Ensuring That Every Computer User Anywhere in the World Can Take Control of All His or Her Computers
We must fight the people who attack general-purpose computing, in particular those who push this agenda very aggressively inside Linux [1, 2] (as of 2023 the serial defamer and saboteur has been effectively disabled; it's the same right now: "3 contributions in the last year" and none is relevant)
From an RMS presentation.
YESTERDAY in IRC it was discussed how many computers had become so locked down that they're utterly worthless and purely controlled by some remote entity (not the person/s believing that the perceived "ownership" or "usage" implies control). MinceR asserted we'd have workarounds "as long as we have general-purpose computers, that is..."
"There is an ongoing war on general-purpose computing," an associate said about that. We know who's doing this and constantly attacking us for merely talking about the problem. One of them harassed me online for over a decades and last year I sued him for it [1, 2] - a lawsuit I intend to pursue because he did the same to many other people*.
The associate spoke of "TPM, DRM, restricted boot etc." (Because those are interconnected things).
The associate explained that those "are tools to attack general-purpose computing". Most of the time it'll mean preventing people from using anything but Windows or making it incredibly hard to get away from Windows (or even vandalising GNU/Linux once it's there).
"The "AI button" and the AI built into Vista 11 are a surveillance problem to be sure," the associate argued, "but the noise there distracts from further loss of control and self-determination."
It's not even AI, it's typically LLM slop, such as the garbage MaKenna Hensley used as recently as yesterday to make another fake article:
It's just slop:
Suffice to say, the same people who promote Microsoft's attacks on general-purpose computing are also making excuses for slop, i.e. Microsoft's attack on the Web, on information etc. They do "zone-flooding" - that's the best they can do. They're totally onboard with Microsoft's objectives and some say act as a de facto mole for Microsoft with financial compensation. Nothing would please them more than destroying the GPL by removing it from code under the false guise of "AI" (plagiarism). █
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* For me to drop this lawsuit he'll need to issue a public apology to me, to my family (along the way they target family members too!), and others to whom he did the same. He and his sidekick at Microsoft must apologise to people they hurt [1, 2] and to society in general (for the overtly abusive technical work they did for personal gain).