@mekkaokereke I think the steganographic risk, is also a canard, but I would defer to @jnazario's expertise in such realms (I seem to recall he gave a presentation at CanSecWest maybe prior to 2005 on such subjects in real world data and also collaborated with Niels Provos on prior research and is cited in Provos' 2001 paper).

p.s.

Warez is a solution. The problem was commercializing software. You've got that world view completely backwards.

e.g. https://m.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55991

Alan Kay, via prerecorded video, says that the fact tech has been funded by companies in search of “mass monetization” for decades has taken us away from the ideals expressed by Xerox PARC’s Alto.

Also, any serious discussion of election security has to grapple with two simultaneous realities:

- there's no evidence that any US election outcome has ever been altered by hacking

- there are real, exploitable vulnerabilities in many parts of our election infrastructure

I've written a bit on what these vulnerabilities are and how to fix them, See, e.g., this brief article:
https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.2-p505-522-Blaze.pdf

神社⛩️は​:iizo:​​:ai_yay:​

Every time I very carefully avoid reading something that Jack Texeira released and instead learn another concerning bit of background information, alarm bells go off in my head of "Someone signed off on his clearance. They either missed this or pencil whipped that application."

As a former clearance holder, this makes me almost as cranky as Kushner just getting handed a clearance despite grave background check misgivings.

vtuberさんからのリクエストで描いたskeb絵です​:blobcatartist:​

This Saturday and Sunday afternoon at the Computer History Museum we will have Xerox Alto lookalikes available for hands-on use! They run original Alto software recovered from diskpacks barely saved from the landfill. This includes Mazewar, the Bravo text editor, and Smalltalk 78.
🎉
The museum also has an original Alto on display but we're not allowed to touch that one. 😸

@lauren Yes, Please. LEAVE ME ALONE FOREVER.

Horrid person.

@lauren You absolutely do not understand my point of view whatsoever.

That you would write as much, seems terribly presumptuous to me.

Moreover, I am not your teacher and I don't want to share my life story with you, especially given how you are treating me.

Consider my take on libre/free open source fatalistic, post apocalyptic and you'll get closer to my lived experience.

@lauren I was born in Menlo Park.

*sigh*

My family's church, TO THIS FRIGGIN DAY "news flash: it's 2023!" (so rude! why do you write like that?) shares a parking lot with SRI.

SRI had a cross licensing agreement with PARC and SAIL.

@lauren
"I don't mention anything about UCLA"

Sure seems to contradict:

"And by the way, I've been working on the Internet since before there was an Internet (ARPANET site 1 at UCLA), and on Open Source long, long, long before the term was coined." (https://mastodon.social/@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/110268796785422058)

JFC, writing with you is exasperating.

Do you realize what this looks like to anyone else?

@lauren LOL, you think I am an OPTIMIST?

*sigh* you don't follow me, & after this I have an incentive to stay t.f. away from anything that you write ever again.

I sleep in a car.

Thousands in debt.

I have not spoken with my own son in over a decade.

I still actively contribute to libre/free open source software months if not years ahead of commercial downstream projects.

It's been like that for MOST of my existence in this hellish world full of people with too much power & $ punching down.

@lauren Change your diet.

No more Big Macs.

No more Coca colas.

Maybe you'll stop caring so much about failed governments and start treating life on Earth with more compassion and respect.

@lauren ARPANet site 1 at UCLA, was still after Engelbart's group at SRI.

Also, after SAGE.

I think you think too highly of yourself and are resting on your laurels and it looks disgusting from here.

@lauren You aren't welcome.

Your tone was excruciating and uncalled for with me.

@lauren From my vantage:

all governments fall.

Cuneiform: outlasted Sumeria.
Hieroglyphs: outlasted Egypt.
Latin: outlasted the Roman empire.

I am pretty confident that code will be similar.

I have NEVER had success as an individual with any governance structure. What is going to make a difference for me now that never worked in the past?

@lauren this is just outright condescending.

@lauren I have been incarcerated.

I have been to China.

Stop putting words into my mouth.

Stop spreading FUD.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

@lauren And I was personal friends with Doug Engelbart.

Do you always write others with this much vitriol?

It seems awfully rude.

We would not even be communicating right now in this modality without:

TCP (BSD)
DNS (ISC)
ActivityPub (multiple open source implementations).

Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, IOS, Android: all downstream of open source projects.
@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

@lauren Well, in my experience: all governments fall. Some sooner than later. The USA is in a Roman decline stage from my vantage.

Cuneiform, outlived Sumeria.

Hieroglyphs outlived Egypt.

Latin persists despite the fall of Rome.

I think code will be much the same.

The Great Firewall of China? Was supplied by Cisco last I checked.

DNS: open source.

So uhhh, you think open source doesn't help? I think you're off your rocker if so.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers