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> Several cities in the US were firebombed nightly for months in 2020. What? What is this referring to?
Portland, amongst others.
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> It only works for short trips. No one rides a bicycle if they have to go to another town, 50 miles away. 1. Ride your bike into a train 2. Wait 20 minutes 3. Roll out of the train and ride into your destination See, it isn't that hard. What part of this process requires you to be tracked? You don't need any ID to purchase train tickets.
> You don't need any ID to purchase train tickets. The Netherlands would like a word ;) Most people here have a public transport pass in their own name, linked to their bank account.
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did you know that the city of Menlo Park california requires companies to have cameras which can see for miles and track and report all vehicles that drive by them.... look up the largest company in menlo park...
I wouldn't be surprised if this is because of the trip cap thing that Menlo Park has - which seems purely aimed at Facebook to collect tax revenue. https://almanacnews.com/news/2019/05/01/facing-trip-cap-slip...
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I was under the impression that “firebombing” exclusively referred to aerial firebombing during war, so it sounded super strange. Now that i looked up the term, i see that it can mean “any act in which an incendiary device is used to initiate a fire”.
Does that technically include lighting a cigarette?
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Thank you for elucidating my two liner. I was writing from a similar experience as yours. Now I believe I've reached a reasonable compromise between inconvenience and privacy. Minimise my data footprint in the private corporation space which means no Google (almost, YouTube and Maps are still hard to replace), Apple ecosystem with all sorts of anti-tracking setting turned on (Privacy relay, hide-my-email, and what no…
> Apple ecosystem with all sorts of anti-tracking setting turned on (Privacy relay, hide-my-email, and what not), nextdns, own my email domain + Fastmail. The best way to increase privacy in the Apple ecosystem is to not use iCloud at all. Most of it (including your photos and backups, which contain endpoint keys and chat history) is effectively unencrypted and Apple can read all of it at any time without your device…
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> Apple ecosystem with all sorts of anti-tracking setting turned on (Privacy relay, hide-my-email, and what not), nextdns, own my email domain + Fastmail. The best way to increase privacy in the Apple ecosystem is to not use iCloud at all. Most of it (including your photos and backups, which contain endpoint keys and chat history) is effectively unencrypted and Apple can read all of it at any time without your device…
You're not wrong. And I'm no fan of government surveillance. But my own threat model isn't concerned with protecting myself against state actors. Simply put, I don't have the resources or time to be vigilant about that, so I'm writing it off as a lost cause. My threat model is to protect myself from advertisers and small players.
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> You don't need any ID to purchase train tickets. The Netherlands would like a word ;) Most people here have a public transport pass in their own name, linked to their bank account.
Is there no way to buy a train ticket without ID?
There's also the "anonymous" transport card that you can get for 7,50 and then pre-charge with a set amount. It will act as a pre-paid card rather than a debit card, so you can't board unless there's a sufficient amount stored on the card. But since most people then use a debit card to transfer money to their public transport card, it's not really anonymous anyway.
So most residents here choose the personal variant.