I remember seeing this 10 years ago and thinking "well, that's something to keep in mind". It didn't seem too relevant yet, or that inevitable. Now it's already too late.
It sends a chill down my spine on how prophetic this was. Here we are, in 2020, with Apple releasing new Macs that don't allow you to run any other operating system besides MacOS. And if you try and run any of your own binaries inside MacOS, they must be Signed and Approved by Apple, otherwise it's going to be hell to run them. Stallman was right.
I had a piece of software in the 1980s that required authentication by using a wierd lens plus key word from the manual, then key it into the computer before the game would load. Used it only once, and never bought their software again. Until computer hardware is (eventually) open-source, we won't truly own our tech stuff.
Watching this in 2019. Many questions raised in this video really provide the answers we need today. Like companies such as Apple having monopoly over iOS and not letting people install software or remove software as they wish. There is no way to change default apps such as Safari, maps and mail etc. Recently uBlock origin has been removed from Google chrome and Microsoft app stores.
Is there going to be a written version of this talk in the nearer future? Frankly, I think this is one of the most important talks given so far in the 21 century, right at a turning point in time. So publish largely, please!
Suddenly, my obsession with vintage/obsolete computer systems isn't seeming quite so bad ;-) Not too sure I like the way things are going - having grown up in a certain age of computing, I do very much like to own the hardware I buy, and run precisely what I choose on the bastard!
That's cute and all, but what about when those stop being compatible with the rest of the world? What happens when to work, to be able to purchase things online, pay bills, file taxes etc. you need an APPROVED system? Being able to Liero in your basement gets old quickly if you're starving or freezing to death. Hell, we're not that far away from grocery stores stopping to accept cash. It's already common for small businesses. I would not be shocked if in my lifetime I would be required to set up some smart phone app to buy milk. Take a guess whether that software is going to be available for general purpose computers.
Given the context of Intel ME and Microsoft Pluton, this is actually quite chilling. A very prophetic speech, and in the worst possible way unfortunately.
I don't know if I'm grasping this right but isn't the push for cloud computing and dumbed down appliances that access the cloud already implementing what he's warning against?
Liked and added to playlist of great talks and panels :) I've heard OF Doctorow before, but never heard him talk. It seems i will have to go through some hours of youtube clips of him in the comming weeks/months.
@ms767210 Yup. Cloud computing is a key component of many future business models that have any relation to IT. It is one way to maintain control over content with minimal consumer backlash.
Simple like that. I'm already in kinda of a personal campaign doing all my friends and family try and change to the more convenient GNU/Linux distro in each case. I know it's a boring job, but I think it's an indispensable one in order to build a better, free society.
Is there such a device we can connect "dual microphone setup" to it which will avoid comb-filtering as the speaker moves towards one or another microphone? Am I the only one to notice it? Comb filtering is the effect of hearing or capturing a single sound source from two different position where positions changes duuring use / or vice viersa. (two speakers one aside another and you moving cause the same effect, mostly noticeable in the high frequency)
Whoever that woman was who asked about general von neumann machines.... she was right. we are starting to see purpose-made asics all over the place for crypto mining and later for ai transformers... also the copilot-ai pcs are really not okay
Does he mention John Deere anywhere in this video? Currently watching but I want to make sure this is mentioned. JD's "You can't repair this yourself because copyright" cack is abominable.
I can really see a cottage industry of replacing signed firmware chips with open firmware ROMs at the component level. Maybe freedom is just an eternal personal struggle.
@Voxnulla - Yeah, Open Source software can't be used to build reliable systems like Google. Oh, except for Google, which is built largely on Open Source Software. As are most of the big, successful dotcoms.
Here from a comment on video from a review of Bluesky; decentralized Social platform; and the “enshittification” of fresh platforms becoming bombarded with tolls/bad actors
thanks sammie really gets the the core of what im angry about 80% of the time im having computer troubles. everything thats wrong with my shit is filtered through 70 layers of "hmm could an 80 y/o dude with dementia be able to comprehend this error message?" that anyone with even a vague idea of what theyre doing has no fucking clue what to do to troubleshoot anything. its all just "your shit is fucked (10100100)" and when you google it the official support documentation for the error code is "this error code is for when the program has no fucking clue what went wrong". which WOULD be fine if the fucking developers put in more than like 5 error codes and just routed all the more complex errors into the catchall of "idk lol" so you never have any fucking clue what happened and when you actually go in to parse the error log its JUST A FUCKING SCRIPT THAT PRINTS OUT "IDK LOL" INSTEAD OF HAVING ANY USEFUL INFORMATION SO EVEN IF YOU GO TO SUPPORT WITH IT THEY WOULD STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS WITH YOU AND THE ERROR CODE WOULDNT DO ANYTHING AT ALL, ITS JUST FOR THE OTHER 4 ERROR CODES MADE FOR REALLY EASILY SOLVED ISSUES SO SUPPORT CAN JUST PATCH YOUR SHIT INSTEAD OF DOING THEIR JOB AND SUPPORTING YOU 101:YOUR COMPUTER ISNT PLUGGED IN 102:YOUR INTERNET ISNT PLUGGED IN 103:YOUR SHIT IS FUCKED, RESTART IT 104:YOUR INTERNET IS FUCKED, RESTART IT 105: IDK LOL A DEAD RAT COULD FIX THESE PROBLEMS WITHOUT ANY SORT OF OUTSIDE INPUT, WHY ARE THERE EVEN ERROR CODES WHEN THEYRE ALL JUST THE FIRST STEPS TO TROUBLESHOOTING ANYWAY but yeah this is a good video to send to people who dont know whats going on so they can continue to not know whats going on and its worthless to send it to anyone who hasnt already seen it :)
@spambot71 we're all hoping real hard that the 3d printing scene pans out fast enough to out-flank that looming threat. But at the end of the day we're all simply praying to hasten the nanobot revolution... yet again. The gradual realisation that one is pinning a lot of hopes for the future on what boils down to a quasi-religious technological dream: Feels bad man. :(
@elfboi523 And MP3 players and digital camera's and new cars and dishwashers or any new sort of home or kitchen appliance? All of these are stuffed to the brim with FPGA's and SOC's running proprietary software and all of these can potentially "spy" on you or run more software.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Whenever someone wants a deployment pipeline for closed-source (anti-detection, evasion, anti-analysis) and proprietary (uses a product server to download the payload .. erm i mean "product"), im just like... Yeah ok ive done malware dev ops before. You want your logo or mine embedded in it?
Real king moment to shit on the drug war in 2011, in Germany no less. The parallels between attempting to defeat "bad" use of software and attempting to defeat "bad" drug use are many.
True, True, and True, here is the interesting part. Without personal control over our devices we will rent computing power from others. They have incentive to increase profits by producing artificial scarcity. Limits that create services for things you might do for yourself. Stream a Blu-ray saved on disk to a second T.V. Video chat without buffering or price increase. Backup your SSD device using a tool with a competitive price.
arent specialized devices specifically intended to run types of programs through hardware a thing like, a hardware device specifically designed to run ai as best as possible; specifically ai, not necessarily some other programs
you need to understand the point about being turing-complete - a general purpose computer CAN run any program you throw it even if it's unoptimized and takes 10,000 years the point is that it's still actually possible even if it's done through weird minecraft computer
Around/just before 18:00, he implies that a single-purpose appliance is fine, but a locked-down general purpose computer that *acts* like an appliance is not. I don't quite follow this argument - surely it's not a problem as such a device isn't *advertised* as a general-purpose computer? I can't reprogram my dishwasher, but I don't see it as a problem either. Of course, there's also no physical or cryptographic protection measure (I assume) preventing me from ripping out the control board and building my own, which might be what he meant. He also throws the word "spyware" in there, without explaining how spyware is related. You can have a locked-down computer-appliance-thing without spyware, and you can have an open general purpose computer with spyware. If a third-party sets policies, that's not spyware, although *if it updates automatically* it probably is malware. (And it *can* be spyware if it reports back)
Spyware is a good example of a "feature" you might want to remove from a computer system you own, but if the computer system is sufficiently locked down, then you cannot remove the spyware. Locked down systems ARE being sold as essentially equivalent to general purpose computing systems. The argument that the public should have access to general purpose computing resembles the argument that the public should have access to guns. Though of course guns are more directly dangerous. And we are not that far from having the DMCA interpreted as making it illegal to replace the control unit of your dishwasher.
You can lock down functionality of a device without resorting to spyware, yes. So if you want a device that can't play music, you don't install a sound card. However, the only way to stop a device that's capable of running MS Office from running LibreOffice is by having spyware that checks for the running programs and stops you from installing LibreOffice, since they both use the exact same basic functionality.
@87solarsky I do like smartphones, but I'd like to have an open one, like OpenMoko or something similar. Something under my control, not the control of some companies.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
@maxmanrules I agree with you on this, I've always said thank god the geeks are critical thinkers and most of the time fight on the side of good. The way the world is going right now though only makes me cautiously optimistic
@R4NDYS4V4GE i think the warning / speech you're talking about was eisenhower at the end of his presidency, not JFK. not that it matters all that much.
@MrElvey afaik so is Android, one of the "locked down app store" systems he's talking about much like iOS no? And isn't Android open source? (no really, i'm more asking than anything)
Another front is opening up in the war on general computation. Telcos(Telia) are trying to tax the use of Skype, because they don’t like the prospect of people replacing their old landline telephones and subscriptions with internet based alternatives.
@MrSaturdayNightSpecL You don't get it. It's not about that. he's saying that copyrights are dead now all together because copy rights hinder mans evolution and only protect profits and tyranny. If the wright brothers patents stood we would never have aircraft we have today. If the ideas time has come and is a big one there is nothing you can do from humanity using it. I can see your point with music, movies and books but it's not about that -they just need to find new business models and adapt
We have a vocabulary for anonymous coming out of the ghost in the shell series. "Stand alone complex". www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stand+Alone+Complex The problem is the real vocabulary we need to to truly appreciate such things at a cultural level is locked away within systems theory. And systems thinking is hard.
@bongnbud What about those news stories you hear about teenagers and their parents getting million dollar fines for downloading music and such? Is it already a "drug war" do you think?
@MrElvey So Android isn't that much more open than iOS. I didn't realize this 'till recently. Apple fights hard against developers that make software to unlock iPhones, but not against developers that make software to jailbreak iPhones.
@29:22 -- EFF, Bits of Freedom, EDRi, CCC, Netzpolitik, La Quadrature du Net, and all the others, who are thankfully, too numerous to name here -- we may yet win the battle, and secure the ammunition we'll need for the war.
I'd like to hear a discussion regarding the exchange of energy from a developer to a user in today's social structure. Much of what I'm hearing in this discussion is not about computers but how we exchange energy. I have my own thoughts on this topic but I'd like to hear more regarding the roots of why this is an issue to begin with. I liked the starseed comment ;-)
@nikch1 Yup. I think that there aren't enough incentives for politicians to listen to the people who elect them. Lobbyists and special interest groups are able to gain more support than citizens, as they're capable of donating more and essentially funding the candidate's entire re-election campaign. What we really need is a method for the people to call a vote of confidence. We can vote for the people who seem to be the best, but the media can influence our decisions in favor of one person
@E1SUNZ I thought it was like the movie 1984 where you can have thought crimes where everything is spying on you and monopolies are the way it is and tyranny runs wild. But he holds some hope for it thinking freedom might win. But we will always have to fight for it like any kind of freedom he compares it to levels in a video game and we only just beat the mini boss "sopa" on the first level and have a ways to go and many more mini bosses to come till the final battle or end game
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In Lollipop 2.0, you'll get to turn the alarm off, and the red bar is also cool
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I remember seeing this 10 years ago and thinking "well, that's something to keep in mind". It didn't seem too relevant yet, or that inevitable. Now it's already too late.
It was always too late. These decisions are not made by the electorate.
what is?
@@dimsim-youtube The fact that you're in a mass surveillance hamster wheel
@@wizaaeed pretended ignorance ;-)
It sends a chill down my spine on how prophetic this was.
Here we are, in 2020, with Apple releasing new Macs that don't allow you to run any other operating system besides MacOS. And if you try and run any of your own binaries inside MacOS, they must be Signed and Approved by Apple, otherwise it's going to be hell to run them.
Stallman was right.
It is very disappointing how right this guy ended up being
Google Asahi Linux
I had a piece of software in the 1980s that required authentication by using a wierd lens plus key word from the manual, then key it into the computer before the game would load.
Used it only once, and never bought their software again.
Until computer hardware is (eventually) open-source, we won't truly own our tech stuff.
Jeez I hope we get that timeline where everyone can rig up sentient AIs from salvaged TV remotes. And also IP/HAM
What he talks about starting at 45:40 is what the "Ghost In The Shell" tv series meant when they used the phrase "standalone complex".
Watching this in 2019. Many questions raised in this video really provide the answers we need today. Like companies such as Apple having monopoly over iOS and not letting people install software or remove software as they wish. There is no way to change default apps such as Safari, maps and mail etc. Recently uBlock origin has been removed from Google chrome and Microsoft app stores.
It's sad that 6 years later we still have the same problems.
Another 6 years, still the same.
you think our problems are gonna be solved that quickly?
I wish we had the same problems as we did then lmao. Hold on guys my BMW is asking for money so I can heat the seats brb.
Now we got subscription printers.
Subscription everything.
Is there going to be a written version of this talk in the nearer future?
Frankly, I think this is one of the most important talks given so far in the 21 century, right at a turning point in time. So publish largely, please!
I listen to this whenever I do the dishes so I can memorize it
This will become reality as soon as THE CLOUD is in full effect. No device will run its own software, and the companies will have total control.
You're amazing at predictions
Yeah, pretty much
2024: almost no smartphones have SD card slots anymore, and all of them offer cloud subscriptions.
It is 2024 now and the Cloud is fully functional and you will own nothing but be happy?
@jimle22 - As far as happiness is concerned, that is a no-brainer, it will never be absolute. As for not owning nothing, that is an almost certainty.
"My wife used to play Quake for England"
I think this is the first time in my life I have felt status envy.
Suddenly, my obsession with vintage/obsolete computer systems isn't seeming quite so bad ;-) Not too sure I like the way things are going - having grown up in a certain age of computing, I do very much like to own the hardware I buy, and run precisely what I choose on the bastard!
That's cute and all, but what about when those stop being compatible with the rest of the world? What happens when to work, to be able to purchase things online, pay bills, file taxes etc. you need an APPROVED system? Being able to Liero in your basement gets old quickly if you're starving or freezing to death. Hell, we're not that far away from grocery stores stopping to accept cash. It's already common for small businesses. I would not be shocked if in my lifetime I would be required to set up some smart phone app to buy milk. Take a guess whether that software is going to be available for general purpose computers.
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Given the context of Intel ME and Microsoft Pluton, this is actually quite chilling. A very prophetic speech, and in the worst possible way unfortunately.
I don't know if I'm grasping this right but isn't the push for cloud computing and dumbed down appliances that access the cloud already implementing what he's warning against?
there is no such thing as a cloud, other than the one that exists in the minds of people who use that term
@@shallex5744there absolutely is such a thing as cloud computing
Liked and added to playlist of great talks and panels :)
I've heard OF Doctorow before, but never heard him talk. It seems i will have to go through some hours of youtube clips of him in the comming weeks/months.
"my computer runs funny and--*
*thunderous applause*
@ms767210 Yup. Cloud computing is a key component of many future business models that have any relation to IT. It is one way to maintain control over content with minimal consumer backlash.
lmao and 10 years later your still right haha
@@benderman1157 haha
Simple like that.
I'm already in kinda of a personal campaign doing all my friends and family try and change to the more convenient GNU/Linux distro in each case. I know it's a boring job, but I think it's an indispensable one in order to build a better, free society.
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Is there such a device we can connect "dual microphone setup" to it which will avoid comb-filtering as the speaker moves towards one or another microphone? Am I the only one to notice it? Comb filtering is the effect of hearing or capturing a single sound source from two different position where positions changes duuring use / or vice viersa. (two speakers one aside another and you moving cause the same effect, mostly noticeable in the high frequency)
Whoever that woman was who asked about general von neumann machines.... she was right. we are starting to see purpose-made asics all over the place for crypto mining and later for ai transformers... also the copilot-ai pcs are really not okay
Does he mention John Deere anywhere in this video? Currently watching but I want to make sure this is mentioned. JD's "You can't repair this yourself because copyright" cack is abominable.
No, because this video is from 2011 and John Deere's bad behavior hadn't set in yet.
This was a GREAT listen. Thanks
This talk gave me chills...
I must spread it !
What about old style computers, which have the program physically designed into the architecture? No software, and runs only one thing.
2021, and we now have censored app stores...
This is very accurate when it comes to the new windows. It’s like they are trying to be ios
And it keeps getting worse and worse
@CreatorsInCreation Being a software developer I've got to ask: Huh?
What do you mean by "energy"?
People: please note: it's copyright - a right to copy, not copy write (something that's written?)
I can really see a cottage industry of replacing signed firmware chips with open firmware ROMs at the component level. Maybe freedom is just an eternal personal struggle.
> freedom is just an eternal personal struggle
Exactly.
@@JodyBruchon Hey the reason I watched this video was your referral on the Windows 11 video. Important to know.
@@generalralph6291 ❤️ that's fantastic! Thanks!
@Voxnulla - Yeah, Open Source software can't be used to build reliable systems like Google. Oh, except for Google, which is built largely on Open Source Software. As are most of the big, successful dotcoms.
usually the problem isn't with fast talking but sloppy pronunciation. yes, by native speakers.
man what a good talk and only more relevant by the year.
Here from a comment on video from a review of Bluesky; decentralized Social platform; and the “enshittification” of fresh platforms becoming bombarded with tolls/bad actors
thanks sammie
really gets the the core of what im angry about 80% of the time im having computer troubles. everything thats wrong with my shit is filtered through 70 layers of "hmm could an 80 y/o dude with dementia be able to comprehend this error message?" that anyone with even a vague idea of what theyre doing has no fucking clue what to do to troubleshoot anything. its all just "your shit is fucked (10100100)" and when you google it the official support documentation for the error code is "this error code is for when the program has no fucking clue what went wrong".
which WOULD be fine if the fucking developers put in more than like 5 error codes and just routed all the more complex errors into the catchall of "idk lol" so you never have any fucking clue what happened and when you actually go in to parse the error log its JUST A FUCKING SCRIPT THAT PRINTS OUT "IDK LOL" INSTEAD OF HAVING ANY USEFUL INFORMATION SO EVEN IF YOU GO TO SUPPORT WITH IT THEY WOULD STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS WITH YOU AND THE ERROR CODE WOULDNT DO ANYTHING AT ALL, ITS JUST FOR THE OTHER 4 ERROR CODES MADE FOR REALLY EASILY SOLVED ISSUES SO SUPPORT CAN JUST PATCH YOUR SHIT INSTEAD OF DOING THEIR JOB AND SUPPORTING YOU
101:YOUR COMPUTER ISNT PLUGGED IN
102:YOUR INTERNET ISNT PLUGGED IN
103:YOUR SHIT IS FUCKED, RESTART IT
104:YOUR INTERNET IS FUCKED, RESTART IT
105: IDK LOL
A DEAD RAT COULD FIX THESE PROBLEMS WITHOUT ANY SORT OF OUTSIDE INPUT, WHY ARE THERE EVEN ERROR CODES WHEN THEYRE ALL JUST THE FIRST STEPS TO TROUBLESHOOTING ANYWAY but yeah this is a good video to send to people who dont know whats going on so they can continue to not know whats going on and its worthless to send it to anyone who hasnt already seen it :)
thanks for the link, sam
Groomer lmao
I do wish some solution had been proposed. The description of the problem was excellent.
@spambot71 we're all hoping real hard that the 3d printing scene pans out fast enough to out-flank that looming threat.
But at the end of the day we're all simply praying to hasten the nanobot revolution... yet again.
The gradual realisation that one is pinning a lot of hopes for the future on what boils down to a quasi-religious technological dream: Feels bad man. :(
@elfboi523 And MP3 players and digital camera's and new cars and dishwashers or any new sort of home or kitchen appliance? All of these are stuffed to the brim with FPGA's and SOC's running proprietary software and all of these can potentially "spy" on you or run more software.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
This seems more like poetry slam then a lecture. Great listen
the question at 39:00 is really ringing true now!
Chuck Berry died today
did he say at 17:17 "a program that does one specialized task like STREAMING"??
Yeah, like ffserver.
Whenever someone wants a deployment pipeline for closed-source (anti-detection, evasion, anti-analysis) and proprietary (uses a product server to download the payload .. erm i mean "product"), im just like... Yeah ok ive done malware dev ops before. You want your logo or mine embedded in it?
Real king moment to shit on the drug war in 2011, in Germany no less. The parallels between attempting to defeat "bad" use of software and attempting to defeat "bad" drug use are many.
They will call us "Conspiracy theorist"
@28c3 can you send me the srt file, please?
True, True, and True, here is the interesting part. Without personal control over our devices we will rent computing power from others. They have incentive to increase profits by producing artificial scarcity. Limits that create services for things you might do for yourself. Stream a Blu-ray saved on disk to a second T.V. Video chat without buffering or price increase. Backup your SSD device using a tool with a competitive price.
Excellent talk! and very scary!
Fascinating indeed.
arent specialized devices specifically intended to run types of programs through hardware a thing
like, a hardware device specifically designed to run ai as best as possible; specifically ai, not necessarily some other programs
you need to understand the point about being turing-complete - a general purpose computer CAN run any program you throw it
even if it's unoptimized and takes 10,000 years the point is that it's still actually possible even if it's done through weird minecraft computer
Around/just before 18:00, he implies that a single-purpose appliance is fine, but a locked-down general purpose computer that *acts* like an appliance is not. I don't quite follow this argument - surely it's not a problem as such a device isn't *advertised* as a general-purpose computer? I can't reprogram my dishwasher, but I don't see it as a problem either. Of course, there's also no physical or cryptographic protection measure (I assume) preventing me from ripping out the control board and building my own, which might be what he meant.
He also throws the word "spyware" in there, without explaining how spyware is related. You can have a locked-down computer-appliance-thing without spyware, and you can have an open general purpose computer with spyware. If a third-party sets policies, that's not spyware, although *if it updates automatically* it probably is malware. (And it *can* be spyware if it reports back)
Spyware is a good example of a "feature" you might want to remove from a computer system you own, but if the computer system is sufficiently locked down, then you cannot remove the spyware. Locked down systems ARE being sold as essentially equivalent to general purpose computing systems. The argument that the public should have access to general purpose computing resembles the argument that the public should have access to guns. Though of course guns are more directly dangerous. And we are not that far from having the DMCA interpreted as making it illegal to replace the control unit of your dishwasher.
Compare, contrast, and combine: power line ethernet, wireless routers, smart meters
You can lock down functionality of a device without resorting to spyware, yes. So if you want a device that can't play music, you don't install a sound card. However, the only way to stop a device that's capable of running MS Office from running LibreOffice is by having spyware that checks for the running programs and stops you from installing LibreOffice, since they both use the exact same basic functionality.
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Oh the guy who had that cool relationship with that Marky girl?
@87solarsky I do like smartphones, but I'd like to have an open one, like OpenMoko or something similar. Something under my control, not the control of some companies.
A data pagan, and a cyber vegan
Wow, he's right. Time to get started, NOW.
so they are actually killing the general purpose computer, but using AI, that will control everything you can and can't do on your device
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I heard they developed the internet and the personnal computer so they could have windows into every home, seems like its going that way
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Cory, you are a leader of men.
@maxmanrules I agree with you on this, I've always said thank god the geeks are critical thinkers and most of the time fight on the side of good. The way the world is going right now though only makes me cautiously optimistic
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@R4NDYS4V4GE i think the warning / speech you're talking about was eisenhower at the end of his presidency, not JFK. not that it matters all that much.
@MrElvey afaik so is Android, one of the "locked down app store" systems he's talking about much like iOS no? And isn't Android open source?
(no really, i'm more asking than anything)
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Another front is opening up in the war on general computation. Telcos(Telia) are trying to tax the use of Skype, because they don’t like the prospect of people replacing their old landline telephones and subscriptions with internet based alternatives.
This is why I am against closed systems like iPad, iPhone etc.
I really enjoyed this, awesome speech!
@blinxwang
Great idea. And OPEN hardware. Would you like some RasberryPI? /silly
@MrSaturdayNightSpecL You don't get it. It's not about that. he's saying that copyrights are dead now all together because copy rights hinder mans evolution and only protect profits and tyranny. If the wright brothers patents stood we would never have aircraft we have today. If the ideas time has come and is a big one there is nothing you can do from humanity using it. I can see your point with music, movies and books but it's not about that -they just need to find new business models and adapt
This is so good.
We have a vocabulary for anonymous coming out of the ghost in the shell series. "Stand alone complex".
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stand+Alone+Complex
The problem is the real vocabulary we need to to truly appreciate such things at a cultural level is locked away within systems theory. And systems thinking is hard.
@bongnbud What about those news stories you hear about teenagers and their parents getting million dollar fines for downloading music and such? Is it already a "drug war" do you think?
@MrElvey So Android isn't that much more open than iOS. I didn't realize this 'till recently. Apple fights hard against developers that make software to unlock iPhones, but not against developers that make software to jailbreak iPhones.
@29:22 -- EFF, Bits of Freedom, EDRi, CCC, Netzpolitik, La Quadrature du Net, and all the others, who are thankfully, too numerous to name here -- we may yet win the battle, and secure the ammunition we'll need for the war.
And yet, UEFI is a thing and there are reports of bricked laptops after installing Linux.
@iiiears raspberryPi isn't open hardware afaik, at least atm
this guy is such a fantastic speaker, why did he READ his lecture :(
I agree with the premise. Thanks.
I'd like to hear a discussion regarding the exchange of energy from a developer to a user in today's social structure. Much of what I'm hearing in this discussion is not about computers but how we exchange energy. I have my own thoughts on this topic but I'd like to hear more regarding the roots of why this is an issue to begin with. I liked the starseed comment ;-)
There noone home in that show
Sam hyde brought me here
hey google
The guy with that cool relationship with that Marky girl?
nazi nazi nazi nazi!
@Voxnulla That's why we need open systems in all of those.
Send this video to your Congressman!
@elfboi523 - Couldn't have said it better. Those devices to have a GPS capability too.
ideal future businesses have to be set up to work with open source/creative commons not against it
The voice of the first asker if beyond reason omg.
@michiyoyoshiku
If you look at his left hand, he has a wedding band.
Don't feed the troll, etc. but try to argue that away.
If I had to guess, I'd say people do it, in part, to make other people ask themselves exactly that question.
@nikch1 Yup. I think that there aren't enough incentives for politicians to listen to the people who elect them. Lobbyists and special interest groups are able to gain more support than citizens, as they're capable of donating more and essentially funding the candidate's entire re-election campaign. What we really need is a method for the people to call a vote of confidence. We can vote for the people who seem to be the best, but the media can influence our decisions in favor of one person
This was good. I enjoyed it a lot.
this was great to watch.
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This man is a visionary.
@bongnbud What do you mean?
Awesome talk and very prescient (apart from the bitcoin skepticism).
@E1SUNZ I thought it was like the movie 1984 where you can have thought crimes where everything is spying on you and monopolies are the way it is and tyranny runs wild. But he holds some hope for it thinking freedom might win. But we will always have to fight for it like any kind of freedom he compares it to levels in a video game and we only just beat the mini boss "sopa" on the first level and have a ways to go and many more mini bosses to come till the final battle or end game