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  1. Volker Stolz @[email protected] ·

    And of course ignore MacOS begging you to move the download/binary into the trash!

    Embarrassing the hoops you have to jump through if you don’t want to pay your tithe to Apple so that Tim Cook can buy more golden presents for You-Know-Who.

    #WarOnGeneralPurposeComputing

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  2. Strypey @[email protected] ·

    "The general-purposeness of computers – the fact that they are all Turing-complete, universal von Neumann machines – has created tech bosses' fortunes, but now that these fortunes have been attained, the tech sector would like to abolish that general-purposeness; specifically, they would like to make it impossible to run programs that erode their profits or frustrate their attempts at rent-seeking."

    #CoryDoctorow, 2025

    pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/ful

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  3. Dino @[email protected] ·

    @st1nger I don't want to get all conspiracy-theory here but what interesting timing with all the sucking-up going on with the broligarchy. It would serve these fascists well to get the public angry about made-up evils of open-source software. #WarOnGeneralPurposeComputing #linux #opensource #zuck

    #warongeneralpurposecomputing #linux #opensource #zuck
  4. Christian Pietsch 🍑 @[email protected] ·

    Sei dabei, wenn sich die @datenfreude zum dritten Mal trifft:

    Am Dienstag, 2. Juli um 19 Uhr in den @acmelabs in Bielefeld!

    Eintritt frei. Austritt frei. Kein Verzehrzwang. Ideen dürfen mitgebracht werden.

    #FeditreffOWL #Feditreff #ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN #Chatkontrolle #Bielefeld #OWL #EuGoingDark #Verschlüsselungsverbot #warOnGeneralPurposeComputing #CryptoParty #DatenschutzTreff #Datenschutzcafé #Datenfreude #FreieSoftware #Datensouveränität #Selbstbestimmung #Mündigkeit

    #mundigkeit #selbstbestimmung #datensouveranitat #freiesoftware #datenfreude #datenschutzcafe
  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/19

    It is in the #WarOnGeneralPurposeComputing that we find the cheapest and flimsiest rhetoric. Companies like Apple - and their apologists - insist that no one *wants* to use third-party app stores, or seek out independent repair depots - and then spend *millions* to make sure that it's illegal to jailbreak your phone or get it fixed outside of their own official channel:

    doctorow.medium.com/apples-cem

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  6. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/35

    The repair wars are just a skirmish in a vast, invisible fight that's been waged for decades: the #WarOnGeneralPurposeComputing, where tech companies use the law to make it illegal for you to reconfigure your devices so they serve you, rather than their shareholders:

    memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10

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