@brainwane heck yeah i have stuff to hide! - credit card numbers - medical records - ideas for novels/products - family communications - bank account details - property deeds
You can't have *privacy* without *security*, but you *can* have security *without* privacy.
Be most wary of those (systems) which would obscure this fact.
⇒ something that processes some input automatically with complex behavior — this was inevitable. As it was with anti-virus software being used as prime attack vector.
Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.
@MelodyCooper@MarkHoltom I heard of a story about how, in a remarkably preserved town, they kept finding knives on high shelves. The male archologists/anthropologists went with the classic religious explanation - place knives closer to the sun or if worship.
Once women came into the field they had a very different and practical idea - out of reach of children.
Real tired of being told that it's not OK to for me to hate some part of the surveillance capitalism apparatus because this or that group has figured out a way to bend it into being useful for something. Anything positive you manage to wring out of those platforms in an unintended side-effect, unrelated to their true purpose. If the owners could figure out how to optimize that sort of thing away in favor of displaying more ads and collecting more data, they would.
"But if the Torment Nexus shuts down, what will happen to my community? We use this platform for organizing!"
Yeah I dunno, this is only the twentieth or thirtieth time this kind of shit has happened in recent years, maybe quit building your community in the middle of a Torment Nexus?
@lxo software, and feel a twinge of guilt, but say "hey, gotta make ends meet" and "at least I contribute to Free Software", and "at least I use entirely Free Software." We should feel *very* bad about it. This is *much* stronger accompliceship than the user who pays a small sum for nonfree software they need. This is what the community's religious zeal should be focused at. (2/2)
I wouldn't have used the term "sin", but yeah, users of nonfree software are victims of oppression, and that who denies them control over their own computing is an oppressor.
however, there's an element of accepting the condition of oppressed (though often without realizing their victimhood), to the point of reinforcing it by funding, supporting, and defending the oppressors and their methods, that resembles accompliceship.
in order to put an end to the oppression, we don't need wannabe-oppressors to stop trying to make victims, we need users to reject their offers and choose freedom instead, driving the market towards offerings that respect users choices, rather than towards enshittification
@clacke I need more context here... I don't entirely understand the ask. Can you drop an email, or open an issue on Github? I'll be happy to look into it and implement any tweaks that improve folks' experience with the Parrot. Thanks!
@cammerman It's also worth underlining "one person". In most teams I've been in the last thirty years, no more than a third, and often less, are interested in infrastructure work.
@fence I couldn't find anything about it, though I found a lawyer arguing that it would be as enforceable in Belgium as in France and Italy, where it has been enforced
I’m pretty sure the folks in Microsoft’s own recruiting function are doing a major ::head desk:: and mumbling ‘we said what where now???’ about this. For a company like that, with global name recognition, automating the application process is almost a DOS attack.