Slight tangent: on top of that, I just read an article yesterday (which of course I can't find again right now) about how false automatic alarms from such cameras will incur a fee from the owners when the Police comes to check it out. It was from somewhere in Texas.
That's pretty common with any alarm system not just Ring. I know you get the first false alarm with a response for free. After that, fines/tickets are issued. It might have been 2 free can't remember as it's been a long time since the alarm was installed and info was provided. This was in Dallas specifically before I go painting with too broad of a brush. Even further back, I had an alarm system installed, but never paid for monitoring. They also warned about fines after too many false reports, and that was a tiny town waaaay outside of Dallas.
Nothing against that per se, false alarms should be kept in check.
If you have a system where, as I understand it, the main point is to check who is standing in front of your door, and that system now is one automatic update away from dipping into your bank account... How long until the police departments figure out that donations to a specific company could be very profitable?
It happens everywhere, not only in the middle east, not only with religion. People who crave control rise to the top, apply tight control to stay there, kill creativity in the process.
>People who crave control rise to the top, apply tight control to stay there, kill creativity in the process.
There is nothing about authoritarian regimes which prevents them from making scientific progress. See e.g. China, a society with substantial authoritarian features, a massive surveillance state and one party rule. At the same time they became one of the best manufacturers of everything in the world. Within a decade they built up a world class car industry, which both the US and the EU had to ban from competing.
A successful religion ties together so many valued things in people's minds, that it is very hard to fight the cultural dysfunctions it may promote, or has become entwined with.
Few other sources of dysfunction come with organized cultural generational reinforcement practices, systemic social respect and judgement, daily personal energy investment, family and friendship bonds, and both elite and grassroots level power classes that a religion can create. Not to mention the afterlife plans and ancestor reunions.
Note how reliably political polarization is associated with one or both sides weaving the sticky glue of religion into completely unrelated (and blatantly contradictory) partisan identities.
And so, instead of having an open port for ssh, (ideally) with certificate-only authentication, optionally MFA, you trade it for an open port for tailscale/wireguard, handing over "all" your data to a company who is offering you a service for no monetary compensation.
Also, why do you think that it is better to not change the root password? It sounds like a very suspicious recommendation.
You don't need to open any ports to use Tailscale, and its job is to a) get nodes to connect directly or b) shuttle jibber-jabber encrypted with nodes' private keys from point A to point B and back again through Tailscale-owned distributed servers. Tailscale only sees the traffic it needs and nothing else. It's free because it's "cost-effective" to run and because it can rely on word-of-mouth marketing because it solves a really complex problem in an elegant way, which makes enterprise customers want to pay for it.
Not changing the root password is correct, because at least on Ubuntu, it has been locked, meaning the only way to use it is through sudo or SSH keys (common during initial server setup). Setting a password for root and using su has no benefits over using sudo and comes with significant downsides, because it is unauditable.
Which needs to follow a mandate of properly handling user data (Switzerland has a law that's very close to GDPR) and properly respecting privacy as written in the proposal.
Not doing so is something the citizens can sue the government for - as opposed to US "private company can collect whatever, whenever and do whatever" (see credit ratings).
Swiss here, and I do not agree. We used to be able to trust our government, but more and more, as the years go by, tech-savvy people realize how laws have accumulated into surveillance.
Now there are much worse cases out there, sure. But most Swiss citizens are not even aware of those laws.
Nor are they aware of how much the Swiss government has been trying to hide its incompetence regarding anything IT-related. Like data leaks happening several times per year.
So yes, a big percentage of those almost 50% of "no we don't want this" responses were about lack of trust in the different branches of the government.
Looking at the examples on the website, I can see the appeal regarding the input.
The output makes my head slightly dizzy - not sure why, but like the letters are all slightly off, in both dimensions. Is it just me, or the font/screen combination, or did it occur to anyone else also?
Yes, the change from not being pressed into your seat to being pressed into your seat is jerk. Basically the difference between two acceleration "levels".
Snap is how abrupt those changes between accelerations are. If you accelerate a bit, and then suddenly the light turns orange and you floor it, and the turbo kicks in, and your passengers go "woaaaaaah going to need a barf baaaaag" for example, it was probably not very smooth.
Sometimes instead of linear accelerations, those concepts can be easier to understand as changes in angular motions. You're on a curve of a certain radius, and suddenly the radius changes. The change is the jerk. How sudden the change happens is the snap.
