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The facepalms
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Also on the topic of PGP/GPG, keybase will have a significant database of probably crackable private keys, since uploading the private key is the default.
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It's an old story, but worth keeping in mind when adoring fans gush about the dynamic entrepreneurialism of Elon Musk. Turns out most of his money comes from good old Uncle Sam, aka the US tax payer.
Not so self-made after all.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
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@mikegerwitz It's almost as if the purpose of snaps was to bypass the Debian development process and make installing proprietary software easy on Ubuntu
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Interesting idea that the GDPR might apply pressure towards decentralization and that silos might be less motivated to hold data in a centralized way. I'm highly skeptical that's how it will work out though, because it would require fundamental business model change.
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Actually I think the problems of privacy and accountability become easier in the decentralized situation. It's a bit like being judged in a court of peers, rather than by some completely foreign entity who has no concept of the context of your actions.
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Eben, I don't want some government bureaucrat explaining to me how they can make my life better using my own data which they've purloined somehow.
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@enkiv2 The thing is that open source was a rebranding of Free Software for business uses. It was intended to be corporatized.
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Noticing some people trying to use Stallman's old jokes as a reason to dismiss Free Software or claim that only sexists support it. They do something similar occasionally with Torvalds. Neither of these personalities are beyond criticism, so it's an easy lever to yank on. They seem to overlook that proprietary software discriminates against people in very arbitrary ways and is exclusionary by nature.
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@pea @dansup Once you start getting into freemium business models and measuring user interaction then it all starts to move in the direction of being Twitter 2.0, or worse, something like gmail. Having an easy way to sponsor an instance is a good idea, but avoid big sponsors and try to keep it grassroots. Corporate colonialism is always a possibility and if the fediverse continues to grow then you can be sure that the usual suspects will be thinking of strategies to take it over.
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@dtluna @jankoekepan @cypnk GDPR introduces a bare minimum standard for internet services. The right to obtain your data from the system and the right to have your data permanently deleted from the system. I think there's also something about data being used for the purpose for which it was originally obtained, and not other unspecified purposes. We've had legislstion similar to this in the UK since the 1980s, and its net effect has been almost zero. Companies openly flout the data rules and there is no enforcement.
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@torproject It's sad that they're doing this, but also a lesson that these companies can't be relied upon to defend anything other than their narrowly defined business interests.
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To defeat capitalism requires a broad change in the economy and culture and a withdrawal of participation in the old system. Such a change can't happen via isolated single issue campaigns or a retreat into identitarian bunkers.
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@ralph Maybe just a Free Software coop. I'm not sure I'd fancy working for the government, but getting #freesoftware into schools, hospitals (GNU Health), libraries and other public infrastructure would be worthwhile.
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@brainblasted They should stop adding features for a while and make some videos on how to install a matrix homeserver a Rpi or something like that. Going through all of the steps including getting a domain name. Just continuing to shore up matrix.org isn't a good strategy.
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Have been playing around with Firefox with the aim of finding out whether I can remove the telemetry entirely. The answer is not easily. It would be a more involved project.
Firefox sends telemetry to 52.88.27.118 unencrypted so that third parties will also be able to see what's going on. Since this is opt out it must be a major data exfiltration route.
I've blocked that IP address within #freedombone just to be on the safe side, although it's not expected that anyone will have Firefox installed on a server.
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Another day in #pleroma development
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First Russia then Iran blocks Telegram. Telegram isn't a very good app anyway. It has questionable crypto and a closed source server doing who knows what. But government censorship isn't the way to deal with it.
Although I like XMPP, and Conversations is pretty good these days with default end-to-end encryption, I reckon that the future of messaging apps has to be peer to peer. That's the only way to stop bogus bureaucrats trying to prevent people from communicating. A government which fears people chatting is a pretty good indicator of its lack of legitimacy.
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