dmantis

It's not a boolean value, I don't get the irony.

If China and Russia can somehow solve the issue and manage their infra, I don't see why EU, for example, can't.

It's better to have at least partially protected your whole government and citizens data than having it handed directly to the foreign intelligence in bulk. That's the question about political will, we don't talk about average Joe here.

I don't see how a regulated entity is better in any way than an individual.

We repeatedly see attacks on freedom and privacy by the people who are supposed to protect them, those so-called "regulators": chatcontrol, recent UK backdoor wishes, repeated French proposals to enforce DRM even on opensource. And I wouldn't even google Russia, China, or other less democratic states.

Regulated is probably worse than some anarchistic who-knows-by-whom software, but FOSS and auditable these days, tbh. Especially as everyone's audit capabilities grow day by day with AI. It's kind of good at grinding tons of code.

A heavily regulated entity with all licenses in the world might be more hostile toward users than some niche project.

The world literally has hard proofs of mass espionage by the NSA and CIA after Snowden and Wikileaks Vault 7. Moving your government secrets to the US cloud has been madness for at least 12 years.

Looks cool. Is it possible to use a local model (like whisper) to avoid leaking conversations to the cloud-based AI?

Mycroft is listed under IOT section as a recommendation, but the project is officially dead.

That's not feasible for bots, crawling, IP laws, etc.

Strict fraud could be handled, but everything above is really different per jurisdiction by obvious reasons. There is nothing clearly good or bad in bots, or e.g. pirates, it depends on particular cultural perception. And if one nation thinks that the action is not a crime, it doesn't make sense to them to prosecute such actions for foreign requests.

Yes, but you can use captcha/POW challenges based on IP reputation, which leaves usual users intact. I don't mind captchas too much, that's my choice to use the VPN.

What I mean is that it's better to give VPN users the choice to solve captchas instead of being banned completely.

So you are saying that if 95% of world population, including Chinese, Russians, etc reports American bot farm to American police, somebody would really review that and go after Americans?

BTW, how they should report it, if they are a small business/physical person without lawyers? Does US police have some kind of online hotline to report US criminals for foreigners or smth?

> blocking obvious datacenter ASNs

You block all VPN users then, and currently many countries have some kind of censorship, please don't do that. I use a personal VPN for over 5 years and that's annoying.

I understand the other side and captcha/POW captchas/additional checks is okay. But give people a choice to be private/non-censorable.

Enabling/disabling a VPN each minute to access the non-censored local site which blocks datacenters IPs, then bringing it back again for the general surfing is a bit of a hell.

When US sells stuff, it's all pro free-market. When US competes, there are tiktok potential bans and whining about workers from other countries. You can only pick one to be fair. You either don't sell your products to the outside world (and kill the economy) or provide equal opportunities for nations you earn money from.

There should be no difference with usual botnet owner/ransomware gangs and such companies. Management should go to prison for good 20-30 years for that and being extradited worldwide. Considering that ransomware gangs are probably less harmful to the society than guys who hack journalists and politicians, putting their lifes at literal risks, not just their pockets.

There should be no "legal" hacking of someone's devices apart from extraction of data from already convicted people in public court with the right to defend themselves

Sounds pretty logical in a world where banking secrecy doesn't exist and most banks are compliant with a single jurisdiction which doesn't respects other ones.

Don't see what's wrong to preserve your property outside of the modern banking system if you are against the US.

Because law enforcement must be costly and non-automated to avoid the unbalanced power distribution between an individual and the gov, which only serves the individual and not rules them.

A cost to catch a criminal should be a manual and expensive work from an agent and thus provide no ability to mass abuse human rights on scale. Only on actual criminals when needed.

I think the most self-respectful and secure way is to have some encrypted cloud in a jurisdiction which doesn't cooperate with the country you afraid of. Wiping all data from the device and restoring it back after border control.

Hidden partition are definitely more dangerous. Also if these people took your device out of your view point, you need to sell the device and buy a new one before restoring anything.

That's an espionage company which is openly violating privacy rights of other countries citizens outside of the US jurisdiction.

I would agree with you, if all companies and individuals in the world could openly violate right of US citizens outside of the US without the extradition and sanctions risk.

It would be fair to drop all extradition agreements with the US if the US allows such behavior from their companies or enforce the extradition and jail time for C-level management of such companies based in the US if they leave the country anywhere (like it happens with others).

I live in a country with fast enough 5MB/s and huge ping (300ms+) internet. There is no problem with installing packages, downloading deps and so on, but realtime remote typing or gaming could be really clunky.

Don't forget that you don't need a fast ping for development (with local env). "Good internet" is a very broad definition.

Yeah, it's more profitable to reside in a low tax jurisdiction as I do, for example, but he asked me to elaborate on the idea and I know that such way of life exist and works perfectly fine for lots of people.

Th main idea as that I strongly disagree that a person must have an ID outside of some questionable country and that's more of an example. I personally traveled just because I wanted to travel a lot, it was before the war and stuff, but as I know currently lots of Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians are changing countries to find the best for them. When you don't have home anymore, there is no reason to settle to the first place you visited.

BTW, 3 flights per year with 2-3 bags will cost you around 3k USD, you will probably overpay around 300-400 USD per month staying in Airbnb in low-cost of living countries like Thailand, so in fact the whole cost of moving will be around 7-10k USD per year. If you earn IT remote salary, you will probably save a lot.

Though you'll need a tax consultant to avoid breaking any tax law accidentally, but that's not so expensive outside of the EU and the US.

Digital (not strictly connected to real) identity is a not a bad thing in itself. But I honestly don't think that digital identity should be managed by governments or corporations, they already have too much leverage over individuals.

I am a bit opinionated about that, because I already saw lots of that in Russia with all these fancy "security" and "convenient" digital tools and how it ended.

Digital Id should be solved by some kind of WebOfTrust, private DIDs and somehow distributed reputation systems, not by centralized government databases. It's a straight way to tyranny.

That's true, I also don't understand why some people are "better" by the right of birth and not by things they did in life and pure merit.

There is basically no reason for, for example, African young person to be more restricted in his freedom of movement than European one, but we are where we are.

Though I believe while we have outdated and unfair system of belonging to some borders, it's better not to make it even worse by adding new layers of dependency on these IDs.

Wouldn't be better to add more opportunities equality instead of hardening it?

Dodging is illegal, being nobody's (or some low/zero tax country) tax resident and not paying anyone is perfectly fine, nothing wrong with that. Apart from maybe US with their specific global tax residence regulation.

You can stay in UAE for half a year, start being their resident with 0% tax and then moving around stayng less than 183 days anywhere. It's of course better to be connected to UAE or other low tax jurisdiction in case of "personal connection" taxes requirements. Nothing unethical, illegal or bad in that. As far as it's perfectly legal in lots of countries, that's optimizing and not dodging or avoiding.

If you are staying UAE resident this way, you probably will have some troubles receiving gov services, because you don't live there in fact most of the time (and you are still just a tax resident and not always resident in terms of long-term living permit).

Anyway, placing a person to be "managed" by some government is a really dystopian concept.

It's theoretically possible, but for a year of my life, for example, I didn't have a residence and moved around. Lots of people do that to optimize their taxes. Why would you require to be a resident from a person to use an internet in the first place?

Being nobody's resident doesn't mean that you're not a human.

And anyway, there are a lot of people inside Russia, China, Iran, etc. And instead of helping them to use services with better privacy and consume uncensored views from outside id based system will give an impressive way to censor internet usage by government attesters. Have wrong views - say goodbye to the internet.

And what if I don't trust and don't want to rely on my citizenship government?

Being a Russian passport holder who lives abroad for years, I don't want to be in touch with my gov in any way possible, and moreover depend on it.

That's actually the case for millions of people from different countries with dictatorships, do you propose just to discriminate everyone outside of 20-30 countries with more or less democratic systems ? Those countries don't care about "citizen privacy".

Apart from that, we all see the bill in the UK which is as much a disaster to human freedoms as Russian and Chinese laws, for example. So even being a citizen of a more modern country is not a guarantee.

People don't always live in their country of citizenship, they don't always live in one place (see digital nomads) and have a residence, they don't always trust their government and they should not be discriminated on internet usage because of that. That makes a person more of a government property rather than a human being.

The literal attempt to censor web usage of Linux and BSD desktops, other FOSS clients, custom Android ROMs, etc with an open reasoning "to sell you ads".

They don't even try to masquerade it.

Hope when they are done with US, they will switch to non-OFAC compliant block producers in Ethereum.

If you are interested, me, personally, was partially affiliated with libertarian party and left Russia after first police visit in early 2021 (so a year before the war, even better in your terms). But that's just an ad hominem and doesn't matter in fact.

Talking generally, that's true that most people didn't leave, and that's totally fine. People don't deserve to play heroes and suffer in prisons because they were unlucky enough to born in wrong place in wrong time. Everybody deserve to have a peaceful life with their families, hobbies and jobs. Wanna play hero - get a visa, go to Russia, give your life, get shit done, if that's so easy. Humanity will be grateful for you.

If you don't - don't say people to do that just because they have different color of passport or speak other language. There is nothing wrong in being a "coward", people just want to live their lives, it's not a game, there is no savepoints.

Each person in the world can be only judged by his own actions, not by others'. Simple, but extremely important, idea which was an outcome of 2 world wars. If you create more hate by nationality or citizenship - you are just like Putin with his "bandera" fetish. Just different objects, really.

As well as thousands of Russians outside of Russia got their banks accounts blocked and sanctions restricted our money to be 100_000 EUR max per person.

Hundreds of years of liberal ideas of individual rights just crushed below collective responsibility idea for some dictator actions.

People moved billions out of Russia with bitcoin and other currencies. They saved their money after sanctions with passports based discrimination and their whole country actions against them. But rich people from first world country will still push these ideas, that's it all scams and casinos.

And the only alternative they provide as "real money" is something like "give all your money to our banks, sign some contract with humiliating visa conditions, pay us 40% taxes and pray we won't take it back". Yeah, sure, thank you very much!

There is no proof that you bought it, you can save for yourself if you don't want "reimbursement". I know how to use torrents, you know. The point was to support artists, not to get anything.

If you change your mind and would like to get the payment, the offer conditions is still valid, I don't deny to pay.

Actually your attitude is more or less the same as in other current distribution platforms - they kinda might support artists, but don't respect the client. And that's the reason that they will continue to loose money.

So we have a nice cosplay of modern labels, really!

No problem, Send me Eminem, last Cypress Hill album and bitcoin address to pay, I'll pay you in public, put tx hash here and the whole HN will be able to see that.

Please also send here the invoice photo with yourself and nickname on hn as proof, so it's not some torrent downloaded content already and you really supported artists.

Though I won't do that process on day-to-day basis for each track I listen, that's kinda inconvenient, you know.

Not the guy you ask, but for me, I just want convenient digital thing on my laptop I actually own, not rent. I live in 2022 and don't want that physical crap.

I would have no problem to pay for DRM-free and location-independent stuff, but all this thing with "rights owners", "you can't hear that in this location", "you can't download it to listen offline and locally" is a total bullshit. I don't care what some lawman or government thinks. I also don't care about 5$ per month, that's nothing. But for my money, for any amount, I expect some respect and not this "money cow" attitude.

If artists want to get money from people like me, they probably should release their works under some more ethical distribution systems, which actually respect their customers wherever they live and whatever way to listen they prefer.

I actually like that I see ads in other languages on youtube, based on VPN location.

So instead of manipulative junk I receive some funny blahblahblah videos I don't have idea what about and not putting junk in my subconscious.