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| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/2020/09/02/need-more-stallmans/ | Sep 03 01:45 |
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| schestowitz | >> | Sep 03 01:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | We Still Need More Stallmans | Techrights | Sep 03 01:45 | |
| schestowitz | > I can see you put a lot of work into this but there is a fundamental | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > problem with this, some things you may not have been aware of. | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > While you are on the right track, I lost two family members in less than | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > a year. There have been other cases of extraordinary difficulty faced | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > by some family members during the same period. I withdrew from many of | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > my voluntary activities at that time and it is not possible to report | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > accurately about the situation without those very significant facts. | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > Out of respect for the privacy of my family, it isn't really possible to | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > tell the story accurately. | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > I've never been accused of an action against my employer (like Manning), | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > I've never been convicted of a crime (like Assange, he has a prior for | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > hacking) and they have never been able to link me to the type of | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > comments RMS has made in error from time to time. So it is actually | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > quite harmful for anybody else to be listed on the same web page, even | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > if the claims against them are dubious. The only thing they ever say | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > about me is "he must have done something wrong", smears like that hardly | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > need a defense. | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > If potential employers and clients see these connections, they might not | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > realize those differences and they might be hesitant to work with me and | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > that can actually undermine the work I try to do as a volunteer. | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > Please have a think about this overall context and whether you can adapt | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > the article. Please also remember the media code of conduct (yes, they | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > have one too) specifically refers to privacy (during a period of grief) | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > and victims of crime. The attacks against me during that time | Sep 03 01:45 |
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| schestowitz | > technically make me a victim of harassment, protected by the code. | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:45 |
| schestowitz | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_ethics_in_media#Harm_Minimization | Sep 03 01:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Code of ethics in media - Wikipedia | Sep 03 01:45 | |
| schestowitz | Just to be clear, this was a guest post -- not one that I wrote myself. See the attribution at the top. | Sep 03 01:45 |
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| schestowitz | Re: some positive initiatives | Sep 03 01:48 |
| schestowitz | > The reporting on certain issues is quite negative but in the short term, | Sep 03 01:48 |
| schestowitz | > important for confronting the lies and smears. | Sep 03 01:48 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:48 |
| schestowitz | > However, medium-to-long-term, I have some specific plans for positive | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > initiatives too. Some of this has been on hold while I finish other | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > projects but I will be able to put some serious time into it in late | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > September or October. Basically, this involves creating some technical | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > tools that will largely undermine gatekeepers. | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > If people understand these tools and if they trust me, they will use | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > them. This is one reason I'm cautious about what is on my own blog now. | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > I really want to use my own name and personal blog to emphasize the | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > technical competence and not politics. Then people will feel | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > comfortable using the code I provide. | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > I really appreciate the effort you've put into analysis of the emails | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > people are sharing, it actually leaves me feeling I can shift more of my | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > energy to this next initiative while you continue to cover the reasons | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | > why people need change. | Sep 03 01:49 |
| schestowitz | Re: When Reid Hoffman @‘s you | Sep 03 01:53 |
| schestowitz | > Twitter is just too much fun these days for me not to partake 🤣 | Sep 03 01:53 |
| schestowitz | Maybe he responded and then deleted his reply because I see none | Sep 03 01:54 |
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| schestowitz | >> By the way, the pairing of memes was pretty obvious; I wrote the title | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> before I wrote the article, but when I looked for stuff about Assange | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> related to this, I found that educovered.com had already used a clip | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> from the same SP episode I referenced to do a story about Assange | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> leaving his own exile. | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> But I did find that after I thought of it. Obvious meme is obvious. At | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | >> any rate, we aren't making T-shirts out of it. | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | > > Good show, old chap. | Sep 03 02:02 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/18903666#eb51b170cf190138ba2a002590d8e506 | Sep 03 02:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@linux@joindiaspora.com: Postfix vs. Sendmail http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/141593 | Sep 03 02:13 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | Postfix vs. Sendmail | Tux Machines | Sep 03 02:13 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 03 02:13 |
| schestowitz | https://lavabit.com/enterprise.html | Sep 03 02:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lavabit.com | Lavabit | Sep 03 02:13 | |
| schestowitz | Michele Santullo | Sep 03 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Michele Santullo - about 16 hours ago | Sep 03 02:13 |
| schestowitz | There was a big scandal about Lavabit a few years ago, basically they chose to shut down their business rather than granting the US access to all of their customers emails. Magma started as a consequence of that. The owner of Lavabit behaved in a way that is hard to believe these days. Most companies, even the most powerful ones, would bend doggy style 2 folds before even thinking about standing for their users’ privacy | Sep 03 02:13 |
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| schestowitz__ | >>>> http://techrights.org/2020/09/02/need-more-stallmans/ | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>> | Sep 03 11:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | We Still Need More Stallmans | Techrights | Sep 03 11:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> I can see you put a lot of work into this but there is a fundamental | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> problem with this, some things you may not have been aware of. | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> While you are on the right track, I lost two family members in less than | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> a year. There have been other cases of extraordinary difficulty faced | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> by some family members during the same period. I withdrew from many of | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> my voluntary activities at that time and it is not possible to report | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> accurately about the situation without those very significant facts. | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> Out of respect for the privacy of my family, it isn't really possible to | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> tell the story accurately. | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> I've never been accused of an action against my employer (like Manning), | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> I've never been convicted of a crime (like Assange, he has a prior for | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> hacking) and they have never been able to link me to the type of | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> comments RMS has made in error from time to time. So it is actually | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> quite harmful for anybody else to be listed on the same web page, even | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> if the claims against them are dubious. The only thing they ever say | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> about me is "he must have done something wrong", smears like that hardly | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> need a defense. | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> If potential employers and clients see these connections, they might not | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> realize those differences and they might be hesitant to work with me and | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> that can actually undermine the work I try to do as a volunteer. | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> Please have a think about this overall context and whether you can adapt | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> the article. Please also remember the media code of conduct (yes, they | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> have one too) specifically refers to privacy (during a period of grief) | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> and victims of crime. The attacks against me during that time | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> technically make me a victim of harassment, protected by the code. | Sep 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_ethics_in_media#Harm_Minimization | Sep 03 11:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Code of ethics in media - Wikipedia | Sep 03 11:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | >> Just to be clear, this was a guest post -- not one that I wrote myself. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | >> See the attribution at the top. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Would you be able to discuss with the contributor? | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Please keep this in mind: the loss of a family member is a private | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > matter. It is not comparable to the public matters facing Assange and | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Manning. Their situations were almost an obvious consequence of choices | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > they bravely made. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > It is also not "private" in the sense of stuff coming out of | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > debian-private. Society has a different expectation of what private | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > means in that scenario. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > My situation is a painful situation that every family faces at some | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > point. People outside our world of free software can relate to it. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > People in Debian seem to have no regard for the privacy of my family but | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > in the wider world, it is immediately obvious to most people that Debian | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > people have the wrong priorities. Even the interns who spoke to me | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > about Debian politics could see that Debian was wrong. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Strategically, if we want free software to resonate with people outside | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > the traditional audience then it is also a very good idea to | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > differentiate on this basis: Google and Debian showed no concern for my | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > family at that time. Even with all their money, Google can't argue with | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > that, most ordinary people will not side with Google bullying a | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > volunteer at a time of grief. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > If people are elevating other comparisons, then it lets Google and | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Debian off the hook because those other battles are easier for them to | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > fight. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Nonetheless, the most prominent issue should be the privacy of any | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > family, even without any of those strategic concerns, the respect for | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > privacy of my family alone is a strong enough reason not to include me | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > in a post like that. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | Passing on to original author... | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | He will probably have something to say in return. | Sep 03 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | en by Google via API | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> Also, how should we remember the source URL with it? | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> I will link from posts to these. I think DebConf has the originals, not | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> YouTube. I don't want to send traffic to Google when it treats people so | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> badly. | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > Makes sense. I suppose there can be an EXIF data field for the original? | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> BTW, I am guessing you forgot to upload other/daily links? | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > Sorry. Participated in a minor traffic jam and it threw off most of the | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > routine. They're uploaded now. | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | Thanks, other links are there now. Just waiting for merge to be uploaded as well. Those usually help me write posts 'in the background'... | Sep 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | (m2020-09/ has 5 files in total, should be six) | Sep 03 12:47 |
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