knife fight it is

It’s both, in a cyclical feedback loop. The wealthy teach their kids to be entitled, greedy, selfish, sociopaths… and extreme wealth and power corrupts the vast majority of humans — being surrounded by employees, fanboys, and other yes men who worship you 24/7 — is likely to create entitled, greedy, selfish, sociopathic behaviors; extreme wealth and power create the mental illness of narcissism, and that mental illness is passed to their children.

Couple that with an economic system that explicitly rewards narcissistic behavior with wealth and power, and you end up in a civilization crippled by a mental illness epidemic, actively spread by the propaganda of the richest mentally ill.

Try enabling local/LAN access in the VPN app

ML models trained for a specific task are not necessarily inefficient. It’d probably be more efficient to add a single pi or container for “sensing” than adding a dozen physical sensors all over the place.

But it also looks like a new wifi standard will include some non-ML sensing capability on router anyway, but probably won’t be available till the 2030’s. I’d expect the ML approach to have solid options within a couple of years.

I believe it would require a specific ML model to be trained, due to the slight variances in the hardware and each environment. This means you would also need the hardware to run the model 24/7.

It could definitely be done, and I suspect the fascist surveillance state already has projects to weaponize it; they’re probably also building the capability into the 6G or 7G spec, so they can monitor everything, everyone, everywhere, 24/7 from cell towers alone.

Those people who rejected science could always eat shit and die, though.

You’re not gonna trust some rando on the internet with your sensitive data? You’re crazy!

Capitalism is essentially based on the concept that everyone doing whatever they believe is in their best interest will magically balance itself out and achieve the most-efficient outcome, instead of the most self-serving and greedy criminals and psychopaths colluding to exploit and deceive the masses, accrue the lions share, and enslave everyone else.

It’s basically a religiously-dogmatic mental illness that has no place beyond the 19th Century, but the criminals and psychopaths used their wealth to exploit and deceive the masses… so here we are. May the greediest psychopath win!

Most suburbs in Australia have a park &/or pathway between houses every few hundred meters. The only places I can think of with bottlenecks like that are hilly areas surrounded by creeks and gorges.

You’re delusional if you think Liberals will stop web ID. They are the ones implementing it in the UK, Canada, Australia, and EU.

The entire turnkey-totalitarian mass surveillance apparatus America has constructed over the last few decades was expanded throughout Conservative and Liberal majorities. It’s one of the few things they always agreed on, and consistently passed with little debate or fanfare.

There’s a reason the Black Panthers coined the phrase “scratch a Liberal and you’ll find a fascist” several decades ago; they’d already propelled the Nazis to victory in Germany decades before that.

You don’t seem to understand that the nazis don’t give a duck about any rule of law or precedent. Their laws are only intended to apply to antifascists.

If you use zfs for docker, dbs and vms you don’t have to shut down anything. Just snapshot and send/recv to sync snapshots to another ZFS drive.

You can even mount and copy the latest snapshot to the cloud with rsync/rclone; probably also borg/restic/kopia. Each applications state will be internally consistent if the snapshot is performed for all data at the same time. If you’re paranoid you can stop everything for a few mins to perform the snapshot, but it’s not really necessary.

Yet the oligarch-owned mass media and political class will claim “nobody could have predicted this”; meanwhile “the left” have considered the fascist state propaganda machines that conservatism have constructed around the world, and the disinformation campaigns they wage 24/7, to be the greatest threat facing humanity for multiple decades…

We know exactly who the propaganda operatives are. They could be destroyed or neutered at any time. The oligarchs can’t destroy democracy without first destroying the minds of the average voter, so their propaganda machines are allowed to continue.

Their only goal is to destroy democracy — the only legitimate threat to the oligarchs wealth and power — and implement a fascist dictatorship where the corporate oligarchy rule AmericaCorp with an iron fist.

Any other virtue signaling they do is nothing more than a distraction. They’ve been working towards this goal since the 70’s.

Once they succeed in America they’ll expand their 4th reich globally; they’ve been laying the groundwork for that for decades as well.

Make sure to breathe in between deepthroating corporations or you’ll disable yourself.

Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.

You’re analogous to someone in 2013 arguing that the solution to facebooks crimes/corruption/censorship is to migrate to whatsapp…

Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor, and benefits hostile actors the most; fracturing groups into smaller and smaller bubbles. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables users to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides. The users trust should override anyone else’s.

What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?

Although true, the existence of mods is an attack vector the criminally corrupt will always exploit, and every anti-authoritarian should not oppose these systems because they’re currently exploited by the corrupt.

Fascists are buying up all media and social media explicitly to silence opposition, control the narrative, and propagandize (the thing they claim everyone else is doing to them, while being the most blatantly criminal of perpetrators).

I can’t remember the specific protocol, but the one I saw which was most interesting relies on you subscribing to individuals, and building trust through that “social graph of trust”. It’s best to view it as someone owns a domain and you’re subscribing to their rss feed, except they’re identity is cryptographically verified, and the people they engage with have more weight in your feed than those that don’t… as opposed to whatever some technofascist algorithm, oligarch-beholden journalist or corrupt mod (who may very well be a paid operative) deems valuable or worthy of your attention; basically mimicking the way people build relationships in real life (without third party oversight).

Wait… You’re telling me that people born into extreme privilege and wealth turn out to be self-aggrandizing, egotistical, sociopaths who drastically over-estimate their own importance and contribution to society?

My world view is shook!

The lobbyists of multinational surveillance capitalism oligarchs just have to make a few tweaks and bribes to have one of their operatives in the political class resubmit.