Remember people: Most alternative browsers are chormium under the hood! Not Firefox though :)

Commie: Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a Neo-Nazi.

Nazi: What about side by side with a temporary political ally to seize power?

Commie: Aye. I could do that.

Removal of all benefits of civilization to… own the libs?

Note to self: Become a bridge trader.

One thing I don’t get: How were people convinced that an entry in a blockchain somehow results in ownership. People understand ownership and its limits: They lock their bikes when they leave them somewhere, because if there is no enforcement you can lose property. The NFT scammers never mentioned enforcement once, yet somehow you “owned” some ape picture. How did that happen?

I don’t get it. One the one hand people who get behind this kind of article would jump at the change to tell women to “make them a sandwich”. Now that it’s happening… it’s a problem. Wat?

We saw the mass adoption of the internet, which before was mostly used by a small group of techies. Now we might be heading to a split: The mass walled garden and a separate smaller but free internet.

Will this fly with GDPR?

I think this system is flawed beyond repair.

Of course, but will that stop somebody from trying to push it? ;)

Yes. But you are arguing against lots of social programming, cultural expectations and religious backgrounds. It’s hard.

I think he tried knocking down the Ukrainian kid’s sandcastle and it did not go to well.

Who’s the kid that comes over an knocks down your sand castle?

There is a technical solution: Have cameras sign the raw data recorded from the sensor in situ, which allows you to check if a given video was recorded on a given device. You could even add another layer where the device uploads timestamps, frame hashes and location data to a blockchain (finally a usecase!) to pin it to a certain place and time. Sure, all of this can be circumvented with enough effort, but it will make it much harder. Especially if a video can be pinned to a place, you can verify if it matches that scenery.

Fully agreed. But harder to sell unfortunately :(

I guess this is supposed to be taken as a bleak joke but it won’t be over soon. We all will likely experience a direct hit to our quality of life. If you’re poor, your survival will get harder. If you have or want children they will have fundamentally worse lives, compared to what we experienced so far. This can go on for decades or centuries, depending on how much we can stsill fix and what tipping points occur.

So yeah, hope that is some motivation to change something. Or at least shout at some people. :)

What Usenet provider are you using?

Some security researcher: “angle grinder attacks on common lock systems”