@cas
We were just wondering. You do know that 2020 was a time of increased concentration of wealth, right?
400 billion to the top 1 percent, or something akin to that.
You have seen the money supply chart, and the quadrupling of it (in Australia, sixtupled). It is not "deranged" to talk about this stuff in the context of technology, given the types of discussions at the time, including quotes from US congresspersons. Heck Trump wanted forced sale of a tech company to Oracle. Stay well.
We were just wondering. You do know that 2020 was a time of increased concentration of wealth, right?
It's hard for people to acknowledge this because when you look closely at how this happened it leads to difficult questions about what 2020 really was.
@gabriel
Can you see what Caleb wrote? They (or someone) immediately blocked us from thread after…
> Caleb: "yeah not only are we stuck with proprietary firmware, unless we get OEMs to release their private keys we can never replace it on most phones."
We asked about the timeline with respect to the #repoCrisis and #covidCrisis appearing to affect stocks of good modems and ethical firmwares.
> "lol. Let's try to do good advocacy w/o stepping into derangled conspiracy shite. Have a good day."
@gabriel
Yeah np. We temporarily put aside what we know, that #allPhonesAreBad, because we saw a room at #FOSDEM24 dedicated to FOSS phones and we thought there might be a chance that phones are going to be okay to use again.
We spent a night re-learning what we already knew about phones — all bad.
Alas, #Aliendalvik is #closedSource. Sometimes you need to waste time like this even if just to suspend ones belief for a moment and entertain new ideas.
Hi @gabriel
We only summarised what we wrote above, below is the full toot. (We often copy what we write to the clipboard prior to publish due to issues with clients)
Did this locked-down hardware problem ramp up at around the time of the #repoCrisis (Sept 2019 - 2020, $10 billion injected per day) and #covidCrisis? If we look at #OpenWRT it seems it ossified in late 2019 early 2020 and many liberatable modems were discontinued at around that time.
Someone here mentioned Goog having infinite access to a money spigot. They may be more right than they know.
@dsfgs
I actually put together this chart for that very reason.
I think people really underestimate the financial conditions that enabled digital feudalism.
@gabriel
They were not only able to roll over their #debt, but over small-medium-sized businesses, the life-essence of any real economy.
Dr #VandanaShiva is quite outspoken about this. She didn't go looking for this but her, and other academics', research since 1985 has shown that many of the people in #bigTech are also trying to control the #foodSupply via #patentedSeed, and via #agriChemical poisons.
@gabriel
We think that people are genuinely scared to entertain notions and evidence of #conspiracy, even on fedi there appears a very pervasive set of #shadowBanning instances/hosts that seem to marginalise people drawing connections to military and bigTech.
Or boot them off entirely.
We don't know what happened to a lot of people on fedi over the years who were speaking up against genuine fascism, not #russophobia or #TDerangement that passes as it now.
@gabriel
We were #shadowbanned on @dsfgs for 2.5 years. Limited at 173 followers. Only after the instance shutdown a day early on 7 Oct 2023 did we learn that it was being hosted by a large #mastodon-centred operation called #mastoHost (domain is masto.host).
We thought it was being operated by #activists the whole time, and that only the #contentDelivery was masto.host — nope.
@jgillich@gabriel@dsfgs
True, but a host can be pressured to do things. At this stage wherever the shadowban came from, it represents a failure of fediverse, to protect activism and diverse, heterodox viewpoints.
Fediverse needs P2P content delivery urgently and yesteryear.
We asked about the timeline with respect to the #repoCrisis and #covidCrisis appearing to affect stocks of good modems and ethical firmwares.> "lol. Let's try to do good advocacy w/o stepping into derangled conspiracy shite. Have a good day."
That's dissapointing! You raise an important point, and it's seriously worth considering when it comes to the state of free and open hardware.
The original link they shared is very cool though. I think this kind of work is a huge game-changer in terms of making it easier for people to use a fully (or approaching fully) Free system.
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