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“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” -- John Gilmore (probably https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/ )
There are companies that have gotten very good at virtual border control while selling stuff to e. g. the chinese and russians that are allegedly in talks with the UK govt.
> And so, for the first time, I am considering locating something (perhaps a WireGuard node, or a SOCKS proxy, or a recursive DNS server / DNS proxy, or perhaps all of them) somewhere on the Internet outside the UK, so that I can route some traffic through that, as needed, to maintain my access to the web. Good luck, it will probably impossible as admins fed up with AI scraper bots increasingly choose to outright bla…
What's dirty about it?
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Side note, I do agree with under 16 being denied access to social media. Spend 5 minutes on X, Instagram or even worse Snapchat for you to see what these minors are doing. A lot generation, all for likes. GenZ is so cooked, by the time they reach their 30s, damn. Gen Alpha being born within the digital and AI world is even more cooked.
I don't think social media is any healthier just because people are older, I'd rather just ban them outright. And from what I remember of the coverage of the scientists presenting their case in the UK there wasn't enough evidence to say whether it had an impact on children. Personally I think ipad as babysitter is more to blame, but until the proper studies are done it's all just speculation.
Proper study??
Look around us, kids are talking to ChatGPT instead of running, playing, instead of being kids.
Kids cannot speak and yet have a tablet to interact with, by adulthood those kids are cooked.
Teens at school can't read, they have been using ChatGPT to cheat exams. If somebody tells me that more study is required to prove what is right there in from of our eyes, that somebody is part of the problem, full stop!!
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Because they don't understand the technology or the consequences. When they do, they will change their mind (and probably protest loudly that they never wanted it in the first place). See Brexit for a clear example.
But the argument I see is that the politicians are acting tyrannically against the desire of the voters.
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this. The whole licensing of software stands on copyright. If the content is already in the public domain because it was generated by an LLM (copyright only protects human works) then it can't be licensed. However, there's no compunction to publish the generated code, even if it's public domain. We end up in a strange nega-OSS world where all code can be used by anyone for any reason, if you can get your hands on it.
If you believe this, then this was always the case. LLM's only made it cheaper and more accesible.
"people under 16", you mean children right? "who also have the rights to freedom of expression and privacy", plenty of outlets for people to be expressive in the UK (more so than in the US for example, where the right wing will obviously attack any social media restrictions) that don't involve being fed junk divisive content from mainly US tech companies. Privacy != anonymity. Feel free to route your traffic via Wire…
They're still people, don't be weird.
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>I do not use public DNS such as Google or whatever, in fact, they are all blocked. Honestly surprised that works given Google loves to hardcode DNS queries using their DNS Resolver into many things (Google TV, Android, etc). I'm assuming you are using NAT Redirection (Port 53), blocking DNS over TLS - DoT (TCP Port 853), using SNI FIltering to block DNS Over HTTP (DoH). Not sure how you handle Encrypted Client Hello…
>Honestly surprised that works given Google loves to hardcode DNS queries using their DNS Resolver into many things (Google TV, Android, etc). My Samsung smartTV has Google DNS hardcoded in it, that is why I do what I do. No matter if I set my phone DNS to Google, OPNSense NAT redirects any DNS to Piholes only, and since public DNS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS are blocked, only Piholes forward it to Unbound. Only…
Not trying to be facetious, but how do you know you are blocking them all? I thought one of the reasons for using DNS-over-HTTPS was to be able to avoid detection.
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I don't think social media is any healthier just because people are older, I'd rather just ban them outright. And from what I remember of the coverage of the scientists presenting their case in the UK there wasn't enough evidence to say whether it had an impact on children. Personally I think ipad as babysitter is more to blame, but until the proper studies are done it's all just speculation.
>Personally I think ipad as babysitter is more to blame, but until the proper studies are done it's all just speculation. Proper study?? Look around us, kids are talking to ChatGPT instead of running, playing, instead of being kids. Kids cannot speak and yet have a tablet to interact with, by adulthood those kids are cooked. Teens at school can't read, they have been using ChatGPT to cheat exams. If somebody tells me…
Isn't that a symptom of other things? I'm an elder 'millenial' playing out was already decreasing when all we had was a nes and 4 channels on TV.
Unfortunately now we have to 'protect' kids from the dangers outside. Which necessarily means them spending time inside.
I'm considering the same thing. I've done the "contact your MP" thing, but it's a waste of time. You just receive a pre-written letter from some minimum wage assistant (or maybe just a bot). It's either that or I just consider the internet dead and move on. It's nothing like it was 20 years ago anyway. There are other things to do. Many books to read and places to go. We had something really cool and we were lucky to…
Depends on your MP. I have received surprisingly detailed responses to some of my past letters. If they can't be arsed to answer you, then you shouldn't be arsed to vote for them, at least in my opinion.
New labour certainly have an authoritarian streak. I remember when they tried to introduce ID cards but there was a load of push back. But they are also somewhat friendlier to 'the youf' but this seems squarely aimed at the Daily Mail brigade.
It just seems like they're trying to out conservative, the Conservatives.
Maybe I'm trying to make sense out of something that isn't?