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> Take a look at China... Let me stop you there. This is not China. So are you finished with wailing whataboutism?

kkfx 4y ago
This is not China, for now, we run at a very high speed to copy them. Social score is already there, started with covid excuses, but there, the push toward e-cash, qr-codes+mobiles etc is here. I do not call whataboutism foreseeing tomorrow...
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  > foreseeing tomorrow Or maybe, imagining tomorrow in your worst fears. There is an important difference between prophecy, which may be right or wrong, but is generally welcome, and defeatist doomsaying or catastrophising ("the war is lost") which is not. It generally makes people dislike you because there is nothing of value to take from one who says "there's no point even trying". I once shared a lifeboat with someone who spoke this way. After only 10 minutes of hearing them say "we're never going to make it", the others and I were very close to simply throwing him over the side. :)
  - kkfx 4y ago
    There is not only a single war, but many. Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable enough" is about personal data possession witch means for instance my mails on my iron under my availability instead of on someone else server, a personal domain name so I hopefully being able to transfer it from a vendor to another without changing my URLs etc. That's a thing I advertise to anyone: do your best to have local tools and data. For instance do not leave photos on mobile, sync them at least etc.
    - nonrandomstring 4y ago
      > Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable enough" is about personal data So you're a fighter. {{brotherly hugs}} Your comment yesterday was bugging me. Today I feel happier. Yes, things are bleak with rising technofascism, but I sincerely think it thrives on ignorance, apathy and defeatism. And those are beatable demons. > That's a thing I advertise to anyone: do your best to have local tools and data. Telling other people, helping educate and inform, spreading possibilities, these are really important things. > There is not only a single war, but many. All great victories are about insignificant people doing their bit. Don't worry about the grand strategy, it's too big to see. Rest in the knowledge that somewhere else another hacker is doing their bit, and all these little wars together add up to something positive for humanity. respects

kkfx 4y ago

This is not China, for now, we run at a very high speed to copy them. Social score is already there, started with covid excuses, but there, the push toward e-cash, qr-codes+mobiles etc is here. I do not call whataboutism foreseeing tomorrow...

nonrandomstring 4y ago
> foreseeing tomorrow Or maybe, imagining tomorrow in your worst fears. There is an important difference between prophecy, which may be right or wrong, but is generally welcome, and defeatist doomsaying or catastrophising ("the war is lost") which is not. It generally makes people dislike you because there is nothing of value to take from one who says "there's no point even trying". I once shared a lifeboat with someone who spoke this way. After only 10 minutes of hearing them say "we're never going to make it", the others and I were very close to simply throwing him over the side. :)
- kkfx 4y ago
  There is not only a single war, but many. Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable enough" is about personal data possession witch means for instance my mails on my iron under my availability instead of on someone else server, a personal domain name so I hopefully being able to transfer it from a vendor to another without changing my URLs etc. That's a thing I advertise to anyone: do your best to have local tools and data. For instance do not leave photos on mobile, sync them at least etc.
  - nonrandomstring 4y ago
    > Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable enough" is about personal data So you're a fighter. {{brotherly hugs}} Your comment yesterday was bugging me. Today I feel happier. Yes, things are bleak with rising technofascism, but I sincerely think it thrives on ignorance, apathy and defeatism. And those are beatable demons. > That's a thing I advertise to anyone: do your best to have local tools and data. Telling other people, helping educate and inform, spreading possibilities, these are really important things. > There is not only a single war, but many. All great victories are about insignificant people doing their bit. Don't worry about the grand strategy, it's too big to see. Rest in the knowledge that somewhere else another hacker is doing their bit, and all these little wars together add up to something positive for humanity. respects