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heavyset_go ◴[] No.25075498[source]
Again, it turns out that Stallman[1] and others[2] were prescient.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

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pgt ◴[] No.25076763[source]
Every year Stallman seems less crazy.
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1. sjwright ◴[] No.25077040[source]
Only in relation to the wider world which is getting progressively more crazy.
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2. rpdillon ◴[] No.25078018[source]
I think the intent of the statement was more:

> Every year Stallman seems more correct.

In the sense that the exact risks he was trying to mitigate are in fact materializing in mainstream computing platforms.

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3. pgt ◴[] No.25080377[source]
Yes, but framing it like that that won't rise to the top and get people to pay attention to all the other important things he has to say.