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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> Indeed, so long as you block all FB's scripts and images on
>> otherwise unrelated websites. Although I don't tend to make close
>> friends so I don't need to worry about controlling their FB usage.
> 
> Doesn't stop people from posting about you on FB. (Or worse, posting
> photos of you on there.)

What I don't tell, they can't post, and the same with what they
don't photograph. Although I guess that does leave a bit of an
information vacuum there which some nutcase could exploit to make
up missing personal info/photos on me if they so desired.

>> Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source
>> software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned
>> by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now
>> very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and
>> especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely
>> unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.
> 
> Many, I suspect, started using Github before Microsoft bought them in
> 2018.

For software projects I use, many more seem to have moved to there
since 2018 than before. You'd think they like the M$ acquisition.
Occasionally I object and am ignored.

> Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to
> Codeberg.

I don't know about Codeberg, but there have been lots of
alternatives all along. Tons of projects switched from SourceForge
to GitHub. Many projects have their own websites too, so why not
self-host? GitHub do offer a lot of extra features for free, but
that's dealing with the devil IMHO. Especially as the more tied in
to GitHub-specific systems a project gets, the less practical it is
to move away if M$ get more greedy later on.

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