It's not scare quotes. More away to get across my exasperation with people losing their shit when somebody casually uses "open source".
Your only privacy from ad companies is in the small enclaves of repos and a dwindling file sharing culture. Anything of significance requires an account on facebook or being willing to run zoom. Hexbear and image boards don't count.
You can say that about alot of online services that are alot easier to find and use even if there is risk. This site is fine as some sort of introduction for the terminally online like myself but beyond that I and others here need to pull ourselves together and work where it matters - revolutionary parties, trade union, housing unions, mutual aid societies and pressure groups.
I used to love this open source libre software but it's not what threatens surveillance capitalism. Lawsuits, regulations and ultimately nationalization will.
It's not scare quotes. More away to get across my exasperation with people losing their shit when somebody casually uses "open source".
Your only privacy from ad companies is in the small enclaves of repos and a dwindling file sharing culture. Anything of significance requires an account on facebook or being willing to run zoom. Hexbear and image boards don't count.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I want to cling onto that until it's taken from me entirely. Why do those things not count?
It's just entertainment.
To a gay kid in a homophobic state it might be your support network.
You can say that about alot of online services that are alot easier to find and use even if there is risk. This site is fine as some sort of introduction for the terminally online like myself but beyond that I and others here need to pull ourselves together and work where it matters - revolutionary parties, trade union, housing unions, mutual aid societies and pressure groups.
I used to love this open source libre software but it's not what threatens surveillance capitalism. Lawsuits, regulations and ultimately nationalization will.