Since wireguard only awks connections with matching keys, on a private lan, I bet you could just scan the network for all hosts and try the wireguard connection. A hack, but might work.

Cloudflare is a protection racket. They cover so many websites because it’s easier to pay the mafia.

That’s why I find systems designed for high latency by being “offline-first” interesting. Sync large quantities of information when you can, then consume offline. Like Usenet and email used to be. Most things don’t actually need to be “instant”.

Sneakernets, my friend. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pocket full of microsd cards traveling on the subway.

Maybe it will finally be possible to share a photolibrary AND not have to duplicate all the tagging work between users?

Lots of interesting discussion, but I’ll add I’ve been plying with https://www.music-assistant.io/

Integrates all sorts of backends, including everything mentioned here, with streaming to just about any device. Reminds me of MPD back in the day, or at least the promise of it.

Computers themselves are still pretty fixable.

You are rare and these stereotypes are mostly false. Most people in every generation can’t fix a computer. Maybe the only slight echo of truth is that during the millennial childhood and youth, at least in terms of raw numbers, home computers peaked as the main “tech” children were exposed to, so there might be a little more people who are not professionals, but have some extra comfort with them. Still, that’s a stretch.

They will be using whatever “free” vpns show up on a google play/App Store search - which will expose them to worse.

That’s contextual advertising, and they can still do it without being blocked because it can be hosted directly on the site - but they don’t.

Nothing to do with the states definition of safety, but just an excuse to do more surveillance and collect more data.

Im guessing they will stop official political parties and unions from buying ads, but you will still see ai slop “<politician> was just arrested, you won’t believe what he did!” Alongside a deepfake image.

Yeah, despite the wording, I suspect they are looking at the patterns of use with smart meters rather than just “high amounts?” Grow op houses would be easy to see, as they only use power when the lights are on, flat usage, because no one is actually living there. Do you run lights 24x7 with indoor growing? idk. The trouble is, any system like this will catch a few, then they will relax the constraints to “catch more” and boom, now you have false positives. The criminals will also figure it out and mask their usage better by cycling banks of lighting, using batteries, parking some EVs in the driveway or whatever. That cat-and-mouse game will just see increasing privacy invasion and more false positives.

Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.