Posts by mig5@mamot.fr
(DIR) Post #1809557 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T19:55:01Z
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@alcinnz I recommend reading Phillip Knightley’s “The Second Oldest Profession”. Documenting a long history of intelligence agencies using their failure as an excuse for more power, just for the sake of more power. In the politics of fear, it’s a strategy that always wins
(DIR) Post #1810204 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T19:57:55Z
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@alcinnz change probably begins with people not being so fucking scared so easily. It’s probably a Western cultural thing (or perhaps a colonial thing) and I am pessimistic about it changing anytime soon
(DIR) Post #1810382 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T20:15:38Z
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@alcinnz maybe. But a key ingredient of fear is a self-perception of fragility eg things that are dear that might be taken away by ‘bad people’. Maybe another crucial step is to have less stuff, or to put another way, find value in elements of life that are less tangible and so harder to imagine being take away. Needs a bigger cultural shift? I’m probably still oversimplifying it
(DIR) Post #1810751 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T20:17:22Z
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@alcinnz that’s what I meant by the colonial mindset - an unconscious recognition that our very way of life was obtained dishonestly - wonder if this contributes to a fear or sense of fragility that someone might come and take it all away
(DIR) Post #1810752 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T20:19:17Z
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@alcinnz (which is then easily preyed upon by the powers that be). “Give us more power and we’ll protect you so that won’t ever happen” and now your way of life is just poisoned with a different sort of terror: surveillance
(DIR) Post #1813650 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T22:11:53Z
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@sir RISC is good
(DIR) Post #1815256 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T22:55:41Z
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@blakehaswell one thing that troubles politicians is not getting votes.Labor probably has a surplus of confidence after the stunning win in Victoria.Come the federal election, they will need reminding that despite that, this grotesque backflip has undone that effort. As much as the fringes are not great options either, there should be a vocal boycott of both central parties and a high profile campaign site explaining why. Let’s see who promises a repeal at that point
(DIR) Post #1815257 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T23:06:36Z
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@blakehaswell of course, in a preferential system, they get the votes anyway, so it’s not a full solution.So we need a ‘lights out’ blackout strike online for Australian digital services. Banks and public services will never join in. So we need major players like Atlassian to ‘go dark’ (to throw the anti-encryption fear-mongering term back at the gov) for 24h a bit like Net Neutrality and other protests. The future is tech, so tech holds the power. Shut it down and make em sweat
(DIR) Post #1825567 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-08T06:58:53Z
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@blakehaswell oh I definitely agree. However in this case it’s ‘people’ who are harder to convince re: merits of encryption sometimes. Meanwhile the fallout of the bill very much affects tech industry. Strategically it makes sense for people like you and I to *pressure* industry into acting in order to achieve an influential result. And that still means it’s ‘people’ like us launching that action even if its industry acting.
(DIR) Post #1825573 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-08T07:06:08Z
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@blakehaswell I’d love a ‘gilets jaunes’ movement around this but it’s hard for ‘regular’ people to strike/demonstrate. If actual tech services go offline instead, that might have more impact from gov perspective
(DIR) Post #1902857 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-11T07:15:27Z
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Anyone else got a 91 y.o grandma who sends you emails from their Debian-based Linux laptop? 🤗 #hacktheplanet
(DIR) Post #2099048 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-19T07:20:44Z
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I just discovered MatterMost via a new client, and once again am baffled and freshly dismayed that orgs are giving up their data to behemoths like Slack et al for no good reason