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  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • Session is a decentralized alternative to signal. It doesn't require a phone number and all traffic is routed through a tor like onion network. Relays are run by the community and relay operators are rewarded with some crypto token for their troubles. To prevent bad actors from attacking the network, in order to run a relay you have to stake some of those tokens first and if your node misbehaves thay will get slashed.

  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • Can you name some popular projects against big tech by conservatives?

    The entire alt-tech sphere, I guess, but other than that I can't really think of many projects that explicitly say they lean right or left. As far as I can tell, most projects focus on working on whatever they're trying to accomplish and don't mention their political opinions for whatever reason, maybe because they don't want to alienate their users and contributors or maybe because they are made by many people, each with their own opinions, and there isn't a single shared belief system behind it, like ThePirateBay for example. We can try to infer what political stance someone holds, like the CEO of Brave, for example, who donated some money to an anti-gay marriage bill in 2008, or the CEO of Proton, who said some positive things about the Republican party recently, but I don't think it's fair to assign a political affiliation to the entire project because some of the team members expressed their opinions. 

    Are you sure? most people working on projects against big tech tend to be very left leaning.

    I think that you make a mistake and assume that just because someone agrees with you on not wanting to be reliant on big tech, they also agree with you on everything else, or you read something like 

    We want to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding

    and falsely assign that to be a left-wing stance, when in reality most people, left or right, would support that. I haven't seen any evidence that most people working on anti big tech projects are left-leaning. Most people don't publicly share their political beliefs.

  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • FOSS is for everyone. Not wanting to be dependent on big tech isn't uniquely a leftist ideal, and it should be obvious by now that the political affiliation and community guidelines of big tech companies are entirely dependent on the current political landscape, not any moral values or held ideals, and can change at any moment.

  • EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED

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  • Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting.

  • Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn

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  • It says that the content can't be digital, you'd have to use video tapes or other analog medium.

  • Is there a self-hosted project that does url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?

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  • I was about to install it on my server until I found out that it's developed by the UK government. Now I won't trust it even though it's open source.

  • UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

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  • Are they gonna ban torrents next? Https? You can ssh to a remote server and wget files all day long, or setup vnc and have a vpn like experience.

  • Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

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  • Nah, dark humor is like a child with cancer, it never gets old.

  • Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

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  • It's ok to make jokes.

  • YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16

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  • How difficult would it be to mirror most popular youtube channels to peertube if instance operators picked a few channels each and kept them updated?

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • And that's what makes you a tyrant.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • You can (and should) provide fair access to voting without making it mandatory. Most people would probably submit a valid vote anyway, there's a lot of no/low information voters already and refusing to vote, for example to boycott the election or for whatever other reason is also a valid political stance. Plus I'm not a fan of any financial penalties because they're basically an extra civil rights subscription for the wealthy who can afford to pay the fines, while a poor person who doesn't make it to the polling booth gets disproportionately screwed.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • Yes, let's force everyone to vote whether or not they have any clue what's going on or who the candidates are, great idea.

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • Cool beans, see ya soon, I'll keep you updated.

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • In 2019, the U.S. invested $667 billion in R&D. The private sector is responsible for most R&D in the United States, in 2019 performing 75 percent of R&D and funding 72 percent

    In some economies, the private sector overwhelmingly drives R&D. Israel leads the way, with the private sector responsible for 92% of total R&D, followed by Viet Nam (90%), Ireland (80%), and both Japan and the Republic of Korea (79%). The private sector also plays a significant role in the US, China, several European economies, Thailand, Singapore, Türkiye, Canada, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and others, where it contributes over half (50%) of total R&D.

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    The business sector is the largest funder of R&D in the top R&D-performing countries, with lower shares funded by government, higher education, and private nonprofit institutions. In each of the leading R&D performers in East and Southeast Asia—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—the domestic business sector accounted for at least 75% of R&D funding in 2021. source

    In order to maintain a monopoly you have to keep innovating and offering a quality service, otherwise there there will be a 100 startups waiting to take your place if you ever give them an in. The most dangerous monopolies are created by government regulations, bureaucracy and bailouts.

    Starship has ~150 tons payload capacity, if made fully reusable you only have to cover the fuel and operational costs, fuel is ~1 mil for a LEO launch so $6.66 per kg + operational costs, so the $10 per kg figure isn't too far off.

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • Governments: spend 80 years developing space tech with public funding, allowing humanity to walk on the moon, have global positioning satellites, and essentially kickstart the computing industry from a necessity to build computers for orbital calculations

    Yes, government funded endeavors are sometimes the only way to do things that don't have a clear ROI but they are also incredibly inefficient and as such should be kept only until it becomes viable for the private sector to take over.

    Private companies: *mostly disappear and waste shareholder money, like Virgin or like Bezos' attempts at space

    That's the beauty of the private sector, pure meritocracy, if you suck - you die. If those were public initiatives they would have been kept regardless of the costs or the results, wasting the taxpayer's money instead of the shareholders'.

    one company with public funding raking in those 80 years of publicly-funded research to itself

    If it was that easy NASA or all the failed companies you mentioned would have done it themselves. SpaceX has done an absolutely incredible job at innovating in the industry that has been in stagnation since the 80s, designing rapidly reusable rockets, lowering the cost per kg to LEO from $72k in today's money, from the space shuttle days to $2500 and planing to reduce it to $10 with starship.

    The public funding part doesn't mean free money from the government, the government pays SpaceX for fulfilling contracts because NASA can't do it themselves, at least not as efficiently as SpaceX. Right now majority of SpaceX's revenue comes from starlink which mainly serves private consumers so it's reliance on the government contracts is being overstated.

    underpaying and exploiting its engineers

    SpaceX $155K-$247K/yr ($117K - $175K/yr base pay + $39K - $72K/yr stock)

    NASA $113K - $158K/yr

    lowering the costs at the expense of safety due to cutting in safety measures thay will never be tolerated when humans ride those rockets

    As of 2025, SpaceX is the only U.S. company with a human-rated rocket system certified by NASA for regular flights to the International Space Station. NASA completed the certification of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket in 2023, marking the first time a commercial system was certified for human spaceflight.

    Dumbass liberal lemmitor: pRiVaTe Is ClEaRlY sUpErIoR

    Yes.

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • Government agency starts multiple, multi-year, billion dollar projects, delays ensue, costs overrun, results are unimpressive. It has to rely on private contractors or other countries for the most basic things, spends $211 billion for a space shuttle program that goes nowhere and ends up costing $0.5 billion per launch.

    Private company goes from nothing to a successful rocket launch in 10 years for less than $1 billion, half of which is private funding. In the next 10 years makes rockets reusable, lowers the cost to orbit by 30x, launches a viable commercial service people are willing to pay for.

    Communists on lemmy:

    Capitalists on Lemmy: private company is better just because it's private

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • Have a government run space agency, government constantly cuts funding. Awards contracts to incompetent military company to build over priced rocket. Crony capitalism and money disappears.

    That government guy sure seems incompetent, I hope no one puts it in charge of a space company.

    Private guy steals all NASA talent from budget cuts builds talented team, innovates new technologies for rockets

    That private guy sure seems like he knows what he's doing, I bet he'd be great at running a space company.

    and then goes full blown Nazi and you love him even more.

    IDK where that's coming from, I never said that, you're just making stuff up now.

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • have a government run space agency

    a private company shows up

    does everything better at a fraction of the cost and actually innovates

    commies on lemmy: We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink