Since wards are liabilities, there is no business case for retaining them in their present, ambulatory form. Therefore, the most profitable disposition for this dubious form of capital is to convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.

Okay, just kidding. This is the sort of naive Randian thinking which appeals instantly to a geek like me, but of course has nothing to do with real life. The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass.

However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma. Perfection cannot be achieved on both these counts, but we can get closer than most might think.

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Thank you for this!

As a librewolf babe, I’m keeping an eye on this: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2458

Tab grouping is so useful and something I’ve always had to resort to extensions for. Good for Firefox for this, can’t wait for it to make its way to a browser that doesn’t sell users data.

How are y’all feeling about icecat?

I’m liking cwtch right now

I’m reminded of this:

Snowden added that people who use the “I have nothing to hide” line don’t understand the basic foundation of human rights. “Nobody needs to justify why they ‘need’ a right,” he said. “The burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right.”

If one person chooses to disregard his right to privacy, that doesn’t automatically mean everyone should follow suit, either. “You can’t give away the rights of others because they’re not useful to you,” Snowden said. “More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority.”

We also see the willingness of companies like ring to hand over footage to law enforcement without the consent of the camera’s “owner”.

We see Facebook making shadow profiles for people who never signed up based on data from people who know them.

We see state attorneys general in the US subpeana apps that track periods to enforce anti-abortion measures.

Having nothing to hide falsely supposes a just system of governance. Data collected from you could put others at risk, and could put you at risk whenever the law decides.

Also… These companies mishandle our data all the time. The 2024 at&t data breach comes to mind.

A lot of work clearly went into this. Is data encrypted at rest as well as in transit? What are your future plans?

I’m late to the party but please consider this FOSS / liberated hardware option from thinkpenguin. Highly recommended.

Powered by usb-c, runs on librecmc

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-gigabit-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1400