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P03 Locke

@ p03locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Bluesky does federation-washing

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  • The internet is essentially an infinite world

    I think this worldview is part of the problem. Nothing is infinite, not even the Internet. The tiny pillars that maintain critical pieces will eventually move on. We used to joke that the Internet is forever, but it's not. Data decays and dies. Old web pages are lost.

    Archive.org, Wikipedia, Linux, free and open-source things we take for granted could just disappear.

    Even the scope of the Internet isn't infinite. Just because something is created doesn't mean that people will see it, and not everything you can think of exists on the Internet.

    It's large, for sure, but it has boundaries. Boundaries we can see in macroscopic forms.

    you become nothing.

    You are not nothing because you're not lost in an infinite landscape. Again, the Internet has boundaries, and singular actions that nobody has seen can happen.

  • Bluesky does federation-washing

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  • I still don't understand how the PDS concept matters in an interconnected network of replies. Conversations are threaded, and that "personal data" needs all parties involved in the chain to move to this new thing at the same time. It's not going to happen.

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    So close, yet so far.

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  • Is "jew" still on the list? That one didn't make a damn bit of sense.

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  • People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money.

    Nebula is a gated community for YouTubers who have already made it. They have no avenue for adding more users, like the wealth of good indie YouTubers that are up and coming, and they don't even seem to want to add to their own curated list themselves. Their community has been stagnated for years. All they have done is forced their current membership to constantly advertise for them on YouTube.

    Nebula is not the answer and never will be. I don't even see a point in going there, because I already have these same channels on YouTube.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • What is far more likely is that policies simply wont cover accidents due to autonomous systems.

    If the risk is that insurance companies won't pay for accidents and put people on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, then people won't use autonomous systems.

    This cannot go both ways. Either car makers are legally responsible for their AI systems, or insurance companies are legally responsible to pay for those damages. Somebody has to foot the bill, and if it's the general public, they will avoid the risk.

  • ATProto isn't What You Think

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  • I don't really like the use of a strawman to argument against in the article. I don't care that it has a name and looks like an owl. It's still a strawman, and it's rather condescending.

    Getting back to the whole PDS bit, I don't really get the importance, given our current scenarios. We are protecting against the enshittification of communication mediums that people use on a regular basis, by giving them a chance to jump ship and move to somewhere else. Or to somehow prevent the enshittification from happening in the first place.

    That's it. Don't add to this massive scope creep, by inventing other goals.

    While the app is centralized, the data isn't completely centralized. In ATProto your data is written to your own PDS ( Personal Data Server ), and that PDS can be hosted by anyone. So if the app goes down, you can still have your data on your PDS.

    What good is this PDS when the app goes down? Let's say that Bluesky gets bought out and everybody wants to get rid of it. You have your own PDS, fine. You find this cool new ATProto-compatible service that a lot of people are jumping on.

    Problem: Your PDS is useless. It's not like you can link these disconnected replies in your data stream to the new service. Not everybody in the reply chain moved over, or they didn't move over at the same time as you. What the hell in this PDS is actually useful to a new service? Start time? Number of replies? Block lists that no longer apply? And this new service is actually going to trust all of those numbers? Fuck no! Never trust user data!

    Well, if Omnivore was an ATProto app, and they shut down their server, all of the users would still have their data on their PDS in a standardized format. At that point, any other developers can come in and run another app, or even the same app if it was Open Source like omnivore, and access all of the existing data already on your PDS when you login.

    No! Wrong! Try again! Your data is just your data. Conversations have relationships. Relationships have links. Disconnected data points are fucking useless!

    When somebody lets you "Login with ATProto", unlike the "Login with Google" button, it actually lets you login with your very own PDS.

    Oh, great... we've introduced login poisoning potential. Yes, trust this random user that they authenticated properly with a session token. I did not see the word "security" once in this article, which makes me think they haven't even considered it.

    The "Login with Google" button has been so useful and yet so horrible for the freedom of the web. Why does google get to be the gatekeeper to all of our web logins?

    Because Google at least understands session security and login practices. What's the one absolute law on the internet that OWASP hammers home over and over again?

    Never trust user input!

    You can't decentralize authentication to such a degree that it's personalized. There has to be a semi-centralized authority. With Lemmy, it's the Lemmy instance that we choose.

    Gah, there is so much wrong here that I don't feel like trying to comment on every single point here. This article is trying to answer the wrong questions and literally using a strawman to pretend that they know what the public is asking about.

  • ATProto isn't What You Think

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  • Maybe start with "What the hell is ATProto?"

  • Trump's 'Transgender' Mice Experiments Were Cancer and Asthma Research

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  • At this point, everything involving Trump and Musk are Not the Onion material.

  • House Judiciary GOP account posts 'Rickroll' instead of Epstein files link, sparking backlash

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  • That doesn’t explain why poor people are conservatives.

    Because poor conservatives are trained to enjoy being fucked over. They believe in the "faith" of their party, as long as they get to "stick it to the libs".

    The poor conservatives do not benefit from any of this, even when they do oppress. We're seeing this firsthand right now.

  • House Judiciary GOP account posts 'Rickroll' instead of Epstein files link, sparking backlash

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  • “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    Let's say what it really is: The in-groups are the rich, who can afford the lawyers, corruption, bribery to make the law protect them, and use those same tools to keep it from binding them. The out-groups are everybody else, who cannot afford those same tools.

    Once we simplify the equation on both sides, we get:

    “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: To protect the rich and fuck over the poor."

    That's it. That's all that matters.

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • This is unique; it’s not quite following the same script as Nazi Germany, where Hitler was relatively young and still had the same mental faculties he always did (even if those faculties were twisted).

    Don't get it wrong: Hitler was fucking stupid. Not quite on Trump's level, but he was extremely arrogant, pushed his shitty book during his reign just to earn a lot of money, didn't listen to his generals, and got the people around him so scared of bad opinions that they all turned into Yes Men.

    All you need in this world to achieve power is overconfidence and enough money to enchant a following.

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • They already know the Supreme Court is too slow. By the time it lands on their desk, the damage was already done a long time ago.

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • Totally, man. That’s why the funding freeze was reversed in less than 24 hours after a lawsuit was filed.

    You think no damage has taken place? We're in a thread where FOIA admitted that most of its staff has been laid off. They are trying to get rid of as many departments as they can.

    Throughout all of this, I want you to understand one thing: It is easier to destroy than it is to create!

    Things can be destroyed instantly. It takes no time to fire an entire department and wipe away centuries of institutional knowledge. It doesn't matter if a lawsuit for a few of these managed to piece through the smoldering ruins and rescue what they could.

    Trump himself even had a hard time trying to "unfire" a bunch of nuclear weapons workers.

    You need to turn off the TV, stop doomscrolling, breathe, and maybe watch some alternative media.

    Stop assuming what I do and don't do. You aren't me, you don't know who I am, what my political trappings are, and what my habits are.

    You may need to start.

    Open your eyes. All of this behavior is unprecedented. You can't just reference previous years and expect to be a guide.

    Congress is too busy shitting its pants, while filling out the paperwork to do so, to matter. I think this opinion piece put it best:

    And so we find ourselves in the absurd position where Democratic leadership, in the form of Jeffries and Schumer, treats an ongoing coup like an inconvenient scheduling conflict. Their response to democracy's crisis amounts to little more than checking Robert's Rules of Order to see if authoritarianism requires a two-thirds majority.

    While Rome burns, they're busy drafting strongly-worded letters to the arsonists, pausing only to scold the citizens who dare suggest using the fire extinguishers. Their position would be merely comedic if it weren't so catastrophically dangerous—like watching someone respond to a home invasion by suggesting the burglar fill out a visitor's form.

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • There is more power in being a billionaire than there is with being in a position of government. Trump is a useful idiot, but even he didn't actually want to win the (first) election. He wanted the fame, and wanted to continue pushing this idea of "well, if I won then...", as its own media circuit and tours. Instead, he actually won, and it disappointed him.

    Elon doesn't want to be a government employee permanently. He wants to be there just long enough that he can siphon the nation's money into his pockets.

    The real power is in wealth, because the government is powerless.

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump all went into office with Congress and lost it at the mid-terms, and as we saw with the Muslim ban,

    Lost what at the mid-terms? Congress? You think he needs Congress to do all of this shit? Have you been paying attention?

    There is no rule-of-law. No structure to these systems. It's just pure defiance at whatever "social norms" are holding this house of cards together.

    Nobody is putting up a reasonable fight with these EOs, so they just happen. Elon just wanders into government buildings and systems without criminal charges. No police action. No hard punishments.

    And whatever fighting back is occurring in the courts, where we will never see a settlement before the courts themselves get dismantled before our eyes.

    We're fucked. Stop using past history as a guide.

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • All these firings are likely going to result in classaction lawsuits, and the judiciary (so far) has been very responsive to Trump’s power grabs. You’ll recall they shut him down on DOGE’s Treasury incursion, birthright citizenship, and the funding freeze. (Among others)

    Yeah, good luck with that in 2-4 years, when those lawsuits pan out. And then they get appealed to the Supreme Court, where the GOP-majority lapdogs say "yessir" and rule in favor of chaos.

    We couldn't even get Trump convicted of criminal charges in time. What makes you think the judiciary is going to save us?

  • CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired.

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  • I think at this point, it's all of the government. If it can be privatized, why wouldn't they push to eliminate that sector of the government and then install their own corporate entities?

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  • Yep:

    “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” — Grover Norquist

    That was 25 years ago. It's always been their plan. They want to dismantle democracy and replace it with a corporatocracy, oligarchy, or similar authoritarian structure.