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[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Try again. I think what happened is that after I posted this, someone on sopuli used the search function to import those msgs into sopuli, which then changed the state and hides the bug. I can now see all the msgs in the 2nd thread from sopuli. And in the 1st thread, I saw the reply only after I searched the URL from sopuli to import it. I’m sure you will see all 3 comments in each thread now.

/cc @IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you would benefit most by moving abroad. Staying in one country your whole life is very one-dimensional. If you move to another country, esp. overseas, you will look back on your current boredom as wasting your life and you will regret not having done it sooner. Go for just one year. You can always return if you don’t like it. You might be someone who says “I went for 1 year, but stayed 5”.

But first move to a purple swing state like GA or PA for just a month or two, then move your stuff into mini storage. Two reasons: you get to experience a different part of the US, briefly, and you can register to vote in a place where your future votes will count the most. Because that’s the state you will vote in while abroad. OTOH, isn’t Texas on the edge of being a swing state? It’s probably not a bad place to vote from.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m confused because I thought the whole developed world (with the exception of the US and Canada) scrapped birthright citizenship decades ago.

What about mainland France? Does this rule cause Mayotte to deviate from mainland France, or align with it?

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that something like Google Glasses? I doubt they would care because in an augmented reality you’re still looking up at people and making eye contact, no? In which case this region will likely sell a lot of those.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Consider that it’s a legal obligation for Belgians to vote in elections, punishable by fines. Even though that would be easily enforceable, the Belgians are hardly enforcing it. Yet Belgium still has the highest voter turnout in the world (87%).

The reason: some cultures have a strong tendency to respect some laws regardless of the threat of enforcement as the law sets a standard for respectable behavior and civic duty.

A majority of people might obey this law a majority of the time simply because they would rather not be seen as a disrespectful pest.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My first thought: what about navigation? From the article:

Those who might check their phone’s map when lost are instead being encouraged to ask for directions.

Yikes. I wonder if car drivers are allowed to use their built-in satnavs while cyclists are prohibited from using OpenStreetMaps strapped to their forearm.

I would agree a lot of smartphone use is poor etiquette, but whenever I ask someone for directions they pull out their smartphone to help answer the question. My French is dysfunctional so I would be fucked in that area.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I do not consider any smartphone sustainable, including Fairphone.

The hardware is repairable but that’s rarely the issue. Most phones are being thrown away because the software is obsolete and non-upgradable. IIRC, Apple supports their phones with updates for ~7 years, and Fairphone for ~5 years. OTOH, PostmarketOS works on Fairphone, so hackers can self-support for longer. But the stock OS is Android which is officially supported for less time than iOS on Apples.

If you want to live a sustainable lifestyle, either keep using a 10—15+ year old Android and live with the obsolescence and limitations, or just don’t bother with a smartphone.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks!

From the article:

While tech giants like Google owner Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Netflix Inc. may have battalions of employees hostile to Trump and his fellow Republicans, Trump considers the companies born-and-bred in the US, and consequently would like to protect them, said former Trump aides.

That’s a quite unrealistic take. Trump is extremely emotional and vindictive. If someone or some group goes against him, they are on his shit-list for revenge. If a state votes for Trump’s political opponent, that whole state is on Trump’s shit-list.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

#Cloudflare strikes again… “One More Step…”

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Now that Google is ending the Google Cache, archive.org is really the only service we have for archiving the whole web. This has to change.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

fwiw, the Google reCAPTCHA is dead to me! I never solve it.. just hit cntl-w when I see one.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lotta bullshit in this text. Sure, when they quote Trump, it’s an accurate quote of bullshit from Trump. But then there are some unquoted bits direct from the author that are also bullshit.

Such a currency will give a federal government, our federal government absolute control over your money,”

Yes but only the money that people voluntarily decide to store in CBDCs. The private sector has proven to abuse their power, so a public option gives people the option to choose a different controller -- as they choose. As they might like to choose. As someone who boycotts Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx, I could use more options.

CBDCs could potentially lead to a dystopian future, marked by a significant erosion of financial privacy and an unprecedented concentration of power.

^ That’s not Trump talking -- that’s reclaimthenet. And the truth is the opposite. Currently there is an unacceptable concentration of power, demonstrated when Paypal, Visa, MC, and AmEx colluded to block donations to Wikileaks. Having a competing alternative to those options further /divides/ the current concentration of power.

Additionally, the shift to a CBDC-dominated system could eliminate the anonymity provided by cash transactions, leading to a society where anonymous spending is impossible.

Nonsense. Citation needed. Having another option on the table does not change the anonymity of cash. The serial numbers on the cash banknotes cannot be tracked by the CBDC as cash changes hands. There is no mechanism to make this claim true.

And currently Visa and Mastercard are actively pushing the #warOnCash. When you use a visa or mastercard, you are feeding adversaries of cash. So having more alternatives gives options to avoiding feeding the war on cash.

 

(message original en anglais)

traduction par Argos Translate:

Vivaqua a retiré leur machine à sous et refuse maintenant de l'argent. En effet : pouvoir accéder au service d'eau à #Bruxelles dépend désormais de l'acceptation par la banque et de l'acceptation des services bancaires.

 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/5730013

Before sharing a link I would like to determine whether the website excludes people from access, and who is excluded. I can test for myself whether the Tor community is excluded, but what about:

  • VPNs
  • i2p
  • public libraries
  • #cgNAT issued IP addresses
  • various regions
  • particular browsers (e.g. lynx, w3m)

for example? I cannot check all those means of access. If a website is implementing some form of digital exclusion, I would like to ensure that I am not helping the exclusive website gain visitors.

#askFedi #netneutrality

 

Before sharing a link I would like to determine whether the website excludes people from access, and who is excluded. I can test for myself whether the Tor community is excluded but what about:

  • VPNs
  • i2p
  • public libraries
  • #cgNAT-issued IP addresses (often from impoverished regions)
  • various geographical regions
  • particular browsers (e.g. lynx, w3m, non-chrome-based…)

for example? I cannot check all those means of access. If a website is implementing some form of digital exclusion, I would like to ensure that I am not helping the exclusive website gain visitors.

#askFedi #netneutrality

 

(message original en anglais)

traduction par machine:

J’ai vu un vélo neuf d’une valeur de 1.500 € sur un marché de Bruxelles pour 200 €. Je pensais que c’était sûrement trop beau pour être vrai. Le vendeur doit être très pressé de le vendre. Je ne savais pas comment en vérifier la légitimité.

Le Danemark est dans le coup

Le #Danemark a interdit l’achat d’un vélo volé. C’est exact. L’acheteur d’un vélo volé peut être poursuivi. Bien sûr, ma première pensée est la suivante : comment peuvent-ils demander des comptes à un acheteur alors qu’il ne peut pas connaître avec certitude l’historique de la moto ? Le Danemark dispose d’une ligne d’assistance téléphonique gratuite pour vérifier le numéro de série d’un vélo avant de l’acheter.

C’est une excellente idée en supposant que la hotline conserve des enregistrements d’appels et justifie les acheteurs qui appellent avant que le numéro de série ne soit connu comme étant celui d’un vélo volé.

Belgique

Il est légal en Belgique d’acheter un vélo volé. En fait, les acheteurs de biens volés ont effectivement des droits ! Il y a de la sympathie pour les acheteurs parce qu’ils ont dépensé de l’argent pour les biens volés. Si une victime découvre son bien volé en possession de quelqu’un d’autre, la police ne se contente pas de restituer le bien au propriétaire légitime. Ils demandent au nouveau « propriétaire » de signer un accord pour renoncer à la propriété. Noisette !

La #Belgique ne dispose pas de hotline pour vérifier les numéros de série. Il existe un programme d’autocollants grâce auquel les propriétaires peuvent enregistrer leur vélo avant qu’il ne soit volé. On prétend que les autocollants laissent des résidus collants sur le vélo s’ils sont retirés. Il semble donc que le système antivol repose sur les acheteurs recherchant des preuves des autocollants retirés. Comment les acheteurs peuvent-ils savoir si une vignette retirée était auparavant une vignette d’immatriculation ou tout autre type de vignette ? Cela semble inutile. Apparemment, ils espèrent que les voleurs feront preuve de négligence et laisseront l’autocollant dessus afin que les acheteurs puissent consulter le site Web, ce qui suppose de manière déraisonnable que les acheteurs transportent avec eux un appareil abonné à Internet.

Le vélo que j’ai vu au marché de rue contenait en fait des résidus d’autocollant retiré. Mais ça aurait pu être n’importe quoi. J’avais besoin d’un moyen d’appeler le numéro de série du cadre.

Autre embarras : les victimes de vols de vélos à #Bruxelles se sont vu refuser l’accès aux photos des vélos volés récupérés si elles ne disposaient pas d’un compte Facebook (en).

 

Videos used to be on VHS tape, then DVD, then blu-ray. But these discs are being obsoleted. My library piled ~10s of thousands of audio CDs on tables a couple years ago and simply gave them all away. For a week you could take whatever you wanted. The library did not want them back. They were offloading.

So apparently the trend is: everything is going to the cloud. If I want to learn a new skill, Youtube has become the way to do that. So how do you bring home a #Youtube video? The library has started blocking Invidious downloads-- probably fearing copyright issues.

Didn’t people generally used to be able to checkout a dozen or so DVDs? So you could watch the content at home in your overstuffed chair with beer, popcorn, pizza, whatever. The online access restrictions force us to do the viewing inside the library and only during library hours. And of course if I try to carry in an overstuffed chair, a keg of beer, and pizza, they’ll probably bounce me for breaking the “no food” rule. So it seems we’re losing the ability combine beer and videos.

When a video is walking people through the steps of repairing or rebuilding something, it can be absurdly impractical to memorize the video and (for example) try to rebuild your motorcycle. The video has to be in front of you as you work on the device.

In an abstract way, it’s a #rightToRepair issue. I would love to drive a motocycle into a library and disassemble it in the PC area as a publicity stunt.

 

I wrote a quite long response to this post:

https://fr.businessam.be/victoire-sur-letat-belgedisparition-distributeurs-de-billets/

My response is ~1¼ screen fulls of text. When I click “create” the button turns into a spinning wheel forever. Did I exceed a text limit?

 

croisée d'un dessin anglais et d'une machine à traduire en français comme suit:

Le raccordement au réseau WiFi du système de bibliothèques françaises est arbitrairement restrictif. La connexion meurt au moment où un paquet Tor est envoyé. Tor est légal et ne rompt pas l'accord auquel les gens doivent convenir lorsqu'ils se connectent.

Quelqu’un sait-il si c’est la décision de la bibliothèque? Ils semblent externaliser à Cisco donc je me demande si Cisco a décidé pour eux de bloquer le trafic Tor sans être dirigé pour le faire.

 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/5178140

Connecting to the WiFi network of the French library system is arbitrarily restrictive. Connection dies the moment a Tor packet is sent. Tor is legal and also does not break the agreement people must agree to when connecting.

Does anyone know if this is the library’s decision? They apparently outsource to Cisco so I wonder if Cisco decided for themselves to block Tor traffic without being directed to do so.

Is it typical for public libraries to block #Tor?

 

Connecting to the WiFi network of the French library system is arbitrarily restrictive. Connection dies the moment a Tor packet is sent. Tor is legal and also does not break the agreement people must agree to when connecting.

Does anyone know if this is the library’s decision? They apparently outsource to Cisco so I wonder if Cisco decided for themselves to block Tor traffic without being directed to do so.

 

Does the EU or any EU member states have anything comparable to the Library Bill of Rights?

 
 

The WiFi service requires no password but once you connect you are forced through a login portal that requires your mobile phone number which it then verifies via SMS.

I imagine a lot of people with GSM service likely have a data plan, thus don’t need WiFi. People on limited/prepaid plans would benefit from WiFi. But non-GSM users are discriminated against and it seems like a human rights violation. Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 21 ¶2: “Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.” I wonder if it might be a #GDPR violation as well since it would seem to undermine the data minimization principle.

The library has PCs but then of course those PCs are limited to the apps the library installs.

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