Waldschrat

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

These are problems for all people, not just the young ones.

 

If you are living in a country that is not save and free from politically motivated prosecution or other dangerous pursuits, all activities, messages and so on, that are critical of that country could be seen as dangerous to said system and therefore illegal. So making them public puts you in great danger. By “public” I don’t mean publicly available, but readable for state actors.

If you are living in a currently safe system, the internet does not forget things. So when it flips to an unsafe country, all your previously save thoughts, messages and so on are now illegal and are already out in the net. That puts you in great danger if you ever in your past had interactions which are now seen as illegal. And you can never know which topics could be illegal or dangerous by then. 

Another example would be traveling to unsafe states that you were ever critical of. 

All of those (and possibly more) scenarios are dangerous for you as the actor, but for any family member of yours in the future (or past) as well. 

So would it not always be in your interest to hide as much as possible, not just depending on your current situation or the assumed threat level? I have a hard time wrapping my head around statements like securing oneself depending on one’s threat level.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Return it. If you hold on to it (even if you block the ads and all) it will signal the manufacturer, that this practice is fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Steve Bannon said six years ago on Bill Maher: "You seperate the signal from the noise. Watch the signal. There's a flashbang grenade every day as far as noise goes. Watch the signal."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It is great that the firmware is open source. However their customer support is utter shite. I have given up several times hoping for help on a keyboard bug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I very rarely ever did. And when I did I made sure I trusted the studio and knew enough. But even with this preparation I was burned most of the time preordering. 

Nowadays I notice a game I like and I wait for 1-3 years, then pick it up DRM free, with all the extensions and fully patched for oftentimes 15€ or so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Lemmy, the Fediverse, and open source in general too. Every time bullshit happens I find myself more and more replacing closed systems with community-developed and community-run systems. It’s not only the giving back/contributing/being part, and the openness, it’s also that this cannot be taken away so easily. Taken by buying the company, a software update, agreement change or the fact that someday you may not be able to pay your monthly fee and loose access to all your stuff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I am really happy we passed that transparent bubblegum-toy style. My hope is that we move towards physical buttons again, at least where they make sense (cars for example).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Almost no corporation has benefits operating in a liberal/left country, they are harder to exploit and make profit of. Why would they promote things like worker protection, parental leave, unions, reducing their own rights to favor the society, paying for healthcare etc? Edit: Wording