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Bram Moolenaar famously uses Vim to raise awareness. A VPN package, dead drop website, steganography package, onion router, multi-point P2P routing mesh drivers
by cestith 5y ago
Bram Moolenaar famously uses Vim to raise awareness. A VPN package, dead drop website, steganography package, onion router, multi-point P2P routing mesh drivers, or other software and education on how to use them could really make a difference for dissidents. There are certainly productive ways to use software to support protests, organizing, workers' strikes, or even support targeted sabotage or insurrections without indiscriminately destroying people's data.
- alexb_ 5y agoHe uses it to help starving children by including a message on startup. That's a little more agreeable and less political than all of the things you listed. To try and compare it is fucking absurd.
- dspillett 5y ago> That's a little more agreeable and less political I don't think the difference is the message and how political it might be, but the way the message is delivered. A message, or even refusing to run¹, is completely different to deleting or corrupting data. [1] though unless that is very precisely targetted I'd still think it a step too far.
- shkkmo 5y agoHuh? It isn't really clear what you are arguin against. The commentor you are responding to is agreeing with the article that using your project to spread a message is ok and possibly even helpful. It is betraying that trust to make indescriminant attacks that harms. If peoole want to do more than just add a message, the author pointa out a number of types of software that people can cobtribute to that would have a more direct positive impact.
- cestith 5y agoOne of the things I listed is more agreeable than all of the things I listed? Please tell me more about how that works.