Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@niu.moe), page 6

@polychrome
Fediverse (mostly Mastodon) promised us we could just be ourselves, instead of managing personal brand. But that's a false promise. Our public posts are visible to everyone, forever. Our past followers-only post will be visible to any future followers. And they will be used against us, if we're not careful what we say.

So IMO socnets, as they are now, are no good for talking about sensitive personal suff.

Maybe we could fix them, but I'm not sure.

@polychrome IMO, socnets were a mistake.
IRL, as well as on previous decade's IMs and chats, you see what people are around, consider how much you trust them, and decide what things you're OK telling them.
But on socnets, there can always be someone who joins later, and can see everything you said before, even without anyone making an archive.

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Back when the GNU project was starting, among the first things they rewrote as Free Software were:
- text editor / IDE (Emacs)
- assembler, linker, and compiler
- make

IOW, they made tools that they needed to further develop Free Software without relying on proprietary tools.

They wanted their project to be self-hosting.

Nowadays, we have more free software than ever, but we develop it using github and Discord...

One thing that's IMO wrong with the way firefox checks addon signatures is that it checks signatures on already-installed addons periodically.

Why?
What's the point?

If a malicious addon was running 5 minutes ago, what do you gain by disabling it now?

And if it wasn't malicious 5 minutes ago, it's probably isn't malicious now. The code is still the same.

Install time checing - sure.
Checking on startup - fine.
But checking after you've already executed it?