Are you trying to make an offline website? If so, you could look into using a Service Worker which would give you full control over when the content gets refreshed.

I thought this was using SDKs embedded in apps and advertising platforms. This is a different threat model. You need to block ads and prefer using websites instead of apps which have more access to device info like the advertising ID.

If you’ve got an Android, go to Settings, search for ads, and find the advertising ID and delete the ID. It’s a stable identifier that can be used to identify your phone.

Switch to more private browsers like Firefox for Mobile and install uBlock Origin.

EDIT: I’m not saying this will protect you against IMSI catchers or tower based drag nets. In addition to not bringing your phone, when you do go home you need an entirely different set of tools to protect yourself.

Are those networks marked as hidden SSID networks? Hidden networks require the client STA to broadcast them to find them.

Can’t be a passive adapter or else that would mean DisplayPort and HDMI have to protocol compatible. If they were then we wouldn’t have this issue. Apparently I was wrong.

Every WiFi router and network has something called an SSID and a BSSID. The SSID is the friendly name that you use to show off your puns to your neighbors. The BSSID is a 6 byte MAC address. All devices use the BSSID when connecting and communicating.

With a non hidden SSID, your router broadcasts the SSID and BSSID.

The BSSID doesn’t change even if you change your SSID (Though APs with support for multiple SSID create a different BSSID per network) and it’s what is actually used for geo location.

When it’s hidden, it doesn’t send the SSID out, but sends out packets with the BSSID. Clients then scream out to the void “anybody know the SSID ‘My Secret SSID??’” Then it’ll respond.

So basically hidden networks still send out the unique identifying address and then when you take your phone with you, you’re just telling everybody what your home WiFi is called.

Hidden SSIDs are not that useful.

I tried that with my KeePass database and then I ended up with different conflict versions if a device didn’t sync to my server before I updated on another device. Then I ended up with the conflict versions and old versions I had manually resolve. The Android Syncthing app could get auto killed by the Android OS for memory/battery saving, so I had to go back to OneDrive style syncing where the KeePass Android app would internally merge and resolve conflicts. It couldn’t do that using the Syncthing style syncing.

Small correction. He was impeached by the House. The Senate then decides whether to convict, not whether to impeach.

Depends on the watermark method used. Some people talk about watermarking by subtly adjusting the words used. Like if there’s 5 synonyms and you pick the 1st synonym, next word you pick the 3rd synonym. To check the watermark you have to access to the model and probabilities to see if it matches that. The tricky part about this is that the model can change and so can the probabilities and other things I don’t fully understand.

Was that anything more than just rumors? Letting a currently monopolistic company keep the browser because another bad billionaire might buy it and do something bad with it just prevents anything from changing.

It is a choice, but one that I find important to adopting an alternate. I keep my wallet slim on purpose. Telling people their choices are wrong because you don’t agree with them is not going to get widespread adoption which is important for the long term health and success of such a ambitious project.

Who organized this form? Is there something official to make it look like it’s not just signing me up for spam?

I don’t think there is a technical issue or any kind of complexity at issue here, the problem seems trivial even though I haven’t worked the details. It is moot since it’s broken on purpose to preserve “They’s” business model.

I’m explaining what the technical problems are with your idea. It seems like you don’t fully understand the technical details of these networking protocols and that’s okay but I’ve summarized a few non trivial technical problems that aren’t just people keeping multicast from being used. I assure you if multicast worked, big tech would want to use it. For example, Netflix would want to use it to distribute content to their CDN boxes and save tons of bandwidth.

I don’t know who they is in the case, but let’s think about this for a minute.

Technically what do you need for this to work?

How many Multicast Addresses do you need? How are multicast addresses assigned? Can anybody write to any multicast address? How do I decide that 239.53.244.53 is for my file not your movie? How do we know who is listening? This is effectively BGP, but more tricky because depending on the answer to the previous question you may not benefit from any network block sizes to reduce the routing info being shared. How do you decide when to start transmitting a file? Is anybody listening? Does anybody care?

You seem latched on to assume that technically would work and haven’t asked if it is actually technically a good solution. P2P is going to work better than multicast

Multicast addresses are handled specially in routers and switches all over the world.

Changing that would require massive firmware updates everywhere to get this to work and we can’t even get people to adopt IPv6. Nevermind the complexity in figuring out to how manage IGMP group membership at the Internet scale.

Given the complexity with either change, its better to adopt IPv6 and use PeerTube. Multicast at the Internet scale won’t work and IPv6 is less work

Assuming multicast worked across the internet, it’s not going to work in practice. Multicast works by sending a packet and fanning it out to all receivers.

It works with broadcast TV like IPTV because everybody is watching the same few set of channels at the same time, but on YouTube I can watch any video at any time. How does a mythical Transmitter know what video packets to send when? Are they on loop? Are clients receiving packets for videos they don’t care about?

You might be interested in PeerTube which uses unicast peer to peer to distribute videos in a way that works.

My prediction is that manually reviewing user creation won’t scale to a high level and unless systems develop spam detection and reputation management similar to email then it’s not going to be limited to just one or two bad instances.

Its trivial to create my own instance with a new domain and there’s no limitations against sending ActivityPub messages to a server. Unfortunately the simplest fix is for big instances to restrict what instances can communicate to it, but that causes centralization.

Plus, we don’t need to be huge. There’s no benefit from it.

The benefit is breadth and depth of communities. Reddit is great because if you are interested in a topic, there’s a bunch of people talking about it.

The problem is the payment processor. There’s only so many of them that customers actually choose to use.

How about some Yubikeys or smart cards instead of something that requires me to scan my retina and share it with Sam Altman

Executives have compensation tied to stock price. If the stock price goes down because nobody wants to invest in a bad company, those executives have incentive to become change their ways.

That compensation incentive is also why executives are so short term thinking nowadays.

The stock market is part popularity contest but it’s a lot more complicated than simple statements.

There’s different ways to be ethical in finances.

One option is to just not be anxious about investing in “bad” companies and make money, but then turn around and donate to charities, vote for aligned politicians, and vote in shareholder elections.

Or you could try to invest in “better” companies. ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) based investing has been politicized and isn’t perfect because the scoring can be and is manipulated. But at least it’s trying. For example, normally ETFs management companies take the shares that you effectively own and vote along with the board recommendations which often aligns with making the most money over environmental and social concerns, but funds like $VOTE so those voting rights to vote in ways they think are more ethical. Vanguard has $ESGV. Black Rock, a huge investing company, offers voting choice which allows you to pick alignment strategy. For example, you could pick to vote for environmental reasons and they’ll influence the company that way. Support for that depends on your brokerage and the fund you own.

You could also pick individual stocks and never buy companies that don’t align with your ethics, but that has its own complexities because now you’re actively investing and probably not matching market returns.

Ultimately, ethics aren’t black and white. I don’t try to be perfectly ethical in my investing because it just causes too much anxiety asking is this company bad or good? I invest in broad market funds, I vote in all elections (both shareholder and government elections), I don’t invest in individual companies I don’t agree with, I invest in some climate friendly ETFs, and I donate to charities that I like.

This situation reminds me of a plot in The Good Place, a TV show, about how >!everybody went to the “bad place” because modern society had so many decisions that had small negative consequences.!<