This only seems to apply to just one country and not "everywhere" 🤨 (mainly regarding open source software)

Or at that point we move to the forest and start dissociating from society

Its not in any way.

There is nothing stopping someone from running up an instance and bombarding other instances with agents.

Sure you can block the instance but all it takes is a new domain registration and you are back to square 1.

The Fediverse is made up of it's users, mods and admins. We protect it. As a user I report suspicious content and users. The mods and admins decide and take action. As far as I know there's some automatisms as well, like automod scripts. And some code in some of the platforms themselves.

I'm not a dev by far but I read 'hardcoded credentials', was going to scroll on as I do, stopped, made a weird face and then laughed out loud for quite a while. Security, yeah. It's at same time strange, really funny and very sad that words have lost all meaning. We're living in full doublespeak times.

How many people will start using Linux after they ate prompted for their ID?

Android 8.1. That is just. Wow.

And hardcoded API keys? Bro seriously? This is a big "security" company and they're making baby's first programming mistake?

I have no words.

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/the-ruby-community-doesnt-have-a-dhh-problem/

For those who want a project and to learn the ins and outs of a 3D printer, the Voron 2.4 and Trident are excellent with a huge supportive community

Hmm.. I suppose thats right. I'm not sure, I don't actually know what would hold up in the US or not just due to how abysmal all of our privacy laws actually are. I'd hope that you're right in that case though.

So recording a conversation on your camera between two other parties still breaks the law in a one party consent state, because no party in the conversation has consented to the conversation being recorded.

most states in the US are one party consent recording states, whether thats a positive or not depends on the person you're talking to.

duh?

At some point it could get to that, but even Chineae residents find a way out of being blocked. If it gets totally restricted then maybe we go to a peer mesh net and bypass ISPs.

This is probably a bad take but like, good?

Most of the web is trash nowadays anyway. We should all go back to Gopher and Finger, or other similar modern implementations of the same ideas like Gemini, Spartan, and Titan. Those are small enough to easily roll out over mesh networks that can't be easily governed.

Http is dead. Long live the internet.

Guys, Im starting to think these Flock thingies are a bunch of hooey.

The amount of work I've had to put in to claw back a modicum of privacy from the relatively small number of smart things in my house is absurd. 100% agree that there's no way a casual user would know where to start.

But the older I get, the less interest I have in smart things. Thermostat, air filters, the snow melting cables and that's about it. Why do I need a light show to announce my arrival or set the mood to watch a movie... I can click the light switch.

I'm sure there are plenty of accessibility use cases for it, but I feel the most of it is just a gimmick.

One benefit of ZWave is that it operates on the 900MHz band instead of 2.4GHz, giving it both better range and penetration and avoiding interference from WiFi.

The security benefit is that 99/100 times, connecting a device to WiFi also gives it internet access. The user has to manually intervene and block this ability, the device has internet by default. This is simply not the case for a ZWave device. For those to connect to the internet and to malicious domains, you would need to be able to access the ZWave coordinator with a compromised device. It adds a whole new necessary link to the chain.

What's stopping the dark web from being blocked?

“We’re sorry, the OS you are using does not provide the required age and ID verification, We are unable to log you in. Please use a verified device such as an Amazon Fire tablet, Google Pixel 11 with manufacturer’s Android OS, iOS, or Windows 12 device. (**macOS compatibility is planned for a future release)”

It’s a trap, dumbass

Stores, friends, old fashioned mail order catalogs

How will you order your meshtastic radio if you cannot access the web, and how long will it be before it’s made illegal anyway?

No one will know about the disappearances because the news comes from the cloud companies. Like it never happened.

I swear some of you are still out to brunch, still think that we’re not all seen as disposable prisoners

If it gets like that them I think everyone moves to some darkweb or something

I guess not directly relevant, but the point is still there. The article basically came down to the fact that the guy was recording his neighbors' conversations without consent.

If I lived in the US I'd be checking laws before recording audio.

I don't live in the US or the EU and still disable audio in my cameras because of this.

The problem is the rug pull. Buy the device now, and after critical mass hits, they send out an update that adds telemetry, with users mostly being completely unaware.

It's a trust issue. Brand trust is more valuable now than it has been in a long time, possibly ever.