It was originally built to creep on college women, so creeping on its users more generally now is just a continuation of exactly what it was built for.

“DAH-ay-mon,” I choose you! Use your exec ~/thunder_sma.sh!

No, dæmon

Waiting for the AI rapture to take all these fuckwits away.

I think it’s good you’re learning about this. These are known problems, and they’ve existed from the beginning, but because there’s a fuckton of money greasing various palms, nobody with the power to do anything about it is doing anything about it. Just those rascally techbro scamps at it again, gosh darn it! /s

Keep learning, and warn your friends. The fewer people fatuously using this garbage, the better society will be.

Dangerous? Probably.

Bad? I mean, at some point, it becomes a risk assessment. Organizing at the risk of physical discovery might still be worth it, depending on your goals and what you’re willing to sacrifice. The benefit of these networks is that you don’t need tons of funds or construction ability to set them up. Whether you are an activist, a hobbyist, or a political dissident, you don’t need a government or business to do it for you.

It’s not really my place to determine what someone’s best strategy is, as strategic factors are likely always changing.

There’s something nice about the phrase “decrypt the blob.”

As I’ve found with nvim using the lazy-vim config, no. That program, for example, requires a separate clipboard manager if you want to copy between it and your system.

And at least they won’t hallucinate past cases in front of a judge.

It is. I wasn’t advocating for them, just sharing pricing.

And thank you for that, too. I had no idea there would be so much to consider, but I’m glad to be informed.

Ah, gotcha. The arrow made me think they were just moving the app icon.

We’re the unwashed masses. Changing our social security numbers would mean considering us people worth more than a means of exploitation, and the ruling class couldn’t possibly burden themselves with the mere thought.

I’m too dumb to understand this, OP. You gotta explain the joke to me.

The 1TB plan for Pixel Union is also €10/mo. I wanted to note the yearly price, since that’s usually the cheapest, but if you’re paying monthly, expect that.

They also have add-on pricing for additional storage needs, which you can find via a slider on their pricing page, up to 20TB.

Thanks!

I’m a little concerned about their implementation. It seems that there’s two private keys that exist on two servers, each in different countries…? One is used for encryption of the data, and one is used to decrypt the key for the former case. In that way, stealing one server isn’t enough, but stealing both would (right?). Obviously, there’s jurisdictional and sovereignty hurdles, but that still doesn’t seem as secure as having each person owning their own private key locally.

Or maybe I’m just dumb and don’t get it.

…they could probably rove around finding people with these stations.

True, though the benefit of these and other kinds of community-run decentralized networks is that it becomes harder to disrupt those networks. It’s not impossible, but they’re often built around an idea of, “But what if this node goes down?” so they have ways to address those issues or make it so that it’s easy to deploy new nodes.

Still, if things are to the point that the government is cracking down on hobbyist radios, you’ve probably got lots to consider regarding the best ways to communicate with other dissidents and activists.

Thank you! I didn’t know that was a thing, but since I’m in the market to begin building a NAS, that will surely be useful to know terminology

Tldr:

• 16GB: free
• 150GB: €30/yr
• 1TB: €100/yr
• Encrypted
  • Likely on-server, because they have AI facial recognition for searching photos by face.
• Based on Immich

LoRA networks as a general technology are only as private as they are designed to be. I have the option of both Meshtastic and Meshcore in my city, and as far as I’m aware, they both use E2EE.

Nodes and relays don’t store data for any period longer than it takes to relay a message, and even if they did, it would be encrypted. On top of that, they’re separate from other WAN/radio networks operated by capital interests, so they’re resistant (not impervious) to the influence of money and government.

As a solution for activism, I think they are a great choice, but they are limited by the fact that you need a device compatible with LoRA and the particular network standard you’re using, as would everyone else.