Bob BeakerApr 10
Neil Brown

That Microsoft has restored WireGuard's ability to release updates is good, sure.

But should we really accept a situation in which Microsoft was able to take it away in the first place?

Different people will have different takes, I appreciate, but so much power concentrated in the hands of one private commercial organisation seems... unwise.

Apr 10 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadLisPiApr 10
@neil No, corposcum should see any authority they have systematically stripped away as intrinsically illegitimate and built on abusive relationships.
Show thread🌸 lumi-nhac    ðŸŒ±Apr 10
@lispi314 @neil no one should have power over my own devices except myself. full power, without exception

it's my machine, no one else gets to say what i do or don't do with it
Show threadSimon ZerafaApr 10

@neil

What about VeraCrypt? 🥺

Show threadNicole ParsonsApr 10

@neil

Considering the amount of investment that American tech companies are getting from anti-democracy outfits like Koch Network and from oppressive petrostate despots, it's prudent to move away from these platforms quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions

They're private companies. There's no such thing as civil rights or fair treatment when located in a despotic regime like Trump's.

Or #PrinceBonesaw 's regime.

https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/156691-how-sanctions-can-weaponize-us-tech-against-the-icc.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/microsoft-may-share-user-data-with-saudi-arabia-after-investing-2b-there/

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court

The Guardian
Show threadgroff 🇺🇦Apr 10
@neil WireGuard should boycott Macroslop now.
Show threadDaniel ThomasApr 11
@neil The UK Code of Practice on Apps and App Stores would be applicable here and contains provisions on the right to appeal etc. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-app-store-operators-and-app-developers/code-of-practice-for-app-store-operators-and-app-developers-new-updated-version
Code of practice for app store operators and app developers (updated)

GOV.UK
Show threadRairii   Apr 11
@DanielRThomas @neil would it? given it wasnt related to the app store but the driver signing portal?
Show threadLinux Renaissance 🇭🇷Apr 11

@neil the perceived power is completely in our hands. We the people (users) have absolute control of who gets the power by the means of democracy. I see no reason why one would choose to use a proprietary operating system. Be it from any American tech giant. Proprietary means you choose to follow their rules. You chose to give up on your software freedom.

I have done my part. Now it's time for everyone else to stop using propriety operating systems and to contribute to libre ones.

Show threadMartinApr 11
@neil
You don't say.
Show threadLi ~ Crystal SystemApr 11
@neil @ireneista MS casually took away the keys to kernel access on your own computer ago and we all just said nothing and let them do it,
Show threadIrenes (many)Apr 11
@Li @neil "we" is doing a lot of work there, but yes, it's a shame that wasn't the end of their commercial viability
Show threadLi ~ Crystal SystemApr 11
@ireneista @neil we as in the general populace but yea it is a bit
Show threadsocApr 11
@neil Their operating system, their rules.