of course lottos are a statistician’s joke, but its still fun to imagine you’d do with that kind of capital. Sort of like imagining what a punished-bernie could have done with the Unitary Executive Theory

  • LangleyDominos [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I have been looking into “dumb” (sorry for the slur I am using it to counter the idea of smart technology) technology. We really need a second internet that rolls back a lot of intrusive shit and we need devices that connect to that network safely. There are already companies that make privacy-forward devices. They simply take existing mass produced hardware and insert custom firmware to disable the backdoor features. I think it would be better to have a hardware manufacturer that doesn’t include any of that shit to begin with. And to build universal, modular devices that are designed to work with the rolled back internet.

    If we take lessons from cybernetics, we vertically integrate it all. A company that makes devices, networking protocol for them, and the firmware/software. It would also be cool to make them also low-power devices rather than increasingly expensive space heaters.