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You were there too? 😜

I cannot, as much as I would like to, argue with that. What you are saying is a very well documented fact. Most Christians are following the man/woman at the front of the congregation, not Christ, and that is the reason why they end up just blindly repeating whatever those “leaders” say like parrots.

I’m all too aware of how messed up religion is worldwide (every single one of them, no exceptions).

Additionally, regardless of your age, belief, race, sexual orientation, political inclination or choice of t-shirt, never apologize for voicing your thoughts. In most of the congregations I’ve been in, I’m considered the “stumbling stone” because I have no problem calling out a pastor when they are trying to use bible verses to make everyone see things the way they want them to. I’m not saying they all do it with I’ll intent, but intention is irrelevant.

Young people like you are the ones that will help make this world better by exercising they critical thinking and freedom of speech.

How about you just don’t follow orders? In my opinion, that should be much more effective.

What really stands out in all this is the following (it’ll be long-winded, so feel free to skip to the next one) :

1.- The vast majority of the politicians in those countries are pushing to make this happen, and it seems that in every new try there’s more of them supporting this.

2.- Every single one of those politicians were put there by the population.

3.- The population pushes against it (at least it seems to be most of the people being against this). But the corrupt politicians THEY put in power don’t give a damn (made abundantly evident in point 1).

4.- The people start calling or emailing the same politicians, or signing “petitions” (which should be “orders” instead, since they are supposed to work for you).

5.- Let’s say it doesn’t pass again this year. They will try again next year, and then the next if it doesn’t pass, until they get away with what they want to.

6.- 1 year passes and you’re back on point 1.

My confusion is: Why would any of you think calling them, emailing them or signing stuff in the internet is going to make any difference? As we are all aware of the disgust everyone (not in power) hates this as much as we do, you can bank on the fact that every single one of those criminals in power are aware as well, and yet they keep pushing it.

You will NOT stop this by calls, emails and signatures, it’s that simple. Look at Australia, the UK, the US, etc. The governments keep pushing their agenda every single time, effectively telling the population to fuck off.

I have yet to see any country where the will of the people is actually what happens, unless there is a civil war, which will lead to lots of bloodshed and it’s a lose - lose situation. They know nobody wants violence, so they believe they have the right to use violence against the people. They use the police and even the military if it comes to that, all with the intent of not losing the power, nothing else.

If the Europeans don’t rise against this, they’re utterly fucked, because now the ones in power will be able to pinpoint everyone that might spell dissent, and make their lives a living hell. And the worst part is that this is a cancer, first it was China, Russia, North Korea and many other totalitarian countries, now it’s spread to the “democratic” countries as well, and then it’ll come to our pseudo-democratic 3rd world countries, until the whole world population is under constant surveillance.

How much worse do you think it will be then? So you really think you will get to keep ANY of your freedoms?

I, for one, if this happens in my country (and I’m sure it will at some point) will be in deep shit, because I flat-out refuse to give up my privacy, even if it means losing my life.

What Europe and the UK are living is a dictatorship supported by the peaceful population. Why do you think you have (had?) the right to “peaceful protest”? It’s because that way law enforcement has the upper-hand because they get to be “not-so-peaceful”, and then you have no way to defend yourself.

I’m not an American, but I certainly understand the need for the population to have the right to bear arms. In a country of almost 400 million people, the military and law enforcement together cannot fight against that (short of nuking a few towns, maybe).

Do I like the idea of having everyone armed to the teeth? Absolutely not, but that is an actual deterrent to bullshit like this. As much as the US surveil their population, they have a way better chance to hold their powerful people accountable for extreme shit like this.

Wao, that actually felt good.

I’m a religious cunt, a Christian cunt if you want to be specific, and this bullshit about controlling the population is NOT part of my faith. As a matter of fact, it goes entirely against my faith, and is extremely detrimental to every single Christian.

Having said that, this is simple. Religious people that support all this are the same so because it adheres to their end game, not because of their faith.

Ever heard of “humor”? 🤔

If you’re going to self-hosted instead of using a VPS (I know you said you’re looking at a VPS solution, this is just in case) make sure you can segregate your networks. A router that allows you to create virtual LANs, same with the access points and switches if needed.

You don’t want to expose all your devices to the internet for a few services.

I would like to get my hands on one of these. They look amazing. However, with the current state of affairs in companies right now, I’m going to wait until it comes out, and see what the complains are. If I still want it then, I’ll get it, even if it costs more.

For now, the best fully functional option I’ve found that (sort-of) respects privacy are Garmin watches,so I’m using a Venu 3.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/ai-training-on-pirated-data-targeted-at-senate-copyright-hearing

https://todaysgeneralcounsel.com/federal-court-decision-sheds-new-light-on-ai-training-data-and-copyright-law/

And many more. Use any search engine, and look for “list all news about Ai training breaking ip laws”, knock yourself out. And that’s only AI.

They already do. Where have you been?

You are aware that IP laws only apply to the masses (us) not to big corps, right?

If any of us take any of theirs and reproduce (and potentially improve) it, we’re almost certainly looking at jail time. But if those companies want to take any of our ideas and profit off of them without even giving us credit, then all’s good.

Fuck copyright, IP and all the similar shit.

I guess it’s all about choosing what each of us deems worse. “Do I want a saner life even if it means not having some convenience, or is this change going to mess with my life for little benefit?”.

7 years ago I told everyone I was leaving WhatsApp and moving to Signal on day X. Some installed signal and we started using that exclusive, some others didn’t, and we stopped chatting, just did phone calls.

Fast forward to today, most of the people in my life use Signal, some of them exclusively to use it with me, and the rest, I haven’t missed (they call every now and then though).

It is a scary move, 100%, but well worth it, in my opinion.

“Attempt”? 🤔

I’m not a developer, but I can certainly understand your position. It’s unfortunate that companies rely on this type of company to decide if someone is worth hiring. There’s a need for companies to have streamlines that look at the actual capabilities and values of potential hires, regardless of where the evidences are hosted.

This world is way too broken, and getting worse every day.

Your point? 🤔

Yup, same here.

It blows my mind that so many devs did not see this coming the moment Microsoft bought it. I was waiting for this to happen the moment I found out about the acquisition.

Wao, I watched this video yester, precisely about how detrimental all this bullshit is to us right now. How disconnected from reality and self-reliance it is making us.

Here’s the link to the video if anyone is interested (yes, I know, it’s YouTube, but I saw it in newpipe, Sue me) :

https://youtu.be/KkR5OXhKnbc

I kind of agree with you. Things in the US (and most of the rest of the world) have taken a turn for the worst. I’ve been digging into all that’s been going on since January, and comparing it with how the nazi party came to be in power in Germany, and the similarities are scary, to say the least. Sure, it’s towards other races more than anything, as well as religions, sexual preferences and other key differentiator, but the core is exactly the same. How the Nazi party got most Germans to believe that being German meant hating jews, blacks and who knows what else, and that’s what made the holocaust so effective. Propaganda pushing hate and dividing the same country. If we go back in history, we can see all the same bullshit propaganda from those days today.

And, full disclosure, I am not opposed to countries controlling illegal immigration, as not doing so is extremely detrimental to any country, however, there is no need to completely destroy people (mentally, spiritually and sometimes even physically) to achieve these goals.

It is as you say. Americans are focused on the lie that surveillance will make them safer, and this government has exacerbated that exponentially in just half a year, using fear as the tool, and fear of immigrants, LGBT people, any skin color difference, and many more.

Now, let’s look at the other side of this. By promoting all this crap, the US has managed to make previous allies look at the possibility of moving to the other side. China, Russia, India and a few more countries have all but created their own “UN”, and contrary to what the media is showing us, they are actually flourishing, which points to a dramatic shift in global politics.

The UK, EU and Australia are leading the surveillance regimes, even for the US (visa, mastercard and steam are US companies, and all 3 were bullied into submission by a fucking Australian NGO, fucking up millions of US gamers in the process, and the authorities of the US haven’t even blinked, WTF?), which is building rapidly into a distrust climate among all allies (assuming they still are).

This is way more complex than war, surveillance, racism, xenophobia and finances, this is the decline of the Roman Empire all over again, bringing with it all the disasters to civilization that comes with this fall.

Money as we knew it doesn’t exist anymore (it hasn’t been based in gold for decades now, and now there is no physical base for it either), values have been stripped from morals in every single community (religious or not), existing weapons could destroy every living being on the planet within a couple of hours, and everyone seems to be blindly following so-called “leaders” that are only looking after their own benefits (and I’m talking about every facet of our civilization: business, work, families, governments, nobody gives a fuck about the common wellbeing anymore).

From my perspective, it falls on each of us to take the best care possible of our families, if and when we achieve this, do the same for our immediate communities, and if that pans out, then each of our countries. But I’m not counting on any “leader” to do what is needed to reverse the downward spiel the whole world is in right now. At this rate, we’re all just going to crash and burn.

Sorry for the horrible and long rant, I am extremely frustrated watching the world my kids will have to try to survive in, and the feeling of helplessness is overwhelming.

You can still run the smart switches locally if you have the ones that support matter. But yeah, the old ones do require internet connection, which sucks.