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As a community member I can also attest to this. After I gave Other8026 more details about my app and background I shared on the forum, they restored my thread.

slopon Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses

That's what I said.

slopon Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses

Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance but European countries are only interested in restricting the latter, and only when it doesn't get involved with preventing the former.

AmazonUK now requires ID and a selfie for "bladed items": https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/amazon-uk-now-requires-p...

The UK is ranked as one of the least free countries for digital freedom: https://eylenburg.github.io/countries.htm. Worse than India, Brazil, and Vietnam.

slopon Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do

It's not slop.

slopon Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

Monero or Cash.

slopon Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

And then if you offer to sell it to someone, they could blackmail you unless you give it to them for free or cheaper.

slopon Tesla Roadster

It would have been more impressive with a human in the car during some of the stunts.

slopon Tesla Roadster

I would guess they're less of an asshole than someone driving a cybertruck, though.

slopon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

Amazon UK now requires ID for "bladed items".

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/amazon-uk-now-requires-p...

slopon AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

It is not a great law but it is what genocide is agreed to be and it is not based on amount. It's all about intent which is very hard to prove.

slopon Show HN: GrapheneOS Dumbphone

I'd guess a majority of HN uses iPhones as it skews US but it is getting dark in the US right now.

iPhone Dumbphone 396 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200

And mine doesn't even require a factory reset!

slopon Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008)

I found that taking a few days off tech along with a bit of meditation and regular chores stopped becoming chores I had to get done before getting back to the devices, but they became enjoyable and not rushed.

slopon AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

I send them a dollar or two in Monero, anonymously. That has me for a year, no?

https://www.therage.co

slopon Open Source Discord

Fluxer is the best one.

slopon Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald

At least 6 people and me are not very smart. While my SimpleX solution could be good for spam prevention and would definitely be good for privacy, it would totally enable even more swatting.

slopon Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

GitHub is seemingly decent for this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982498

I wish someone would Fluxer [1] GitHub for self hosting.

It is a bit of a pain to make an anonymous GitHub account. That's literally what this whole identity is (I'm making a Nitter style frontend for a meditation app and I'd rather not take any chances). At this point just use a residential proxy like the Telegram people.

[1] Fluxer is an excellent most promising privacy focused Discord clone.

The UI is almost an exact copy of Discord, which, despite what people will say, is actually very good. More privacy focused alternatives should rip the UI of their competitor if it's good so that users get the benefits of more privacy while knowing exactly how the service works.

slopon U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

Yeah, I do believe crypto has little usecase besides XMR. Coincidentally it's doing really well while the rest of crypto is in a bear market (I think). It's the only real crypto where everyone cares about using it instead of mainly the price.

slopon U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

I've used Cryptomus for checkout. It was a terrible experience compared to other crypto payment processors like BTCPay. It has tons of trackers and fingerprinting and makes you wait for all the confirmations.

slopon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

Yes. It streams the content from the Healthy Minds Program but without a login or any of their tracking.

Here's a very rough draft of a comparison of the privacy of different meditation apps: https://litter.catbox.moe/crq4n62bf1prei8j.html

Balance is crazy! They're essentially a data broker themselves.

slopon Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald

There's so many common sense, bipartisan things like those. A few are are uncapping the house, a federal holiday for election day, stock trading ban for politicians, data broker loophole, warrant requirement for your data on service providers.

I fear to think about where we would be without the constitution considering how authoritarian law enforcement is in the US. It's definitely lacking, but I am still grateful for it.

slopon Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald

This is primarily a failure of the police, but second place goes to data brokers and anyone who collects unnecessary data and doesn't secure it. A flood of personal information already leaks illegally through cybercrime and companies not protecting data, and we haven't even stopped the huge legal industry of public-info data brokers. You shouldn't be able to look up an email or phone number and get someone's family and address.

The powers that be like phone numbers because they're like a medium-level KYC. In many countries getting a phone number requires ID, and there was a recent proposal to do that in the US. Of course swatting and spam are used as excuses to introduce KYC requirements, but those problems are endemic to phone numbers, and more identity verification just causes more leaks, which gives them excuses to require more KYC.

My idea for replacing phone numbers and email: SimpleX for calls and texts (no accounts and therefore the least PII possible), and Monero micropayments for spam prevention. Most people spend way more on their wireless plan then they'd need to spend in Monero to make the initial connection, for publicly posted SimpleX links.

slopon Account bans on Reddit

I'm trying to do the same thing to share my well being apps. I've only released one out of the two so far (a GrapheneOS dumbphone solution), but I can't post it on Reddit or Hacker News until I build up much more reputation.

I just made a Reddit account as a forward thinking to be able to use it eventually. Surprisingly I was able to sign up on a Mullvad exit IP and not get shadow banned immediately. I did use an anti-detect browser so maybe the browser is winning against Reddit's spam filters today?

1/3 of my comments are shadow banned, though. The only one that isn't is, "Petting my dog" in response to a random post asking what puts you in a better mood. While two other actually helpful posts have either been blocked by karma minimums or Reddit.

I can't really blame anyone, it's just a bad situation. Hacker News handles it better than most with the vouching but you have to understand how it works and the AI still gets through.

slopon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

Yeah, this bodes well for my meditation app frontend I'm going to release on GitHub. It should be fair use ish but it does seem GitHub is fairly friendly anyway.

slopon Show HN: attention awareness – iPhone without the distraction

This is cool. I used to user the Apple Configurator method before I got a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it. If I had an iPhone I would definitely use it.

I just made the same thing for GrapheneOS: https://github.com/flourish-today/Odysseus