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As articulated in the author's own blog post: https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/ The core issue is simple and uncomfortable: through automatic updates, a v…

It will matter a lot in the long run. I will outline one concrete way it will matter, which I think is the most critical, but there are other ways it will do damage besides this: Right now, physical I…

This is about mass surveillance and control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations The existence of eIDAS itself is already a big problem. They're going t…

The threat is if you replace your cognitive capabilities with AI, but you don't control entire the system your AI runs on (hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, weights, frontend), then that's eq…

What I meant was that you could combine ideas from those 4 projects to build a new VPN protocol, not that you need to tweak your existing tunneling setup to allow those applications through.

Apple is indeed better than most other companies on #2. But that's because it's the worst offender on #1. Its strategy is to appear to be the model company that cares about user rights and p…

Cool project. But why tunnel Telegram specifically? This could be a yet another VPN protocol. There are some useful ideas from SoftEtherVPN, BitTorrent, Yggdrasil Network, and Tor you could borrow, if…

The user can voluntarily give the platform their age by typing it into their account profile in that streaming app. You can already do this right now. No laws required. The problem at hand is we have …

1. The current norm of social siloing apps was created by these tech companies in the first place. What regulators can do is discourage anti-competitive practices that lock users into specific softwar…

1. Depends on how it's implemented. It won't identify you to individual platforms if the OS filters on a per-app or per-website basis. And yeah, there would be no dynamic behavior based on a…

Thanks for the clarification. Regarding what to do with algorithmic feeds, instead of forcing platforms like Facebook to be less evil, we should give parents the ability to simply uninstall Facebook, …

Assume they're 18+ then. But even that's still not a great solution. I outline a better solution that doesn't require any legal enforcement at all, in the link at the bottom of my origi…

There are two things very very wrong with the California law, which you call "age indication". 1) The parental responsibility is given to the wrong people. You're basically being forced…

Counter-surveillance is not a binary switch. We can win by forcing the government to use increasingly expensive backdoors and exploits (>$10k per capita per year, beyond which mass surveillance is …

I always remind myself and everyone else that human DNA is "only" 1.6 GB of data, and yet it encodes all of the complex systems of the human body including the brain, and can replicate itsel…

The male-to-female ratio at 1500 elo is not 90:1, but more like 9:1. 10% is a visible minority. But I see where our disagreement is. You think there ought to be more women in chess. I think different …

I don't deny that there are very few women in top chess, but that wasn't your point. You said it would end up being all men at all the skill rating levels, which is not true. Take chess as a…

That's a possible compromise, but a high maintenance one. It would set a precedent for other groups, and then we'd have to add a new category every time people complain. I think we should ju…

No it would not. Look at chess ratings.

> So you're just suggesting making everything mixed-sex, and having very few women at the Olympics? Yeah. It would work like video game rankings. Top-ranked players are top-ranked because of…

Grouping based on skill would achieve what you describe and then some. It would eliminate every kind of advantage, not just sex-based advantage.

If you have a relative skill rating system, then there's no need to split competitors into groups. But if you insist, then you can split them based on skill ratings (define a rating range for beg…

The solution is to develop relative skill rating systems like Elo.

Ok, I'll give you my two cents, but you'll have to fill in the details on your own. After curated local content, you could get an old desktop (and later a laptop too) and install a Linux dis…

We have decided as a society to age-gate the purchase of a very small selection of goods and services, but this did not require a law that says all merchants have the right to know your age. And in …

I don't think it's a market failure. The reality that password-gating software installation at the OS level can be done on most desktops but not most phones is the opposite sign of a market …

The California law is horrible because it forces everyone to let tech companies and governments decide what's suitable for children, rather than let parents decide. It's telling parents to g…

I shouldn't have defended the API or age rating solution. It's just a trap in hindsight. That kind of solution must be rejected altogether even if it's the OS checking the app/webs…