xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

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Now they want my burner phone!

Headline: "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get customer IDs"

Ok, so honestly I don't carry around a phone with or without a SIM card ordinarily. At least not one with an active cellular component.. but talk about ridicules and none of this will even have the impact that they supposedly want.

An entertaining comment about this fight:

"Every web site needs your phone number, every online order... Businesses don't take cash any more. Every web site tracks you and sells data to the brokers. Only Linux installs without an email address and phone number for 2FA and password recovery. Video games, every chat app force an account.

This fight was lost decades ago, and now we have to live with it."

Part true, part over dramatization of the situation in so far as it is still possible however tricky to mitigate many of the privacy issues.

SIMs: Prepaid cards exist, can be bought without ID, and with cash everywhere. Not private enough? You can also get esims online with crypto.

Phones themselves: Yea, that's a bit more tricky. However there are plenty of people who will sell you a flashed or unlocked phone and even with crypto/cash. Best just not utilize a cell phone.

Banks: Also a tricky one, but if you open your eyes you will find a lot of places you can avoid debit/credit cards by using cryptocurrencies like Monero.

Online shops: There are stores that take cash by mail, cryptocurrencies, and privacy providers that will even get you stuff that you'd ordinarily need to purchase through a major company.

Companies not taking cash? Don't use them. I went 5,000 miles and didn't use plastic except for hotel check-ins.

Chat app: Use Matrix/Mastodon. No ID required.

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

Cop seemingly ignored Flock camera timestamp to justify arrests.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/man-jailed-for-a-month-despite-flock-showing-he-was-5-miles-from-crime-scene

#TheFreeThoughtProject

imo that they can't do without harping against "libertarianism" just displays they lack the concepts to understand the freedom in free software (and likely life in general).

people doing things with your software you didn't intend is precisely what free software is about. don't like honest to god national socialists use your software? better don't use a free software license, but a proprietary EULA.

and, if you use "FOSS" in the first place, it's not about software freedom anyway. open source isn't free software, it's distinct.

interestingly enough many "open source" licensed projects always had an aura of grandeur around their leadership and elitism in general. which isn't a problem if they are honest about it: sqlite doesn't really accept patches from the outside, but they clearly say it on their page. if i don't like it, it's public domain, i can fork away as much as i please.

> https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1780753007.091816

people mistaking free software for fully established gay space communism. as long as the license is free, the software is free. the way a project is run has nothing to do with it.

i don't like the llm craze as well. it's not good for software llongevity, it's not good for peoples brains. the generated code likely is tainted by incompatible licenses, which will be fun to watch when the first court decisions come in, forcing projects to roll back for years.

I've just created a little amazon store where people can buy EcoNet devices to try them out.

Since EcoNet devices were typically sold only to ISPs as fiber modems, it's often hard to get ahold of them.

I'm selling a package of 2 GS3101s for 30€. They have OpenWrt pre-installed from my EcoNet branch. Be advised, the wifi chip does not work reliably on these devices so it is disabled.

https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/Modems-OpenWrt-Preinstalled-EN7526F-Ethernet/dp/B0H372P192/ref=sr_1_1_so_MODEM?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.x6KhANWzY1w3Nn7i2vD6IQ.dH9t0h0QUmNNIl-994oSsZ5ccK7N8OQ3Z2jteKQAMOs&dib_tag=se&m=A2V38RCLWMRMV3&marketplaceID=A13V1IB3VIYZZH&qid=1781173441&s=merchant-items&sr=1-1

FRUTE OS, my homebew LISP (well, Scheme) Machine, playing Bad Apple:

@xianc78@gameliberty.club @lina@eientei.org @9to5Mac@mastodon.online @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com I don't put alt texts on my images mostly to spite the people who complain about it.

LLM generated code has definitely improved in quality over the past year, but I still think it is very easy to spot when code is not written by a human.

And I'm not talking about the super obvious signs that everyone already knows like the overuse of emdashes and such.

What I'm talking about is that LLM generated code is just really fucking boring...

Surrounding literally everything with null guards, strict type checks everywhere, throwing exceptions for every little minor thing, etc.

I personally love weak comparison. It is fun, feels hacky and it doesn't produce insecure code if you actually know what you're doing.

The LLM has to burn a million tokens to consider every single possible "but what if ..." situation when doing something like this which it will try to avoid.

A good programmer actually familiar with their own codebase will just look at the code and say "no, it wont" and will delete the overly verbose null guard or whatever.

I honestly get more upset when I see unironic Apple shills on my timeline than racist chuds or whatever.

@ube@tsundere.love @hj@shigusegubu.club @Phobos@eientei.org @nicole@kiwifarms.cc Sometimes kiwifarms is iseful though. Like when they host material mainstream media doesn't want you to see. Or when they dig up dirt on people who actually deserve it like Drew DeVault.

The technology, called SignalTrace, would turn ALPR cameras from devices focused on tracking cars to ones that can more readily track the location of particular people

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers

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>Opus, add a bezier curve editor while I go take a poop kthxbye

I think the thing that frustrates me the most about mathematics in school/university was that, to an autist, it *should* be a dream to work with. Everything has procedures and structures and if you did it right there is no opinion needed, you are either correct or incorrect.

And yet it still all falls apart because god forbid you had one bad year of math, the lack of understanding snowballs into later years if you don't catch up. And god forbid you do any sort of REAL math, you're gonna offload it to a computer anyway (every computer in the last 30 years can do all your algebras and calculuses).

People who got all bitchy about teachers/professors giving "partial credit" to math kids for getting the answer wrong but the process right didn't understand that the end result was never the point because nobody is doing this shit by hand. It's understanding how to get there. I did RSA by fucking hand with small primes in later years. Was it practical? Nope. Was the method interesting? Yep. So why bother rewarding only the right answer when the answer itself is useless and the real takeaway from these classes was the knowledge of HOW and not the end result?

My reaction to any e3 or whatever announcement