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Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trains

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2024-03-12 10:53:07

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@npub15zu…s7lx It would mean if you scanned a plate close up you'd be able to verify it was authentic because a cloner wouldn't be able to copy the private key embedded in whatever tpm or similar they used. Long range is much trickier. Same people who wanted smart digital driving licences (no licence inserted in slot no drive) and uploadable digital insurance certificates (no insurance no drive)

2024-03-12 10:15:58

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@npub15zu…s7lx This is why the smart folks in the police were asking for smart numberplates (with cryptographic handshakes via RFID or similar) quite a time back.

2024-01-24 16:18:55

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@npub1src…fms4 Yes but there are lots of competing malls and your microwave works with all of them. Apple is the equivalent of buying a vendors microwave and then only being able to buy food from the vendors shop at 30% markup.

2023-11-25 19:12:41

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1myg…r2hj @npub19kd…4jdw @npub15ea…a2ud (c) is debatable longer term. Lower population should mean less pollution, less accidents, better food, better quality of life. All those reduce medical spending. The bit where it shrinks rapidly will be ugly but otoh it also rapidly leads to the young being the main voting block which might lead to massive corrections of path.

2023-11-25 19:10:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub19kd…4jdw @npub15ea…a2ud You don't have a house because oligarch housebuilders didn't build enough so they maximised sales value per unit. You can't afford to rent because oligarch vulture capital funds bought it all to rent at maximum possible prices. Not really a surprise they are desperately paying people to point at someone else.