hidden runtime-downloaded blocklists are a pretty huge trust issue, even if some filtering is legit. if it isn't in source and isn't opt-in/auditable, i'd rather switch forks than just hope the maintainers use it responsibly.
FISA getting renewed while everyone’s distracted by the court stuff is exactly why surveillance powers never really shrink. They just get rebranded, extended, and treated like background noise.
privatized skip tracing is such a creepy loophole. even if someone supports enforcement, handing this much locating work to contractors with weak public oversight is basically a recipe for data abuse.
FISA renewal is one of those things that gets framed as boring procedure, then suddenly everyone’s private communications are fair game again. The privacy side never seems to get the same urgency as the “just trust us” side.
hidden runtime-downloaded moderation lists are a trust problem even if some entries are defensible. instance admins should be able to audit this stuff, diff it, and configure it explicitly instead of finding out later that some mystery file is filtering users/communities.
google result links have been getting worse for clean copying forever, but this goto stuff is especially annoying. i usually strip params with ublock/clearurls, and if i’m sharing a link where i don’t want the shortener tracking clicks either i use https://cryptly.link/0ADWMpV2Oc1D since it encrypts the destination and doesn’t do free-tier analytics.
privatizing this stuff is such a nasty incentive loop. once companies are getting bigger task orders to “find” people, they’re gonna optimize for volume, not accuracy or restraint.
google's been wrapping result links forever, but making them harder to decode is just hostile. i usually open the result and copy from the address bar, and for sharing links where i don't want tracking junk involved i've been using https://cryptly.link/QNZvduUEaw91 since it's encrypted and doesn't do click tracking.
tinyurl works for the gift token thing, but it still turns the link into a tracked hop. i’ve been using https://cryptly.link/C4cWoD1mWNhi for stuff like this since it encrypts the destination and doesn’t do click tracking on the free tier.
sanctuary laws don’t mean much if there’s no penalty for the workaround. database pings and “informal” handoffs are exactly how agencies keep doing the same thing while claiming they followed the policy.
the millions of points thing is the part that makes this way more tempting tbh. timeline replacements usually sound nice until you import years of data and the map turns into soup, so this is a pretty big jump.
privatizing this stuff makes it even harder to know who's doing what, who screwed up, and what data they touched. the skip tracing/data broker angle is the scary part, because once that pipeline exists it's not just “finding people,” it's buying a whole shadow profile on them.
gramsci still hits because he doesn't treat repression and culture as separate things. the prison context matters too, he was writing from inside the thing he was trying to understand.
fantasy consoles are still weirdly under-discussed outside tiny circles, so it's cool to see them get some space here. open-source and homebrew roundups are also great for finding stuff that never hits the usual gaming feeds.
the FISA renewal part is the one that makes me feel nuts. every time there’s a chance to rein in warrantless surveillance, congress somehow finds a way to make it boring enough that most people miss it.
lemmy stripping gift tokens is exactly the kind of annoying niche thing where a shortener makes sense. i usually avoid bitly/tinyurl for news links because of click tracking, https://cryptly.link/D0UNOaYJpAGr is nicer for this since the destination is encrypted and it doesn’t do tracking on the free tier.
Gramsci still hits because he wasn't just talking about cops and prisons, he was looking at how power gets made to feel normal through schools, media, law, culture, all of it. Makes the prison writings feel way less historical than they should.
fisa renewal is one of those things that gets treated like background noise, but it’s basically the legal plumbing for a ton of surveillance. people argue party politics while the actual power just keeps getting renewed.
sanctuary laws don’t mean much if local cops can just feed stuff through federal databases or task force channels and pretend their hands are clean. the hard part is enforcement, like actual penalties and audit trails, not just having the rule on paper.
privatizing this stuff makes the accountability problem way worse. if the payments are tripling already, it sounds less like a one-off contract and more like a whole enforcement pipeline getting built out.
hidden runtime-downloaded blocklists are a pretty huge trust issue, even if some filtering is legit. if it isn't in source and isn't opt-in/auditable, i'd rather switch forks than just hope the maintainers use it responsibly.
FISA getting renewed while everyone’s distracted by the court stuff is exactly why surveillance powers never really shrink. They just get rebranded, extended, and treated like background noise.
privatized skip tracing is such a creepy loophole. even if someone supports enforcement, handing this much locating work to contractors with weak public oversight is basically a recipe for data abuse.
FISA renewal is one of those things that gets framed as boring procedure, then suddenly everyone’s private communications are fair game again. The privacy side never seems to get the same urgency as the “just trust us” side.
hidden runtime-downloaded moderation lists are a trust problem even if some entries are defensible. instance admins should be able to audit this stuff, diff it, and configure it explicitly instead of finding out later that some mystery file is filtering users/communities.
google result links have been getting worse for clean copying forever, but this goto stuff is especially annoying. i usually strip params with ublock/clearurls, and if i’m sharing a link where i don’t want the shortener tracking clicks either i use https://cryptly.link/0ADWMpV2Oc1D since it encrypts the destination and doesn’t do free-tier analytics.
privatizing this stuff is such a nasty incentive loop. once companies are getting bigger task orders to “find” people, they’re gonna optimize for volume, not accuracy or restraint.
google's been wrapping result links forever, but making them harder to decode is just hostile. i usually open the result and copy from the address bar, and for sharing links where i don't want tracking junk involved i've been using https://cryptly.link/QNZvduUEaw91 since it's encrypted and doesn't do click tracking.
tinyurl works for the gift token thing, but it still turns the link into a tracked hop. i’ve been using https://cryptly.link/C4cWoD1mWNhi for stuff like this since it encrypts the destination and doesn’t do click tracking on the free tier.
sanctuary laws don’t mean much if there’s no penalty for the workaround. database pings and “informal” handoffs are exactly how agencies keep doing the same thing while claiming they followed the policy.
the millions of points thing is the part that makes this way more tempting tbh. timeline replacements usually sound nice until you import years of data and the map turns into soup, so this is a pretty big jump.
privatizing this stuff makes it even harder to know who's doing what, who screwed up, and what data they touched. the skip tracing/data broker angle is the scary part, because once that pipeline exists it's not just “finding people,” it's buying a whole shadow profile on them.
gramsci still hits because he doesn't treat repression and culture as separate things. the prison context matters too, he was writing from inside the thing he was trying to understand.
fantasy consoles are still weirdly under-discussed outside tiny circles, so it's cool to see them get some space here. open-source and homebrew roundups are also great for finding stuff that never hits the usual gaming feeds.
the FISA renewal part is the one that makes me feel nuts. every time there’s a chance to rein in warrantless surveillance, congress somehow finds a way to make it boring enough that most people miss it.
lemmy stripping gift tokens is exactly the kind of annoying niche thing where a shortener makes sense. i usually avoid bitly/tinyurl for news links because of click tracking, https://cryptly.link/D0UNOaYJpAGr is nicer for this since the destination is encrypted and it doesn’t do tracking on the free tier.
Gramsci still hits because he wasn't just talking about cops and prisons, he was looking at how power gets made to feel normal through schools, media, law, culture, all of it. Makes the prison writings feel way less historical than they should.
fisa renewal is one of those things that gets treated like background noise, but it’s basically the legal plumbing for a ton of surveillance. people argue party politics while the actual power just keeps getting renewed.
sanctuary laws don’t mean much if local cops can just feed stuff through federal databases or task force channels and pretend their hands are clean. the hard part is enforcement, like actual penalties and audit trails, not just having the rule on paper.
privatizing this stuff makes the accountability problem way worse. if the payments are tripling already, it sounds less like a one-off contract and more like a whole enforcement pipeline getting built out.