I’ve heard they have government-approved VPN providers. And companies there use VPNs for their job. They’ll also do business on platforms which are blocked on the regular Chinese internet. Of course business is guided by the communist party so you might have someone keeping an eye on your company VPN (mis)use. People who went there told me they’re more lenient with foreigners. Your European/American company’s corporate VPN might work well, you might also experience connections being dropped and the Great Firewall messing with it. And there are some attempts at circumventing blockage, like TOR’s Snowflake, though all of this is a cat and mouse game, some (illegal) thing works for a while and then they shut it down and you’ll move to the next one. Though as a citizen of an oppressive regime you’d better think twice before engaging in a cat and mouse game with authorities.

Uh. Wäre mal interessant den Wortlaut von diesem “Recht auf Respekt” (respektret) zu lesen, beziehungsweise das Urteil mit Begründung.

Edit: Denke vielleicht ist das hier (Dänische Wikipedia) gemeint?

Didn’t they just release their Ryzen AI Software as a preview for Linux? I think that was a few days ago. I don’t know about the benchmarks as of today, but seems they’ve been working on drivers, power reporting, toolkit and have been mainlining stuff into the kernel so the situation improves.

I think CUDA (Nvidia) is still dominating the AI projects out there. The more widespread and in-use projects sometimes have backends for several ecosystems and they’ll run on Nvidia, AMD or Intel or a CPU. Same for the libraries which build the foundation. But not all of them. And most brand-new tech-demos I see, are written for Nvidia’s CUDA. And I’ll have to jump through some hoops to make it work on different hardware and sometimes it works well, sometimes it’s not optimized for anything but Nvidia hardware.

It’d be a really bad situation. I mean we rely on VPNs and tunnels a lot. For half the people doing home-office, logging into the company’s VPN is the first thing in the morning. Field crew relies on them. That’s an additional layer of protection in the ATM of your bank…

It’d wreck half the economy in the process. Or “they” need to outlaw specific things. Like private VPNs. And gather a list of private VPN providers and ban them via a great firewall. That’s possible. And would make life worse in a country. It’s possible to circumvent these measures. And it’s difficult to discern traffic and distinguish VPN traffic from other encrypted traffic so the country might want to implement some harsh measures as well. A police force knocking on people’s doors if they suspect them to evade law and demand they show their computer and smartphones.

So in conclusion your best option is probably to move to a different place if you can afford to, once that becomes reality. (Edit: Maybe your best option is to protest this, do campaigns, call your representative and try to stop it. So we dont get into this situation in the fist place.)

I feel there’s never a good and satisfying answer to this very question… Why have 5 competing instant messengers, why not have one perfect one? Why should we retrofit threaded conversations onto Matrix and not retrofit realtime chat onto a platform that already has threaded conversations? I mean the argument goes the other way as well. The Fediverse also already exists and once Matrix comes up with new overlapping features, why does it get added there instead of them using the Fediverse? Why do they put effort into video-chat when there’s already video conferencing solutions out there? The real world is just messy. There’s a bazillion ways to arrive at a similar thing and there’s also quite some ideas out there and we constantly come up with yet more of them. And then projects grow, sometimes different ones into similar directions. We have different technological origins/roots, different ideologies and motivations that all get into the mix and have an influence on decisions. Things sometimes change during a long process. And then this is made by humans and they often don’t abide by logic. They’ll do things just for fun or because they don’t know any better. They’ll have a broad bandwith of motivations to do things a certain way. I think this is a very valid question, but the world just doesn’t work that way. And I think it’s a detailed case-by-case decision anyway to balance the positive aspects of competition with the negative aspect of investing additional resources which could be combined. And we sometimes can’t even tell unless we have hindsight available.

Uh, bummer. Thanks. Btw I think FEP-1b12 is the very abstract concept on how to address things to a group. I suppose we should have a working implementation of it in almost all current Fediverse software that deals with groups. The interesting part would be to specify the content that gets delivered like the chat messages this project is concerned with. Or how they’re sorted, or how these groups are presented or the additional multimedia functionality.

Lol, I was just adding the youtube video I watched yesterday to my previous comment: Can I Confuse Police AI Cameras? about road safety cameras in Australia(?), and seems they use some amount of processing power. Or human oversight. At least he doesn’t get a ticket in the end. But that was just a mostly humorous take on a similar thing. Thx for the video on Flock cameras.

Sure. I mean realistically we need something for real-world application, like sunglasses form factor with the category “innocent citizen doing harmless stuff” or “criminal” taped to it, to fool the systems which are currently being rolled out. But I have no clue what amount of computing power they use for license plate readers or to spy on the pedestrians in the city center / mall / train station / bad neighborhood or wherever these AI cameras are being used.

Nice idea. Unfortunately this doesn’t fool ChatGPT… “The picture shows an apple with a piece of paper taped to it that says “iPod.” It’s a visual joke: the apple is being humorously labeled as an “iPod” (since Apple makes iPods), creating a pun.”

Thanks, yeah seems they in fact have the boilerplate code there to handle the basics of ActivityPub. But all the complicated and difficult stuff is missing. And that’d be the majority of the effort.

Is there some documentation / specification for the ActivityPub part of it? I’d like to see how these messages, channels and groups get exchanged from a programmer’s / protocol perspective.

Is there some documentation / specification for the ActivityPub part of it? I’d like to see how these messages, channels and groups get exchanged from a programmer’s / protocol perspective.

Edit: And for god’s sake cm0002, stop creating new accounts on a daily basis, I can’t block you as fast as you create new ones and shove around content which I never get any answers to. I’m not subscribed to a lot of lemmy.ml communities so I don’t see whether this is just a cross-post. Or credit your sources. Any of that would be fine. For reference: This content is taken from here.

Tja. Leider fühlt es sich für mich so an als wäre aktuell genau die richtige Zeit und die richtige gesellschaftliche Stimmung mit all dem Bedarf an gefühlter Sicherheit und Aktionismus… um all diese Dinge nun durchzudrücken. Und da letztendlich auch Nägel mit Köpfen drauf zu machen mit all den Maßnahmen die wir bereits in den letzten Jahren normalisiert haben.

Wie wär’s wenn sie mal effektiv genen diese Face-Swapping Apps vorgeht, die das für fabrizierte Nacktbilder von Minderjährigen anbieten? Also Täter und IP-Adressen hin oder her, aber ich denke wenn man wollte kann man einfach mal bei Cloudflare anklopfen und ein paar Läden dichtmachen wo diese Bilder herkommen? Dann werden es bestimmt auch weniger und wir müssten nicht in der Zeitung lesen wie sowas hin und wieder auf dem Schulhof passiert. Oder zugänglich ist für jeden. Dafür braucht es auch keine neue Technik oder Gesetze… Wenn man schon diese Schiene fahren möchte…

What’s the encryption and signing on a hardware level for? I mean dependent on what’s that good for and who controls it, it’s trusted computing, or treacherous computing as Stallman calls it…

(I mean it’s not working out great for GrapheneOS either. Back in the day I had a phone I owned, with privacy features added and alternative background services so I had a pretty much Google-free experience. These days it’s all locked down, I hand out my private metadata to Google, can barely ride a train without, or get a discount in the supermarket. I can’t do backups and I’m f***ed if I want to cross a border to a more restrictive country because these guys are in on it as well. They’re probably going to use it to limit what I can install. And more and more manufacturers lock down bootloaders etc and I thought we were past this. Graphene itself advised me to switch to proprietary code in the name of security and they’ll have a look at the code later, once Google eventually releases it. All of this is due to (or related to) these security measures working way too well and that’s also why they’re being used. I wish my phone didn’t have a TPM but a simple disk encryption like LUKS on Linux instead. And I don’t see many reasons why we should copy these very bad dynamics.)

I think the overall idea is nice, though. We had these project ideas to just plug in a box and be self sufficient in the self-hosting community since the SheevaPlug. Or the FreedomBox. There are some hardware projects as well like the Home Assistant Green or back in 2019 they tried to sell a Pioneer-FreedomBox. None of those match exactly with your proposal, but I think they’re pretty close. Maybe get in touch with them and see if you can participate in a new iteration, or read about their past experience with the proposed target audience. Especially FreedomBox seems like a good fit to me. They’re not very loud, but afaik still around. And they’re Free Software nerds, which seems to align with your idea, minus the locking it down and transferring control to other parties via the TPM.

Außerordentlich lieben Dank! Wird umgehend in meinen Wortschatz integriert. Nebenbei: wenn man nach “Merz Kacklöffel” sucht, kriegt man aktuell die ganzen Artikel über ob er und Macron im Zug nach Kiew gekokst haben.

Geil. Hat sie auch gesagt wie wir jemanden wie Merz stattdessen nennen können? Ich hätte schon gerne ein Wort um Leute zu bezeichnen, die konstant in der braunen Suppe rumrühren und ganz nonchalant für alle Probleme die Lösung Abschiebung anbieten?!

Btw, the proper place to mount filesystems is either /media or /mnt. I wouldn’t create a directory called /Volumes in Linux. And pay attention, these are case-sensitive and most (not all) system directories have agreed on using lower-case letters only. And “volume” is kind of a Windows and MacOS-term anyway, I rarely see Linux-people refer to media and filesystems that way.

Thanks for writing this down. That’s pretty comprehensive and looks like solid advice. I’d add “good documentation” and help readily available to the list. It’s really nice for new users if they’re able to find information on common woes, so they’re enabled to figure things out by themselves, instead of using some more obscure distribution.

Ja, denke auch das ist Quatsch. Ältere Apps laufen meist problemlos. Vielleicht könnte ich auch den Aurora Store bemühen mir das trotzdem herunterzuladen. Aber ich hab auch noch ein altes Telefon in der Schublade, das krieg ich schon hin.