And yeah, I found you cute in your naive view of how politics work."just get in there man"

But I take it back, you are mostly repeating thing back at me and not engaging in this conversation. Not cute, boring. Conversation is about swapping ideas. And I've been waiting for those, I'm still unclear on where you stand. Beside sounding vaguely offended? Maybe ? Hard to tell via text.

Anyhoo. Have a good evening

Let's not turn the table here, I'm the one with a hobby of parsing system logs from surveillance system to prove that police forces are abusing it.

That's not exactly the definition of "letting fate decide". I'm taking action to support my beliefs . To both society and the legal system of our country.

What you might have confused with fatalism is my bleak view on our elected officials. I do have low esteem of them. But I don't think that all elected official are bad. I think they mostly stay too long in power and end up clinging to it, and, yes, getting corrupted in the process.

That last part often bring gasp and shock. But we have to come to term with it: as you stated, no humans are angel, and our elected official have problems.

Nothing that could not be fixed with the right amount of accountability.

I would like the government bodies that have to follow the constitution to respect that.

When Flock track movement at scale, when skydio film with uncanny accuracy, when Leonardo build a unique id from your devices. This is infringement. ( See : kyllo vs USA )

I'm playing by the rules of democracy here. And yet you want to explain to me that democracy is hard and compromise frustrating.

Yes, I know! And I'm not asking for another system. I'm asking for accountably, transparency in decision, and actual representation of the voters.

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I've talk a lot. Do you think there is a problem in 2026 with local laws enforcement buying military grade surveillance services from private company without oversight ?

Or is it normal ? Maybe I should just chill and pick another hobby. Who care after all? Our leaders know better, I should trust them, their will be no abuse! Not here.

I like to prevent my city council to implement more surveillance and expose how cosy they are with the companies selling said surveillance.

>So you accomplished all these things and yet the country is broken

Yes. Those things are meaningless in the face of 3 letter agency capability or broad stroke regulation like FISA (recent big win by the folks at RT4 there, normies have not heard of it but those people did a great job at influencing republican politician )

> Did you not get everything you wanted fast enough? How sad :(

I mostly want privacy, for myself and the people who seek it.

I don't find that too much to ask in a country that is fast to point the finger at China "dystopian level of surveillance"

10 years is a sizeable slice of life. Their was some progress and wins. And those days the zeitgeist is on our side.

But its sad yes.

By the company selling the product our cities are buying. In 2026, skydio DFR drones are a common example of blurry boundaries. Flock is another. Elected official "retiring" in the private sectors is common.

I'm engaging in the Democratic process. Are you ? Beside voting once a year ?

> If the government tells big businesses "You can't use it" most of their users are automatically left unprotected for most of their activity.

Absolutely. That's our near future. What does not scale in concern citizens and encryption hobbyist still choosing to use encryption from end to end?

If the US government make THAT illegal and actually enforce it.( djb style, like in the 90s ) Then I hope that technical folks would recognized that the Rubicon has been crossed.

We don't do politics, we do privacy and security advocacies. It means we work with DSA, MAGA, Libertarian.

Allies that normie would known: ACLU, EFF. I talk with those folks weekly. (they talk a lot, themselve )

>There's more to politics than just going to town hall meetings or sending emails or making phone calls!

I should have clarify that I despite those circus so much that its our last resort. Its when we need to get them on the recort saying something. 1on1 meeting are always more productive.

> if you can get a local government agency to officially back you up, all the better.

I should have clarify sorry: I live in the US. That seems unlikely, to say the least.

Indeed. When enough people call that when they switch the meeting time and change the voting rules. ( we suing for that )

They still don't give a fuck. They really want to have more surveillance. Its like their is a vested interest ?

> Until they make that illegal. What'll you do then?

OK, let's make numbers illegal. Land of the free!

Also, what does "making encryption illegal" entail, exactly? Does that encompass HTTPS?

What does not scale exactly about using encryption at rest and point to point ?

I'm part of org working with ACLU, EFF and actual more important and active orgs that would would not know about.

When I go to city council, its with 50 other peoples and 4 or 5 other speakers.

Its when we need to have our representative on the record.

Me and other folks in that loose network of org have forced our city to pass regulations, have our police force admit they use surveillance without oversifht, and expose their poor security practice overall.

Good luck in your comfort that your country is not broken

I'm trying to push for surveillance regulation where I live. I'm there monthly.

Calling your representative is the best way to realise that they don't give a fuck. Yesterday I was editing a clip of one of them lying overtly. It will be a minor inconveniences.

what we call democracy is a dog and ponies show.

So maybe cryptography is not that ridiculous, after all

I define leading by : Renewable energy, EV, sustainable agriculture, Drone warfare, public infrastructure, soft power, Grid management, Nuclear.

I use AI every day since 2 years and it did not really occurs to me.

I think its as important as the crypto industry.

Edit: fair, its unhinge of me to say that on a post about LLM regulations. I still feel the same way. We will wake up and be the UK.

Then come the big police department.

Allowing a private company to profit of holding information about me is innerving to me.

I would feel better if it was 100% run by the police. ( better, not good )

The moat on that is non existant.

We definitively have stuff to fuck up over there. Those ecosystem that do not know noise or light need disruption and market capitalization

https://noduleresearch.com/

This include work.

I use DDG, kagy and the LLM du jour .

Again, no friction. No plan. No transition période. I just changed the default search engine on a whim.

I will try that ! It make sense and I'm curious to see results, for this or any similar projects mentioned in the thread