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My significant other's family has always referred to farting as a boofer, boof, and boofing, fwiw. Maybe it's regional?

And yet they have no hesitation to use the entire national security apparatus to chase a foreign national around the world for publishing some scientific papers.

Selective enforcement of laws to political ends is a hallmark of a police state.

Also the US has the highest prison population per capita.

If it quacks like a duck...

Considering the FBI's history of stopping terror attacks that they manufactured[1], I suspect many of those 'known to the FBI' shooters were actually working with the FBI in some capacity or another.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-te...

Google and their AI won't have any issues, but their competitors probably will.

Considering this is their reaction to someone pointing out that their green is actually yellow, I'm not surprised that they are in an echo chamber.

I was experimenting with it this week as well, and that exact issue was what had me uninstall it. I guess this post doesn't add much value, but I thought the (synchronicity?) Of our experiences was interesting.

It's a curious hill to die on, so to speak.

I see this often, but the trust problem still exists. There's no universe where I can trust Facebook (or Google or...) To not track me. Others have their own standards, but I don't feel like it's unreasonable to consider them APTs no different than the spyware of old. They have datacenters dedicated to exactly that. How can my data be reliably segregated so that it's not 'accidentally' included later?

Even if the data stays all first-party, they make so many copies and it gets put in so many datasets across the world that co-mingling and abuse of it just feels inevitable at that scale.

Hardlinking them works fine.

Nix(OS) solved this problem by hashing all packages based on their inputs (including other package hashes) all the way down in a merkle tree. You would have one copy of the icon pack, for example. But if any common libraries are built with different inputs for a particular program it will be duplicated instead of shared. Nix can then go through your store and hard-link any duplicate files between similar packages to save some more space.

And drive right into a lake because the gps told you to.

> Humanity will start doing more and more things without understanding why, but because "the computer said so", and things work out when the computer says they will. Black boxes will explode in usage, and God forgive those that may be on the side where The computer says No.

This paragraph scares me. I'm not convinced that technology getting good enough to where it doesn't need to be understood to be used is a good thing in most cases. Especially when it's a black box.

> They may even be able to compel friendly app stores to patch apps before they are distributed.

Google's apk signing changes comes to mind.

Trucks as commuter vehicles in the south generally still get used as trucks. You're more likely to see trucks with perfect paint out west.

Is it really £100/m to watch on tv? That sounds almost unbelievable.

>The "extraordinary" circumstances used to justify getting this data has a way of expanding over time until it becomes almost any routine reason being justification enough.

One need to look no further than the widespread use of swat teams and no knock raids for mundane purposes, when even 50 years ago most cities didn't even have a swat team.

Most criminals know to use burner phones or at least turn off their phones, I'd be shocked if anything more than a token number of them were caught with this data.

Meanwhile it can and does put innocent bystanders (often minorities) at risk of arrest or defamation for simply being in the area.

>US DAs/Judges/Police/etc. need to be independent and impartial.

This is like wishing hell had an air conditioner.

Captcha requires manual intervention, and potentially has the problem of being easy for bots but difficult for humans. A captcha for each email on even a small mailing list would be pretty horrible.

That's bonkers, I love it!

I've never actually owned a motorcycle with a turbo before. It kind of scares me. I've been caught off guard by hitting the power band on a small 2-stroke many times, I can only speculate about the turbo lag on a bigger motor and it sounds kind of scary.

This is the idea behind hashcash[1], but instead of currency it's just a small proof of work. Some nominal PoW (a few seconds?) to bypass the spam filter smells like it would be remarkably effective at cutting down spam.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

You're completely wrong on this one. You chalk a vehicle's engine-as-soul up to marketing, even though it's something that can be felt without knowing anything about the vehicle or its history. Yet you think some backstory about how it's made defines it's soul? That screams marketing. Half of the mass produced things I buy have a blurb about the backstory and passion that the founders had on the box.

I've had motorcycle engines with the following configurations (among many others): - 200cc single cylinder - 250cc single cylinder - 650cc single cylinder - 250cc two-stroke single - 500cc two-stroke single - 300cc parallel twin - 800cc parallel twin - 650cc v-twin - 1200cc opposed twin - 900cc inline triple - 650cc inline four - 1000c inline four

Every one is completely unique in how it feels, sounds, rides, and performs.

Add to that the almost innumerable number of other ancillary configurations to the above such as:

- balance shaft (or lack thereof...) - valve timing - firing order - cylinder bank angle - carbeurator vs fuel injection - diesel vs gas - naturally aspirated vs supercharger vs turbocharger - nonstandard engine types like rotary, V5, W configurations, V4 - compression ratio - two vs four cycle operation - low end torque, midrange power, top end power.

If the difference between electric motor personalities is a gap in the sidewalk, the difference between ICE engine personalities is the grand canyon.

I've never had a vehicle with more soul than a high power two stroke with a well tuned exhaust. You can't ever convince me that an exhaust with a resonant chamber tuned like a musical instrument to harness sound waves for forced induction has no soul. I've felt it. This [2] is a good animation of how the two-stroke works. No valves, powered by explosions, and a truly musical exhaust note. There's nothing else like it on the planet, and when put in a soulful body like a dirt bike it lets you know immediately.

While I disagree that the engine is the soul of he vehicle, it is definitely a huge part of it. Beigemobile econoboxes are intentionally designed to suppress the soul of the vehicle, despite how marketing likes to advertise them. Nobody's offroading or tracking their crossovers even though every commercial implies as much. The buyers of those vehicles are largely (and the commenters in this thread say as much) looking for the most generic and unsurprising vehicle possible. They are designed as much as possible to make you forget that you're in a vehicle. Even 'interesting' vehicles are being regulated into this generic future. See: Fake engine sounds being played through speakers [1].

The most different electric motors will still feel largely the same, while two mostly similar gas motors can feel completely different. Call it soul, personality, or anything else, but the future of vehicles is going to be much more bland, even if they go faster on paper.

You can't ride a motorcycle and say with a straight face that gas engines have no soul. They embrace it, they don't hide from it. There's still cars out there with souls, but they are forced to blend in for fear of losing theirs as well.

I don't really know where I'm going with this. I get that the metaphysical is frowned upon around these parts. But it definitely exists, even if we can't precisely define or measure it.

Electric is better in pretty much every metric that can be measured. And disastrous for the things that can't. Someone mentioned in this thread mentioned that vehicles are probably going to become white labeled from foxconn as electric gains traction, and I can't help but see that as the future myself. That's what it means to sell your soul.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7923/the-rise-of-the-...

[2] https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qk44Y.gif

The American news media is tabloid level fake news themselves. As long as they keep breathlessly reporting anonymous sources as breaking news and pushing hoaxes With institutional backing I'm not in the least bit surprised that people will turn to any other alternative, regardless of veracity. As for myself, I've mostly completely tuned out (and generally ignore things like this on HN). Going a month without any "news" or social media is an easy way to see that it adds no value whatsoever to my life.

Context matters. I would recommend using some common sense for this approach. It's probably not a good idea to ask this of your family and coworkers for example. Just explain that you asked the question to illustrate the point that everyone wants privacy to some degree or another. It's a requirement for the human condition. They always say no unless we've already been talking about privacy for a while, in which case they sometimes agree because they see where I'm going with the question and know I won't take them up on the offer. My friends think they are funny, and sometimes they are guilty of it.

Thanks for the kind response. I kind of expected to get pooped all over for that post. It's not necessarily an easy answer. I left my last cushy job over something most here would consider minor to work for a non-guaranteed income that would be embarrassing for most others in the industry or on this site, but my soul feels much better that now I'm an (albiet insignificant) part of the solution instead of part of the problem. No one snowflake is to blame for the avalanche. On the plus side my work-life balance is far more tilted to the 'life' side of that equation.

The goal over the next few years is to continue to do what I can in all areas of my life. Produce my own food, spend my money as locally as possible. I'm okay if it's not polished for mass consumption or 'regulated' as long as I know who's behind it. I've been buying homemade meals from random strangers on craigslist and Facebook marketplace (my SO hasn't given it up yet, even they haven't posted anything for years). They have been delicious and cheap usually deliver to my house. Unregulated food might scare people, but I've got the runs from grade A inspected places many times over the years so...

Call it what you will. Localism, anti-corporatism, cryptoanarchy, free market, anarcho-capitalism. Labels don't really seem to help much when we're fundamentally all working towards the same end goal. But I think in all cases it's unfair to ask others (including the state) to do something you're unwilling to expend effort attempting yourself because you've given up before you've started.

Be excellent to each other and have a rocking day.

Not necessarily directed at the parent comment (who seems more at a loss than thinking it's a solution), but calling for laws and regulations to restrain a state that regularly ignores laws and regulations already on the books feels very lazy (slacktivism?) to me, and is all too common a trope on HN. Call me pessimistic but I really don't think that the kind of elites that will use illegal metadata to drone strike their own citizens and their children (among numerous other atrocities) will suddenly behave if we just put a few more of 'The Right Laws and Regulations'™ in this time.

The only answer to the privacy and security question is to be principled enough to do what you can to opt out even if it's difficult. Yes I get it, you don't want to alienate some percentage of your social circle/users/customers. But that attitude contributed to how we got here in the first place. You may be pleasantly surprised how many people will be willing to follow along if you ask them directly and are willing to help them do it. I thanked a friend for getting set up on matrix after I deleted all my other services and he told me "even though I still use whatsapp you have a good reason not to and you know more about this stuff than I do so I'm happy to use element to chat with you". I haven't had a friend that I made a personal appeal to turn me down yet. "I'll create your user on my server. It's nobody's but ours and it runs from my living room" goes a long way, apparently.

My personal roadmap (ymmv):

- Use tech that makes your adversaries job harder. For me this is things like no JavaScript (plain pages in general), FOSS/OSHW, walled gardens, cash/cryptonumismatics, mirror things on RSS/yggdrasil/gemini/alternate dns roots/ipfs. Self host. You get the idea.

- Help others do the same. Cultivate a community. Make topical group chats/forums/pages. Mirror the content of things you would like to see.

- Make your employers do the same, and be willing to say no to things that are counter productive to that goal.

- Regularly make your friends/coworkers/boss confront the idea that they do have something to hide. Ask them to hand you their phone and tell you their password, ask for naked pictures of them/their family, ask them to install a parental control app that gives you their location/microphone/browsing history/etc, ask if you can put some cameras in their house/bedroom/bathroom (bonus points if you bring a camera over).

- Obviously tailor the above to the situation and remind them that they do in fact want privacy. Don't ask a co-worker for naked pictures what is wrong with you?

- People are wrongfully arrested on a regular basis based on minimal evidence. Amplify their stories.

- Rotate usernames regularly.

Anyway that's what I do. It hasn't been nearly as rough of an experience as I thought it would be. Thanks for hearing me out. Welcome to the panopticon, friends.

I haven't heard anything about a t-mobile api leaking that data and my searches doetsn't return anything of value, can you provide more details?

>And if somebody steals your coin, you can go through courts and banks to get it back.

Dubious. I've had the police tell me or others I know something to the effect of 'let us know if you find anything out, we will never catch them' half a dozen times across both coasts. Teams of investigators on your case for long periods of time is a privilege generally reserved for the rich (or the big cases if you're more generous than I). If you have a good enough case to get a refund through the courts they will order a refund of crypto just the same as with USD, a PlayStation, or a stolen motorcycle.

>You can pay taxes with it.

This it a truism. The state that issues a currency lets you pay taxes with it? I Don't think that's slipping by anyone talking about bitcoin.

>It is backed by a strong authority

It is backed by the trustworthiness of the US government and financial system, which is debatable at best.

>is used as the reserve currency/economic driver of the world's countries.

Is now doesn't mean it will continue to be. The US continues to print money and sell off gold reserves in staggering numbers. Maybe it will work out, but I'm not holding out hope. China is buying gold in huge numbers, and look to be positioning themselves to be the new reserve currency.

I've also read some compelling arguments that the USD as a reserve currency is propped up by US militarism and geopolitical games with oil pricing but I haven't done enough research to come to that conclusion myself.

>It is stable and does not suffer price volatility.

Discussed ad nauseum. Change from buying a sandwich with bitcoin a few years ago can buy a nice used car now, while the value of the dollar has dropped for decades. Short term volatility averages out pretty well into the long term trend, especially against a currency that is trending in the opposite direction. If volatility is an issue, dollar cost averaging is a simple and effective way to mitigate it.

>Fortunes do not get lost if they are in cash at the bank.

This happens regularly throughout history though. You also assume that they are "in the bank". As of March the Fed lowered reserve requirements to zero.[1]

We are only a decade into cryptocurrency, the technology is still moving very fast. With things like hardware wallets, M of N keys, and social recovery wallets it's getting harder and harder to lose it all. It's programmable, you could write something cool to help prevent it like time-locked or time-unlocked transactions?

>There's been an uptick of crypto fanboys coming to this forum lately.

Your account is only a month old. Presumably you've been lurking for a long time. Maybe you should give the same benefit of the doubt to others? Lots of old hands don't talk about it from their primary accounts because the fun money they put in it years ago is worth millions.

>if you try to pollute our space

This entire paragraph is polluting HN.

1: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

>That's only true if there isn't high demand. If there is opening a channel costs $15 or more.

Sure, but lightning is (effectively) infinitely reusable. You can keep doing as many TXs as you need, and the fee is only to open and close the channel.

I have spent far more than the cost of opening a lightning channel on buying wallets for physical cash, and they aren't nearly as reusable.

>Do we create a localised version/model where people can transact with each other without touching the blockchain

This is what the lightning network is for: scalable, instant, low-cost, and off-chain TXs. All transactions between the opening and closing of a payment channel are consolidated into two TXs. One to open it another to close it. This means energy cost per TX goes down pretty significantly with adoption.

Court orders aren't much of a barrier, especially when many judges effectively rubber stamp police requests.