Notices by awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴‍☠️ 🐾 ⎇ (awooo@pawb.fun)

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@LunaFoxgirlVT *offers chicken as a sacrifice*

@wrongthink @charlotte @SuperDicq @chjara I'm not arguing for giving up, but the way the FSF operates is just the wrong angle. Simply trying to avoid the blobs or prefering their existence embedded in the hardware is not a viable strategy and won't achieve much.

Again, nothing wrong with doing so personally or sharing resources about it, but treating it as the primary way forward will fail. You need a systemic solution to this systemic problem, and there are different levels of hostile software

@SuperDicq @chjara @charlotte Right now you can't get anything without some proprietary firmware running on it. Your keyboard probably has it, your mouse has it even in the very sensor itself, there are practical limits to what you can do without refusing technology outright.

@SuperDicq @chjara @charlotte What's the difference between shipping said software burned into the hardware itself vs shipping it as a binary with a redistributable license in the OS and sending it to the hardware? Yes, the distro must state that it contains said software, it is usually required by the license to have a notice, but that software doesn't run inside your userspace or kernel.

And I agree, firmware should be open source and replaceable, but that's a separate issue to solve.

I don't know how to say it, but I'm tired of security being talked about in a way completely removed from discussions about its consequences, or only by its efficacy. Some technology is simply too powerful and open to abuse to be allowed to exist. The ability to remotely enforce the kind of software a client runs is just that (at least in a personal computing setting).

@aurelia The threat with TC is not necessarily being locked out of running different software on something, but the fact this software can be checked remotely. So a bank could deny you access if you run linux on your mac (or you run a computer without TC). In that way it creates coercion to use the "approved" software, a bit like the network effect does for social media.

Phones are definitely a breeding ground for this disgusting crap and we need to fight that.