I just use these cheap Amazon mechanical keyboards, and am happy with them. They're a great upgrade to what I had before, and without breaking the bank.

I'm sort of looking for a 60% mechanical keyboard now for part of a 'mobile office' setup, as I absolutely hate typing on a laptop. Any recommendations?

Love older Thinkpads like T420. Mechanical wherever possible. 🤓 ⌨️ 🖥️

1000%.

Once the truly darkside of AI commercialization ripens, more people will start to get it.

they want to deny scraping of their data. It is not their data. It's the posters data. What about copyrights by the user. This ai thing would fall down very quickly if you have to create/generate your data by yourself by hiring some volunteers on salary. But what they are now doing in twitter is that these data geerators have to pay money for distributing their data. Quite weird. What is needed is a form of copyright which extend its power to segmented/parameterised usage or maybe allow/disallow training usage. Should be easy to verifiy if you can reprodue the original to a limit which indicates that you had this training data. What do thing you will find in some stable diffusion models if you prompt the right parameters. No surprise to find these things there. The consequence of this would be that these datascraper//trainers need to have look to secure that they haven't been trained on copyright material. This discussin is not new. How much parts does make an original and are they consists of parts that are so small that they are "trivial" information and is the amorphed amount of these parts copyright free and become copyrightwith an instruction how to put these parts together in a/the right way? There has been some apps which tries to circumvent the copyright by fractionize the data to "trivial" parts, if iirc correctly the judges don't saw it that way. The difference here is that the instructions will biuld/reconstruct only one output and not variotions of the data like the ai models.

The i2p model does not help to much against this stealing of data i thing. It just make it slower, but it will make the scraper to run nodes,which is good for i2p :). The anonymity of i2p gains some id mixing as you can't really build one id like with an registered user.

My hope is that the people a tired to jump from one to another, but i don't think they in a state that let them recognize the importants of this cooperation fights for their data and access and a huge necessity to have a non big money/data alternative. Which they have to pay/contribute the development/maintainance for.

I don't know if these tech provide the same features as these big cooperation solutions, but i don't think that should be the goal either. The niche is that people need something they scan rely to if they are abandon some service. The question is always how to connect again. That's the niche i think of. Something like: Twitter has deleted my post, but it is still on i2p-x (or bitmassage,i2pemail fed, etc.), here is the link, should be ok as long as 2+ nodes are running... or: Here the link to my always up linklist on i2p-x (i know youc can do this right now by own http server/railroad), here you can find my other locations.

What about something that allows to have a universial post. Using images? If i post i would generate a jpg. It puts metadata from the post like postnumber, reference, keys, hashs into the metadata of the image. The image itsself would be a screenshot of the post(maybe watermarked). The raw post data will be put into the image as stego encrypted or not. This could be useful for reposting etc. and is not format specific. The user will generate it by posting/sharing and stores/send it anywhere for linking/reference. This method will produce bigger post size for sure, but could be acceptable if to find it at all is more important. And you can read the post with every image viewer and do not need to touch any forum/messageservice/app to read it.

Luckily, faraday bags are (still) legal and easy to make, and cheap to buy if you want one. I've got some name-brand faraday bag that was $25 or so, which works well in all tests I've done. In a pinch can make one with similar effectiveness that may be a bit gaudy to look at, but hey, function over fashion! https://www.instructables.com/EASIEST-FARADAY-PHONE-POUCH/

I'm able to disable the camera and mic on my Pixel 7 w/ GrapheneOS via software, but unsure how well it actually 'works'. I know that when I open an app that requires either, I get warnings that the mic is disabled (As if, I open the phone app) or whatever, which I can toggle back on, if I need to.

France really has gone above and beyond as of late to prove that they hate your privacy.

This is what the type of people who left Twitter want, though. They want a circle-jerk where everyone says the same things and no one deviates from the talking points that they've deemed acceptable.

I don't agree with it, but it's what these people wanted.

No doubt. They want to monetize everything everyone does.

This is really a problem.

More so, this is why we need to continue to support networks like I2P that enable a person to do things with privacy.

An attack on Nitter..

We are seeing the same form of attack: Reddit API limits, Twitter rate limits - breaking Nitter & now Inividious also has legal letter from YT.

An attack on private searching (to enhance tracking?)

It did not work last time I tried it. Maybe next one or in the next life.

That would be people who like reddit in its form of freedom of speech and people who would like to go (a little bit) further i guess .

But can they handle the ramble? Are you ready to ramble? Ramble in i2p! lol

I'd like to think that we will get some of the refugees.

This whole reddit thing is a mess.

Who will get all this homeless reddits? Lemme or ramble? :)

I for one welcome our new AI overlords.

I know about fungi networks, but even if they should know, we can't communicate with them.

No.

What banner do you want to see people unifying under?

I was hoping common sense, but that ship has sailed. At this point there's only a small chance for National Socialism and a big chance for Islam. Either way it won't be so much unification as subjugation.

That's great and all, but just like the Gorilla Glass 5 claiming to be able to survive a hip level drop, I seriously doubt it. Just put a screen protector on it and call it good. I have a Samsung S8+ that was Gorilla Glass 5 and it still scratch and shattered on the corner. I've been using a TPU screen protector on my phones since then, so problems so far. When the screen protector gets too damaged or starts peeling I just replace it.

That's great and all, but just like the Gorilla Glass 5 claiming to be able to survive a hip level drop, I seriously doubt it. Just put a screen protector on it and call it good. I have a Samsung S8+ that was Gorilla Glass 5 and it still scratch and shattered on the corner. I've been using a TPU screen protector on my phones since then, so problems so far. When the screen protector gets too damaged or starts peeling I just replace it.

https://briskreader.com

ThIS iS FiNe!

Nope....I wouldn't do that if they paid me $500k/year

Yeah, if you want all the misfits here to hold hands so you can lead us into a brighter future, I don't like your chances.

If you just want somewhere online where people can speak freely, maybe ramble is worth a little time.

Yea, working on my real life communities for the most part.

I am actually trying to influence the world in what I consider to be a positive direction, maybe this isn't a great place to be spending my time and energy

Only I know my capabilities.

You probably believe that. The stupidity of a fool is not restricted to the external world. They are just as incapable of comprehending themselves. A significantly smarter person knows the fool better than they know themselves.

If we're more in agreement, all good. There are many people who consider government inherently evil, and simply want as little of it as possible.

place where free speech can be used as a tool to bring disparate groups into alignment

You seem to be on some odd do-gooder crusade... I hope that feels nice. If you want to bring groups into alignment, focus on the people physically close to you who actually matter, then slowly work outwards.

This website doesn't need to come into alignment, it just needs to be a place where people can speak. It's far better that we all disagree as much as possible. Coming into alignment means becoming just another moronic circlejerk unaccepting of outsiders.