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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Hunted Hidden Police Signals at the DNC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a read

  This paragraph stood out to me, but the whole article is pretty distopian. It’s good to be aware of what intelligence is being gathered, and when wanted, used against us.

  In one instance that Schwindt and Bromberger shared with WIRED, local police used software from Latent Wireless to locate a suspect in an office building knowing only the MAC address of the employee’s device. In another case, a robber connected to a Wi-Fi network at a local coffee shop before committing a crime. Police identified the MAC address of his device through the coffee shop’s router logs and eventually tracked him down by detecting the signal from that device as they drove around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life By You devs spent “a month in purgatory” prior to closure, says laid-off designer, despite their sim-like exceeding Paradox's expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Killed two weeks before launch? That makes no sense

  What a sucker punch to that entire team.

  I’d rather something to release than for nothing to ever come out, or if it’s not up to snuff for the publisher, for the team to go indie (like this one tried to) and still release it rather than having it be forever undercooked in a vault somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way, yes.

  Historically, the US fought a war to not be the UK. There was an earnest attempt to enshrine freedoms to privacy and thought from the beginning of this governments creation. With the ability to enforce free thoughts through explicitly allowing speech and weapons, along with the ability to reject search and intrusion from the state (outside of due process)

  I think it’s important for people to be able to be private and to have secrets. People act differently when there’s trust that they are not observed and will not be observed.

  I think it’s cruel to confine the human experience to only being in the “observed” state of mind.

  Being able to secretly meet people, and go places without others knowing, and have private conversations, and to own and make things secretly is important to me. They don’t have to be nefarious or even embarrassing, a person on principle can just want something to be private, rational or not that should be allowed by default.

  If I went on a hike alone to clear my mind, and then stumbled into a tracking camera on the trail, my mood would be changed. I would feel compelled to play a performative role and manage my appearance and actions and regulate what I say and do in a way that I wasn’t before that feeling of privacy was broken. Even more so if I knew that camera was live reporting with ai identification and analysis to the government.

  This privacy is already barely existing anymore, I feel compelled to oppose any new invasion of privacy and to make attempts to carve out new privacy where I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazed goal to turn all of America into a high security prison.

  No need to ask questions that a person could invoke their rights on when you can pay our capital overloads our own tax money for records instead.

  What websites, what locations, what friends, what we buy, and everything else you could care to ask.

  Soon we’ll have sensors installed on our toilets to make sure anyone with a dollar can know what we eat and what medicines we take and how regular we are.

  Land of the free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

  I’ve been wanting to move off of discord for a while

  Discords been showing signs of Skype-ification for a while, and the ads seal the deal.

  I imagine the same feeling for a number of others too, I’ll be convincing my friends to switch.

  Fuck ads in my chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a fediverse-like equivalent alternative to Discord?

  Is there a chat app that can be self hosted, but interact with a web of other instances, and has web, mobile, and app interfaces?

  Something with dm, group, voice chat, screen sharing capabilities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Gives A Small Update On The Elder Scrolls 6⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even care anymore

  I don’t trust them with games