alt Hacker NewsUnsurprising.
If you don't want to receive the punishment for thought crimes, which is being threatened outright more loudly every day, it's increasingly difficult to actually have a dissenting voice online. Don't believe me? Set up a linux VM, Mullvad VPN with a killswitch, then run Tor browser. You MAY be able to get a TutaMail account, which requires a backup e-mail that disappears after a short period of time (allegedly), and then a Proton account with the TutaMail account as your required backup there, but all of the privacy-first "anonymous" services require some form of verification. Then, if the social media network isn't blocking you from signing up via a Tor exit nodes outright, you are immediately shadow banned.
I remain very annoyed with the massive number of engineers that are making it possible for people who can't figure out how to check their e-mail to utilize advanced technology to spy on us, steal our tax money, pervert the technologies we build, and indiscriminately murder innocent people.
We are a community of greedy ladder pullers and that's so disappointing.
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>"it's increasingly difficult to actually have a dissenting voice online."
If willing, I would appreciate some examples, actual or hypothetical. I have left a few comments regarding my concerns over AI and have been surprised by the hostile reactions. Much of my research kindof revolves around a central concern matching your statement. But my perspective is in a vacuum, out of touch with what others are dealing with. Feel free to ignore this if not comfortable.
>annoyed with the massive number of engineers that are making it possible
Where you one that voted for laws that protected our privacy?
Where you one that upvoted comments in forums that said software engineers needed a standard ethics?
Where you one that downvoted every post saying we should have unions in software so we can protect ourselves as a group.
Or were you greedy like the rest of us saying, I don't want any of those things because I can make more money without it.
This is were the hunt for more money has taken us, and it only gets worse from here.
I've said this a million times to people in this industry: we have a Real Problem with adderall, it's abuse, and the way it robs a person of their ability to feel empathy. Yes, you're a 10x engineer, yes you write amazing code, yes you can work and work and get. it. done. But you'll also be A-OK with dark patterns, just fine with spying on people who aren't you, and hell, you might even think building the first Terminator robots is an interesting project.
Hyberbolic? Sure. But we live in a society that reinforces the idea that the performance enhancement is worth it. But there is a cost, and what you've described is it.
Who in the Western world is being charged with, convicted of, and punished for “thought crimes”? Be specific, please.
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I generally just use tor browser and proton (verified through a disposable email address only accessed via the tor browser) - seems secure enough for me?
I use it often...