Fully agreed that it needs to be done right. I’m definitely not the best person to try and write it.

It also needs to be area specific. A predominantly republican area would need a different message to a predominantly black community.

Has Amazon ever actually said it wouldn’t sell the results of face tracking to data brokers? I can easily see it happening. It’s a lot of tasty data to them.

Dating isn’t about fitting in with the 95% of people that don’t match your vibe. It’s about finding the 5% that do.

Wear your weirdness proudly, it left fellow weirdos find you!

A better option might be a leafleting campaign.

It would need to bypass the “I’ve nothing to hide” effect. E.g. “Does your friend have an ex they don’t want to know where they are? Facial recognition would easily put them on your doorstep. Would you like a visit from them?”

Leaning on the ICE issues right now would also work in some areas.

If someone mocked up a few variants for different demographics, that could actually help.

Also, does anyone know an easy layman alternative to ring, that is more ethical?

Fully agreed.

Plausible disinformation is even better than no information.

“Know him, not really. Heard of him though. I think he hangs out at [awkward as hell place to reach by car] though not on Sundays. He gets dragged to [Out of town mega church] by his fokes. Hope that helps! (or not)”

It had far less of that at the start. It was a boiled frog effect for me. I realised I was just fighting through corporate trash to find a few gems, rather than filtering trash from a sea of gems.

The loss of 3rd party apps just gave me the impetus to jump ship.

Money actually has a strong diminishing return on happiness. A lack of money can definitely make you unhappy. More money also makes it easier to be happy, but does make it easy.

That’s actually the hole that the rich can get into. They (subconsciously) assume they would be happy with just a bit more money. They delay or ignore the things that would make them happy in trade for more money/power.

It would actually be quite sad, if it didn’t fuck the rest of us over completely.

I think the Germans might have some ideas to draw from. Or at least what doesn’t work as well as you might think.

There’s the acute situation and the chronic one. The acute one needs action now. You also need to keep an eye on the long term goals.

It’s a common thing that’s been discovered with extremist groups. A good number of their members get in before it becomes extreme. By the time they realise, too much of their identity is tied up with the group. They get drawn deeper and deeper. This makes getting out both emotionally and practically costly.

Giving a release valve to remove these people from the group is emotionally unpleasant, but extremely useful for collapsing the group.

Also, those same people are often in the best position to help with deprogramming other members.

I’m not saying to let them walk Scot free, but you need to leave some way out. Unless you are willing to stand and systematically gun down them to a man (bare in mind, they will be firing back).

Unfortunately, most mesh networks rely on civility for long range. They just don’t have the power to punch through.

It would be relatively easy to jam large areas.

Those who turn soon should be accepted. Not Scot free, but accepted. There’s the possibility they were roped in by propaganda, and got too deep.

If they don’t turn now, they definitely knew what they were doing, and should face the appropriate consequences.

It’s also worth remembering, always give your enemy a way out. It’s a lot easier to run down the die-hards than deal with a group of cornered animals.

In its defence, that assumed it was properly funded. Its actual funding was very limited.

I believe most of the critical problems have been solved. The only major one left is keeping the reactor walls stable. They have a tendency to transmute, which causes multiple problems.

They are excellent in the hobby world. It’s generally when you need to do a bit of quick logic, an ESP32 can be dropped in to do it. E.g. change the colour of an led depending on a sensor.

They also form the core of a lot of IoT devices. Simple sensors and relays that can connect to WiFi and throw up a simple web interface. ESPhome, tasmota and WLED exist to make this extremely easy.

They are basically the hobbiest electronic multi tool. Powerful enough to do most jobs without bothering with code optimisation. Cheap enough to throw in and leave there.

I’ve several celiac friends. Those labels are very welcome. Gluten ends up EVERYWHERE. Flour is often used as an anti stick agent. Even table salt isn’t always gluten free! The biggest problem is the number of people on a ‘low’ gluten diet, but that don’t react to it. Yes it means more gluten free products. Unfortunately it also means more restaurants not taking it seriously when asked.

Being stuck with only the “proper” gluten free foods is a sad SAD existence.

It’s still a bit behind on voice control, but home assistant can deal with both. Without all the spying.

The current mindset seems to be that the other side wants reciprocal violence, and so not to give it to them. They want to spin it as ICE trying to do their jobs and being mindlessly attacked. The current situation is giving them almost nothing to spin.

At some point it will detonate. Trump and co mean it’s likely either that or folding under their boots. Holding out till the American midterms is unlikely, unless something seriously changes.

Even here, he shines. He’s not off put by a woman doing a better job than him. Instead he lets her bail him out, and loves her all the more for her strength.

The paradox of tolerance disappears when you look at it as a social contract. “I agree to tolerate your weirdness, that doesn’t significantly affect me, if you do the same in turn.” Add in “If you back me when someone breaks the contract, and I will back you in turn.” and you get a very good basis to build on. You end up with a few grey areas, but 95% is obvious.

Or you could realise you are in a group focused on a single bit of software and do a 5 minute investigation into said software.

We are in a forum talking about Home Assistant, an open source piece of software, aimed at patching over the annoyances and games the various companies you are complaining about play.

It lets you control them all from one piece of software, so you don’t need 20 apps on your phone, and the spying they support. It also lets you isolate the devices on their own vlan, cut off from the internet completely. All control then goes through software under our control.

The database it’s talking about is basically a scoring of how nicely the various devices play once you have deloused and neutered them.

It’s a community attempt to fight back against big data etc. This is why you are being down voted hard. You’re interrupting with a rant about the very thing we are fighting.