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userbinator ◴[26 Jul 22 05:05 UTC] No.32234457[source]▶

What is to prevent school WiFi from one day requiring a Pluton assertion that your Windows PC hasn’t been tampered with before you can join the network?

Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom. The power of the authoritarian corporatocracy to force you to use only the (entire) systems they control. It's worth reading https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html again just to see how prescient Stallman was.

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1. turns0ut ◴[26 Jul 22 15:29 UTC] No.32239672[source]▶

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Engineers could leverage their economic might via collective action; don’t open your wfh laptop today.

Updating the Upton Sinclair quote without the gender bias; it’s difficult getting a person to understand something when their investment portfolio valuation depends on them not understanding it.

Who are they if they’re not what they are now?

When you all stop posting on corporate forums and working their jobs, shopping their stores, I’ll take you all sincerely and seriously.

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