Post by @glitzersachen@hachyderm.io

2026-10-19 01:32 UTC

@jesterchen@social.tchncs.de @tante@tldr.nettime.org If you want to have your freedom spoiled by irresponsible traitors to FOSS, yes. IMHO it's rather trowing out the baby with the bath water. I wonder why people are always exaggerating the consequence (hey, why not totally refrain from using electricity, this was certainly where the problem originates), thus putting everybody of from doing the right thing, because this was just pivoted into extremism. I worked pretty well with my computer 2010 without LLM.

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@jesterchen@social.tchncs.de 2026-10-19 05:44

@glitzersachen@hachyderm.io @tante@tldr.nettime.org easy: because electricity is no threat to my privacy. In the digital world there are so many actors, so many of them are too big, can impose things upon me I don't begin to fathom... I don't want my data sold, my life x-rayed. Not by companies, not by political actors. Especially not by right wing suckers (thiel, musk, USA, ...) - not directly, not indirectly. And when smart meters became a standard(?) in Germany, I was quite deep in these topics as well. Things like one can read from your energy usage which TV programme is running, what your tumbler is doing etc. And I cannot live without electricity, so I started designing random energy leechers to mask things like TVs. 🤷‍♀️ (At least Germany made constant monitoring a no go). I just want privacy.

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