@Daojoan The language and psychology at play is utterly bizarre... on the plus side, here in a UK by-election an "elitist" smart female plumber representing the Green party just beat a far right pseudo-academic "man of the people" backed by billionaires.
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Today, the final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 begin.@prometheuspetrosss @mullvadnet Reticulum is great, but let's not think we can technology our way out of policy failings every time or for everyone.. for a start, it's very easy to imagine a dystopian future where using any un-backdoored communication is either treated as presumptively suspicious or outright illegal.
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We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now.@andre123 "choosing what to eat is hard and I'm hungry now, just stitch the sewage pipe directly to my mouth"?
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We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now.@ghouston @oblomov @libreoffice I do find it strange that there seems to just be this accepted wisdom that 'Mastodon is a usability nightmare'.. parroted widely, including by those who claim to love open source and have tried it. I just don't see it.
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We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now.@oblomov @libreoffice wow, there is a lot of hate and ignorant nonsense there (and some everywhere, but that's pretty concentrated). Anyway, I'm glad to see you prioritising open tools as well as keeping up the good work of making them.
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Hey @EUCommission, you want to incentivise small sustainable online organisations in the EU (e.g., small not-for-profits like Small Technology Foundation) as an alternative to Big Tech?@aral @EUCommission this seems like a very good idea.. as an aside, I would also like to see anti-cricumvention laws repealed across Europe. They are a major part of big techs 'moat', despite most of them achieving their early growth precisely through adversarial interoperability, and exist globally mostly because the US threatened trade tarrifs if their DMCA wasn't mirrored.
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Mad fantasy-fic idea: what if even death is no escape from the law, and contracts signed in life remain binding after shuffling off this mortal coil?@cstross Can I join a list for a signed first edition hardcover of this now?
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OK, so let's say me and some friends started a tech company/consultancy that refused to use "AI", would this encourage you choose us over others?@requiem I really think it would depend on how you define 'AI' and what your doing... E.g. in my scientific work I use quite a few tool that are now branded, at least by some, as 'AI'. This is categorically different from LLM slop generation or trying to replace graphic designers with a diffusion model. I care about ethics, honesty, and using appropriate tools for the job over what it's being branded as. Cutting the BS language would be great too, of course!