Kevin Karhan 
@HumanServitor it's called #EliteProjection and is the reason shit like #zoox & #Waymo gets funding but not #PublicTransport!
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@ArneBab Not really, all it does is increase the cost for legitimate users, as spammers and fraudsters just see this as a cost of operation.
- And since @signalapp doesn't seem to have #AbuseReporting ready that means they only use it to collect #PII and thus make it trivial to earmark users for targeted surveillance!
#PhoneNumers are PII because more often than not they require #KYC!
- And it's not always feasible or even possible.to provide users with a fresh & untained number, because inactive numbers get recycled!
Stop the Escalating Commitment to Schemes that fall flat on the face outside of #EliteProjection from #SiliconValley...
- #Signal could use a #WebOfTrust and require invites socthat reputation would be linked...
But that too is a #privacy invasion!
@FandaSin @ActionRetro Yeah, #Oracle being allowed to buy #SunMicrosystems should not have been allowed, because everyone who used #Sun's products suffered from it and noone benefited from it.
- Like prior to that they had stellar relationships, but Oracle are just greedy assholes that drive away all the talented and espechally #OpenSource #developers and #enshittified everything in #Solaris by axing #OpenSolaris entirely.
And that's before #LarryEllison unmasked as a blatant #Cyberfascist hell-bent on installing a #SurveillanceState because his #EliteProjection makes him unwilling to see that this is not an #utopia, but #dystopia.
@Greengordon @dyckron yeah, but that would mean people would face #WageWorkers and not have their #classist #segregation that all those rich wankers suffering from #EliteProjection have!
- And people making 6 figures or more can't be expected to use the same transportation as minimum-#Wageworkers. They may have to subject themselves to eye-contact with a homeless person and that would shock them so hard that they may spill their chai latter over their iPad Pro during commute...
The same folks also want #zoox #RoboTaxis & #VoloCopter #FlyingTaxis so they don't have to #tip a driver/pilot or even fake politeness towards a #WageWorker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcKUYbChE3A
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114631736034243378
#sarcasm #classism #USA #LateStageCapitalism #Enshittification
Why Self-Driving Taxis are a Terrible Idea
@soatok it's the #TechBro equivalent of #EliteProjection they suffer under:
- They like it so everyone else must like it too!
Why Self-Driving Taxis are a Terrible Idea
@lain @ryan reminds me of "What if we build public transport, but worse & for-profit?"
Video via #AdamSomething
#zoox #Amazon #pods #robotaxi #robotaxis #PublicTransport #Enshittufication #Classism #EliteProjection #privatization #infrastructure
Why Self-Driving Taxis are a Terrible Idea
Yeah, that whole #OceanGate shitshow was destined to fail.
Like it's one thing for me to dive 40m for the 100th time in tropical waters with proven &checked equpment and following standards everyone from US Navy to NOAA to PADI agreeing upon to be within a big ass safety envelope vs. DIY'ing a sub out of carbon fiber that was rejected by Boeing's QC/QA for use and then going 4.000m deep...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCcgDQQQG4Q
This isn't like a pair or goup dive where if someonegets drowsy or has nitrogen or oxygen mess them up one can just slowly drag them up to the surface and get help within minutes or hours.
Would I consider DIY'ing a sub myself?
- Yes, but only for diving in depths I know how to safely get to the surface, which as of my AOWD is 40m.
It's just that noone wants to pay me for that even tho the nicest stuff is in the 5-25m depth area from my experience of 250+ dives...
- Also I'd actually demand proper #testing and #certification, and
OFC that's gonna cost a lot of money:
- Even if I just upcycle like an LPG or CNG storage tank rated for 10-200+ bar instead and have that thing X-ray'd before buying to detect hairline cracks and other potential issues...
There's a reason why recreational diving is using 40m ad a somewhat hard floor.
- I never had any diving issues even at the notorious Blue Hole of Dahab because I didn't let ego and testosterone take over and instead stayed rational.
Besides, there's nothing down there worth risking to die for: All one does find there are lead belts and -pouches people ejected in a panic - aka. not even the cost of getting air into a tank!
- I mean, shure, if one has the training and gear and expertise, it's cool for bragging rights to say "I did the Arch at the Blue Hole!" but from experience I can assure y'all that it's not worth it when "The Saddle" is way nicer to look at and also a good way to end the nice dive on the beautiful outside of that spot.
Seriously, people need to stop worshipping #antisocial "#FuckAroundAndFindOut" #billionaires like #ElonMusk that think Suborbital Rocket Flights are to be taken serious as a way of Transportation because he saw that in a videogame and propably thought "Fuck yeah! I want this..." in his typical #EliteProjection craze...
OceanGate Is Worse Than You Thought
@razze I disagree because #JavaScript violates basic security standards and should be, like #VBA #macros, #OOXML and #Windows-#Executeables be deemed inacceptable.
If in doubt, test your website with #LynxBrowser 1 2 over Iridium speeds (@ 2400 bit/s) and with #TorBrowser in it's strictest security settings (no #JS allowed!) and then tell me that's accessible, because in many #eReaders and applianced #BrailleScreens and #TTS devices you'll only have the output of #Lynx as #Browser and not everyone has even #2G speeds available.
Otherwise you may fall into the trap of "#EliteProjection" in that you assume that everyone has as good of an access to tech, broadband, #TechLiteracy and means to use them as we have them.
Which is my point of criticism all along!
@msdropbear42 TBH, I would've considered some but sadly I've yet to find any that does implement said blocklist feed feature...
Tho if anyone knows I'd give it a shot...
- Also the problem isn't whether or not @Gargron et. al. are able or rather willing to implement such a feature or actually give a shit about the issue ( Spoiler: I'm convinced that's not the case cuz #glitchsoc tends to implement things first and only once people spam an issue with a drop-in PR will they consider fixing it by merging the solution someone else already did.) but rather the nonchalant attitude of those classifying and sorting issues without reading and/or understanding the contents.
It's almost as off-putting as fighting MRAs and transmisogynists that backroll any edits on principle including deleting any discussion and appeals against their actions 'Cuz I sez so!'...
- And then people wounder why noone wants to do #FLOSS and why #tech is dominated by #WHCM #TechBros that seem to suffer if not from #EliteProjection but #PrivilegueProjection...
Sorry, but I'd rather vent than suffer...