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I agree there are many forms of contribution (e.g., writing code if you're a developer), it must not necessarily be money, but am not sure whether I understand what you mean.

I guess the first thing all people needed to do is self-hosting (Yunohost, Nextbox, or the like), and the second thing is paying for Open Source software they use (if they can pay, as digital communication should be free very much like the commons -fresh air, drinking water- but those who can should pay imo.)

There is also ClassyShark3xodus

You could use finger prints or eye scans, but the effort to set up the infrastructure to do so would be massive.

I am not so sure whether that's true. If people accept that, it could be done on a large scale, and the interest by federal states and technology companies is already as I assume.

Even if all the hurdles could be overcome and a real id system could be created, is that something we would want?

No. There are too many drawbacks of such a system. For example, the commodification of biometrics and other personal data by private tech companies would further decrease human dignity. Biometrics could too easily lead to discrimination as many biometric features reveal pathological and/or biological conditions. For examples, a certain range of fingerprint patterns can be related to some vascular diseases.

If your property is secured by biometric data, there is also a danger that thieves physically assault and intimidate the property owner to get access to the property. The result could be an irreversible damage to the owner that could by far exceed the value of the property they want to protect. In 2005, for example, thieves chopped off a man's finger to steal his car which was protected by a fingerprint recognition system.

If a person's biometric data is compromised, it cannot be reissued like a password could. That would leave this person vulnerable for future identification processes and their potential misuse.

I could elaborate much more on this, but I guess you got the point. If we continue turning human beings into data points by using biometric data, we dehumanize the person imo. The issue goes far beyond privacy and surveillance as it is much more about human dignity and individual autonomy. In the end, it is a threat to democracy.

It encrypts and routes your entire internet traffic (email, messenger, ...) through a multi-layered network which they call "mixnet". That makes your communications private and hides your metadata (your IP address, who you talk to, when and where, etc.).

See more at https://nymtech.net

Yes, we should also mention that it's still in early stage and experimental to some degree. I am just trying the Android app and it doesn't appear to work as intended. First I could see my real IP, and after I shut it down it crashes on start.

All good things take time ...

Nah, that was empirical research 🤭

Don't know whether this is already known: https://fedipact.online

Russia’s Constitutional Court claims invasion of Ukraine justifies anti-constitutional legislation

The Constitutional Court's ruling also states that the article does not infringe on “an individual's freedom to choose and hold and act in accordance with certain beliefs, since such freedom does not involve the perpetration of offenses.”

“A perfect argument,” lawyer Konstantin Zosin wrote in a Facebook post. “By the way, the court's only argument in terms of violating freedom of belief. So, for example, you could theoretically pass a law to shoot all those who write with their left hand. And this law would not violate the rights of left-handed people, since the exercise of the rights of left-handed people does not involve them committing an offense, that is, using their left hand when writing, which is forbidden by this law.”

Yeah, when I read the headline I thought that 'this time The Onion has gone too far', but they actually do that.

This appears to be her gfm page

@bear_delune A lot of countries have done that, and it's always been a crime.

@Sooperstition @Lucien

The Economic Policy Institute in the US published a study at the beginning of 2023. They analysed a lot of data (highly recommended read) and concluded:

Abortion access, and the long-term consequences of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, are crucial economic issues. From labor market outcomes to financial security and earnings, and crucially, the fundamental right to bodily autonomy, abortion access is critical for women to be able to decide their own economic trajectories. [...]

Abortion bans as an economic policy have not appeared in a vacuum, or even as a narrowly tailored religious concern, since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1972. Rather, denial of abortion access is one additional policy that states have engineered over decades in a sustained project of economic subjugation, control, and worker disempowerment. States that have banned and restricted abortion have largely also kept minimum wages low, underfunded and complicated their unemployment insurance systems, declined to expand Medicaid, suppressed unionization, and preferred to over-incarcerate. These policies, in conjunction, keep working people economically disempowered.

Source: The economics of abortion bans

Absolutely, America has done some fucked up things in the last 100 or so years, but there's no way to justify one crime with another which is what some posters here on Lemmy often appear to suggest. I feel such attempts to portray moral equivalency is another insult to the victims of these horrors.

History has been teaching us painfully often how quick people give up their individual believes for the sake of a centralised propaganda machine. It'd be very dangerous to think we are immune to it imho.

Yes, already in the title we can read of " Putin's empire" and it's clear all over the analysis that the author doesn't refer with "empire" to the Russia before 1917. I guess @Johnny Wild misinterpreted the text (maybe intentionally? Unfortunately there are some people here on Lemmy who are intentionally misinterpreting some content, although recently this is becoming more and more better imho).

Reading an article is a good way to avoid posting garbage.

In Putin's Russia, there are no citizens, just subjects

This is how Russia has operated from the times of Ivan the Terrible, when the backs of princes and their princedoms were broken, ushering in an era of never-ending despotism.

Imagine living under such a political system, generation after generation, century after century, knowing that your own existence means nothing to lords, Bolshevik commissars, and finally, Vladimir Putin’s cronies.

BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16.

There was no attempt to find out what we took.

In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.

We expect to leak the data.

The same is true for ideologies. It's the same irrational approach imo.