MotoAsh

Only some know. You ironically give them too much credit for having brains…

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rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.

My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.

That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.

Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.

It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.

Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.

You mean a company who’s wallet depends on making it sound better than reality would claim it’s better than reality?!

I’m shocked.

There is ALWAYS a “better” battery coming down the pipe. Always. To say no NEW technology couldn’t work is an assumption, but so is assuming those new designs will deliver and be commercially as cheap.

The point still stands that a battery tech for vehicles needs to be power dense and as light as possible. Right now, salt batteries are MUCH worse than other tech. To say that salt batteries will win in the end is as dumb as saying the horse with a gimp will totally win the race after more training.

Even if the horse did have the potential, you don’t know other horses’ potentials nor do you know what other contenders will arise in the mean time.

Yea, it’s definitely not bad for stationary storage, at least when compensating for the current limits as the charge drops.

Salt batteries already exist and are commercialized. They just suck for vehicles and other energy-dense needs because their voltage drops slowly as they discharge. Lithium holds a strong voltage until it’s about done.

That might not sound significant, but not only does it directly cut nearly in half the available power, it also greatly effects situations where lots of power is needed. If you need as many watts as the battery can only safely supply down to 60%, then you only have effective access to 40% of a battery that’s already smaller capacity in the first place.

Yea, but that’s infinitely better than WhatsApp where every piece of data is owned by Facebook and sold to every marketing firm in the world and freely handed over to cops.

Signal isn’t dodgy like WhatsApp is. It’s just not perfectly anonymous.

So they’re more of just skill sets (lol obviously).

I guess my mental dissonance came from you saying “it’s a class, not a job …”, when naturally, skill sets are critically important to jobs! I guess a bit of a Venn diagram type confusion. lol Saying “not” about overlapping circles can get interesting with interpretations.

Wouldn’t the allegory for class be job? Or maybe career?

That won’t protect shit. You need laws that actually protect and preserve privacy. Otherwise they’ll just find some loophole. Like the NSA in the US. Not supposed to get searched without a warrant to the point where evidence gathered in such ways is supposed to be inadmissable in court… But your data isn’t your property.

Even if it were your property, you’d have to add protections so that just because a company handles your data doesn’t magically make it their data to sell for profit so it ends up spread far and wide and hackable in dozens of databases around the world.

If you don’t protect PRIVACY and your right to control your own data, they’ll just say they can force companies to use more hackable methodologies instead of an outright back door. They’ll just force government ID to get on the web so even just your comms patterns without the content can be very telling. They could even simply force companies to forward the data some other way after the data legally becomes the company’s data…

If you try to protect “from mass surveilance” without understanding the legal avenues in which your data is extracted… you’ll just end up making room some other way while innoculating the tech illiterate public from how vulnerable their data still is.

Remember, nobody thought there was mass surveilance in the US until Snowden leaked it… Even then, the tech illiterate do not understand how it is EXACTLY a runaround of the fourth amendment.