Are we just gonna pretend the wide implementation of bodycams hasn't shown that the overwhelming majority of times the cops weren't in the wrong to a point that the same people that demanded them want them gone now?
>KYC is generally a force for good because it prevents fraud
Now replace KYC with CCTV surveillance because thats what it really is. Complete Monetary surveillance and control to fight a boogeyman scapegoat it doesn't even actually effect.
It makes you aware a site is selling your data or is otherwise tracking you because otherwise they would not need a banner to request for consents to do so :)
Drone attack would also be ideal for low effort high payout ransom demands. Makes me belive there will be drone measures and insurances for datacenters in the future.
>Good thing you're using NixOS where rolling back to a working version is as simple as a reboot, instead of Arch
I feel like Nix user always leave out that you can simply use a filesystem with snapshots like btrfs or ZFS and gain the same resilience against possible breakage and even beyond just update issues.
So I do run ZFS with automatic snapshots through zrepl, but I think a shortcoming of relying on that on Arch Linux is your user data. If the issue is immediately apparent after an update, then you absolutely can just roll back and be fine. But if it takes you a week before you discover something isn't working, then rolling back isn't as straight-forward because you're potentially losing any modification to your files made in the past week. You could partially mitigate this by storing your $HOME on a separate dataset, but not everything ends up in $HOME (for example, everything related to docker, your secureboot stuff, your bluetooth pairings, your wifi networks, lvfs, journald, your systemd timer statefiles)
On NixOS my user files are completely separate from my programs/system files. I can roll one back without impacting the other. This is further guaranteed by impermanence which wipes my disk on every boot except for the folders I specify should be preserved, all of which end up storing their data under a separate ZFS dataset through bind mounts. So programs/system files are read-only under /nix and my user data is under /persist and bind-mounted to wherever I need them. So I am 100% certain that none of my user data is comingled in the same dataset as my programs/system files.
Its true that with datasets there can be edge cases like /etc/ but the overwhelming majority of issues are apparent on first boot, anything else can be separately backuped up for a rollback or just fixed with troubleshooting.
I agree that they should offer private and anonymous payment like monero and cash. They do talk about using a VPN and Tor to hide your IP but its kind of hidden in the footer.
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