the KIDS act may or may not pass the US senate, the EU is planning a social media ban, chat control might pass, etc… what exactly do i have to do to prep for all this?
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Unless your prep includes “fight against it politically, tooth and nail,” you’re only delaying the inevitable.
There is no such thing as a technological solution to what is fundamentally a political problem. Ultimately, the fascists pushing this shit have to be destroyed or they will destroy us.
Lol no.
The politics can’t control the tech. We just route around their laws. The internet is global and outside their justification
You need to learn the difference between a workaround and a solution.
Also, don’t try to pretend that a normal person is going to live as an outlaw just so they can avoid enshittification. Most people will comply, and society as a whole – which includes you, even if you don’t comply yourself! – will suffer for it.
The internet is global and outside their justification
But it isn’t. The internet is a bunch of interconnected computers right, the infrastructure that connects them can very well be victim of political maneuvers. The beginning of the internet as we know it had to do with politics, and it was funded in part through politics. That’s not gonna stop just know that it took off.
And politics can absolutely control the tech, like for the bans on selling GPUs to China.
I think you need to study the OSI model and how Tor works
Linux and degoogle your phone.
Put tailsOS onto a thumbdrive as a backup encase of VPN blockage.
Is your Lemmy instance in a country likely to use age verification?
Get away from big social media. Read about how the kids in Australia are staying on social media after the ban.
Spooler: draw a mustash on your face with a marker lol
I laughed when I read about someone doing that.
You don’t have to use big tech chat apps, or social media. Or even any site with “age verification” (real id).
Just stop using it. I have no idea why people think they have to use these things.
Get familliar with tor hidden social media like pitch and be on nostr and lemmy.
Also get MeshCore
Do we have the new Lara protocol already with voice and all? I forgot about those things, been waiting for that to hop in.
LoRa can do voice with Reticulum, but its better not to do so because of the bandwidth limit
Yes I know, but on the new version it was said to be done better, faster, higher quality and much easier.
Lora has like 12k max bandwidth, much less in real environments. Voice works in asymmetric transmission (like walkie talkies), but it’s not useful in any meaningful way over unlicensed airwaves.
I read somewhere that the new version was supposed to improve that and make it viable for talking. I might be wrong though.
Analog, yes, no problem. We had 915MHz portable phones that worked fine. Digital is another matter altogether, and encrypted is a licensing mess.
There’s always a tradeoff. Shannon’s law cannot be avoided (without new physics). You can have 2 of low power, long range, and high bandwidth, not all 3 at once. Fortunately, the most important information we exchange isnt actually much data.
You can’t.
Not in the way you are probably thinking.
If you were, for example, an American born on us soil, you would have a birth certificate, social security number, many published records of your participation in school and community activities. If you’re old enough to drink alcohol, you most certainly have a government id and if you drove a car earlier than that you already had a government id. If you vote then you and your address are in the voter rolls.
That stuff’s not going away and the argument used by the nra to force batf to keep paper files instead of allowing them to digitize everything has been eroded away to uselessness.
You gotta recognize that you exist and everyone knows it.
Rather than any of the advice itt suggesting you switch to Linux, learn complex self hosting, etc: just recognize that the phone, accounts and computer you have now is main. If you want an alt:
Buy an iPhone or pixel outright and unlocked. No at the moment you don’t have any other options, sucks to suck. If someone says this is wrong information I recommend you don’t listen to them. If you bought a pixel it’s time to install graphene. Do your research and make sure you understand. If you bought an iPhone it’s time to harden it. Make sure your iCloud account is not tied to an identifying email and that you enable adp.
Buy a separate computer: it doesn’t need to be powerful. You’d be amazed what win 10 iot ltsc 21h2, sequoia or just Debian can do on decade old hardware. Make sure not to accept any invitations to tie your login to an account in the cloud and go from there.
Make some new accounts: start with an email and don’t tie any of your old accounts to it. If a service wants to verify using text, just use some text receiving service to bypass it.
If you’re worried that your alt and main will become associated because they’re coming from the same place, use a vpn on both. I like mullvad but there are others.
Get a tor browser lined up. You likely already have a VPN or won’t get one anytime soon, but tor is free. Three letter agencies have bought poisoned nodes but probably not enough of them, so this will give you a temp way around surveillance and VPN bans. Might be better if you set your entry nodes outside of 14 eyes countries.
If you’re asking how to mitigate the damage use a VPN to bypass restrictions. If you actually want to prevent the legislation from passing you will have to organize offline.
I’m uncertain about the future of computing. However, I know that the new laws are meant to control people. They can’t control bots, and they can’t control servers, because those machines aren’t owned by individuals, they can’t be identified and linked to individual real people. Therefore the solution to me seems to be posing as an unmanned machine.
I have no idea what anyone should be doing, but I’ll tell you what I personally am doing:
- emailing my representatives over and over
- emptied all cloud services and all personal big tech accounts (can’t do much about the work ones…)
- getting acquainted with Linux, VPNs and Tor
- learning to flash custom ROMs
- testing said custom ROMs
- digging into app permissions - even graphene comes with things enabled that I realized I want to turn off (like ad privacy, printer services and android services that enable nearby share which I personally don’t use)
- use Obtainium and F-droid for apps
- testing out p2p services to see which ones are useful
- stashing Linux isos, so I hopefully always have at least one that either doesn’t have age verification or one where it’s easy enough to rip out
- downloaded “linux from scratch”, but I’ll admit I haven’t read it yet
If you haven’t already, chuck linux onto some laptop/pc. In the future we may have OS level age verification needed and linux should be more immune
Download TAILs. That has everything you need
Tor Browser.
How is this even gonna affect the Fediverse? Web DRM blocks? Also, as for Linux, what’s stopping systemd’s age field from becoming mandatory, which would affect the bulk of the ecosystem except for alt-init distros? As for BSD, MidnightBSD already shipped an age field.
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