Océane (@oceane)

AnarchoNinaWrites @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse

2y

Me: "You literally cannot trust your cellphone, obviously."

Friend: "That sounds kinda paranoid..."

Me, blinking: "I do not understand how you go through life, day after day, completely unaware of REPORTED reality all around you. It's truly incredible to me."

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist

2y

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'd rather trust a device running fully free software, like my ThinkPad running GNU Guix, because I'm probably not worth a six-figures zero-day, and there's no proprietary software accessing to my personal data. Everything that runs on my computer is transparent, cannot be easily forged, and can be challenged anyway, by compiling each program and verifying it matches the substitutes' checksums.

I'd trust a phone running on the same principles, but no such thing exists ATM, the Replicant compatibility page is pretty scarce. And I don't even have a working wifi card on my laptop.

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist

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@AnarchoNinaWrites I love this, because I'm struggling with an IT addiction, so whatever helps me to put distance between social media and my use of my computer it a good thing. I can do most of my work offline anyway – reading the news, checking my emails, writing stuff, reading ebooks, etc.

But most people will get scared of IT literacy because (1) there's an untold free/open source software divide, where free software is a community of both users and developers, will give users the resources they need to start working with the developers, etc., while open source users will work for the developers, (2) open source users and IT in general lack transparency about the education materials (books) one needs to read to become a better infrastructure maintainer, developer, etc.; (3) Twitter is professional software, useful to white collar workers, and terrible for high school students, with no intellectual project and no idea of why they're using it or where they're heading to, in terms of personal/professional projects, etc.; likewise, a lot of open source software is professional software, and open source users will fall for it, even if they lack the educative materials they need, and even if forcing themselves to use them will put them into depression, because (4) as far as I know, rationality is the minimal coherence of action to individual goals, values, affects, and traditions (Déchaux's interpretation of Weber's theory of rationality); however, as affordances are non-living entities letting us access to biocognitive resources, an environment where they're inaccessible being frustrating and motivating, while an environment where they're absent being depressing, projecting one's social media (as professional software) addiction into professional open source software such as sway, IMHO, is a strong factor of depression; there's evidence of a high rate of depression on 4chan and especially among its Archlinux users, because Archlinux is a distribution developed for IT professionals.

So I can totally understand the sort of existential dread one would feel by getting exposed to how unreliable consumer-grade phones and computers are.

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