ciferecaNinjo @ ciferecaNinjo @fedia.io

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And IIRC, license plates only need to be censored if bad behavior is demonstrated. Notice that the car to the left which was correctly parked has an exposed license plate.

What baffles me is that the plate number is only meaningful to law enforcement. The public does not get access to the records associated with a plate number. I see no reason to hide the info from law enforcement. The evidence may be too low of a standard to be usable, but so be it.

I am seriously ½ tempted to get a drawing robot. These things seem to have gotten down to us$160 in price:

https://uunatek.com/top-5-writing-drawing-robots/

Or us$140 for a handwriting drawing robot kit (which you assemble IIUC). Those kits are made by “Doesbot” but I see nothing on doesbot.com about them. Looks like some of these devices operate with an ordinary pen designed to be held by a hand.

Would be cool to be able to send letters to the gov in protest of their misuse of tech (e.g. forcing people to solve CAPTCHAs), and have those letters appear handwritten. Would pair nicely with the blood-as-ink suggestion by @Pleasesendnudes.

I would love to have that option. When I’m writing a letter in protest of something and want my outrage to have full impact, what better medium than writing the letter in blood?

According to my notes, the only dirt I found on #Brother printers was yellow tracking dots. You can likely avoid the #trackingDots by getting a non-color Brother, but then you’re still feeding a company that was caught doing that. So IMO Oki is the best option. But note that Oki is not sold in the US anymore.

/cc @fossilesque @MetaCubed

In #Belgium there is an organization called “Actifs du Gang des Vieux en Colère” (the angry elders), who are rightly outraged that the government is imposing technology on them. I love that that org exists & I’m 100% behind them. These elders have become needlessly dependant on others to do basic tasks for them.

I’m outraged as well that the government is taking away offline options. But in my case, as a s/w engineer, it’s not because I have a competency problem. It’s because the government does. The gov imposes tech in a clumbsy manner, forcing citizens to share info with Microsoft & solve CAPTCHAs that help Google profit.

My concern of course is that the future elderly will be tech literate & thus diminish a movement that needs traction: the right to be offline. We need offline options for situations where the gov implements a foolish or incompetent design.

Actually there are lots of reasons because all of those applications mentioned involve both a sender and a recipient who are not both in the same organization. It’s always easy to get one person or entity to be technologically competent enough to handle data transmission using open standards in a secure & reliable way that minimizes access to those who should not see the message or metadata (such as surveillance advertisers). The problem is the other side. One of many reasons not to be digital is the other party is incompetent & says something like “don’t you have Facebook/whatsapp/gmail?” To which the response is “don’t you have XMPP with omemo, or a PGP key and an email address not hosted by a surveillance capitalist?”

I print a lot. As far as I’m concerned, #email is dead. It was killed by MS & Google. Probably 99+% of the world still does not use PGP. Web forms? No, they’re also dead to me because I refuse to solve most #CAPTCHAs & most certainly will not solve a Google #reCAPTCHA. Message centers? Also dead to me because a good number of them are snooped on by Cloudflare, or they proactively block Tor.

Even if a web form or message center is non-Cloudflare & open to Tor users, most of them demand too much info. They always make email address a required field. They’re not getting an email address from me if their MX server is Outlook or Gmail.

Hence why I’ve gone back to the paper letter, apart from the few recipients who still have a fax number.

When that happens, I register on whatever forum it was where someone said that just to say (necropost if needed) that I had the same question, searched it, and the search results brought me here where an asshole is saying to search it.

People will ignore subs with no posts and go to ones with actual content.

I doubt it. I looked for m/Brussels on fedia.io. Didn’t find it. My choice were:

1. Create an acct somewhere that has m/Brussels so I could post; or
2. Create m/Brussels & take on the burden and responsibility of moderation.

I favored option 2 because I’m not going to manually search hundreds of instances to see if it exists somewhere. #subrehab is a shit show and had nothing for Brussels anyway. So if I had found an existing but empty community I would have simply posted there with a low expectation (as opposed to not posting). I would at least have some reassurance that the post would be seen by someone (the mod).

@lavender can’t stop u/wolf from creating m/henhouse on some other instance but she can preempt that on kbin.social. OTOH, case matters, so if m/javascript is taken I think someone can create m/JavaScript which is rather unfortunate.