@knwmoon With the caveat being that “keep the peace” is a euphemism for “protect the interests of the wealthy and powerful.”

To be “apolitical” is simply to be fine with the worst injustices of your time. Likely because they don’t affect you personally (yet).

After more than two decades, my daily driver is going to be a desktop, not a laptop.

A little excited. Will share once it’s up and running.

Hint: it’s a cube and it will be entirely silent and it will, of course, run some flavour of Linux.

@ianbetteridge I do hope Boris stretches this out for as long as he can. Not only because the schadenfreude is so damn delicious but also because every minute he does so damages the Conservatives even further. Then again, fuck knows what’s going to change even if Blair 2.0 ends up taking the reins but I guess at least nothing can be worse than this shitshow. (Cue Murphy’s Law as Mogg becomes PM.)

@Haydar Yes and you can be stabbed to death if you're not wearing body armour. And yet we have laws against stabbing people and we treat those who stab others as criminals and understand that the person getting stabbed is the victim here so we don't go around blaming them for not taking steps to ensure their flesh is harder to stab. About time we stopped victim blaming in tech too. The blame here lies with one entity alone: the trillion-dollar faceless corporation we call Microsoft.

@Haydar Let’s do both :) (Of course, they won’t change but they can be forced to comply with the law if we can influence the right laws. Not that I’m hugely confident we can but still…)

@jwildeboer 1. The Taliban do not represent “Muslims all over the world.” To say so is an insult to non-practicing and progressive Muslims.

2. Progressive Muslims use the Taliban as a warning also.

3. There’s nothing wrong with comparing extremisms. They’re all terrible, as are the archaic misogynistic and xenophobic ideologies at their base.

My two cents as an ex-Muslim (which means I should be put to death under Sharia law) with two non-practicing/progressive Muslim parents.

@seth_cooke Wow. I think I’m physically hurting from just looking at it.

Me: Their literal head of policy (now ex, apparently) begged me to go easy on them at a data protection conference and asked “why do you hold us to a higher standard?… We’re just another silicon valley tech company”

Folks: That’s not what they are. Why do you think that’s what they are?

#mozilla

… And that’s why it riles me up to no end to see corporations like Mozilla Corporation that are not what they say they are getting away with blatantly lying to our faces while very successfully staving off effective regulation for Big Tech, sucking up funding, and acting as honeypots for devs who do really care only to neutralise them with projects they know will not actually threaten the Silicon Valley status quo.

(Also, I suck at stepping away from the keyboard apparently!) :)

#mozilla

And I get it. Everything’s so shit you WANT to believe there are folks out there doing what they say they do… that they’re on your side, fighting Big Tech, protecting your privacy… I get it because – fuck it – I want to believe that. And yes, there are folks like that too… and they’re usually struggling to get by and rarely get any funding or support from anyone…

1/2

@nonlinear Embrace, extend, and extinguish. The Microsoft rule book.

Damn.

@Bigolbootybuttcake Haha, I believe it’s more rounding error than conspiracy ;)

I don’t know who needs to hear this but…

Privacy isn’t:

- A premium feature
- A setting you must configure
- About having something to hide

Privacy is:

- A basic human right.

@aryak Donno, ask the Gitea folks why they’d rather run GitHub rather than Gitea :)

(On a more serious note: because Gitea wasn’t a thing when I started hosting my own GitLab.)

(Now, I fully expect to host my own git repositories in the future but the moral of the story is that it won’t be on a piece of software designed to run 1-100,000 accounts but one designed to be owned and used by one person. And it’ll be the same site/software I chat to my friends on. The difference in complexity between those two things is orders of magnitude. And what that translates to in practice is that the latter can be set up and maintained by everyday people without technical knowledge.)

Folks: “just host your own GitLab”

Me upgrading GitLab today: Fails due to key expiration error. Fix that. Re-run upgrade. Fails due to Let’s Encrypt provisioning error. Reconfigure. Re-run upgrade. Fails due to database migration error (it’s just one of those “expected batched background migration for the given configuration to be marked as 'finished', but it is 'active'” errors (we all know what those are like, amirite?). Fix that. Re-run configuration. Works.

Now × by N “host your owns…”

@Nomaxice Also, Twitter, Inc. (sorry, Musk Social) can read all your DMs.

Framasoft are one of the few no-bullshit, non-Silicon Valley organisations working to protect your freedoms online and they’ve been hugely supportive of us since the very beginning.

Please support them if you can.

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#freedom #tech #privacy #humanRights