lawyer fees? lol
if/when the pedophiles/glowies finish taking away everyone's online freedom, there will only be outrage from greasy outsiders like us, and the world will move on
>The extremeness of this could backfire and make people (even normals) care about stuff for real this time so maybe...
do you talk to normies? they don't see an issue whatsoever, or even buy into it
nobody cares about their data
when equifax leaked 150m people's sensitive data, their execs should have been dragged through the streets and beaten. instead, nothing of value happened. like maybe a 500m settlement? that's what, like, $3 per person after lawyer fees? lol
if/when the pedophiles/glowies finish taking away everyone's online freedom, there will only be outrage from greasy outsiders like us, and the world will move on
@scathach
tbh i think its a function of the rot of society
being that too most subscribe to the gun control / child safety coolaid im not sure what can be done
le open source is already in a tight spot too because current maintainers are quick to just ban anyone they dont like and will take any type of corporate bribe (even if they think they arent). being that a lot of the talent has been filtered out because they dont match their political views or they did something off platform makes me concerned that oss has already died
tbh i think its a function of the rot of society
being that too most subscribe to the gun control / child safety coolaid im not sure what can be done
le open source is already in a tight spot too because current maintainers are quick to just ban anyone they dont like and will take any type of corporate bribe (even if they think they arent). being that a lot of the talent has been filtered out because they dont match their political views or they did something off platform makes me concerned that oss has already died
@shibao @scathach @prettygood yeeee scathach mentioned this earlier iirc
There's also a small but growing push for cloud computing, which would also help kill freedom. Rentable cloud-based RAM pools being just one gross hypothetical but soon-to-be-realized example
There's also a small but growing push for cloud computing, which would also help kill freedom. Rentable cloud-based RAM pools being just one gross hypothetical but soon-to-be-realized example
@twinspin6 @shibao @prettygood @scathach man i dunno i was half listening to some nerd woman explain it the other day
she said it would never be as fast as having the ram plugged into your own machine, but it would be more "efficient" in terms of cpu usage (since i guess idle cpu use goes up with increased available ram) and other factors
sounded like hell to me but i was more focused on dicking around with my Sorcery cards at the time
she said it would never be as fast as having the ram plugged into your own machine, but it would be more "efficient" in terms of cpu usage (since i guess idle cpu use goes up with increased available ram) and other factors
sounded like hell to me but i was more focused on dicking around with my Sorcery cards at the time
@mirq @shibao @prettygood @scathach
It is not small at all. I heavily suspect that the current mostly artificial memory shortage will be used to get people comfortable with renting compute from a datacenter. Microsoft has been on this train for years and made their intentions clear years ago. It will get marketed as a "safer way to use computers" and normies will happily give in. Sooner than later your phone will just be a terminal to a server living somewhere in a data center.
It is not small at all. I heavily suspect that the current mostly artificial memory shortage will be used to get people comfortable with renting compute from a datacenter. Microsoft has been on this train for years and made their intentions clear years ago. It will get marketed as a "safer way to use computers" and normies will happily give in. Sooner than later your phone will just be a terminal to a server living somewhere in a data center.
@mirq @prettygood @scathach @shibao Also it will be marketed as "cheaper" and "safer for the environment" since now you don't need to make millions of CPUs that end up in consumer electronics, but way less high powered ones thus increasing wafer yield.
@phnt @shibao @prettygood @scathach @mirq certain g*mers absolutely will: You don't need to download the latest 700GB pvp slopware and cheating will be a thing of the past because you won't even be able to install your own software on the box.
@VD15 @shibao @prettygood @scathach @mirq They will own nothing and they want it, so they can play the newest Battlefield of Duty Fortnite Edition.
@phnt @shibao @prettygood @scathach @mirq gotta rent my house so I can rent my internet so I can rent my compute so I can rent my OS so I can rent my vidya so I can rent my battle pass so I can unlock the limited edition mcdonalds crossover skins this season