It’s disturbing that lists.gnu.org throws an “access forbidden” to Tor users. We expect that kind of treatment of privacy-hostile agencies, not a GNU project.

They may or may not have a good reason for blocking #Tor, but it’s the manner in which they block us that is off.

A 403 error message need not be a rude and undignified “access forbidden”. It could respect our #dignity, and say something like “we’re sorry we cannot give Tor users access because we are under attack from Tor”.

A #GNU project should set a good example of conduct.

The unicode standard is over 3000 pages and supports a penguin #emoji but not a wildebeest. #RMS probably does not like that one bit.

Seriously, how can the #GNU mascot be missing from the #unicode amid all the junk that is in there?

A #deadMansSwitch, if anyone needs one:

https://git.kescher.at/kescher/dead-mans-switch

Wouldn’t it be fun if a #university campus were to install payphones around campus that uplink through a asterisk box or voip service, which deliberately accepts #redbox tones for gratis calls just to stimulate the hacker culture?

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Plz @superwuster, write an essay about how centralized technology in fiefdoms is dumbing down the population of convenience zombies. Make it an extension of your #TyrannyOfConvenience essay. Knowledge empowers. When people flock to a flagship (#FB, #LinkedIn, #Signal, #LemmyWorld, mastodon.social, etc) they choose the disempowerment that results from avoiding knowledge.

People /should/ grapple with things like #PGP key exchanges.

People who know enough to avoid the major tech giants still fuck this up by choosing the easy path (Signal, Lemmy.world, etc). Then they hypocritically tout the importance of #decentralization from their centralised Cloudflare platforms, effectively setting a poor example for the basic ideas ppl should hold in high esteem.

Even *in universities* students are clinging on to /easy/ tech. Google docs, facebook, MS Word (not LaTeX). The new culture of knowledge avoidance is a big component of the Tyranny of Convenience. We need a #TimWu essay to cover this -- to reach your massive influence of 28 followers (wtf?).

Should such an essay be written?

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