How can you know the success is zero? Encryption is more widely used and much more resistant to political attack. Open source software is more powerful and accessible. A large portion of people loathe corporate tech platforms at a level they didn't years ago. Granted a lot of that is just down to how functional or trustworthy the software is, and what guarantees about it can be plausibly provided, and it isn't all wins. Maybe you can't exactly get everyone caring about this stuff in the same way or for the same reasons you do. But that doesn't mean there are no possible avenues to success, or that the tech habits of other groups can be written off as useless here, because it's probably the most important thing.
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Nah that's some great info, though sounds like a pretty big project to set it up that way. Would definitely want to hear about it if you ever decide to put your work on a git repo somewhere.
Also if wifi mesh is our last hope, oof
Yeah. What I propose is getting more people involved and caring about freedom preserving technologies before it gets to that point. A tiny minority of somewhat more tech literate people are not going to be magically immune to authoritarian checkmate scenarios through technical solutions alone.
agentifying the language model
Any recommendations on setups for this?
Naturally the commercial systems are going to be strictly better, but the best models I can run on my 3090 have been good enough for me for a couple years now, and have massively improved over that time. Currently mostly use qwen3-coder which is really solid. It just feels so much nicer to use knowing it's private and not being datamined for who knows what,
I kind of assumed it worked like this before anyway. Good reason to use local models.
Are there now legal means to do longer range communications? I thought the main limitation was you need to be licensed to do anything more than short range home wifi
Thanks. Somehow the network actually seems to be working pretty well for me now, not sure why it wasn't before.
Unless these companies are hosted in MS, have offices, or sell ads there, there’s nothing legally they can do.
Is that really how it works? Haven't legal challenges to these sorts of laws already been appealed up to the supreme court and they were upheld?
I've tried a few times to check out i2p, it seems to take hours of leaving it running to even get to the point where you can very slowly and inconsistently load even the official pages though.
So far their efforts in various forms of voter suppression have prevented that, and at the same time more people equals more congressional seats.
That isn't really true, I've restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can't handle this it's because they don't want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on lazily coded automated systems.