donmcronald

In the self hosting docs…

    atcr.io/tangled.org/knot:2

Does anyone know if ‘tangled.org’ is verified / guaranteed to be owned by tangled.org?

Hopefully it doesn’t get CRA (tax) enforcement where the little guy is relentlessly pursued while the rich are too much trouble to go after.

I read it a few weeks ago. Something that really bothers me is that parts are written like big tech ToS that are designed to make it sound like they’re doing something for you, but they’re not.

The restrictions on powers are one example. There’s almost nothing there, but they say something like “are not allowed to compel service providers to retain data that will identify the content of your communications.”

That’s bullshit weasel words. Everyone is keeping that stuff and nothing restricts the “written sometime in the future” rules from compelling service providers to produce all of the data they’ve collected. There’s also no restriction on compelling real time wire taps.

If that was a real restriction it would say something like “retain, capture, or produce.”

There are also gag orders falling out of the sky like it’s raining and no mechanism to eventually force transparency when they’re used. They also have broad latitude to define and redefine a ton of rules that haven’t even been written yet.

I know of some places that do conferences and I don’t know what they’ll do if classified as a service provider. Imagine KYC on a couple hundred people trying to participate in a 2 hour conference.

Edit: And I think it’s a big win for organized crime. The police will only know how to use the easy tooling to catch the lowest level, dumbest criminals. The higher up criminals will (or probably already do) use private servers for communication.

Does anyone think organized crime is relying on WhatsApp or Snapchat? That’s what the low level suckers will be using (and getting caught by) so everyone can pretend the police are doing their job.

Yeah. Shame on ICANN for allowing this. It’s another example that ICANN isn’t working in the public’s interest.

I think you’re right. They won’t make it mandatory, but passkeys will increase the risk of account loss enough for them to convince a majority of people that using your real ID everywhere is the only way to make sure you’re secure and don’t lose access to your accounts.

Everything and everyone that tries to resist it will be labeled a bad actor.

> It's just a fight between my password manager, my browser and my OS which all try to be "first" to intercept the passkey request, and if the "wrong one" gets it there's no way to say "actually no, I didn't want you to handle this passkey request".

This is one of my biggest issues. My family full of normal people are nothing more than dark pattern victims. And if you teach them to avoid certain dark patterns, big tech is quick to update them.

The whole industry is turning into one big scam.

If the spec doesn’t guarantee portability, they’ll boil the frog to make sure you don’t get any.

> If someone tries to change ecosystems and finds that they’re going to have to reset all their passkeys it’s not going to take long for them to tell all their friends that passkeys suck and not to use them.

And their friends won’t care until they’re personally affected.

Isn’t the server end of VW zero knowledge?

We’ve seen it countless times over the last decade. OpenSolaris was the first big one. The open source side isn’t going to change, it’ll just get abandoned. They’re committed to open source… for now. Nothing is going to change… for now. They’ll maintain compatibility with compatible servers… for now.

Everything will get chipped away piece by piece. It’s been happening continuously for well over a decade at this point and everyone should understand the strategy by now.

I’ve spent a lot of time chasing really plausible sounding explanations from AI. I’ve also saved a lot of time by having AI give me immediate, correct answers for problems I can only vaguely describe. The reason I call it a terrible source is that it doesn’t “know” which is which, so it can’t favor the accurate content.

StackExchange could always “learn” to favor accurate answers with social queues; votes, poster rep, etc.. IMHO it’s far more reliable than AI.

> will not be streaming exclusively

So it’ll be streaming on multiple platforms?

> or to PC

If it’s streaming, but not to PC, what’s it streaming to?

> We're collectively discovering that it was about the process too, not just results.

Being able to judge the reliability of the source was huge. AI is a great discovery engine, but a terrible source for reliable information.

Yep. People need to understand this is the end game for them. Pay per-minute for everything you do.

Wasn't it over a decade ago that the Guitar Hero guy said their goal was to turn every purchase of the game into $500 of sales?

I wouldn't even be a tiny bit surprised if finishing GTA6 via streaming costs you $200-300.