the infosec scene is in a place the OSS scene was in ˜13-14 years ago, before the formal introduction of the gnome foundation, kde reorg. guess what both of those projects have?
outreach programmes and ombudsmän.
now, guess what the tor project lacks.
as you're probably thinking right now "but how in the f..." simple, OSS has had to deal with toxic enviroments and individuals.
one of the cornerstones is, listen, corroborate, recommend, act.
the infosec community as a whole lack formal mature organisations to deal with these kinds of situations.
what we're still lacking in the witness accounts are timeframes, we have something of a picture from very vague details from leaked emails, these can be regarding pretty much anything, aside from one which is about _unspecified_ misconduct at a conference.
the sad thing here is that people can change, victims with trauma live with the trauma, so listen, validate, no-shame or pre-judgement.
but the infosec scene isnt a special snowflake exempt from the social contract of society, we all co-sign it by living in a nationstate, so we need to uphold it because the alternative is chaos.
if there is a legitimate grievance, report it, go through the system. hell, even brokep says as much, and he trusts the system on this, even though the process he has been forced to endure.
this is interesting, a house in sweden, even rural sweden runs at the cheapest just shy of 1mil sek. that is to say, the lower end bracket of the middle class can forget about owning a house.
basically its the old Microsoft adage that Apple somehow co-opted, embrace - extend etc etc.
Apple implemented a feature for the next release of osx that does what f.lux does, knowingly.
This, to me, is somewhat funny in the "that train is going to hit that car.." sense.
whenever there's an exploit used by non state actors in an adversarial sense, there's goverment pressure to cyber this, cyber that, banhammer down, on the technology sector.
But several times a year we get to read about predatory behaviour by financial institutions. i'd even venture to say borderline illegal considering the presedences.
i digress, but there's simply low enough of a risk of the goverment getting involved that this type of crime is not only "worth it" but also shows how deeply embedded the finance sector is in the pockets of politicians the world over.
Gnome-Shell (default on fedora et al.) has since the GNOME projects 2.x release had _stellar_ accessability support.
Firewall? you fail to mention what you'd block. there are ease of use projects shipping per default such as UFW.
But since it's uncommon in the post-inetd era to have services running and exposed publicly, i fail to see the usecase.
bsods? uncommon? i have four baytrail tablets that spew forth a bluescreen once a day.
this isnt just a phone.
the manifesto -- and i use the term loosely -- is more or less about subverting the oss community because.. UxD.
the phone - it's a pipedream, unless they actually get the capital to design & produce the full stack, and the baseband. oh the baseband. it needs to be able to be reloaded at intervals, checksummed, isolated etc.
the project aims for a true indienet, one where every client is a peer in a privacy empowered social network, as if that isn't an oxymoron per definition.
my biggest gripe, isn't the goals, it's the language and the blanket generalizations.
oh and don't forget, the alpha client for the social network is osx only.
both twitter and in some part google have recently acted very hostile to the notion of the open web. (Although referring to corporations as a singular entity irks me somewhat)
It would actually be a derivative of ep VI, since the characters and creative designs differ and precede it.
A direct copy, would be the _exact_same_ characters as depicted in ep VI, but alas they are not, they are however similar to, which makes it a derivative of.
I actually did. I was told by @Allan -- the founder of LV -- that I was "trolling", "writing inflammatory blog posts", that my "entire base of argument was based on the wrong facts". All in all, a very obtuse strawman argument, so being well spoken, sincere in many ways, will only lead to that sort of reaction from LV.