Mastodawn

@fincham For some thought... it simply isn't viable to always meet the people and understand their values in a society. It is imperfect, but that is okay. I don't know the person who made the anti-lock breaking system on my car, but I use it every day. When I go to a hospital, I trust doctors that may have entirely different values than me to perform a life-critical task on my body, using tools and utensils that were made by someone else. At some point you just have to trust others.

James Manes Dec 21

aburka 🫣Dec 20

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/115752573933914452

This tape from fifty years ago, containing an OS previously thought lost to time, was digitized *yesterday* and it's now bootable, what a wonderful group of nerds

James Manes Dec 20

Shawn Hooper (he/him)Dec 20

@zak It’s the worst

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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James Manes Nov 24

@panic Oh cool, I’ll use that then. Thanks!

James Manes Nov 24

Watchful Citizen Nov 24

@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl