Mastodawn

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.

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Rupert Reynolds

@RuiSeabra @pluralistic They can never win that war conclusively, mind you. There's always old hardware and software.

I had an odd dream about coping and at one stage I had to program an FPGA to emulate IBM S/360 processor, because my laptop had been enshittified so badly it refused to run the Hercules emulator.

Anyway, my dream said it was possible :-)