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Comment Seen and Unseen (Score 1) 158

Notice how the "free press" keeps talking about this as a "law enforcement problem" but hasn't once talked about any time somebody was threatened by a mugger to unlock and this safety feature saved their bacon?

#include <obligatory.xkcd>

Most common criminals will run when there is nothing further to be gained.

Big organized crime gangs, such as people at the border threatening travelers under color of law, are the exception rather than the rule. They got embarrassed that their dominance play didn't work, so now they're lashing out and they have thousands of people and billions of dollars at their disposal. "How DARE you not bow before me!?!?"

Convenience of fake cops doesn't override the rights and safety of citizens. Exact same issue as Flock.

Comment Re:That's why I am careful with such projects (Score 2) 45

I'm quite ignorant about codeberg except for looking through the code of a project or two.

I was curious because I hear people speaking about it in cult-like terms. I thought that just meant they liked it a lot but according to this article there's a herd mentality about excommunicating apostates.

Yikes.

Reminds me of when I was really interested in the Bluesky protocol before it got swarmed with ideology.

It never used to be like this. We used to make fun of Apple for their "no nuclear end use" license in the 80's. I also saw my first Mac IIfx at a tokamak fusion lab, so that's how effective that was. But Apple couldn't just press a ban button back then which has been a problem with SaaS for a long time now.

Lots of big protects are banning lots of decent people. We shouldn't do this.

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