it’s been three weeks since i have started teaching myself nature photography (with claude opus 4.8 helping me understand all the buttons and screens and settings); according to lightroom, i have taken 12,689 pictures so far and edited 69 to the point of marking as good enough to publish
however, i think this is my favorite one because it…
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (X) has released Bitchat, a peer to peer communication system that work on mesh networks. Each smartphone acts as a node in a decentralized and “offline” network that works on Bluetooth in a range of about 300 meters between each smartphone.
It means that you don't need internet to communicate and communications are untraceable.
This is how you build real crypto anarchist communities. People have already started using it to transfer crypto currencies as well.
Jack Dorsey, the guy that sanctioned censoring people against their will and without their knowledge BY THE MILLIONS is creating an encrypted comms app. Color me skeptical.
Got it, thanks. I may be just be obtuse but I cannot recall a time when I ever needed to transfer 3d blueprints or documents to someone 300 meters away without the internet.
It's also useful in cities for political manifestations without being traced /surveiled remotely or if you need to coordinate locally with a multitude of people with maximum privacy vs government or third parties surveillance. Basically it's an anti-surveillance communication system.
This is what I'm doing while talking with my AI agent which is writing and doing things for me. I'm sorry for all you luddites stuck at home in front of a computer because AI is for dumb people.
The standard defense of ChatControl is always the same: it won’t be mass surveillance, it will be targeted! It won’t break encryption, it will use proportionate measures! it won’t monitor everyone, only “high-risk” services!
Bureaucratic translation: almost anything that enables human communication can be classified as high-risk.
And we're already seen the effect of similar laws such as the Online Safety Act. After a year the government is already asking companies to break their encryption.
ChatControl in Europe is back, or it never really left. It's a mass surveillance law sold as a moral action: protect children, make the Internet safer.
But once platforms can be pushed to inspect messages, images, videos, metadata, accounts and behavioral patterns…your whole life becomes a permanent inspection zone.