I don’t necessarily think it’s a distraction. It’s a public, emotionally salient event that might wake some people up to absurd government overreach.
It’s harder to grasp some of the more abstract ways that the government infringes on liberties and wellbeing but almost everyone can intuitively see the absurdity of raiding a house to “protect” an obviously well cared for pet just to then kill it because they botched the raid.
Humorous meme, but I hope it actually wakes people up to bigger issues.
It’s a highly publicized, emotionally salient event that might wake some people up to absurd government overreach.
It’s harder to grasp some of the more abstract ways that the government infringes on liberties and wellbeing but almost everyone can intuitively see the absurdity of raiding a house to “protect” an obviously well cared for pet just to then kill it because they botched the raid
An important angle is that this was indeed technically “lawful” and “illegal” — I hope it starts people thinking that the weaponized power of the government often is a far worse danger than the things it’s given to “protect” us against
Sentiment acknowledged 😉
Specific authoritarian policy disagreed with
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Close knit communities would make contrived gatherings superfluous— we should keep striving for community 🫂
It is frustratingly difficult to securely move a file from an untrusted computer (somewhere I don’t want to enter an account password) to a more trusted personally owned device.
PrivateBin shows some promise
https://privatebin.info/directory/
If I have several audio files of interviews that I want to transcribe, what is the best site/software to do that?
Ideally it would be free, privacy respecting, and not require login.
#AskNostr
Those who live deep in the country never get trick or treaters. But that once-in-a-decade, enterprising kid is going home with any candy that happens to be at the house, some homemade jam, a frozen casserole, and possibly some books 😂 nostr:note1ljxyqynm24zsj5xqcmsr7xts3g67h849kjg69d3t3es2flgh7djqn67fjk
Through my experience raising chickens I learned that if you help a chick break out of its egg, it adversely affects their development process. While breaking out of the shell, the chicken develops muscle strength and correctly calibrates its nerves and sensory systems.
Humans are similar. They must struggle and overcome for optimal development. nostr:note1g7txd0uypyqpjqwmhfqjq8553e0ptw54hs3f7vhskuh6g4h7j0dsnzutjq
#SimpleX is amazing but I am not a fan that despite all its technical wins it does not yet:
1) offer more emoji reaction options
2) show you who reacted with what emoji (I understand the privacy implications/importance in public-oriented groups but in private-oriented groups this would be useful context)
Maybe I’m a psychopathic ideologue but I’m keen to the idea of destroying the private keys to my bitcoin before turning it over to the state if they were to attempt an unlawful and immoral seizure.
I unfortunately don’t have that much but as far as I’m able I’ll endeavor that it never gets turned over to the state in an immoral seizure. I am prepared to watch this ship go down. I don’t know if it will ever come to that (hope it won’t!) but good to consider the worst case scenarios and brace oneself in advance as well as preparing for whatever possible contingency scenarios you can think of
I am very curious what this would take to implement. I suspect there’s no where near enough tallow available to make this viable currently. Could be a great stretch goal though.
I’ve gotten to the point that every time I get some kind of offer like “sign up for our app and save 5¢ per gallon on gas” I immediately reject it out of hand without even looking into it.
My logic is that whatever data they are harvesting from it is obviously worth more than 5¢ a gallon to them so while I don’t know what that data is, it seems like it must be a net loss to me somehow.
Maybe this is net zero thinking when perhaps there are indeed win-win arrangements out there but I’ve just gotten quite cynical and cautious with how pervasive and ubiquitous surveillance is in our lives.
#privacy
I’d have probably previously thought they were just being silly and “cutesy” but I would now bet that was an intentional design choice to, as you said, subtly trick our brains
The concept is cool and a neat way to coordinate a local market but totally agree: it’s likely adversarial spyware at its core.
When are we going to start beneficially establishing gas pricing info on #nostr? 🙃
Agreed on a level, yet you have to appreciate the irony in observing fiat having to do with anything related to scarcity when it’s definitionally infinite 😂
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