The billionaires are the ones raping America and starting wars ofchoice.

Trump is their clown for hire.

As long as the billionaires exist there will always be someone like Trump.

1996 has called, it wants all its C software back.

That was not an LLM. That said, I do use a chatbot like once a week. Maybe some of their speegh patterns are rubbing off?

I don’t have the answer to your qustion, but I like to occasionally consider that there is no such thing as a stupid action, only an action that I don’t understand.

Why would someone talk like that?

Some possibilities:

1. To stem all future criticism of Kagi by making the first and the most at the time visible criticism sound braindead. Thus creating an association that all of criticism is braindead.
2. To use the reverse psychology to promote Kagi. You say it sucks, and you don’t think it’s worth your time to even explain it? Well, I am a rebel, so as a fuck you, I will use Kagi.
3. To further lock in the attention and the mental resources on Kagi. Love it or hate it, be indifferent to it, but here we are thinking about Kagi. Kagi’s profile has been raised.

These three immediately jump at me, because I see people preaching Kagi in a manner of an influence op.

So these negs could be part of the op.

Again. Not saying I know. I don’t. And I likely won’t use Kagi myself. It’s just fun to speculate a bit.

I apologise for a 2nd reply, I just wanted to clarify.

What I cannot readily control (or don’t know how) is the internal hunger stemming from the soul (mine or enemy’s).

But which hungers get to dominate in a public arena, I do have a say in that. So having some hunger may be inevitable, but making that personal hunger into an impositional system for everyone, that’s not inevitable.

So yea, they want hardware attestation now. They’re not relaxing until they find out what we do with the fingerprinting ecosystem first. That’s laughable.

Since they’re going to do what they’re going to do, and since the outcome is never set in stone ahead of time but instead has to be discovered by living life, we have no reason not to chase our dreams and ambitions as much as they chase theirs. I have no reason to preemptively block or throttle my energy. I am not here to please any would be nannies. I have fears, but do not allow my fears to impact my logic. And besides I fear surveillance capitalism more than whatever else the “punishment” is promised to be.

Nothing is inevitable. Everything is negotiable.

Again we’re back to bad fear-based logic.

You’re saying hardware attestation is a looming punishment for poisonin fingerprinting.

Wrong.

The enemy wants hardware attestation now, and they want it bad. Nothing you do or avoid doing can influence this because they, the enemy, are responding to their own hungers.

I repeat, there are only two valid reasons to stop prosecuting a fight, and this isn’t one of them.

You are offering an incorrect model of the enemy as a nanny who will try to shape my behavior in responce to my behavior. I “need” to please the nanny and I “need” to avoid pissing off the nanny. Your argument is designed for that sentiment: nanny-pleasing.

The correct model is one based on INTERESTS. The enemy has an interest in hardware attestation regardless of what we do or don’t do. They will prosecute their interests KNOWING those are deeply unpopular. Look at the Guardians Of Pedophiles party, the GOP in USA. They are unpopular. They are hated. They KNOW this. They keep trucking. Why? The INTEREST didn’t go away. The interest is not socially shaped, unfortunately (or fortunately?).

I don’t think what you’re saying here in this last reply competes with what I am saying.

It is both/and. Not either/or.

My strat combines naturally with using advocacy, electoralism, lying flat, malicious compliance methods, militancy, legal/beurocratic methods, economic methods, etc.

I am for all of these. Whatever works.

But ignoring the human relationship dimension and exclusively focusing on prosecuting tech, imo, is not a serious strategy.

Besides, someone who needs to hide their ID now should use Tor now. Someone who has a lower risk profile can afford a solution that aims to poison the well for the long term in preference to a better ID protection.

I am not doing anything illegal, I want to poison the well if I can. I still use Tor sometimes anyway. I want the whole fingerprinting industry to just go away.

I am a cynic on this specific event. I think this is all Rockstar’s marketing ploy.

I don’t follow any gaming-specific news, and haven’t paid money for a game in over a decade. All my gaming needs are satisfied by the few FOSS games. And here I am learning of the GTA 6’s approaching release. If this is marketing, Rockstar practically raped into my eyeballs the fact that their game is coming out soon. Fuck. I am not even their target audience and here I am.

I say all this is pure marketing by Rockstar. Just my gut feeling.

I hope they don’t use Discord. Discord does very strong browser fingerprinting.

Just fundamentally, to fight, you have want to win.

You are arguing to stop fighting on the basis of a supposedly improper desire. Wanting small bite sized things is proper. Wanting something audacious is not. Your kind of argument could work in theory if my desire is unserious. That’s just psychology, not technology.

The scariness and the capabilities of an adversary is never, on their own, a proper reason to not fight.

The valid reasons can be: a deeply reasoned and deeply felt long term change in priorities, or a tactical hiatus to rest, regroup, reload. These are completely internal affairs, meaning, a serious person cannot be casually argued either into or out of these. I would check in with my soul to know whether or not to fight. Not with strangers on the net.

People fight to satisfy a certain hunger, and not because it looks easy or is a popular thing.

Of these Tor is the best for protecting identity, however Tor produces a recognizeably Tor-like fingerprint, which for my preference is not ideal.

So for example Tor browsers can all be denied access, because Tor, not the individual user, but the kind of browser used, can still be identified.

My ultimate latent goal isn’t to only protect the anonymity of a security-conscious user, but to poison all fingerprinting data so that the entire technique is abandoned as useless.

fonts, screen resolution, many things can affect fingerprint.

The solution is not “a browser from a reputable company.”

It will be a browser designed by security professionals to spoof fingerprints, along with a “crawler” that analyzes the current blend of fingerprints already out there, crawling not web pages but the request headers instead, and canvas outputs, etc.

I don’t think such a browser plus infrastructure exist yet, but they will. It is inevitable.

Such a browser will output garbage yet plausible and believable fingerprints that maximize ambiguity.

Always, unless by mistake it is off.

I’d rather read something like that than 50 pages worth of legaleeze.

I want body cameras and body microphones on all the billionaires.

Lets flip the script. The billionaires are a source of danger. They require live monitoring so long as they exist.

“The cameras are protecting you from the guillotines. We want you to stay healthy and safe, mr. billionaire.”

Personally I don’t care how many yacts you have, but meddle in my government, behave like an aristocrat, try to surveil and manipulate all the proles, and I am not a happy camper. Very salty.

I think there ought to be a hard cap on wealth from 30mil net worth to somewhere around 250mil. Per person. Double that per family. The actual net worth number should be INDEXED to median (not average) wealth and income, cost of living, etc. And it should be determined democratically.

If we catch someone speeding, first offence just surrender all the wealth over the max wealth limit. Second offence? Capital punishment without the possibility of a pardon, and limited chances to appeal. This can’t be treated like any other crime. Going over the wealth limit shound be considered treason.

I am waiting for now, for me, since I already have a phone. That said, if it’s the difference between zero connection and the status quo, I would just buy something now. The status quo is better than nothing at all. But once Graphene’d Motorola comes out, it’s a no brainer purchace for anyone who wants to own their device in deed and not just on paper.

Mullvad users who got mad simplified this to Mullvad fees finance a Nazi party directly.

You are making this up.

Those of us mad understand how the money changes hands.

It is mathematically correct to say that a portion of the energy I may contribute to Mullvad will end up financing fascism.

This isn’t only about the political donations. That’s a coowner/cofounder we are talking about. That’s significant. If some rank and file schmuck donated to nazis in his spare time and not a cofounder, it would be less bad. Still bad, but less damaging.

This cofounder has outsized infuence on how the culture of Mullvad is shaping up.

Do I want to support that when there are better, more private, VPN companies without the nazi cofounders? For example NymVPN mixnet.

There is no good reason to prefer Mullvad.

It’d be a different story is we only had two VPN companies and both had nazi founders. Then we’d have to weigh privacy vs nazism. But that’s not our situation right now.