Free yourself from digital "bigtech" dependence which might be affected. Make peace with inconvienience.
Right? Not very concrete though. Anything else?
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It's inevitable that complete dominance is coming. It's clear. Eventually one will either have to use their bullshit or they won't be able to exist in "modern" society.
People need to realize the name of the game being played is conquest, it's not for the good of humanity, it's for ownership. "We" conquested animals, natives, etc... authentic genuine humans are next. Authentic humanity needs to stop denying that humanity itself, as a whole is part of the game. We aren't special. Humanity will be conquested and you will either be in or out. And the divide will be like the difference of upperclass Manhattan and skid row. ...Or worse... maybe a concentration camp.
And we are still funding that dream today like fools.
I have to agree and i hate it.
Anything else?
class war helps.
Unless your prep includes "fight against it politically, tooth and nail," you're only delaying the inevitable.
There is no such thing as a technological solution to what is fundamentally a political problem. Ultimately, the fascists pushing this shit have to be destroyed or they will destroy us.
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Linux and degoogle your phone.
Put tailsOS onto a thumbdrive as a backup encase of VPN blockage.
Is your Lemmy instance in a country likely to use age verification?
Get away from big social media. Read about how the kids in Australia are staying on social media after the ban.
Spooler: draw a mustash on your face with a marker lol
I laughed when I read about someone doing that.
I2P
I2P!
I2PPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
We can build another internet here, if we want to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P
Imagine p2p torrents, but crazy encrypted, and you build an internet out of that. That's basically I2P.
Everyone is a dns/routing server for everyone else, and no one actually knows whose traffic is going where.
If you stay inside of I2P, its basically impossible to be de anonymized, unlike with TOR, where a government LE or Intel agency can just operate nodes and de anonymize people.
Written in … Java!
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Jokes aside; very cool.
There's a version written in C++: https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
Also a rather new rust implementation https://github.com/eepnet/emissary
Shit I didn't even know that existed, thanks!
Using I2Pd very sucessfully on my node. Can recommend!
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Because its old. (And arguably battle tested).
Java is actually good as a programming language and platform. It's actually great for this usecase because it's fast enough, has enough talent pool, and is high level enough to enable creating new complex stuff. Rust and cpp are too low level to enable simple creation of complex stuff. That's why we mostly se rust rewrites and less original ideas. The only problem might be the oracle licensing stuff for such project. I know you're joking tough.
Y'know what? I've been waiting to try it, but I shall wait no more. Thanks for the little push <3
Happy to be an annoying yet hopefully ultimately positive influence, lol.
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I read through the wiki. How do I actually use it?
I won't lie, setting it up and configuring it and actually using it is basically confusing as fuck... I've been doing this kind of shit for decades, and this is fucking complicated to me.
So... yeah. If more people could use this, maybe we could actually get something approximating a user friendly set up/usage guide or setup script type thing.
I think MentalOutlaw has a video or two explaining it, but... those would be several years old by now, may be out of date.
This is great for now but still uses the same hardware and infrastructure as the "regular" internet and is therefore susceptible to government control. Granted, they'd have to cut way deeper than just age verification laws.
If you stay inside of I2P, its basically impossible to be de anonymized
Unless there is another zero day, like in 2014.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2014/07/29/i2p-patched-against-de-anonymizing-0-day-tails-integration-still-to-follow/
Yes! I totally agree. I do host a public yacy instance over I2P already (search engine)
I have been experimenting with Lemmy and stoat over I2P. I did get them working but it is still a big Hassel. Also for anyone wanting to try hosting stoat. You can't use i2pd because it doesnt implement full socks which breaks some of the http headers you need with stoat.
If you can actually figure out some more shit there, document it, that would be extremely useful information, imo.
Theoretically, at least a modified version of lemmy should be constructible within I2P land... but trying to make it accessible via clearnet would... almost certainly be basically not worth it, and arguably defeat the entire point?
It is possible to use I2P as effectively an extremely complex VPN sort of thing for clearnet, via outproxies, but you then just have to trust the outproxy, basically.
I would not make it accessible on the clearnet. Kinda defaults the purpose. I rather have things be usable like normal but over I2P.
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I wish someone would figure out how to combine Hyphanet (original Freenet) and I2P. Basically the network based storage rather than having to have each services server online all the time to work.
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You don't have to use big tech chat apps, or social media. Or even any site with "age verification" (real id).
Just stop using it. I have no idea why people think they have to use these things.
That's a naïve stance. OP is even talking about the process of it worsening. That means, what happens when sites that don't implement age verification aren't reachable anymore? Be that because they have simply been outlawed, because VPNs have become unfeasible or even because states will implement a firewall similiar to China? "Just don't go there bro" doesn't cut it.
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Get familliar with tor hidden social media like pitch and be on nostr and lemmy.
Also get MeshCore
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You can’t.
Not in the way you are probably thinking.
If you were, for example, an American born on us soil, you would have a birth certificate, social security number, many published records of your participation in school and community activities. If you’re old enough to drink alcohol, you most certainly have a government id and if you drove a car earlier than that you already had a government id. If you vote then you and your address are in the voter rolls.
That stuff’s not going away and the argument used by the nra to force batf to keep paper files instead of allowing them to digitize everything has been eroded away to uselessness.
You gotta recognize that you exist and everyone knows it.
Rather than any of the advice itt suggesting you switch to Linux, learn complex self hosting, etc: just recognize that the phone, accounts and computer you have now is main. If you want an alt:
Buy an iPhone or pixel outright and unlocked. No at the moment you don’t have any other options, sucks to suck. If someone says this is wrong information I recommend you don’t listen to them. If you bought a pixel it’s time to install graphene. Do your research and make sure you understand. If you bought an iPhone it’s time to harden it. Make sure your iCloud account is not tied to an identifying email and that you enable adp.
Buy a separate computer: it doesn’t need to be powerful. You’d be amazed what win 10 iot ltsc 21h2, sequoia or just Debian can do on decade old hardware. Make sure not to accept any invitations to tie your login to an account in the cloud and go from there.
Make some new accounts: start with an email and don’t tie any of your old accounts to it. If a service wants to verify using text, just use some text receiving service to bypass it.
If you’re worried that your alt and main will become associated because they’re coming from the same place, use a vpn on both. I like mullvad but there are others.
Get a tor browser lined up. You likely already have a VPN or won't get one anytime soon, but tor is free. Three letter agencies have bought poisoned nodes but probably not enough of them, so this will give you a temp way around surveillance and VPN bans. Might be better if you set your entry nodes outside of 14 eyes countries.
Take it on a spectrum. You can either do nothing and accept it, damage mitigate, reject, reject while accepting the friction it entails, or just completely drop off from many services entirely. I lean toward the latter end of it.
Use Linux, GrapheneOS, mesh networking, Free and Open Source Software in general.
Contact your representatives and do your best not to let that happen. :)
Supporting organisations and political parties that fight these proposals also helps.
I’m uncertain about the future of computing. However, I know that the new laws are meant to control people. They can’t control bots, and they can’t control servers, because those machines aren’t owned by individuals, they can’t be identified and linked to individual real people. Therefore the solution to me seems to be posing as an unmanned machine.
I have no idea what anyone should be doing, but I'll tell you what I personally am doing:
- emailing my representatives over and over
- emptied all cloud services and all personal big tech accounts (can't do much about the work ones..)
- getting acquainted with Linux, VPNs and Tor
- learning to flash custom ROMs
- testing said custom ROMs
- digging into app permissions - even graphene comes with things enabled that I realized I want to turn off (like ad privacy, printer services and android services that enable nearby share which I personally don't use)
- use Obtainium and F-droid for apps
- testing out p2p services to see which ones are useful
- stashing Linux isos, so I hopefully always have at least one that either doesn't have age verification or one where it's easy enough to rip out
- downloaded "linux from scratch", but I'll admit I haven't read it yet
Download TAILs. That has everything you need
How is this even gonna affect the Fediverse? Web DRM blocks? Also, as for Linux, what's stopping systemd's age field from becoming mandatory, which would affect the bulk of the ecosystem except for alt-init distros? As for BSD, MidnightBSD already shipped an age field.
Tor Browser.
If you haven't already, chuck linux onto some laptop/pc. In the future we may have OS level age verification needed and linux should be more immune
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