Re: Improvements and thoughts on small projects for advocacy

Justina Colmena ~biz <[email protected]> wrote:


it must feel refreshing to rant about the things you find unfair
and yet won't lift a finger to actually change, oh except finger
after finger on a keyboard into a mailing list noone reads


> "We" are suffering from many of the same hardware problems you are, when you can't get documentation from the manufacturers of hardware devices, __without an NDA__, to write OpenBSD drivers for them.
> 
>  * General bit rot: Rowhammer, hard drive crashes, etc.
>  * Proprietary patented intellectual property with "No user serviceable parts inside."
>  * "This product contains a _____ known to the State of California to cause cancer."
>  * "The NSA" with all the undocumented back doors for the cops in everything, the USA crypto export regulations.
>  * The FBI warnings on the movies, the Mounties in Canada and the State Troopers in the U.S., the copyrighted content, the child pornography, the firearms, the weed, and all sorts of other information deemed illegal for us to possess on our own computers.
>  * The "hack job" in the mainstream media: we're all "hackers" if we don't use Microsoft® Windows® on an approved Intel® microprocessor as approved by the corporate boss.
>  * The "evil maid" attack of some lady digging in a guy's computer with a private investigator or a subpoena for an anti-harassment civil suit or a restraining order or no-contact order or something like that.
>  * The drug dealers and the hit men on the "dark web", the Bitcoin miners and the crypto currency mining bots.
>  * The constant double-dealing between "full" KVM virtualization and Linux-kernel-only "paravirtualization" in the cloud.
>  * The SWAT teams with their doorbuster warrants for anybody who runs a "server."
>  * No IPv6 support anywhere under the sun.
>  * ...
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.