Dear #FreeSoftware developers...

These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.

@pluralistic spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.

Go read that, and please, please, please...

Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.

The Coming War on General Computation - Wikisource, the free online library

@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.
@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I remember those from my 1960s survey crew days. *Never divide by zero!*