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lez commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

Kelteseth · 2 months ago

I didn't find any context for your claim so here is some reddit comment:

So it’s true 3,300 people were arrested for posts online. What they don’t tell you are the statistics or context. The actual law for these arrests covers EVERYTHING online. These arrests include those arrested for terrorism (if the planning/act of terror includes any online communication in the UK), threats of violence, racist abuse, hate speech and unwanted communication (including sending unsolicited sexual photos to strangers). It also includes spreading false information that could cause harm or affect an ingoing investigation.

If you look at convictions, only 137 people were actually sentenced in 2024.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebunkThis/comments/1mmux6r/comment...

lez · 2 months ago

Thank you. I heard the number locally at a privacy conference. No hard data, but I saw them being terrified for 1984 becoming a reality. Even if there's no sentence, the real result is self-censorship, which is NOT shown up in ANY statistics.

lez commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

lez · 2 months ago

It is happening, in spite many won't really deeply believe. Every day 33 brits are arrested for what they say online.

It's happening, and it's time we say no. It's uncomfortable, but we need to do it en masse, right now.

Do not buy backdoored hardware, help others get rid of the backdoors, use anonymous technology to organize protests.

There has to be a line.

lez commented on Rebecca Heineman has died pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/shdon

amatecha · 3 months ago

Very sad news. This one hit pretty hard for me as not only was she so awesome and contributed so much to so many great games, but the short timeline between "oh dang I have cancer and we're fighting it" to, well, today... was just way too short :(

lez · 3 months ago

You are not alone being hit hard by the pace of the cancer's progression. Dr Makis talks about his shocks lately as an oncologist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gIYQCjB_NU

lez commented on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k ntp.org/... · Posted by u/gastonmorixe

lapsis_beeftech · 3 months ago

This sounds like a problem where cryptocurrency could actually be the solution. Next time I want to make a charitable donation I will ask for an XMR address to preserve my privacy and work around commercial payment processor issues.

lez · 3 months ago

I was thinking the same. Seems HN is now pro-bank and anti-cryptocurrency.

lez commented on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites nednex.com/en/the-interne... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow

torginus · 4 months ago

I wonder why people don't build a collection of scripts into a browser plugin, like Adblock that auto rejects all tracking info to the greatest extent possible?

lez · 4 months ago

There IS an optional list for ublock origin that tries to get rid of cookie nonsense.

lez commented on Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos github.com/andrewarrow/st... · Posted by u/fcpguru

lez · 6 months ago

It started a line of thoughts in me. What if the backend keeps the videos around for a longer period of time, and: * regularly checks youtube, and whenever one archived video gets deleted from youtube, it advertises the video ID on a specific set of Nostr relays * have a different browser extension for yt viewers that activates when the user hits a deleted video. * the backend can stream the video for continuous Bitcoin lightning payment until the stream is kept alive.

So you can make some money on free disk space.

lez commented on Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants mycoria.org/... · Posted by u/doener

Meneth · 9 months ago

Every Wikipedia page links to their sources. Have you tried reading those?

lez · 9 months ago

Just like the cambridge link he shared: it is a well written article with tons of references describing the source of the information.

lez commented on Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants mycoria.org/... · Posted by u/doener

mattlondon · 9 months ago

I love these sort of things generally from a technical perspective (I kinda have these fun day-dreams of a cadre of cool nerds and geeks setting up their own commune-networks against all odds in some distant future where they just have basic infrastructure etc)...

But ultimately I always feel uneasy and reluctant to get involved in general decentralized type things as I feel like I'll just be facilitating people sharing/distributing kiddie porn.

At least with Tailscale things are "private", but with this it feels like I would be part of the wider network. Will I be using my nodes to help route CP traffic?

lez · 9 months ago

You must abolish all privacy from the internet, and even then, you wouldn't be able to stop CP to happen.

Good luck, Mr. Big Brother!

lez commented on Carbon dioxide capture from open air using covalent organic frameworks nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/the-chitmonger

lez · a year ago

I think such an appliance had already been invented. They are called "trees".

All they need to do their work is corporations leaving them alone.