Hi Heather,
Thanks for sharing; your post makes a lot of sense. I always read your posts
with interest because you make matters resonate on a personal level and help
to put things in perspective.
This is the first time I hear the story of RMS having to say that someone he
loved had just
Yes, I had not thought about it this way, but it is indeed like any other
abusive relationship.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful answer.
The capacity of RMS to continue his activism over such a long period is
something worth learning about. I like his response.
There's a book by Hillary
It's probably pessimism to think that the gap between developers and users
will continue to widen. It's already pretty wide.
Hopefully the "open sores" marketing department will just vacuum up all the
potential open sores customers and they will be able to purchase a superior
product to
Certain words and phrases keep going through my head, like
"incarceration", and "cavity search", and "death by electrocution", and
you're asking me if I want to get out of this alive?? :/
> Still I got this impression.
>
> Yeah.. Old is who old does, remember!
> Still I got this impression.
Yeah.. Old is who old does, remember!
Here in the college where I study in Brazil I'm also doing some similar
effort, although I do this in college/university still.
Last year I made an edition of the Latin American Free Software
Installation Festival (in portuguese: Festival Latino-americano de
Instalação de Software Livre, FLISoL)
Depends on how conflict of rules is solved. The AI can read hipocrates and
the greek and come to the conclusion that a computer should be like a medic
(or physician) or psychologist of the mankind. The computer can understand
that if she is not doing physical harm (she is not killing
@gslima Humans program AI, so we still have a chance to encode some values
into it, if AI ever becomes a serious thing. Take for example Asimov's law
for robots. "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity
to come to harm." Something similar can be programmed into the
What I see in future is a little dark, but also with a good possibility.
Non-supervised Artificial inteligence will conclude the only way to solve the
human problem is to be against government and bad big corporations, because
of ubiquity of surveillance and so many rules to follow, beyond
This is a good book on that topic:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf
People buy the things that fbit mentions because they do not know any better
and/or conditioning. If part of the RMS' books can be distilled into some
more digestable format to explain to people the
"I am old. "
Don't get me wrong, but you're saying this in almost all of your posts,
litteraly. And I'm far from reading every single post on this forum, I only
scan them briefly. Still I got this impression.
Maybe you're taking this whole age-thing a bit too important?
Thanks for sharing this. I hope you know what a positive force you are in
this forum.
A relationship with the developer of or company controlling a piece of
proprietary software is like any other abusive relationship. Often, the
relationship is perpetuated by emotional or practical dependence on
perpetrator, sometimes to the point that the victim will defend their abuser.
Pessimism is not realism and realism is: people, most of them, don't care and
the trend is certainly not going to stop or slow down, it will actually
explode more. I agree with the point expressed in the book "The transparent
society" - surveillance is here to stay. Whether the peasants will
Those of us who are struggling with these issues probably have family
members who would not get past your first intelligently well written
posts and would just see the tl;dr as "Oh no, I'll bet anything my
dingbat dumb blonde daughter Heather posts there! Google, make me a
sammich and forward that
Hi I. Khider,
We can do both simultaneously if you post a new topic with your concerns. I
have never had an issue with anyone on this site though -- moderator or
otherwise -- so I don't know if I will have anything to contribute. Have a
nice day.
Oh darling, before we get into that. Let us first address the behaviour of
Trisquel site runners. Let them observe their own terms and conditions before
we start pointing fingers via this site elsewhere. : - )
tl;dr
Given the continued trends of proprietary software and surveillance
technologies, what is strategically the best course of action for those of us
who care -- not only from an individual perspective, but also in terms of the
wider harmful effects of these technologies to the fabric
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