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  • Give everyone who asks asylum? All 2 million per year, which would increase exponentially per year as soon as that decision is announced?

    Asylum suggests they're living here. 2 million additional people per year. America only has 334 million citizens. Or, we could do what every other reasonable country does and what Biden is trying to do in a more humane way: give them shelter somewhere safe and let the people in who are genuinely in need of asylum, those who's lives would be endangered by blocking entry... And the rest will be sent back to try again.

    I'm not a conservative, but I am for rational policy decisions. I suggest letting anyone who's open for a free-for-all house 10-20 people who have no familiarity with their culture, who don't even know each other, and pay for all their needs. I think they would change their mind quite quickly.

  • You nailed it, the question is far too vague to be meaningful.

    I consider my phone not giving away all my data to be smart.

    Someone else might think smart is giving away all your data so AI can make sense of it and improve the convenience.

  • Quite the spicy one aren't you. I see where you get your username from.

    But yes, they exist, and so does the ability to defeat them by training the detection data into a new undetected model. Cat and mouse game, as they say.

    Robust today, defeated tomorrow today.

  • I think we should be taking them in as asylum seekers, but it's not as bad as the headline makes it sound.

    Regardless of his recent misgivings, you should check out this video by someone who actually paid a coyote to take him across the border (idiot thought because he was American that it was fine and legal, lol) and got caught by US border patrol and ended up staying in a holding center for 3 days. https://youtu.be/M5MxAMKmXAM

  • Edit: I'm remembering that some VPN services use users devices as a server of their own, proxying connections for other users on another service. I don't know what's going on here, but if you don't have Tiktok and Snapchat both installed then I'd say that's likely what's going on. I've never used AdGuatd, there are much better VPN services.

    I'm gonna say you have Tiktok and Snapchat installed on your phone? The rest of those are just random services (CDNs, ads, analytics, bug reporting, etc) that background apps (some are from Tiktok and Snapchat, but tons of apps use the same ones) are connecting to.

    Set up NextDNS on your phone without any VPN running and odds are you'll see the same.

  • Yes sir. Mesh networks are currently a hobbyist privilege but once networks start getting more censored they'll be a necessity, like privacy coins. We either obtain world peace, or things freedom of information keeps devolving into a dystopian future where meshnet communication systems are distributed locally and through the mail printed on paper.

    People like to call me a conspiracy theorist but I've got a record better than a coin flip... Nobody made any jabs for a few years after the Snowden leaks so at least I have that going for me.

  • I'm not, but it's something I've read about in the past and I listened to most of the Art Bell tape vault and he was always talking about HAM. I do have an interest in systems of censorship and censorship resistance, and geopolitics, decentralized systems and network security, so I suppose it all kind of falls into place once you start thinking about it and understanding it based on what we've already seen happen in other countries. Twitter was the driving platform behind the Arab Spring protests, for example, and IMO it was also a large part of the reason Occupy WallSt was able to be so quickly divided and squashed. And for the last ~decade we've seen the listed countries firewalling their citizens from accessing free content, while they ramp up the authoritarianism. Russia made sure it had local competitors and ways to cut itself off before it started the 2016 campaign.

  • Sounds like something you'd like for voting

    If you think you can sus out my voting preferences by my ability to foresee something that's fairly obvious when you stop and think about it, then you're about as useful as GenAI generating realistic hands.

    why not the same for social media so we can identify the Russian trolls more easily?

    That's what I'm talking about. How would you propose that's done, in a way that actually works from a security perspective? Photo IDs can be stolen (or generated). You can buy USA fullz and a photoshopped selfie+ID from some Russian hacker for cheap in bulk. A few thousand dollars for a few thousand "ID verified" accounts. Real-time cryptographic ID keys is the only way one could realistically ensure that type of system works without being easily gamed. If it happens that'll be the end of the Internet for me. Bring on Briar and shortwave radio.

  • You can't regulate and legislate your way out of social media propaganda campaigns by foreign adversaries. Congress as a whole didn't even begin to really understand tech until post-COVID.

    The rest of my post was a copy/paste from a message to a friend the other day. My point is that the risk of foreign propaganda campaigns do much more damage to societies with open & free Internet access. Good luck running propaganda laps around Vkontakte users the way Cambridge Analytica did in the US. Vkontakte is Russia's state owned Facebook clone. It's the difference between the abuse team at a company, and the intelligence arm of a country.

    From the PoV of the intelligence community, open internet access is a serious threat to national security. But they can't openly just shut down free Internet access or they'd have a civil war on their hands (maybe literally). So they'll use justifications. Iran WMD's, not stopping pearl harbor from happening, Tunguskee experiments, our leaders are good at justifying their reasoning and it doesn't take a bunker baby to understand this.