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If you have the right to run what you want on your machine, then they do too. So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful e
by lotsofpulp 1y ago
If you have the right to run what you want on your machine, then they do too.
So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful enough to negotiate being able to run what you want and either not need “them” or be important enough that “they” need you.
And the answer will come down to the fact that 90% of people don’t care about running whatever they want on their machine, and they want the cheapest, quickest, easiest solution.
- matheusmoreira 1y ago> So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful enough to negotiate being able to run what you want and either not need “them” or be important enough that “they” need you. How tiresome. You're right, we gotta become more powerful. Via radicalization. They seek to marginalize us. To turn us into second class citizens. To destroy free computing as we know it, destroy everything the word hacker ever stood for. If you're on this site and this doesn't radicalize you, then I don't know what to say to you. Gotta start lobbying governments to make it a literal crime for them to discriminate against us in this manner. Just like racism.
- Klonoar 1y ago> if you’re on this site My brother in <deity of your choice>, you are not on a Hacker site. This site exists as the community arm of one of the most capitalistic venture capital ecosystems on the planet. When are you all going to stop expecting HN to be what it’s not?