… Politicians either don’t understand or don’t want to understand that once an encryption is broken, it is equivalent to there being no encryption in the first place. And their ignorance… And I truly want to believe that that’s their ignorance. It causes such disproportional oppression, that I am stupefied that not enough people scream about it.

Still there is a possibility that it is not ignorance. There is a possibility that it is just a political stunt. A sort of red herring, to mislead you into not asking the questions of proportionality. And that they are actually just trying to take control over us all.

the politicians are merely mouth pieces and useful idiots to enable such draconian measures and the author is right in believing that it’s not all merely ignorance.

my own experience as as software engineer tells me that the most gifted engineers are gung-ho about these measures because it appeals to their intellectual curiosity and the affects upon humanity for such intellectual pursuits doesn’t enter into the equation at all; even the ones who are sympathetic to leftists causes don’t care so long as their mortgages are paid and they can afford to put their children into the best schools.

expect no help from the tech bros and tech lefty’s alike.

i’m still using kitkat androids in my own motion setup. (segregated from internet access of course)

not yet and that’s why the black market and the dark web exist.

it’s impossible for the police’s human eyes to detect that your glasses or your makeup is capable of reflecting the light that face recognition needs to identify you; at least for now.

i hope that the spirit of capitalism in my country will create entire industries of masks, makeups, glasses, and clothes that are capable of defeating face recognition.

i try to focus on silver linings wherever i see them because the clouds are going to come whether or not you want them to.

in the very recent past facial recognition didn’t work well if your complexion was dark enough and mine is, but i don’t know if that’s true anymore.

OMG ubuntu or fedora by default! finally!

it is and it’s the most that you can do given our situation.

… until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.

the most recent version i’ve seen of this are my colleague software developers who don’t give a rat’s ass about the impact that their work will have on humanity so long as they keep getting paid almost a quarter of a millions dollars per year to pay for their investments and put their children is the best possible schools.

i think that external pressures will always force a person-vs-person conflict like your and my example to enable the goals of the platform.

i’m just as lazy as your average developer. lol

i wonder how much longer i’ll be able to move about without face detection being able to spot me because my complexion is too dark.

i do this my setting up a firefox account and syncing all of those things into my account.

that way, my firefox setup is always the same from computer-to-computer as well as from computer-to-smartphone.

that fact that yours is freezing suggests that something is wrong with your setup; do you get the same behavior if you use a non-flatpak version of firefox?

i wonder if elon would prod trump to make good on their threat to defund nato if the eu cancels twitter. how would it impact ukraine?

i wasn’t aware that it had changed like that; i stopped using it when i switch to linux laptops from linux companies like tuxedo and system76

yes, it’s old news to me and probably you; but i think it bares repeating since there will always be someone who didn’t already know.

agreed; but it’s the reality that voting for “lesser evil” gives us

Probably someone will find this one useful for DIY projects or something

this plus the motion project plus a bunch of old unused androids equals free home security cameras w remote check in. thank you for making me aware

check the distro’s changelist to find something like that since not all downstream distros are the same; some are more modified than others from their base.

i think that the side with the most money would win in such a dispute.

lemmy has taught me that any platform that touts itself as “general interest” is suspicious because it means that they have an interest attracting as many people as possible regardless of whether or not there’s any reason for them to be on there.

like today’s tech companies; they want you to become dependent to some degree on their platform to use your attention as leverage for advertisements and investors so that you’ll be less likely to leave the platform.

another revenue stream that they leverage your captive attention for is for data harvesting and you need lots of people to make it worthwhile (hence the “general interest”) and when that happens, your employers; HRIS/candidate tracking systems; and your government can also purchase that data too and know what you’re up to like in the examples that this article shows.