Post #2392317
2026-03-21 14:09 UTC
@Khrys@mamot.fr @fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk I've long been saying that, instead of debating the relative merits of open source software and free software, we should have been demanding noncommercial software. Now it may be too late. FOSS is no anarchist collective, but arguably hacking is. Unfortunately too many of the hacker era hackers were ancaps and could be hired to do the dirty work of the powerful. But now that computing freedom is by definition illegal, maybe a new generation of hackers will arise. One can only hope.
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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-21 14:49
@lori @Khrys@mamot.fr i've recently been thinking about — and this is beyond my skills, so i should really say "fantasising about" — some sort of common retrocomputing platform, maybe based on an esp32 or something, which is completely incompatible with commercial computers and so can't be used commercially. but it would also be missing all the spy-firmware (minix in the cpu, tiny computers in usb plugs etc). maybe we could start our own replacement for the internet! … yeah, right. sorry.
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@yohan@social.xenofem.me 2026-03-22 16:56
@ATISz9djuGNYN4CokK.lori@cambrian.social @fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @Khrys@mamot.fr it is never too late.