• 7bicycles [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Next to urban planning and such it seems the whole shebang about open source software, opsec and data protection just escapes most leftists at this point, even. I noticed it during corona when some institutions would opt to use open source stuff instead of forking over bucketloads of cash and data to your usual big american companies and I've seen so many leftists go "fucking computer nerds just buy MS lmao it's the best it works". Like otherwise cool leftists. Same here. My going theory is that both fields have outwards representation that's usually not very leftist (you know, the old white bicycle crank, all the pony tailed computer nerds and so) and so with no actual knowledge of the topic people just default to the against those position, which lands you at those funny positions of "cycling lanes are gentrification" and "we need to pay for the privilege to hand whatever US tech firm is the current thing all our data" and such.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      There's also the fact that people have been taught for their jobs, at university or in training, to use enterprise software like MS Office, Adobe products, Oracle, Visual Studio, etc. No one wants to learn new stuff for their job if they don't have to.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Sure, whatever, let your boss pay for it, I don't care. Most people don't use Twitter / Threads / Mastodon professionally though in any which capacity, I care about when it's the public that's in there somehow which is definitely the case when you argue for selling all your school kids data to Microsoft because you figure the best possible option is to just buy Teams.

        Maybe it's a pet peeve, but there's an infuriating ignorance among many people who by all means should know better to even engage with alternative ideas here in these topics I feel.

          • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            I mean I wouldn't say they're all honeypots, they're just not the end all be all final solution for perfect privacy without having to think about anything before

          • 7bicycles [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The "FOSS enthusiasts" are lib techbros, which play quite well with your average folks and is why any of those get occasionally used. The actual FOSS enthusiasts, not so much.