gnuthing
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Surviving in the belly of the beast
- Comment on New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think any parents want their child flagged as a child online, would just make the kid a target
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 month ago:
On PC they’ll have the user install TeamViewer. I’m assuming there’s some scammers that might do this for phone
- Comment on Many more US states are planning or already have operating system age verification laws 1 month ago:
Yeah I think we need to start really looking at reticulum as an alternative
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 2 months ago:
Meshtastic uses LoRa, so slow speeds but far distance. A better choice is reticulum, this combines LoRa, Wifi HaLow, Wifi 2.4 & 5 GHz and BLE together into one network stack. So in a city we could have faster data speeds all sharing WiFi and rural areas that currently need satellite we could have a connection over far distances wirelessly. Reticulum is also encrypted, meshtastic is not
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 2 months ago:
And here I don’t let my kids access the internet at all without a VPN