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I'm trying to think of some use cases, I can really only think of two that it might be used for. Space travel and doomsday vaults.

Space travel is a no brainer and these could be used as another form of storage that contains legit everything humanity knows while having the critical stuff run on standard reliable hardware. Incredibly small and lightweight storage in comparison.

Doomsday vaults would be the same idea. Having these as another way of storing information that otherwise we would never keep due to the immense size.

So you could use this technology to track and predict police movements too eh? Hmmmmmmmmm

Technology like this poses a unique challenge because it's impossible to actually stop people from doing it if they want to. It's just a camera pointing outside and software in the end. Obviously more regulations (with real consequences) need to be enforced because of how easily it can be abused by police but that's what we do (or should do?) for all powers we give them.

https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr

https://www.openalpr.com/

How do we stop police from doing what anybody with a little tech experience can do? Even if we did legislate it out but then someone is publicly doing it with no explicit purpose, are the police allowed to use it too? How could you ever stop them?

At the opposite end of the spectrum I often think about modern safer ways of policing and one of those ways is to limit police interactions when possible. Why should I get pulled over for a speeding ticket or busted headlight? Take the data, have it verified by actual legal scholars (rather than empowered thugs) and send me the ticket in the mail. Why should the cop in the car ever be notified this is happening?

Like always, technology poses new risks and benefits that should be explored.

Affording it is one thing but if it breaks then what? These won't be used for profitability for a long-ass time since you'll need multiple just from a disaster recovery standpoint. Down time means no money to pay for your highly expensive storage.

XMPP+OMEMO or OTR is a great alternative, lots of people use it in the DNM realm.

I didn't explain myself very well but yes they do require a phone number. What I meant was you can use any VoIP number with Signal and it's fine, TextNow or any service that lets you retain the number works.

You can use VoIP with Signal so it's not much of an issue.

How sure are we that @OptimusPrime@lemmy.ml isn't this very robot?

Copy the URL of the community and put it in your instance's searchbar, might take a second to appear.

I was unaware you could disable that until now, I haven't taken a deeper look into peertube in a while so it may have been before the feature. They added the client toggle about 2 years ago

That does make me more positive on it. I did some testing now visiting instances and it does appear the vast majority have it enabled by default (everyone I looked at) and the warning message about it only appears when you're watching a video so too little too late for me. The warning message is also just a tiny bar along the bottom, I didn't even notice it for a while and I thought there wasn't any warnings, if you fullscreen right after starting the video you'd never see it.

Definitely better than I initially stated but I still think the P2P part needs more explicit opt in with the possibility of throttling connections if they decline to be fair to the admins.

The only other alternative is something like https://odysee.com/ which is based on LBRY a crypto so not exactly my 1st choice but it does have the benefit of offloading the P2P portion to the service hoster. Modern video content is so large that it makes serving and storage of the content a massive overhead so I understand the need for P2P for sure but I think it should be more explicit in how it happens.

Well I stand corrected, thanks for the info! Definitely the better option to default too.

How the fuck is peertube privacy compliant especially when the gov is running it? You're sharing your IP with groups of strangers and the government everytime you watch a video. You've went from one corporate point of failure all the way to handing your data directly the government and everyone with internet access theoretically which includes the corporations!

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/research/explore-privacy-research/2013/ip_201305/

I've wanted to setup a video site for a while since DMT extraction videos keep getting removed along with other chemistry stuff but the P2P nature of peertube stops me. People don't know that's what's happening when using peertube they are just visiting a site in their mind.

Lemmy would be great for that. Already has all the configs so you can make the instance private and use the registration application for access codewords.