Readit NewsBy the way, the boiling frog thing has been debunked many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
I do not hope for it. But if it happens, may it serve as a warning and example to everyone else who has freedom and does not currently cherish it enough. I know that what happened to the truckers in Canada when they had their electronic assets frozen certainly woke up people in Canada to a degree.
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Firefox—my daily driver—still supports the "main" uBlock Origin (and I'm a somewhat heavy user of features unavailable in Lite like custom filters), but I had been waiting for Lite to be available and immediately went ahead and replaced uBlock Origin with uBlock Origin Lite.
The security win can't be understated: with its permission-less design (enabled by MV3) I am down to zero third-party developers that can get compromised and silently push an update that compromises all my web sessions. Sure, attackers could still get into Mozilla, Apple (as I run macOS), or cause a backdoored update to be pushed via Homebrew (how I install unsandboxed applications when no web app is available, which thanks to the likes of WebUSB is getting less common), but unsandboxed browser extensions were clearly the lowest hanging fruit, so this update (and MV3) significantly raised my security posture (and transitively that of projects I have access to, and that of their users).
I’m appropriately paranoid about abuse of power in other areas, like for example monitoring personal telecom.
One thing to consider is the trend of expected speech or compulsory speech. There are people who would want to see if other people are saying what they want them to say, rather than just not saying what they don't want them to say. There are people who weigh someone's words to see how dedicated they are to a cause or to an idea or to a movement.
These technologies empower language police even in cases where someone would otherwise choose to say nothing. And they establish a precedent.
It just doesn’t seem worth it to try to have a serious conversation (and no it’s not because The Party is conspiring to dismiss you).
People with loud exhausts are injuring people intentionally and indiscriminately.
Usually it's through a stress response that turns into PTSD if a person has to endure it for too long.
Another injury comes from sleep deprivation. Going days/weeks/months/years without reliable and uninterrupted sleep is an actual torture method that permanently damages people in both mind and body.
Other times it's tinnitus from being exposed to noise levels far, far above safe ranges. Even "quiet" bikes are allowed to be well above safe noise levels. Tinnitus doesn't heal.
Hiding behind your freedom of expression to justify intentionally and indiscriminately injuring people is low.
> That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws.
Nobody said we shouldn't have laws.
Why would they be paying for upkeep of cameras that do absolutely nothing?