• brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    Age restrictions and id verification side step the real issue that they don’t want to deal with.

    Actually regulating the companies making these addictive, harmful sites.

    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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      The real problem is children on the Internet. The real solution is getting parents to use parental control software.

      If you’re a full grown adult using Facebook, much less addicted to it, ya get what ya deserve.

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    It’s a feature, not a bug. Not sure why so many headlines keep acting like it’s some kind of accident.

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      21 hours ago

      To reinforce the plausible deniability of politicians of course. It’s all about manufacturing consent.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    Yep, that’s the plan.

    It should be obvious by now that governments don’t give one fuck about protecting kids. Not one single fuck.

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      24 hours ago

      Well… Fucking and children and people associated with power … We have learned there is no real “not” in this Chain…

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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      We’ll just continue to make our own internet with blackjack and hookers. Too much knowledge is already out.

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            16 hours ago

            What’re the data rates like on meshtastic and ham? Wasn’t looking great when I briefly looked at it.

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              Meshtastic uses LoRa, so slow speeds but far distance. A better choice is reticulum, this combines LoRa, Wifi HaLow, Wifi 2.4 & 5 GHz and BLE together into one network stack. So in a city we could have faster data speeds all sharing WiFi and rural areas that currently need satellite we could have a connection over far distances wirelessly. Reticulum is also encrypted, meshtastic is not

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              I mean they’re not crazy good by any means, but they could be improved upon. More so speaking of mesh, ham is its own mystery in my brain.

              Just examples really of networking outside of the normal infrastructure.

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                Okay yeah that was the impression I had too. I was excited when I first heard about it but from what I read it didn’t seem like you could do much with it. I’m still interested in playing around with it though if I find some free time. Ham didn’t really interest me as it requires a license which kind of defeats the purpose of this imo.

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                  Agreed on that front as well.

                  There has been some progress with data on meshtastic as well as range. For what it is in its current state, it’s still pretty awesome imo

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            21 hours ago

            I assume unless they just make whitelist of sites you can connect to you can find workarounds.

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      The Internet is just a bunch of AS running open source protocols on commercially available infrastructure. It’s doing fine. The hosted commercial services might be fucked, but you can run your own.

      You’re using such a service right now.

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    It’s frustrating that they act like we have privacy right now. The whole situation is typical absurd human behavior.

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    Algorithm-based, ad supported social media is a public health crisis and damages people of all ages. It should be destroyed. At that point we don’t have to worry about it’s effect on kids or them using VPNs to circumvent age restrictions.

    Seems like a more effective solution to me.