Mastodawn

RE: https://chaos.social/@sleepyowl/116126002122086149

A must read thread from @sleepyowl, particularly for anyone laughing off the "oh they're trying to enforce age verification at an OS level, well I'll just change my open source operating system settings"

Y'all, this is the game where we get LOCKED OUT of having ANY real FOSS operating system we control AT ALL

The steps have been being put in place for this for over a decade now. And who controls the supply chain?

We have to fight this stuff tooth and nail.

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Mar 2

@cwebber
If we’re permitted to buy hardware at all:

https://masto.hackers.town/@lmorchard/116110713766204271

@sleepyowl

Les Orchard (@[email protected])

It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware. https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/

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@fname

Well said. Capitalists want to monopolise hardware and be the permanent owners of all devices used by everyone for everything.

Once hardware monopolies are assured then firms will charge users to rent their devices, and users will no longer have any control over operating systems, software libraries or backdoors.

@cwebber @sleepyowl