sparrow22

joined 2 years ago
[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a matter of time. Just like with software, you have to have a bias toward open source, freedom respecting objects and support them with your cash.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Rather then step in as arbiters of truth, they should provide tools, links and APIs to let their users decide what is true and what is misinformation. If their users express some concensus, like 90%+ of real human users, then I think they're right to demote or provide warning labels on particular links.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My point is that this information is typically not verifiable in an independent sense. This get essentially to what is truth, the truth we should all agree is the truth no matter who's providing it to us. We can verify it for ourselves. As an example, if we have 14 videos of the same incident and they show roughly the same events then we can be fairly confident that that event occured because we trust that those 14 sources are real and non-colluding.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

If the information is verifiably false, it doesn't matter who proves it.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It's going down across the globe and the reason is simple. Most every government is captured by the corporate presence in their country. Corporations are relentless in bribing and coercing every single jurisdiction so that their interests are satisfied. Unique is the population that recognizes the threat before it's too late.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there some guarantee on that swearing bit?

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.rokfin.com/stream/14959/DAY-2-LIVE-with-USA-trucker-convoy--Josh-Yoder seems to be an interview with the CEO of an air transport company and he made it clear they're not going into D.C.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

The idea came from a privacy guide which said not to use Tor Browser.

Tor Browser: it's a browser made for anonimity, not privacy

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was created more for specialization than to split the community. As others have pointed out, anonymity is a particular kind of privacy. There's no exclusivity. You can be in both.

Though it's hard to know the effect of another sub, Privacy is one of the largest subs here so seems one of the most likely to be able to survive an offshoot.

 

Anonymity is another.

Privacy is being secure in your files, your thoughts, your private and group conversations.

Anonymity gives you safety to share your findings. Whether that's whistleblowing or ideas or results, having your real identity attached may be more risk than it's worth. Why do we need both?

Since these are separate things, it makes sense for Anonymity to have its own sub.

Please join and nominate mods by messaging me or writing below.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Whether fit for purpose working receive email addresses are a requirement to obtain many services. I should be more precise though, if we are creating services that we want to be usable with privacy, then we should not support email as a requirement for use. Since the case is that many services do require email, I mean to focus here on supporting this anonymous email facility.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Right. It's not just about the question but looking a little deeper to get to what it means to have a free culture. What's required. What would be done differently. This was just a specific challenge that made sense to step back a little from. If there's a principle it should be honesty about why identifying information is required and looking for alternatives.

 

It is so hard to get an email address without providing an email or SMS verification. Like 9/10 on the internet difficulty scale.

Any site that lets you receive email for example by generating a random inbox seems to be blocked by the more full-featured ones that let you send email. I've spent the last week trying to get an email address doing lots of searches and trying to signup for any email address at all without success.

This makes sense if you understand that bots cause problems universally but at the same time the personal information strategy isn't working. Spammers have no problem getting email accounts and every other kind of account. It's the honest person who won't go to the dark side and pay for stolen accounts that is in the worst shape.

Maybe you want to setup your own mail server? Ther you need a domain name and registars want even more information. Many of them give you privacy on your domain records, but this is no defense from the surveillance state.

If as said in the sidebar mass surveillance is about mass control, and not justice, then email is an extremely important technology to start supporting for privacy and freedom.

Spam and abuse are problems to be sure but there must be other ways to solve them than by providing information that links back to the real world.

Now what can we do about it?

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It seems npm is aware and is mitigating but, did you know NPM is owned by Microsoft through GitHub?

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Creating an identity with privacy and freedom (publish.ministryofinternet.eu)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sparrow22@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Hi, I'm Sparrow22. I don't want to be tracked 100% of the time. I want to be free to call it as I see it and to assemble my own truths about the world today. I'm happy to have an account here and an inbox based simply on my story. If anyone can suggest an email provider or help me out with an invite, it would be much appreciated. I won't spam or incite violence or anything with my email account.

The title is linked to my blog which was thankfully free to setup, even if the host does seem to mostly have spam otherwise.

-S

Edit: I now have an XMPP account, DM me for it.

Edit2: Still no luck on an email address. It seems bots have poisoned the well. Some services say to reach out for an invite but you have to reach out via email! Will have to look for a lemmy presence for one of these things.

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