>I disagree and let anybody who cares (probably nobody) judge.
I care.
I also agree that heyjoe's posts are for the most part defeatist and
demotivating.
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I'm not sure what threat model he is thinking about or what he wants to
achieve. This is what I distill from the hundreds of posts:
* Every attempt at privacy, security and computer freedom is moot because
hardware is insecure.
* We should not try to do "the best we can" because that is not a measure of
anything (?!).
* Firefox is no good because a tcpdump showed that it sends packets to other
servers. Chromium did not send packets using that same, very limited test (as
Magic Banana has explained). Therefore Chromium is better even though it
contains obfuscated code and non-free licenses.
* Meanwhile, heyjoe has just written on another post in this thread that he
uses Gmail, a "service" whose main function is data mining and surveillance,
made by a company whose main business model is data mining and surveillance,
and who have been shown to belong to the PRISM NSA surveillance program,
among many other possible privacy and security related red flags.
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The above makes me believe that either heyjoe is just a troll, or he refuses
to think in a logical manner, or perhaps he just refuses to admit when he is
wrong. What I am sure about is that he does not want to contribute to
anything positive to any discussion I have so far witnessed, except by
complaining and shooting down solutions when they are given to him (as the
empty github repo and Magic Banana's unused contributions prove).
Frankly, all the threads I have seen heyjoe participate in, have become
onanistic and meaningless, including the web browser thread which included
heyjoe's interesting tcpdumps, but which he later turned into agressions
against Magic Banana to cover for his inability or unwillingness to
collaborate with others to create solutions to the problems he discovered.
There are several people here that have made this forum a worthwhile place
for me to read, some for the past few months, others over the years, and who
I will stand up to defend if I feel they are being wronged (Magic Banana,
Jxself, Quantumgravity, Mason, Supertramp and many others, such as Lembas,
who btw I no longer see), many of whom I have been able to count on
throughout the years to help solve problems, either my own or those of other
trisquelians.
So I care.
And I judge.
I hope heyjoe will stick around if he can contribute to making this forum a
better place. For now, I see the very opposite of that happening. So far,
heyjoe keeps going out of his way to create polemic and turn any discussion
into a pointless thread that never ends.
I am usually against moderators and control over the flow of thoughts and
ideas in forums. These past few weeks I have, for the first time as far as I
remember, found myself wishing that this forum had more moderation.
