mhoye

Your privacy is not a thing in and of itself, that you either have or don't. Privacy is your ability, and capacity, to choose for yourself what you share about yourself, and when, and with who. And the other word we have for that is "dignity".

Privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

"A private social network" only makes sense in through this lens, of people wanting a social environment where they have agency over what they share, when, and with who.

It's a reasonable thing to want.

Honored to have had a chance to speak at (the very well-attended very well-run) #matrixconf this year. Great (and livestreamed!) talks, a good audience, a proper indoor masking policy and CO2 monitors on every floor live-updated, exactly what a modern conf should be in every respect.

Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er.

#matrix #matrixconf

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This hotel room has a _baffling_ artefact in it embedded in a wall panel.

These are keyboard LEDs embedded in a… wall panel? What _is_ this? What was it?

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If you think of it in terms of sneaking around weirdly hostile architecture while evading Alan Rickman then obviously the Harry Potter series is the Fifty Shades Of Grey of Die Hard fanfic and I am taking no questions at this time.

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Fuck this guy's argument in particular.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware

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This is really good.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/06/succor-borne-every-minute

I don’t know how liberated we are by federating the structures of the status quo. I’m much more interested in making them obsolete.

TIL: Trees aren't a thing, trees are a strategy. It's not that some plants are trees, it's that some plants find being a tree to be useful.