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@phnt @ins0mniak or use a piece of paper (and a copy of that paper in a safe place) - let's face it, they are so heavily invested in digital surveillance, the moment you "go full analog" (like Robert DeNiro said in Zero Day, something I found really cool) Google et al are powerless. Once you communicate over an analog two-way radio for example, there won't be someone listening, unless you're really important and they spend money on you.
These smartphone authentications are going to become a pain in the a**, this so called "digital transformation" is increasing, and at some point you will need a phone in a faraday bag, just in case you can't pay without one, or enter a parking garage and such things. I'm definitely going to fight it and not going to give in easily.
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@ins0mniak when you look at the history, smartphones have pretty much abandoned the "open source" idea. Yea Linux is still there, and still dominating servers, but clients are smartphones more often than not, and these are controlled by Google and Apple (yes I know there may be ways around that but not for the common user). There are governments who want to make these the foundation of everything, your passport, your driver's license, your logins, your money even (CBDC), all of these will be an app run on a smartphone with a non-opensource operating system, that requires you to accept the TOS of Google or Apple to use.
I made this meme recently to illustrate the insanity of these changes:
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@ins0mniak @phnt that's actually one thing where a VPN can be useful - some VPN providers offer a real IP on the internet, that can be used to receive incoming connections on any port
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@ins0mniak it's like there are two "opposites" continuously expanding: on the one hand, the complexity of sites&apps is expanding, just take this VPN thing as one example, it used to be your IP was just a number, then they started geolocating it, then Cloudflare started blocking some IPs and now this VPN detection thing it's insane. Then these "algorithms" that started being used just for advertisements, but now they have insane things behind these obnoxious AI chat bots, stuff that cost them billions in licenses and development, but they hide that and make it seem easy.
On the other hand, the users of the internet are becoming dumber, they used to know things like typing a URL into a browser, and HTML and so on, but now you have smartphone users who literally just use speech to use their phone, and everything pops up automatically, and some dubious Google "protection" then tells them they are "safe" right now. It's these two opposites that keep growing. and no sign of any "competency crisis" anytime soon on the side of Big Tech, how they do it idk (probably jeets doing it all)
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@phnt @ins0mniak 💯 agree, and I for one would gladly accept some outages due to DDoS attacks every now and then (which are not a safety breach) than having Cloudflare as a man-in-the-middle
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@ins0mniak Torba / #Gab is delusional in thinking his site doen't need it's own users and communities. It's exactly the opposite, we couldn't care less what server it is, we just use these social media sites to chat and talk to people, anyone can operate something like Gab, and him constantly complaining about costs and so on is ludicrous for anyone familiar with the costs nowadays - they're basically giving away these servers, and bandwidth is unlimited and free of charge usually.
Cloudflare is advertised as protecting against hackers and DDOS and such things, but is this worth letting your entire traffic be decrypted by this dubious site? It's extremely suspicious - how can #Cloudflare offer all this for free? (or low cost idk), definitely smells like a honeypot
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@ins0mniak definitely Gab is not to be trusted, trusted with personal data such as real ID and real IP, which is why a VPN or similar measure is not a bad idea there and on many other places on the internet. Gab could be hacked or Torba could give the data way voluntarily, so obviously it shouldn't be given to them in the first place. Them insulting VPN users or stigmatizing them as trolls is outrageous, many dissidents use VPNs even without knowing what they do exactly, probably didn't actually help, but I would never insult them for trying it, which Torba and his "experts" apparently are doing. Some VPN providers were actually advertising on Gab!!! 😆 #Cloudflare is a honeypot in my estimation - it is officially known to decrypt all SSL&TLS traffic, before re-encrypting it and sending it on to the original site, encrypted for this site - how can anyone not be disturbed by this is beyond me.
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@phnt @ins0mniak I would say they are deceptively advertised as "this VPN will make you safe on the internet", which is obviously not true. For people who know what they're doing on the internet, they're one tool of many many tools, a tool that can be useful sometimes.
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@ins0mniak he's correct in that VPN detection is the fundamental problem here - it sort of defeats 50% (not all) of the purpose of a VPN, which is that you can use the internet "as if" being a regular user, and NOT use the internet as a "marked" user, that apparently everybody can easily recognize to be a VPN user, and then be discriminated against and sanctioned for being a #VPN user. Gab is just one a**hole that makes use of this detection, unfortunately others use it too, Reddit is one I believe (but you can use with an account) and 4chan is another (you can't post from a VPN unless you pay for their gold account or what it's called).
He is wrong with saying Proxies would be any better - no, these will also be flagged as "VPNs" because they treat any IP coming from the cloud as a VPN I believe, so only end user ISPs work and are "not VPNs" in their thinking
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@Hoss just like China - have a government firewall, then ban VPNs selectively or tie them to real ID
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS it's definitely not worth $500 billion, and Nvidia is a graphics card company with a GPU processor that is not worth $2.9 trillion dollars (its current market cap) just because you can use the GPU to "accelerate" (nothing more) things like image recognition and brute force computing.
They have "something" that they call AI, but I reject this entire hype and this choice of cryptic words used for it. I call it "advanced automation", "information gathering", "big data", "fuzzy logic", those make sense and cut through the b.s. hype.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS yes but it's a new product/service that no one has specifically asked for, they (Big Tech) are trying to sell it now, but it doesn't fill a specific need. I could imagine they will have problems turning this into money, to get paying customers for this. No one is saying "gee I need some automation to watch my pet, and write a report about it", I for one wouldn't ever want that. There will be some "niche" industries that can use it, like surveillance. Just like it was with those drones - only very few people bought drones, even though they have been available for years.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS the real question is, who needs these features, who wants them, especially once they cost money? Everything is "cloaked" in these cryptic words like "model" "intelligence" "language" and so on. I would simply say this is
>automation
>image recognition
>speech recognition
>text recognition
>search engine
Adobe Reader has something like that, recognizing invoices and so on, but who wants that? Who would want a computer automation to replace a human reading an invoice, something so important, leaving it to the automation to pay money to someone? It's not needed by anyone, it's all a hypothetical future they're investing in.
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@cowanon @spectatorindex the idea behind anti-porn is that guys can get the real thing if they put a little work in - but they can't in 2025, it's porn or nothing, that's the sad truth. Online dating is 99% a scam and a waste of time, women have no interest in a guy, only if he is a substantial economic improvement for them (6 figure income), or extremely good looking, and has lots of spare time, and an easy job
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@that_groyper @judgedread what none of all the right wingers don't understand, is that some elements of society (and immigrants) have to SUFFER for things to get better. They all believe in an easy way out, just make a better trade deal with Chyna... no cuts in welfare or social security necessary. Mass deportation may be what Trump wants to do, but it will stop immediately when the inevitable mass protests organized by the Left shut down cities. Most right-wing politicians (in the US and Europe right now) have this consensus that _only_ the criminal migrants need to be deported, all the others (99%) are future workers to pay taxes to pay for boomers social security, these will all be allowed to stay and get benefits. Trump is completely naive and delusional about "legal immigration", most immigration from white countries has been cut off, only people with skills and signed job contracts with US companies may come to the US, many are on 20 year waiting lists, never getting a replay from the US for their application. The only significant immigration to the US and Europe is by coming illegally and cheating, not "legal" like Trump believes.
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@that_groyper @dudebro @CozyPuPP it's the dream of the elite, to become independent of humans, by having some AI superintelligence. In virtually every sector of the economy, they're no longer talking about smart people, but always AI. So just one example, to solve the problems at Boeing right now, 100% guaranteed, it won't be some human that solves them, not even a diversity hire woman, but "AI".
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