Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@whitequark great answer, thank you!

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@whitequark okay I have a question about life: given that the state of the world is bad and getting worse, what is a reasonable age at which to admit this to a child? I mean, if we talk about a very small child like a 3-year-old then I think it is fine to pretend that the world is ok, it would just be too harsh to tell the truth to someone that young. But sooner or later the child will find out anyway, we cannot keep pretending forever. When is a child old enough to hear the truth?

@stargirl

@marcusosterberg det låter som om Bahnhof gjort något fel, men vad?
@gustav

To fight this we would need a resurrection of the ideals from the enlightenment; freedom of thought, rational inquiry, individual liberty, freedom of expression, religious tolerance, all that stuff that was once considered the foundation of modern civilization but has now apparently been forgotten. We desperately need people to to start remembering those things and why they are important, otherwise world goes to shit.

Happy new year?

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However, recently it occurred to me that arguing in that way probably does not work on most people today, because they actually do not care about free speech either.

So I think that today's lack of understanding of the importance of privacy is just a symptom of a deeper problem: people stopped caring about human rights, including free speech, and then of course privacy is also lost.

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Thinking about that famous #Snowden quote:

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

That appears as a strong argument if you care about free speech.

However...

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@wizvii detsamma 🎆

@marcusosterberg it's one of the aspects I despise most about all the recent "AI" stuff going on: huge companies take the work of others, mix it up and present the results as their own making, without proper references.

If an individual copies something through file sharing or similar, that is often considered immoral, illegal etc. But when a large company does things like that, then suddenly it's okay?!

Those companies get away with it because they are too big, they have way too much power.

@dhabecker I solved it! I think 🙂

@fiaewald helt patetiskt, jag skäms över att ha en sån total nolla som utrikesminister. Blä.

Andra partier borde KU-anmäla det där.

@normalniklas

> Bara ideologisk övertygelse om
> att det allmänna inte ska äga.

Det behöver inte alltid handla om ideologi, kan också vara helt vanlig korruption.

Privata aktörer tjänar stora pengar på att vissa politiska beslut fattas, en del av de pengarna kan direkt eller indirekt hamna hos de politiker som fixat det hela.

@amarok A requirement like "if they are not receiving any financial returns" does not make sense here, who knows if someone got paid to do some work. Probably the people who wrote that do not understand the concept of free software.

As the Debian statement says, free software is a gift to society. It is a terrible idea to put burdens on those who make free software.

@debian

@hehemrin well done!

@frida there is always "Troy" featuring Brad Pitt as Achilles. Not sure if it's all that good, but at least it tries hard to be epic 🙂

Trying out my new #Tor project tshirt. What do you think?

@torproject #privacy #PrivacyMatters #encryption #freedom #TorNetwork #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #selfie #ShotOnLibrem5

@grosser_mensch wow. Which westcoast is this?

@samuel mm jag har fått intrycket att det är en väldigt kreddig tillställning i kretsar av folk som bryr sig om sånt som frihet, oberoende, fri programvara, digitala rättigheter osv. Det diskuteras spännande, rolliga saker och även viktiga saker, ur ett perspektiv som jag tycker verkar vara vad man kanske kan kalla ett äkta samhällsintresse, syftet är inte att någon ska tjäna pengar utan vad som faktiskt är viktigt på riktigt. Jag hoppas kunna vara med själv nån gång, kanske nästa år.

The 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) is ongoing right now. I'm not there unfortunately but luckily there are some videos available here: https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2023

37C3 is about "information technology and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society": https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/index.html

For those who are there, which are your favourite talks so far?

I liked this one: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12004-please_identify_yourself

#ccc #37c3