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>The only answer to the privacy and security question is to be principled enough I like this answer. Maybe this course of action won't be sufficient but I like

>The only answer to the privacy and security question is to be principled enough I like this answer. Maybe this course of action won't be sufficient but I like taking responsibility to do what you can first of all. Folks here worship the free market and here's a corporation making use of data that is freely provided (but perhaps not used in expected ways), much in the very same way Facebook, Google, what have you, use data that is freely provided to make big bucks. There is some outcry, but in general, software developers are extremely happy about massive wage increases across the industry, due to companies like Facebook and Google, while crapping on these same companies as often as possible, in web forums where it doesn't really matter at all. It's cathartic but ineffective. Make some vague statement about "the government" should solve this, while also cashing your outsize paycheck and continuing the privacy destroying work at BigCorp Data Scrapers Inc. So I like the reminder to look in the mirror and remember who exactly is building all this surveillance tech in the first place, and starting the solutions there.

Sleepytime 6y ago
Thanks for the kind response. I kind of expected to get pooped all over for that post. It's not necessarily an easy answer. I left my last cushy job over something most here would consider minor to work for a non-guaranteed income that would be embarrassing for most others in the industry or on this site, but my soul feels much better that now I'm an (albiet insignificant) part of the solution instead of part of the problem. No one snowflake is to blame for the avalanche. On the plus side my work-life balance is far more tilted to the 'life' side of that equation. The goal over the next few years is to continue to do what I can in all areas of my life. Produce my own food, spend my money as locally as possible. I'm okay if it's not polished for mass consumption or 'regulated' as long as I know who's behind it. I've been buying homemade meals from random strangers on craigslist and Facebook marketplace (my SO hasn't given it up yet, even they haven't posted anything for years). They have been delicious and cheap usually deliver to my house. Unregulated food might scare people, but I've got the runs from grade A inspected places many times over the years so... Call it what you will. Localism, anti-corporatism, cryptoanarchy, free market, anarcho-capitalism. Labels don't really seem to help much when we're fundamentally all working towards the same end goal. But I think in all cases it's unfair to ask others (including the state) to do something you're unwilling to expend effort attempting yourself because you've given up before you've started. Be excellent to each other and have a rocking day.

Sleepytime 6y ago

Thanks for the kind response. I kind of expected to get pooped all over for that post. It's not necessarily an easy answer. I left my last cushy job over something most here would consider minor to work for a non-guaranteed income that would be embarrassing for most others in the industry or on this site, but my soul feels much better that now I'm an (albiet insignificant) part of the solution instead of part of the problem. No one snowflake is to blame for the avalanche. On the plus side my work-life balance is far more tilted to the 'life' side of that equation. The goal over the next few years is to continue to do what I can in all areas of my life. Produce my own food, spend my money as locally as possible. I'm okay if it's not polished for mass consumption or 'regulated' as long as I know who's behind it. I've been buying homemade meals from random strangers on craigslist and Facebook marketplace (my SO hasn't given it up yet, even they haven't posted anything for years). They have been delicious and cheap usually deliver to my house. Unregulated food might scare people, but I've got the runs from grade A inspected places many times over the years so... Call it what you will. Localism, anti-corporatism, cryptoanarchy, free market, anarcho-capitalism. Labels don't really seem to help much when we're fundamentally all working towards the same end goal. But I think in all cases it's unfair to ask others (including the state) to do something you're unwilling to expend effort attempting yourself because you've given up before you've started. Be excellent to each other and have a rocking day.