I assure you, this market exists. I own a RaspberryPi and have never once used it. In fact, I know several people who own several RaspberryPis and don't use them!
Kind of. There is certainly a market for aspirational tinkerers. There are people who would (and do) buy routers to install stock DD-WRT and run them basically unchanged. But that market is small and already saturated. I can type “best routers to use with DD-WRT” into Google and get a list of options that cover all price points already. Most of the options aren’t even competing directly for that narrow market but they support custom flashing so they saturate the market incidentally.
Comparing to Raspberry Pi, the analogous question would be “is there a market for Raspberry Pi with Pi OS already flashed onto a memory card”? And the answer is not much. Someone preflashing a stock image doesn’t provide much if any value.
Someone starting a new router company better have more of a value proposition than just “I’ll preinstall DD-WRT for you”.
There is no glory in prevention, as they say. If you live in a (near) authoritarian state, this is some valuable information. Importantly, if your home country isn’t authoritarian today, that doesn’t mean it won’t be tomorrow.
So-called democratic, free, and liberal states routinely abuse their power. You may not be among those who experience it — yet — but try becoming an inconvenience to your local overlord and see how quickly the rule of law can be violated.
The star wars Lego saga is a great example of this. For decades there's been pockets of America that are fiefdoms of some sheriff department exercising "extralegal" authority.
I think this is mostly in line with "all software is now easily exploitable by agents given enough tokens". However, in the long run we should really see software that is more secure than today. I do wonder though how the procedural flaws that exist today - bugs patched upstream, but not in the distro - will be fixed reliably.
I kinda miss the argument why so many “ambitious” people are bad parents. Maybe because it is too obvious? If you are not present for your child at the time your kid grows up (before and after school, weekends, etc) you are not a parent at all. You’re a roommate with certain privileges, but no child is interested in that.
People who work 60+ hours a week will be “worse” parents than others.
I don't think a lot of people will agree with you here because it's HN, but you are right. There are exceptions, of course, and it's way easier for the father to still have a career, but I have seen personally the difference between the parent that stays at home and the one that goes out to work. The connection with the children is different. I would hope that AI gives them more time with their children, but I know that it will not happen
I'm reading Careless People, and it discusses parents in high positions at Fb. They are not parents. They hire people to do most of the work. The author was "talked to" about sharing a story about her child.
My father worked 2 jobs in my teenage years. While I appreciate that he supported me to the best of his ability, I regret not having a connection with him. No trips, no plans together. Now, our relationship is need based.
Unfortunately, even if all data lives in the European Union, as long as a company is conducting business in the US, the Cloud Act makes it possible to compel them to hand over any information. This can include making administrative personnel sign NDAs or face heavy repercussions. Conducting business in the US includes advertising to US citizens e.g through maintaining a website in English.
At this point it’s unclear what a future digitally sovereign infrastructure should look like. Even if a company or a European state somehow manages to store data that is out of reach for the US Government, an amendment to FISA or the Cloud Act is something that any Congress should be able to put together.
I am pretty sure that European states are already storing data that is out of reach for the US government, and I don't understand how Congress could legislate against this, short of an act of war.
There are certainly exceptions, but a lot of European Governments use Azure or Google for their office applications, including different law enforcement agencies and militaries.
Indeed. My point, however, is that Congress cannot pass legislation to compel European governments to share data with the US if/when they decide not to. OP is making a weird claim about the practical impossibility of escaping US data collection.
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