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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12It'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
@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer @scathach@stereophonic.space @mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org sometimes i wonder if tech is doomed and trying to keep the meme going is like trying to keep the ska scene alive, it's just going to die. i am not sure what could really replace it, maybe the maker/radio community could force people get back out into the real world, and wouldn't be nearly as dynamic without the power laws of the internet's connections. but i feel like things will become impossible eventually unless we migrate to a new substrate
@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@tsogol.tsiran.org @scathach@stereophonic.space @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer the taoist in me says that it isn't the pedophiles or the normals taking it away from us, it is just its natural time, and we do worse by not releasing our attachments and finding the new reincarnation. unless the reincarnation is in custom tf2/overwatch servers then we should just give up
@mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org @scathach@stereophonic.space @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer every day i go online i see more proof: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2025268542476575176
@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
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@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
@twinspin6@outerheaven.club @mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer @scathach@stereophonic.space how much abdication of responsibility in the name of security and efficiency will ever be enough? surely such a thing would never be rooted in immorality and ultimately be doomed, perhaps we need more abdication of responsibility. it will always be, as the kids say, cooked