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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
    1·
    5 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
      1·
      3 hours 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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        3 hours 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
          1·
          2 hours 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. :)

            • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              2 hours ago

              Nothing I said an any of those posts shows that I am right wing tho!! You literally proved my point that I was pro-third party. LMAO

              One of your examples even shows me denying that I am a poster that goes by another name. In fact, in that same fucking thread that you posted, my comment was: “Actually no. I have nothing to do with OP or the communities he was banned from. He’s not banned from any of my communities. I don’t have any alt names. I have this name on alt instances, but no alt names. And all my posts on all my instances are public.”

              Your other example post was from reason.com (a pro third party site ) that LITERALLY said: "The former president’s authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages." Article: https://reason.com/2024/10/16/no-trump-did-not-endorse-a-military-assault-on-people-simply-because-they-oppose-his-candidacy/

              Which is against what Trump was doing and an anti-Trump article. Did you even read it?! lol

              Your other example post is titled “Opinion: I’m a Republican who can’t support Trump. I’m voting for Cornel West instead.” Article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/25/cornel-west-campaign-harris-trump-election/75347166007/

              Cornel West was a SOCIALIST…like I said I am. lololol

              Did you actually read any of the links you just sent that u think prove I’m right-wing?! They are news articles talking about Trump being an asshole. And that people shouldn’t vote him and that people should vote third party. As I have always maintained.

              You legit just proved exactly what I have said: That I posted pro-third party news that wouldn’t even fucking make Lemmy blink now, but before the election was seen as controversial. lolololol

              You proved my point better than I did. I’m gonna save ur comment w those links to use whenever people accuse me of being right-wing. So much easier than me having to look them up

              LMAO

              • cm0002OPEnglish
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Classic Monk, misrepresenting everything as usual.

                Not a single link I commented was a news article or post from you, they are all posts and comments from around the Threadiverse all talking about you and your wonderful right-wing propaganda/nazi content you love to spread that I dug up in all of 5 minutes. Any intense dive into it and I could have a wall of links and testimonials against you LMAO

                Mixing in legit good articles for you to point to when you start getting called out is like propaganda spreading 101

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

                  Oh and let’s not forget the communities I created and mod:

                  !swp@sh.itjust.works (Socialist Workers Party)

                  !msafe@sh.itjust.works (Mormon-Satanists Against Fascism and Exploitation)

                  !greenparty@sh.itjust.works

                  !anarchism@lemmy.today

                  !politicsunfiltered@sh.itjust.works

                  So if your argument is that because I posted links to come conservative news articles, it means that I’m right-wing. Wouldn’t that same logic work for the fact that because I posted links to socialist news articles, it means that I’m socialist? And not only that, the majority of stuff I post has been socialist.

                  That’s your logic right? I posted links to some conservative news, so I’m conservative. But I also posted way more links to socialist articles, so that means I’m socialist. Right?

                  Why is one vaild, and not the other, since they are using the exact same logic?

                  If I am what I post, then go count the articles. The vast, vast majority are socialist and anarchist.

                • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  1·
                  44 minutes ago

                  Not a single link I commented was a news article or post from you

                  What are you talking about?! Dude, did you look at the theads?! Those were under POSTS that I POSTED. I posted those news articles. Look at the posts, friend. Notice how they were under, “Socialist Mormon Satanist” which was my display name for universalmonk@lemmy.world. lolol Oh and notice that word “socialist”? lolol

                  You literally linked to comments that are under my posts of news articles that promoted third-party. Go look again. :)

                  Mixing in legit good articles for you to point to when you start getting called out is like propaganda spreading 101

                  But they were from the links YOU sent me to show me how bad I am.

                  And as for the comments that shit talked me, again, it proves my point: Lemmy was mad that my third-party article links were going against the Duopoly. Look at the time stamps. You didn’t read any of the articles I posted in those threads did you? lol

                  Dude, you legit just proved my exact points with your links to my stuff. You didn’t post a single post that I posted that was extreme or not from a news org. LMAO

                  As I have said all along, I post (and posted) news articles with all points of view, but the overwhelming majority of my posts are socialist and third party. Because I’m a socialst and I voted for the socialist party in the election.

                  And some of the communities I created and mod:

                  !swp@sh.itjust.works (Socialist Workers Party)

                  !msafe@sh.itjust.works (Mormon-Satanists Against Fascism and Exploitation)

                  !greenparty@sh.itjust.works

                  !anarchism@lemmy.today

                  !politicsunfiltered@sh.itjust.works

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 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·
        3 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…