Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

In case you think housing subsidies don't work, consider that everyone in America who has a mortgage is living in subsidized housing because mortgages to buy houses are given huge deductions https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/magazine/vienna-social-housing.html

#LLM #chatbot tricks like #ChatGPT are looking ever more like #bitcoin and other #cryptocurrencies : they are mostly good for cheating, faking, and creating #disinfo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html

How does one deal with someone like L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz? On one hand, he was an outspoken #feminist and #suffragist, on the other hand, he explicitly advocated for the #genocide of the native Americans.

@gwagner That article does have a good outline of the issues, which The Economist is good at. It also dismisses the ideas with an oversimplified, sweeping generalization. The Economist is also good at that. "It turns out voters do not much like stagnation; the newish premier, Giorgia Meloni, rails against “Greta Thunberg’s ideology” killing jobs." People don't like struggling or not having jobs. Many growth-centered economies have delivered this state, that can't be pinned on de-growth.

@Billie Very nice to see this effort! #Android rebuilds lives again! Has anyone tested to see if they are #reproducible?

@ntnsndr @cwebber @fossandcrafts @SylvieLorxu @mlemweb @efoundation I don't know much about how their app works, but I can tell you that #FDroid takes privacy, security, and transparency very seriously, for example https://f-droid.org/docs/Security_Model

@ntnsndr @cwebber @fossandcrafts @SylvieLorxu @mlemweb @efoundation /e/ foundation prioritizes ease of use over #FreeSoftware, they are more about being #Google-free. If you want human-reviewed Free Software, then stick with f-droid.org as your only app source. The official #FDroid client provides free software, as easy as possible.

I'm often surprised to hear that many people believe that #OpenSource was this new radical idea in software development that came about in the 80s. That is actually backwards. Open Source was the default way software was developed before the 80s, and #proprietary development changed that. The #FreeSoftware movement was a direct response to software going #proprietary. It put #UserFreedom front and center as the reason why #software should be free and open.

@bagder @mjgardner @icing In the case of well established, well documented, widespread protocols, I totally agree. There are other factors that change the equation. Is it a new protocol? Are the docs good? Do the people involved in implementing have a means to communicate? And human input changes the equation in a big way. No one expects humans to type HTTP, TLS, or TCP.

@rene_mobile @reto @signalapp Your post is a nice breakdown. There is a tricky balance here: of course more systems implementing trusted E2EE methods is a good thing, but its turned into a marketing bullet point, like "fully private because E2EE". As for #Signal, last I've seen, they don't really do Reproducible Builds. Their process uses the binaries for their own native code, and just reproduces the Java and Android resources part. And Signal releases still include proprietary libraries.

@jr @Bubu @mynacol @Foxboron I would love to see documentation of real world cases of that APK signing key rotation in action. Know of any? Seems like thing we should include in the #FDroid docs too.