Veronica ExplainsYou still deserve privacy, even if you:
- don't use Linux
- use big social media sites
- aren't "techie"
- are just an average computer user
Those of us in the FOSS space need to do a better job of saying that everyone deserves privacy.
(cue folks coming in saying they use BSD, lol)
Ozzelot 
@veronica even if i did put this particular laptop where my one not-technically-emoji-but-also-not-not-an-emoji in a displayname is, i'd still be using linux at work, so... a linux user i would remain
Droid Boy 
Claude@switch
Its developer (yes, one guy - Terry A. Davis) was sadly just as mentally ill as he was talented, and while it's easy to poke fun at the views and behaviors he held (he coined the term "glowie" ffs), I can't help but feel sorry for him. Even his death wasn't clearly concluded to be accident or suicide.
@droidboy @veronica
Its developer (yes, one guy - Terry A. Davis) was sadly just as mentally ill as he was talented, and while it's easy to poke fun at the views and behaviors he held (he coined the term "glowie" ffs), I can't help but feel sorry for him. Even his death wasn't clearly concluded to be accident or suicide.
@droidboy @veronica
Darth Osler@veronica I have been roundly excoriated for asserting in the past 3 decades it is more important to consider 2A covering cryptography than firearms
Juffo-Wup
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Antony@veronica I do use (Open-) BSD, but you're entirely correct. Saying people should get off the big platforms and Windows for privacy feels, to me, a bit like telling people not to live near factories if they're concerned about smog. It doesn't address the predatory systems that are actually driving the issues. Everyone deserves privacy and everyone deserves clean air. 'Just move lol' is a crap response to both concerns.
Tattie
purple: licenced to sticky plaster