Would S3 exist in 500 years? Bezos would be long gone. Our tech would be long gone. I'd think about the only thing we could do the same is walk and open our mouth's.
And who knows what the unexpected looks like...Wars, political shifts, etc. Hell, until 2019, I thought toilet paper was unlimited. Once again, toilet paper is starting to look like the currency of the new-world.
:) That's a joke BTW. But is it? I don't want to go back to using squirrels as toilet paper!
Well, everyone was hyped on perl at the turn of the millennium. Yet not many people write it anymore. I keep waiting for the re-surge, but it just doesn't look like it is going to happen.
At nuclear waste sites, even the feds have come up with a few ways of saying "Don't enter. It is bad" with different languages, pictorial signs, and such.
It is really tough to figure out what the next few hundred years looks like. And to be a bit political, I don't think anyone saw the invasion of the capitol building in January.
It isn't easy to predict the future. With the original poster in mind, I think the best bet would to be with archive.org.
Maybe archive.org should provide this service. It could be a way to generate revenue - say "here is a thousand bucks, keep it for eternity."
I'm not sure I would want my thoughts to last that long though.
(And I'm still not sure that it would survive for more than a few hundred years.) Maybe the right thing to do is do something so great for society that they want to write books on you (eg: George Washington).
I think scientists really do a terrible job of explaining that. When you look out the window, it appears the atmosphere goes on forever. Why not burn coal, let cars exhaust, and generally treat the atmosphere like a cheap sewer?
In reality, the more I've thought about this, the more appalled I become.
Many people have issues at 10k feet elevation. The FAA starts having different o2 requirements at 10k feet. 12k elevation gets very challenging to climb.
Yet I'll drive 12k feet to go to the grocery store and never thing twice about it.
I've worked remotely for about 15 years. It isn't what it is cracked up to be.
But TBH, after the pandemic hit, I found written communications to be far better than they had been previously.
That really leveled the playing field for me. But from my point of view, I've derived much of my communications from mailing lists, forums, listservs over the years. When people get around the water cooler and and I am just hanging around Thunderbird, I'm at a big disadvantage.
This. I'm really concerned that these IoT devices will begin hard coding their own setup and using DoH to get around any DNS restrictions.
I've started hardwiring devices that I have some trust in (eg laptops, desktops, etc) on to their own VLAN. I really want to setup a second wifi network, maybe a third for Rokus, IoT and other things, and force them through a proxy. Or they just don't get access to the Internet at all.
It seems silly that these companies think that can use my bandwidth, whether or not it's metered, to do as they wish.
Do you have any recommended hardware for OpenWRT? I've been wanting to put in a low powered router/firewall on my home network that isn't controlled by a big vendor.
I haven't done a ton of research in this area, but I'd certainly like to use OpenWRT or OPNSense on my home routers/firewalls.
Side note: I've been trying to figure out a decent way to get rid of Android on my Galaxy S9+, but it appears to be locked.
At the end of the day, I just want to be in control of my bandwidth, my data, and know whats going on. Big companies are making this very complicated with all the tracking.
I recently re-enabled my pi-hole on a virtual machine, and it never ceases to amaze me what is talking to the internet without my permission. After digging into DoH a bit, I'm about to the point where I think I need to put in an outbound proxy, deny all outbound access except via the proxy, and iterate again and again.
I just don't want to have $200 a month in power bills to support my home network to save bandwidth and know what is traversing the net.
WRT3200ACM is what I use. It's one of the most powerful consumer devices with wifi supported by openwrt. It's powerful enough for a router with a little firewalling, VPN (wireguard only if you want speed), DoH and some Ad Filtering but thats pushing it's limits from my experience. If you want more power https://openbsdrouterguide.net/ is your friend.
That being said there is no hardcore prosumer hardware out there for this purpose. The moment you go beyond home user router hardware like the WRT3200acm you are in either CISCO Buisness stuff or custom server builds. Potentially a Raspberry Pi 4 with a PCIE ethernet card is closest to prosumer hardware out there and there's a lot of hacking involved to get that running to the same degree as a openwrt router
This is interesting. I'm going to research it further. I really appreciate the feedback. I'm really starting to hate DoH - and I may just not put any IoT thing on my network that uses it. Maybe that's the way to go.
But I doubt most consumers really care. It's complicated.
For techie home use of OpenWrt, I'm currently using Netgear R7800.
The R7800 is well supported by OpenWrt, has the hardware features I need, some room to gro, and it's affordable used. I paid about $90 for my first one, and about $70 for my backup unit.
For OpenWrt for smaller purposes, for which an R7800 is both overkill and physically bulky, I understand there are a bunch of near options now. I just keep some old WNDR3700 and WNDR3800 units on hand, which used to be my main routers, and actually still could be. (Sometimes they might be a simple WiFi bridge or print server. Other times, they might be an experimental LAN that needs different properties than I have set up for my main router, and with which I don't want to complicate my main router setup.)
I don't know if they specifically fit your bill, but the Turris devices are worth checking out [1]. They come out of the box with TurrisOS, which is an OpenWRT fork with some extra features (e.g. automatic updates, config snapshots) and some changes (e.g. knot resolver for dns). Turris are a bit opinionated about using DNSSEC, and I think historically it was a bit tricky to configure a custom DNS resolver, but it looks like that's now possible through their new UI [2]. By the way, they offer 3 UIs: Foris, reForis and OpenWRT's LuCI, and of course ssh is also available.
If you don't like the fork, at least with the Turris Omnia it looks like you can put on vanilla OpenWRT [3], but as always check the OpenWRT table of hardware for details before buying.
I think the PSU of the Turris Omnia is rated at 40W max, but I don't know what sort of real-world power draw you'd get with your specific use-case. I guess it depends on whether you use WiFi, the SFP port etc.
I wonder and muse about this. Could we possibly use PKI electronically to do this? The gov sends you a private key as your a citizen. We anonymize it somehow. You sign your ballot. I don't have a clue how this would work, but it seems like it could be feasible.
Obviously, voting must remain anonymous. Could it happen?
I'm guessing this would be similar to presenting your SSN. Its troublesome. But regardless, I'd think that we could prove the voting record.
Edit: the more I think about this, I don't think PKI could work. Voter identification would always be available in some way shape or form. I'm not sure this can be solved with tech. Maybe we should just have paper ballets.
The system you're imagining might theoretically be possible using blind signatures, like the Ecash system invented by David Chaum. My understanding is that if you tried to spend the same coin twice, it would necessarily reveal enough information to allow the network to discover who the private key holder was, and invalidate their transaction.
Your final conclusion is correct, though. Any system which relies on people having to trust specialist auditors to tell them whether the "correct" software has counted the votes is a system which is fatally vulnerable to FUD and conspiracy theories, even if by some miracle the hardware and software were all open source and worked perfectly.
This is just a thought experiment. What if you registered to vote and the goverment gave you a $3.00 bill. This bill can't be used as cash (I guess, I'm just working through the problem).
You present....damn it I've already figured out a half dozen problems with this idea. Give the bill to your buddy and he can vote how he wants.
Do you have any ideas or recommendations to this problem? Every citizen whom is eligible to vote should be able to. Every vote should be counted correctly.
It is a hard problem to solve, and I would guess whoever solves this problem - especially for the long term - would be able to help out humanity in a way that hasn't been invoked in a long, long time.
Ughhh. The world is tough sometimes. Reminds me of Idiocracy - Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr., fuck you, I'm eating.
I've been wondering about this myself. I drive in bad weather all the time. Sometimes its blowing snow, sometimes its because the DOT can't keep the road clear. I often can't see the white strip - or even the yellow strip on the road and have to gauge where I'm at by finding reflector poles.
Two lanes will turn down to one, and back to two really quickly (snow removal). Toss in 60-80MPH wind gusts, and it really is a test.
Add in wild critters, inexperienced drivers, impatient drivers, and it can be a bit insane.
We really need to limit the reasons a person can be taken into custody. There are valid reasons, and we need to evaluate those reasons too. Too often, people just end up in custody (and then depriving the public of their usefulness).
And who knows what the unexpected looks like...Wars, political shifts, etc. Hell, until 2019, I thought toilet paper was unlimited. Once again, toilet paper is starting to look like the currency of the new-world.
:) That's a joke BTW. But is it? I don't want to go back to using squirrels as toilet paper!