Here’s one post about it. I’m not one for direct messaging on social media personally. And on centralized services it’s true that your direct messages can be seen by employees if they’re sufficiently motivated or by court order, hacks, that sort of thing. But on mastodon both the administrator of your instance and the admins of the instances of the people you’re messaging can see your direct messages. Since an instance can be set up quickly by just one person, there’s higher likelihood of access. That person may have no qualms about accessing private info, they may have insufficient resources for proper security, or to fight legal efforts to access information. A large company will in theory have more concern about reputational risk if it’s uncovered they’ve accessed private information than some individuals will. I know many people running instances take great pride and care in what they do, but that’s not always true.

This is great. I think one critique of the fediverse is the lack of privacy, so it’s a welcome development.

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I think you need a fourth word for better timing. A person might misinterpret the duration between glarp and dook, and arrive at peow too early or late. Just one more timing sample is better to reduce human error.

Andrew Callaghan isn’t conservative

I’ll get complaints from people they can’t add/remove members from a group chat, and it’s because I’m in the chat, and use Google voice.

Read “Nudge” by Richard Thaler. Choice architecture is a real thing that has impact on whether things we want to happen actually happen. It’s not because people aren’t smart enough.

Protests aren’t the only thing that activists in the US are doing. It’s not an either or situation.

I’m curious, are you a developer? I’m just a hobbyist but reading his comment on the article it seemed reasonable. The problem is the capitalist handling of technology, not the technology. And tools like Claude are actually very helpful with coding, provided you have an understanding of the subject matter and aren’t just copy pasting what it’s giving you.

There is. If you read the article these are tickets issued by a speed camera. My understanding is there may be a legal obstacle to taking someone’s license if the ticket is issued by a camera because you can’t prove who was driving the vehicle. The whole point of the article was to promote the “super speeders bill” in New York, which won’t actually take anyone’s license, it will just require that those with 16 tickets in a year have to have a speed limiter installed in the vehicle.

What is the furthest you’ve connected to on Meshtastic? I’ve yet to buy hardware, but I see a lot of complaints on the Meshtastic subreddit about range and low activity. On the other hand I’ve watched a couple videos about big Meshcore groups, connectivity from Vancouver to Oregon, stuff like that.

I’m a socialist so no big fan of capitalism. That said, I don’t think capitalism is just about selling things for more than they’re worth.

We add value through our labor. Think of a log, it has some value as raw material. A worker might cut it into planks, and another might make a table out of it. It’s now worth more than when it started. The value came from our labor, and we should be compensated for it.

The issue with capitalism is that the few benefit off the work of many. Based on the rest of your comment I think we’re pretty much in agreement, but just want to highlight that as a worker-owner (vs robber baron) there’s nothing wrong with charging for what you’re worth.

Wow if its rumoured it must be true

Fuck these guys.

It’s also a really nice feeling to help someone jump a car, or help push a disabled car off the road. It’s this short(ish) and well defined opportunity to do good, without much gray area of “is this the best course of action” or “am I making an impact” you get with longer and more complex activism.

If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.

If it’s not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.

The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don’t keep the sort of records that governments ask for.

Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).

Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.

Yeah. I don’t like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren’t founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.

Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077

Is that an upper class student radish hanging out with a subsistence farmer radish?

Like the European Union?

Barney is famously purple