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  • Dragomus@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you ever used apple airtag thingy or Replicas?
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    19 days ago

    Apple airtags I found annoying and on a few rare occasions they did not work properly …
    Airtag clones, the cheap ones, never worked for me, go with originals or the more expensive clones.

    The Samsung tags on the other hand have been solid and functional for me, without hassles.

    I use the tags to find car keys (on rare occasions they fall from my pocket in some grass for example) they worked for luggage as well as finding a car and bike in parking areas.

    For constant tracking in general I am not impressed with none of them

  • Dragomus@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine - BBC News
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    1 month ago

    Suppression of the populace is the only real reason.

    They want to limit, even if secretly, the ability of the people to easily disseminate information and act on it by organizing protests or unifying themselves against an (unknowing) oppressive government.

    If the government can fully read along with the chat channels and easily identify who is who and where they live, it can catch 90% of public anger in chats before it spreads amongst citizens in a wildfire.

    For years now governments have spied on chats and open facebook messaging where they could, to stop or redirect fights or riots from being organized.
    But they had to do it by directly planting someone inside the groupchats so they could read along, still it would not catch all chats between just two people.

    Now with the growth of encryption(and related protective laws) that job is getting harder, so the way to control all this is to legally break open the encryptions and have an AI import, read, decide on, and forever store them for use as evidence years later. And an AI is not one single government worker but scales to be able to intercept and process billions of messages so its far easier to catch unwanted “behavior”.

    So it never was/is about “the children” or terrorism, these topics are precentage wise so low its insane to force strict regulations on everyone, these new laws are for what comes next, the opening of the doors to search for everything that the government decides is unwanted.

    From being angry about forced immigration that comes with negative effects for the existing population, to public anger about an executive stealing people’s pensions and getting off with just a fine.
    From people organizing a riot to fight the opposing sportsteam fans just to get some excitement in, to people organizing blocking a polluting company’s doors because they want to make a statement against unregulated pollution.

    Every form of protest can be caught before it happens and redirected into manageable situations where the government gets its way or can prepare with a positive social media brainwash campaign or just introduce new laws.

  • Dragomus@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine - BBC News
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    1 month ago

    There’s at least 4 “original” versions out there:

    Epstein himself had originals at his island, (confiscated at the time of the investigation). And most likely a backup at his manhattan offices (taken from the safe under suspicious circumstances by an unknown party after the “fbi” raid left the filled safe open overnight, the next day the safe was empty).

    Gislaine Maxwell, as a fully involved assistant, had a (partial, non video?) copy somewhere, for safekeeping, unclear what happened to it.

    Then there was a rumor Russia pressured Epstein into “selling” them a copy.
    Epstein is documented to have traveled to Russia and met with government officials well before his evil empire came crashing down.

    The thing is, most of these original files are used to keep the other owners in check, if any one releases them they compromise everyone on there by mutual destruction.

    I suspect even if Russia, or whatever other state has them, would leak it all it would come back to burn them, if this was not the case it would have been out there publicly already.