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Gait analysis - good luck faking your gait.

What we need is a legislative solution to street surveillance proliferation. Germans figured that one out, rest of the world is capable of doing it too.


A pebble in one shoe will change your gait.

"Oh look, its that asshole that puts rocks in his shoes again"

Gait detection can’t detect a pebble in a shoe, it just detects a different gait. Depending on which side and the location in the shoe, you could have many unique gaits. Nobody will be noticing that you have a pebble in your shoe, and if someone managed to notice that you have different gaits all the time they would probably say something like “oh there’s that guy who always shows up as someone new.” If they notice.

It would be great if a lot of people did this regularly just to throw off the data.


Nothing a dress that touches that ground cant help obscure.

You need a system that does gait analysis, which requires upgrades across the board. All those sunk costs on pervasive facial recon systems. Sucks teeth.

We all get Segways, problem solved.

> The failure of the GPL is that you can't force anyone to collaborate and share if they don't really want to.

Failure of the GPL? How can you even put those words next to each other? GPL is an amazing success. It took software out of hands of SV / VC / corpo crowd and put it where it should be - users.


Allow me to disagree. GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT/BSD which have been the greatest catalyst towards the establishment of tech corpo giants and the software ecosystem we have today.

GPL gave us Linux, but also gave us Amazon, Google and 2020s Microsoft. GPL is why 90+% of libraries on Github are MIT licensed. GPL gave us OpenAI and Anthropic and this here article.


>GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT

The less restrictive ~1984 MIT early version of the software license was several years before ~1989 GPL v1.


> but also gave us Amazon, Google and 2020s Microsoft.

The major fault I see here is that people didn't forsee that the default GPL should have had AGPL's clauses.


It's failed in that most software doesn't use it. Because of the psyop, people who would be very sad if Amazon stole their software are licensing it MIT so Amazon can legally steal it.


For many years GNAT Community Edition has used GPL, including its library. That greatly boosted Ada programming language domination over planet and is a good reference for everyone else to also choose GPL for everything if they struggle at dominating. Tears of joy when programmers got to know that standard library in GNAT CE was licensed under GPL.


PoW is trivial to control in its' today form. When the network hash power is dominated by three players, you know every address you need to pay a visit.


Copyleft is still a thing. Right to attribution is still a thing. Please, read about it and you will discover that there is a lot of nuance to the open-source code.


Not jailable. But I'm absolutely free to disregard moral agency of mr. Kim Dotcom and stop paying attention to whatever he says or what happens to him as a result of his support for warring Russia.


Would you be OK if everyone else disregarded the laws to see you punished for things not illegal?


No one said for the laws to be disregarded!? Why are you lying about what people are saying? Does it feel good to win against your own imagination?


> I still don't see how you can keep something anonymous and still rate limit it.

Constructions like this exist for many years. E.g. semaphore RLN (rate limiting nullifier). This particular construction was found unfeasible 7 years ago, but since then zksnark tech made huge progress and it is way cheaper now.


> Or you can spend 50 euros more and get an entire new laptop that is not only much more powerful than your old framework but is almost as repairable: the neo.

You forget to mention - less powerful than his old FW 13 with new mainboard/CPU.


I assume he's referring to the AMD AI 340 for 530 euros.[0]

Macbook Neo 31% faster ST speed and a bit slower on the MT.[1]

I wouldn't call the Neo less powerful than his 530 euros upgrade. In fact, I'd much rather have the faster ST speed in this kind of laptop. Most of the apps you're running with this class of laptops will be ST bound anyway.

You can literally get a brand new Macbook Neo using Apple EDU pricing for the price of a slower AMD motherboard upgrade. This is why Framework is an absolutely terrible deal overall. I'm not even convinced that Framework is better for the environment since Apple laptops last extremely long and will very often have second and third hand buyers.

[0]https://frame.work/nl/en/products/mainboard-amd-ai300?v=FRAN...

[1]https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/17360869?baseli...


If look good if you look at the image in original resolution. Click on it.


Amazing opportunity! One more demographic to save via age verification laws, with a side dish of reliable personalized advertisement profiles.


Trail of Bits is charging hefty sums for audits. I suppose they could provide some patches.


> He immediately created a security-fix branch and collaborated with Trail of Bits to develop stronger protection for his users.

They are willing to collaborate on fixes.


Patches are a good starting point, and Trail of Bits may have provided them, however they would still need dev time to review, approve, and roll-out...


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