JustEnoughDucks

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Do you have any concrete examples of this being enforced in practice?

All I see:

  • our data still gets collected
  • our phones, TVs, wiretap "assistants" still spy on us and upload all of our information to personal datasets that companies can access
  • "deleting your data" as per GDPR is just a database flag/row that says the data says it is deleted
  • EU just authorized any and all companies to spy on your communications 24/7, 365 days a year
  • freedom of speech/expression doesn't exist here any more than in America, maybe less

Our right to privacy (freedom right pillar) is literally daily being violeted 1000 times over and the most I have ever seen happen is a slap on the wrist 0.01% of yearly revenue fine that didn't change anything. Companies can fuck you over all they like unless you have a 10million € army of lawyers...

Also how is it going in Germany with the Palestine protester that had been locked in solitary confinement (known torture) for 23 hours per day for the past almost year after a show trial kangaroo court where they wouldn't allow even any independent record of the trial inside (violation of both dignity and justice pillars)

There is precious little enforcement of many rights, so we absolutely cannot take them for granted and have to fight for them on every front.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully since the EU high density desktop/server RAM industry is pretty much nonexistent (as far as I know), they won't tax it to hell.

China RAM vs US RAM, they are both not EU "allies" now so there should be little reason.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh oh oh I can do this one.

6 USB-C port failures in my 1.75 years with the phone.

Fuck HMD Global (then Nokia brand) and their absolute trash USB ports.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Do you think TSA/CBP is going to check the flash data lines to see if the MCU is scanning the flash internally?

This isn't a standard USB flash controller... You would need to break the casing and physically probe it to figure out that something was off as far as I can tell. It's not like the MCU broadcasts that it is scanning to the USB port.

You would have to be hitting the stick pretty hard, not just a normal file scan to notice the timing being slightly too long in a small portion of the scans. The bigger problem would be that the flash drive would be brand-recognizable if it ends up being mass produced that they might auto-confiscate it, and of course the default file that it searches for being known.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aren't votes meant to be anonymous to avoid retribution?

Isn't the public ledger identifying information to be used by authoritarian violence on every single voter in that case?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are very different rules. Like worlds different.

Comparing just Belgium and the Netherlands right next to each other. The Netherlands is quite doable if you find a job. Some automatic work visas and then residence based on that depending on origin country

In Belgium literally no company in the country outside of IMEC and Deloitte will go through the extremely long visa sponsorship program (only digitalized in 2022 IIRC). It is pretty much only possible if you have family or a partner that already lives there. Even people studying there for 3-8 years have a few months to find a job or they are kicked out (in a bad job market compared to other countries also).

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think Italians could handle a week long game lol.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Palantir

They have unique digital fingerprints for everyone already pretty much, but they are not linked to official government IDs so there is still uncertainty I think over identification.

This makes everyone's digital fingerprint linked on a government ID. Voila, now every person in America is known by Palantir and the government at all times (more or less). Great for genocide and targeting your political opponents and voters to set up sham elections.

It also tries to stop poors who don't have drivers licenses in America from organizing as they can't verify.

Now with Flock surveiling most of the US: Jaywalking or littering and a Democrat or worse, leftist? You are a criminal and intelligible to vote. Incoming trump 75+% win for an illegal 3rd term or Vance.

Thiel famously said "what if there was a way, through technology, to achieve your political goals without having to beg and plead to convince people who will never agree with you anyway"