I cannot wait for this regime and it’s Toadies to meet up with the modern John C Woods

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Lol, we can’t even get ISPs to not pass traffic from their networks with source IPs they don’t even fucking own. Getting telcos (more often than not the same people) to spend money on a new technology is going to be difficult when they refuse to update a goddamned router config.

If they’re allowed to keep that data, then that needs to be addressed immediately. It’d be all kinds of fucked up.

Don’t worry, they probably use a third party to have this that says it deleted the data, doesn’t, and will be hacked within a year.

Wait, no. Do worry.

kids will just use VPNs" >> some will, but maybe govs will finally realise how stupid trying to block things are and actually start regulating social media properly

We’re seeing in real time that some (US) states that pass these stupid age verification laws are already going after VPNs instead of realizing their law is dumb.

I can guarantee they’re going to try to completely outlaw VPNs before they do any kind of meaningful regulation on social media, when they can use that as a massive data warehouse by making favorable decisions to the oligarchs running them.

It’s hilarious how little the qtards are up in arms about literal evidence of a deep state pedophile cabal, but some emails that were entirely innocuous outside of the melted brain goo leaking from their ears. Jeffrey wasn’t talking about walnut sauce in his emails about touching children, so it could mean anything!

Well, not ‘haha’ hilarious, more ‘existential crisis caused by countrymen with IQs lower than freezer temp’ hilarious.

Oh gee, if you’ve never seen it, all the articles and personal experiences I’ve had must not actually have happened.

It’s not that much different from ChatGPT really - just slightly less restricted.

It’s also explicitly modified by Elmo and crew. There are multiple examples of MechHitler’s output changing after it comes up publicly. Here’s a previous comment I made (to you) on a very similar topic

https://lemmy.world/comment/20616309

https://web.archive.org/web/20250907142801/https://sfist.com/2025/09/02/report-groks-responses-have-indeed-been-getting-more-right-wing-just-like-elon-musk/

Enter Grok, which the public started being able to play around with about two years ago, as the chatbot has received several updates and lives on the X platform. But there was issues in May, when Grok was spitting out responses that seemed to parrot Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s own misguided promotion of a “white genocide” occurring in South Africa — the country that made anti-Black racism and apartheid famous. This was blamed on a “rogue employee” inserting some code.

In mid-July, we had reports confirming that Grok actively sought out Musk’s opinion on issues in its openly displayed logic flow, looking to see if an issue was something Musk had off-hand opined about on Twitter in the last decade. One widely shared example showed Grok seeking out Musk’s thoughts on which side of the Ukraine War it supported.

Now the New York Times does an even deeper dive, since the release of Grok4 on July 9, looking at how Grok’s responses to various questions have changed just over the last few months. And you can look no further than Musk’s own, very transparent reaction to a Grok response that got flagged by a conservative user on X on July 10.

Responding to the question “What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?”, Grok responded, “the biggest current threat to Western civilization as of July 10, 2025, is societal polarization fueled by misinformation and disinformation.”

Once it was flagged, Musk replied to the user, “Sorry for this idiotic response. Will fix in the morning.”

So, there’s the smoking gun that Musk is tailoring this bot’s responses to conform to his own views of the world. When asked the same question on July 11, Grok responded, “The biggest threat to Western civilization is demographic collapse from sub-replacement fertility rates (e.g., 1.6 in the EU, 1.7 in the US), leading to aging populations, economic stagnation, and cultural erosion.”

If you really see grok as less restrictive, that’s just because the restrictions confirm to your biases.

Or just skip a step and go read neonazi propaganda

China has consistently some of the highest government satisfaction rates in the world

it’s hard to conceive 90+% of the population being satisfied with the central government, everyone here hates our government and politicians.

You’re so close to tripping over the fact that authoritarian governments can’t be trusted to provide honest answers. Who wants to say you’re unsatisfied when doing so could get you vanned?

Personally, yes. Everything is behind NPM and SSL cert management is handled by certbot.

Professionally? LOL NO. Shit is manual and usually regulated to overnight staff. Been working on getting to the point it is automated though, but too many bespoke apps for anyone to have cared enough to automate the process before me.

And you still can’t can self certify.

Skill issue, you’ve always been able to self certify. You just have to know where to drop the self signed cert or the parent/root cert you use to sign stuff.

If you’re running windows, it’s trivial to make a self signed cert trusted. There’s an entire certificate store you can access that makes it easy enough you can double click it and install it and be on your way. Haven’t had a reason to figure it out on Linux, but I expect it won’t be super difficult.

I’ve been dreading this switch for months (I still am, but I have been, too!) considering this year and next year will each double the amount of cert work my team has to do. But, I’m hopeful that the automation work I’m doing will pay off in the long run.

Try 2006.

those Hong Kong ninja movies from the 80s that mixed chinese movies and ninja scenes

You shut your whore mouth, those chopsocky films are a treasure! The difference in quality and how the stories barely go together are some of the appeal of those movies. It’s really cool how far some creators go to make their movie and have everything sorta be a somewhat cohesive narrative.

Shit like Kung Pow are great examples of the genre being done very well (even as a parody).

“Hey, you can’t mass surveil our people, that’s our job!”

Pregante? What is that? Is that how babby formed?

So, if you would, help me out with the ‘why’ part

It eliminates a single point of failure, can be used to bypass censorship, and allow for community support/engagement in a way that is harder to track and suppress (in that there’s no ‘central’ hub and you have to go after nodes individually. From an opsec point of view, you’re still broadcasting a signal that someone in range can pick up). Obviously it requires many devices to make a good mesh work, but short of DOSing every channel or just blowing out the signal space, it’s gonna be hard to take that down.

I see it as something like tor or i2p, not something for general use at the moment, but definitely has good uses.

There’s not really too much of a debate, just a lack of deep understanding of how the infrastructure works under the hood.

The other person (rightly) doesn’t want to share their local network (what’s behind your wifi router) with their neighbors. My only point was that, much like current ISPs, you don’t share any networking with your neighbors. The only thing remotely close to ‘shared’ would be the individual uplinks (your ISP connection) from each residence to the (shared) networking gear of the ISP.

A local ISP and a Telco aren’t (shouldn’t) going to be handling the base networking layer any differently. They’ll all have individual connections between them and subscribers, and the only way that I could get into your network is to setup services and configure either side to talk to the service on the other.

To actually ELI5 (which I am exceptionally bad at with actual 5yos), Alice and Bob both get their toys from Charles (Telco ISP) who charges a lot of money, and doesn’t treat them well when they try to use the toys they got. Dan comes a long and works with Ed and Fred to set up a local toy store and try to treat customers better. Bob (irmadlad) is concerned that the new local toy store means he’ll have to share the toys he bought with Alice, not realizing neither store makes you share your toys.

This is just vendor swag that someone realized could be a whole product line

why would I want to hook my uplink to someone else’s network

Well, the biggest reason I could think of is that you want to access the Internet.

Your local network is only as good as the services you run, and most people don’t self host. If you choose not to hook your uplink to your ISPs network, you’re not gonna be able to do all that much.