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Monkey With A Shell

@ ShellMonkey @lemmy.socdojo.com

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Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.

  • Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say

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  • In the network formerly known as freenet, forgetting the current name, traffic to and from the node, and the data at rest is all encrypted, only referenced by keys so nobody has a real influence on what they store or transmit. Plus, they only know the peer that made a request, not a source or a destination, so just 'pass this key back to me if you have it, otherwise ask the next person', so routing is just as opaque.

    In cases like that there's not much to be done, as it well should be because as soon as control can be performed it'll be demanded or liability placed on those who don't comply.

  • Did you ever delete a google account?

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  • Hard to say, things like Nextcloud, Immich, Emby, and Mealie probably get the most exercise, but being a tech person some of the more interesting are things like Security Onion and some of the infrastructure tools.

  • Did you ever delete a google account?

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  • Yeah, though with things like the fediverse, generations that where born into the tech world (internet only really started to be a thing around high school for me, but my kids have never used dial up) and small cheap systems like raspberry pi I expect it'll get much easier and hopefully more common.

  • Did you ever delete a google account?

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  • Self host ALL the things. I know where all my pics and docs reside right here in my house.

  • Did you ever delete a google account?

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  • I deleted one I didn't even remember having. Something I created back when I first got a smart phone and as much as I recall think I used it for the primary phone login account and had my separate emails just in the client.

    Only got reminded of it when they sent an email to my main address saying it had been inactive for years and was going to be deleted anyhow, so went through this process where they unlocked it after a month of waiting to see what was in there before shutting it down. Was pretty much blank from the start so it doesn't really matter if they actually deleted it or not.

    How my main email got set as a recovery is another question, probably just many years back brain not being so good at keeping online identities siloed.

  • Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for deplatforming him

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  • How does one get so self important as to think that someone owes you a megaphone to the point you demand $50M for not letting you spout your drivel?

  • It slaps tho

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  • Goes well with the Mac&Chz made with water because you don't have milk

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  • I'd say he's full of shit...

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  • Bah, minor inconveniences, fix it next cycle.

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  • Ok, so badly phrased, yes companies will do geo fencing principally for security threat containment. If a company has no means to serve customers in a region they may also block access to avoid people making orders that can't be fulfilled.

    Denying service that they functionally can perform because of the whims of politicians and politically minded actors is a foolish behavior though. Every place on earth has some wing of society that would prefer isolationist and ultra conservative practices, to self censor to the lowest common denominator is going to only push away those users who aren't zealots.

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  • GeoIP fencing is an eternal whack-a-mole, I've had to track down issues where a site owned by MS was blocked because they bought some public IP space previously owned by countries the client blocks.

    In the end you have countries trying to get a piece of the pie from a company that they have no ties to but being unwilling to upset the people living there by taking an effort to block it. If they think the company is behaving incorrectly then it's on them to deny access to their citizens that they have to answer to.

    A company can't reasonably decide which jurisdictions and IPs it should serve at any given time. If I don't want a site in my house I don't petition them to block my IP.

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  • By that token, I could start my own private Island nation, make some batty rules, log into a site, and demand a bajillion dollars because my laws say so.

    Internet doesn't work that way, access is not presence of operations.

  • What is Lemmy's problem with AI?

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  • I've never knowingly engaged with a proper chat bot beyond the 'virtual help desk' things some sites use. By proper I mean some sizable system beyond what can be typically run at home.

    Home ran ones are bizarre though, so far whatever I try they get stuck on go-to phrases and tend to return to specific formats of response over and over. Very much not passing the turing test.

  • Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

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  • Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.

    As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying "we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed" they jump all over it.

    I'm in my 40's and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I'm better equiped than most, but it's still possible to get caught off guard

  • Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

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  • We have proxies, we have DNS filters, we have pre configured software packages you can install with a few clicks. Net filtering is not all that difficult.

    We also have a planet full of people throwing up their hands and passing off responsibility for guiding and watching their kids to 'someone else'.

    It takes effort people, and discussions that can be difficult, and you might need to learn a tech trick or two, but it's not impossible. Stop screwing everyone over because you want big brother to take care of the hard work for you.

  • The terrifying reality behind one of America’s fastest-growing dairy brands | The dark side of Fairlife — and America’s protein craze.

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  • It's probably the most lacking of the 3 majors though, between fast food and processed pre-pack stuff.

    Still, it seems to have held on a lot longer than the period where everything needed to announce itself as gluten free.

  • And nothing of value was lost

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  • Long running troll, posts a bunch of hyper-capitalist, winner take all, libertarian bullshit. I'd almost call it a bit.

  • US education

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  • The planet can, maybe the next species of critters to pick up a pointy stick can make use of it after it resets itself.

  • The boy ain't right

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  • None of that amature level pain here.