Ive had similar ideas on verified unaltered media to combat fake news. Such an archive but for journalism would be a great start.

Thank you for this. I consider myself technical and those words felt like a punch in the gut.

Why? Does 95% of digital advertisement even serve a single valuable purpose?

I get that websites need funding and that legitimate business require some way communicate their services exist. We need to solve the problem for the former and create specialized accessible safe spaces for the later.

When is the last time anyone here saw an ad for a local business, when is the last time anyone recall willfully clicking one? Was there actually anything useful there?

From what i recall ads almost always are one of the following:

• sex, barely legal drugs and predatory video games. (Lumped together to make a bad pun)

• real product/fake price: oh this item isnt in stock plz look at catalog

• politics, buy our guide to get rich, actual illegal scam operation.

None of them are honest or respectful to the customer. People aren’t prey, stop baiting.

Admittedly, for me this is personal. Autism means i experience the extra noise as painful. Plastering it on useful websites feels like a hostile attack to keep me out and unwelcome. I downright refuse to look at watch nor will i support them through ad free subscriptions to the point of it having become a digital disability.

But come on, can we smart online people really not figure out something else that isn’t based on literal brainwashing.

Before privacy guides changed there was a spreadsheet with all providers, security details and wether or not they have ever complied to government requesting access.

If i recall correctly proton did not score very great. Disroot did very well on paper but was considered new and had yet to proof itself

Anyone know if this (updated) information still exists?

Naturally closed source for profit software is so much better and would never contain anything malicious. We know this for certain because the PR department affirmed us that there is nothing malicious or illegal within their code. There internal investigations found no proof of hacking from external sources, All code changes where done with the full legal permission of our Ceo and Overlord Marz Kucherberg ™

To add, i have seen this behavior the moment you get to argumentative so its not like its purposely singling some topics out.

Not sure, but if you use Firefox this functionality comes by default and is customizable.

you can add other search engines shortcuts trough add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-private-search/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

Fyi: this also depends on local factors and the kind of stuff your looking for.

In my experience ddg is awful which is strange cause its powered by bing results while Bing result are ok, on par with google for searching and finding websites/services

Startpage wich is deanonimized google works great on premise but its unusable If you want to find local services/stores or governments sites. (It makes total sense though, its the tradeoff of sharing location data). At some point the top result was a starbucks on the other side of the planet and i had actually provided the settings with my nationality and main language.

Google remains king when it comes to digital shopping, results list almost all the major local retailers for me. Bing seems to pick favorite more selectively.

In all seriously of late the tools ivebeen the most happy with are:

• wikipedia search
• wolfram alpha
• gpt-4 (with healthy skepticism)

I seem to be naturally moving away from search engines in favor of just a few bookmarked sites where the real content is. Most of the internet that i havent seen is either not my thing or feels dead

Its a good reason to allow wifi but there is no reason for you to receive such a notification unless your home to act on it, otherwise your better of receiving the notification once your phone reconnect with your homes wifi.

Wifi isnt the same as internet.

There is sometimes but rarely a good reason for those same decides to connect to the public web. They are much more secure if everything stays local.

The prime reason companies claim they need internet so you can set up things like stop heat when i am not home…. But guess what, if my phone isnt activity at home connecting to wifi, my home server can figure it out on its own, no cloud required.

Its not meant to be but can be used as one.

My initial idea what that sites could look up a combo of an email and sign to see if they are a match by Looking up the algo used to make it.

But I realized this wasn’t all that necessary once i realized you can include the hashing protocol in the code so sites that you have account for can verify on their own without third party.

I guess i forgot that there is no point left for the sites to be used to verify as all it really will tell you is that yes that is a valid sign registered here. But i see no reason why a competitor cant try the same thing.

It didn’t need to. The idea is fully mine and i take full responsibility for any lack of expertise and understanding.

I am really bad at writing my thoughts down, il take critics over using ai ais over my horrendous spelling and grammar any day. I know ai flaws, its a tool.

I spend over 2 hours on this before discussing with chatgpt, granted i was stoned most of it but i be damned i wont be told i didn’t put in any effort.

I doesn’t matter that much its flawed, i have ideas like this around the clock, most never make it out of my head. I was glad to participate and learn this time.

I mean, a fair amount of people have point out my system is flawed and has been done better so its kinda a waste of time but i don’t think these are good against arguments against it so i will try to clarify this a bit more.

The sign is not a point of entry, it doesn’t matter that people can copy it anymore than people can have the same first name as you. There is very little anyone can win by knowing or copying your sign except maybe light bullying. It definiteness inst worse then what stranger can do with your email address. It is a name people can use to identify you but its not a proof of identity on its own, you’d need to combine it with something like a password for that.

At this point of time every site, every store every account is made using your email, the databases already exist. Rather then just inventing a brand new system for new sites, i though of something that could work with the current one. They only need to check their existing database once per email and change it into the hash, so now the user can login using the hash and can no longer login using he email.

The email verification thing is bog standard procedure we use today build in every account registration setup to guarantee that its the owner of the email that is making an account, i would be using it the same way to make sure you cant create a code for someone elses emai. You may wander how to do this when there is no more email in the registration for other sides. Easy, there is no initial check, its not a problem irl that people have the same name, neither is it a real problem that someone used your sign for a login, i cant see a reason why they would but next to forgot pasword there is now “Someone else has used my sign” In this case the site could still ask an email address as a secondary identifier, Cross reference the email again the code itself (as the code contains the algorithm to convert the email into the code), send standard verification mail so the owner can proof ownership. old account gets deleted and they get a new one. Using someone else sign cant be stopped just like you can pick any first and last name on facebook but because we know the signs to be unique it should be against TOS to create an account using someone a sign made with an email you don’t own without permission.

This has gone on to long again, its a flawed idea, i wont actually execute it and i pretty much expected it to be shot down, the feedback is still valuable to me, which is why i did it.

I’ll summarize myself and my initial intentions in a final stance.:

I firmly stand again the practice of using email addresses as usernames for online identities, there are good reasons for sites to require your email address but a username or way to login is not a good reason for such sensitive communication-information.

This needs more tests. It looks like current results are the combination of how braincells naturally filter the experience if sound and ai on top of that.

It looks like the brain actually does recognize voices as different but we need an ai to read this from the brain. I am curious how much better this performs then just pure ai.

Id alo like to know how the brain got exposed to sound cause irl an organic microphone is an ear, is it a brain with ears?

Even if not better then just ai voice recognition. Sending experiences trough neural matter and using ai to analyze the way it responds will learn us a lot about how the brain actually works.

Good point but you are forgetting the first rule of the enshitification: “Never attribute to common sense and decency what could be attributed to inhuman levels of greed”

They may have put that in for technicians but data is money, if they can legally acquire yours they already are.

Its either this or its not real. I cant believe a human would green light this unless this is their final task before taking a better job.

The way I understand the potential for infinite simulated universes starts with the idea that once a species is cable of doing one, it makes sense to make more of them. If those simulations had their own simulations We also would not be able to tell where we where at the chain from our single point of reference.

To add something, as you mentioned gpt-4 neurons are only a fraction of a human brain.

The entire human brain runs on 10-20 watt, thats about a single lightbulb to do all the computing needed for conscious intelligence.

Its crazy how optimized natural life is and we have a lot left to learn.

I am absolutely this in real life.

I am lucky that i live somewhere where most laws do make enough sense to act within them on a daily basis but the second they cross my personal ideals there just as useless like any old religious text. Il accept whatever consequence there can be in order to stay true to myself. (Except endangering others).

Thats a good point. An instance could comply if there remains a way to submit a remove my data form to the admins. But other instances may also have or retain data with Lemmy being a decentralized network, our data is all over the place, there is no easy way to really be forgotten on the fediverse and neither a way for law enforcement to fine every single instance.

We Evolve!

There something really satisfying about witnessing a community starting to talk about serious a issue and days later see things already improved.

Lemmy is now the internet, glory to all volunteer devs. Lets make it the best place we possibly can!