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1. kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 00:40:19 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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   • Ubergeek

   @Mae @ubergeek it's a difficult field to navigate, and there are definitely instances that are really fucking horrible, where free software can be used to abuse and oppress both users and bystanders. I don't think this makes that those foundational technologies like databases or TPMs inherently a bad thing, but we do need to ensure they're free - for any purpose - and to absolutely stop at the social (moral, even!) level from the abuse of such tools.

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   • kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 00:40:20 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     • Ubergeek

     Ok - the chains that bind us, TPM, and a-moral software.

     I strongly believe that software, as much as possible, should be without morals. I'm the same way that postgis can be used for humanitarian disasters, it can also be used to build surveillance databases. The same crypto that allows us to talk privately and with confidence in our partner can be used to sign firmware to prevent user control. @Mae @ubergeek