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Cars and their privacy and security concerns

I think car privacy isn’t talked about amongst any privacy enthusiasts online ever, and it apparently is one of the biggest data collectors out there. For someone like me who values electric cars for there affordability and environmental reasons, but still want physical car buttons and control over my data, how would I go about this?

OQB @PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml

  • cm0002OPEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    For other people blocking me, I don’t really care if they do or don’t, it’s just unfortunate unintended side effects for the actual reasons:

    Shopping for a new home instance

    Exploring the Threadiverse from different perspectives (the “hot” feed you see can vary quite a bit depending on the instance you’re on lol)

    Trolling .ml (or Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

    I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

    Megathread on the issue

    Some highlights from the link:

    "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    “See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

    “NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    “If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team. :::)

    Learning that the bot intended to better interconnect instance comms may not be doing as good of a job

    Interconnecting wayward or much smaller instances, a couple of them are missing even the big comms, one I was on the other day I needed to manual have it federate with every comm I posted to

    For the creation of comms on fitting instances or just among a regular rotation of general instances so I’m not making a whole bunch on any one instance

    • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      Ironic, because in the early days when I did the same thing while looking an instance, you were one of the people who loudly criticized me. And you have WAY more accounts than I ever did and post way more than I ever did. Funny how that works, huh?

      • cm0002OPEnglish
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        46 minutes ago

        LMAO I never cared about your multiple accounts, you were spreading extremist misinformation all over the place. Started with that BlUeMaGa crap and then after the election you pivoted to spreading right-wing crap

        Don’t try to rewrite history monk :)

        • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          29 minutes ago

          My post history is public and for all to see. You are rewriting history. I was (and still am) promoting third parties because I want to see the Duopoly be toppled. To imply that I am right-wing is totally wrong. Yes, I post news articles from all viewpoints (because I don’t believe in censorship), but the overwhelming majority of my posts are, and always have been, socialist and pro-third party. Everything I have ever posted on is public, as are the communites I mod (which are mostly socialist), so people can see for themselves.

          It was a different time just before the 2024 election. My being pro-third party was seen as an affront to the duopoly that Lemmy worshipped at the time. Now more and more people have come around to seeing that the Duopoly isn’t looking out for us.

          Nothing I posted then would even be considered slightly controversial now. lol

          But that’s a different conversation. This conversation is about multiple accounts. And you very much did care, and jumped on the bandwagon when people would imply that I had multple accounts to ban evade, even tho I’ve always used the name Universal Monk, just as you use cm0002. I was pointing out the irony of that, because you have many more than I ever did.

          I personally don’t care about multiple accounts because I did the same thing as I tried to find a good home instance. Ironic and hypocritical comments tho… that annoys me. :)

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Shopping for a new home instance

      What was the issue with lemmy.zip? It’s well maintained and the blocklist is quite short

      If you want an instance not federated with hexbear, grad and ml, then infosec.pub should do it

      If you are using alts to federate communities, that’s fine, but keeping posting from one account would be better, those are two different things

      Also, if an instance is missing big communities, the admins probably didn’t bother setting up Lemmy-federate , and users didn’t bother to ask either, so it’s probably a quite low population instance

      • cm0002OPEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        What was the issue with lemmy.zip? It’s well maintained and the blocklist is quite short

        If you want an instance not federated with hexbear, grad and ml, then infosec.pub should do it

        .zip is on the short list for sure, the Triad federation though is a detractor for me, but not necessarily a deal breaker. I also don’t want to just default to one of the big instances that every one is on

        You once told me that power posters like me are essentially de facto advertisers for an instance, so I’m keeping that in mind as I go through these instances. I would like to promote small instances through my posting, so eventually I’ll probably just starting posting from random instance accounts that I’ve already made

        Infosec.pub is decent, but was having issues when I went through it. That was either the one that was sporadically going down or the one that was taking 45+ seconds to post every post (I’d have to check my notes). But I discovered, like you said, it defederates from the entire Triad so that’s a big plus. I’ll revisit it for sure to see if the issues I encountered were just bad timing

        If you are using alts to federate communities, that’s fine, but keeping posting from one account would be better, those are two different things

        Because I post such a wide variety of content, simply posting is an effective way to discover what comms are and are not federated on an instance (short of writing a bot to do it ofc, but whats the fun in that?)

        Also, if an instance is missing big communities, the admins probably didn’t bother setting up Lemmy-federate , and users didn’t bother to ask either, so it’s probably a quite low population instance

        That’s true for at least one instance I’ve been on, but I honestly think that bot is not as reliable as it seems…