A second hand laptop like T430S

WARNING: contains some cloudflare.com

The goal is to collectively free humans from the enslavement and dangers that proprietary computing represents.

It’s a collective fight for freedom. Then of course we must continuously question and revise the tactics, and invent new ways of funding, sustaining, supporting, etc… the goal.

Simplex.chat is promising, with great privacy/anonymity concepts at its core:

• no identifyer like a phone# or an email address needed
• little to no metadata transiting by the server
• identity management (“incognito” identities generated in one click when joining a group for instance, management of several identities), all database/client-side.
• works with any server, through tor by default. different servers used to send/receive messages.
• android/ios/linux-tui/linux-desktop/macos/windows versions available
• in Haskell, so no node/electron shtf#ckery (just a different shtf#ckery… ;)) )

People pretend to be surprised and upset now.

But the only reason Zoom™ are able to do this now is because for so many years people pretend not to care about a business model entirely based proprietary, centralized architecture and therefore on the collection of all these conversations…

So yeah “training ML” why not. is it very much worse than all the rest they were routinely doing or capable of doing with this data? don’t think so.

Good thing is: soon they can rent to these corporate drones a ML-version of themselves that can sit in these endless meetings in their place, to nod and try to look good and say “i agree” when asked for their opinion…

In last 5 years for me:

• a pair of decent (second hand) speakers
• a cheap (blue switches ftw) mechanical keyboard
• a standing desk
• an ergonomic chair

(sorry it’s not single item…)

money

What are the challenges posed by moderation (and admin in general) that you didn’t think of when launching the first instance?

(and: How can things get improved, how can people help?)

I think it should always add:

"I am sorry*, Dave,* but i cannot … "

All culture belongs to everyone, therefore should be accessible to everyone.

The sale of goods only concerns those who can and want to afford it.

Sharing is not theft.

Pirates are cool.