Do we start to build our own DNS servers too, now? I mean, not just the pihole everyone and their dog are running on local network, but independently ran network of trustworthy (whatever that might be, I’m not quite sure) DNS servers for anyone to use.

Here in Finland operators are legally in a pretty good place right now, but who knows when that might change on todays world. My own network uses root servers, but it’s still traditional DNS and prone to MITM attacks, specially from operator level. So far that’s been quite enough for my needs but on this echo chamber (of sorts) which Lemmy provides it feels more and more like I should start to harden and secure my stuff better.

VPN, Tor (and similar, like I2P), every imaginable P2P network, proxies, all non-http protocols (smtp, ftp, nntp, xmpp and other instant messengers and so on) can all transfer any kind of data, porn included. And a ton of other things. Heck, I’m quite sure there’s a minecraft mod where you can assemble JPG-images out of the blocks and view them that way. And then you can use stuff like uuencode where you can use anything that can move plain text to transfer binary data.

There’s no way to block all of that unless you shut the whole internet down. And even then you can still trade good old playboy-magazines with your friends. VPN in itself has very little to do with the actual problem, beyond that someone apparently noticed that their current “save-the-children” iteration had pretty large holes in it.

If they were really after kids watching porn (or even porn in general) it would be technically somewhat simple to force ISPs to provide filters on their end as a subscription service. I’m pretty sure I’ve even heard that kind of services in the past. Make it even opt-out if you really want to.

That way ISPs would just ban everything from pornhub and others unless you spesifically want it allowed or even provide a portal where you could block reddit, twitter, tumblr or whatever you wish on your account. That kind of technology already exists and it’s used on many corporate setups.

There’s obviously ways around that, but there’s no technical way to block every possible way to move bits between computers. Even if they would shut down the whole internet there’s still ways to build mesh-networks or even buy USB-drives from a shady alley.

But as we all know, it’s not about porn and not about children.

I’m not in the US, but here where we have snow and all the fun that comes with it using garage can be actually harmful to your car (and your garage) unless you spend a ton of energy to melt and dry all the snow every night. If there’s some snow or ice on somewhere it doesn’t really do anything but bring it in a lukewarm garage and then you have water (and likely road salt) all over the thing. So your car corrodes faster and there’s a ton of moisture in the garage for mold, rot and everything else prospering inside.

I’m driving old, cheap cars. Keeping them dry them every day during winter in the garage would easily cost me as much as the cars themselves in a year. So cars stay outside and garage stores my tools and other valuables in a good condition so that I can fix those old shitboxes.

I’d bet they get some investor funding due to already known brand, struggle to exist without massive userspace for few years and silently die again in next 3-5 years.

With >60GHz frequency and very narrow beams from antennas. If you have suitable conditions that seems like pretty decent piece of technology, but that’s not going to penetrate anything, so line-of-sight is practically required.

And that’s very fundamentally different than starlink. Unifi Device Bridge or Mikrotik Cube are similar devices. Think your home wifi router on stereoids instead of internet connectivity from the sky.

And it’s pretty easy to crawl into a random chamber without even noticing it. In fediverse that’s a lot less of a concern, but on algorithmic driven platforms I’ve caught myself couple of times in a hole I didn’t notice I dug myself in.

I need goatse.

It’s in wayback machine under original URL. Just scroll to oldest copy of the site.

No. Switching from 140 to 160 hp isn’t something you’d really even notice on everyday commuting. More is more of course, but unless your driving style is very aggressive that doesn’t really make any difference on the driving experience. What it might do is improve your range slightly, but that depends heavily on multiple different things and if your driving style and conditions on most common routes aren’t suitable it might even reduce the range you’ll get out of the thing.

it’s really hard to prove that a candidate was rejected because of their ethnicity

Same in Finland at least to some extent. Statistics and published tests show that you’re less likely to get even an interview if you have a foregin sounding name but of course the official reason is always something ‘acceptable’. And when hiring people the reason can be whatever, “not good fit for our team”, “other applicants had better suited skill set”, “not enough experience in X” and so on. All perfectly good reasons to pick someone else in theory and in practise it’s impossible to prove any racism on selection.

Obviously not everyone does this and any of those can be a real reason to pick someone else even without any racism (intended or not), but it’s still common enough to be statistically meaningful.

I think it was EEVBlog (and likely many others) who made calculations on these ideas few years ago and even if at face value that seems like it should work (train tracks, like roads, cover a significant area) it’s still not feasible. You can’t tilt panels on roads/tracks towards the sun, the panels need to be way more robust so that they’ll survive the conditions and thus less effective than purpose built solar plants, vibrations (specially with trains) shake pretty much everything apart and so on.

It doesn’t make sense even on power alone when you put the numbers in and much less in a business case where you’d need to make a profit out of the installation.

Edit: Here’s one discussion on topic https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1234-more-epic-solar-roadways-fail!/