@j9t Yes, of course its better. But I guess "how much better" depends on where you live. Here in Canada/Québec, we have pretty much no control on our government. So the result between privately-owned and state-owned is small. Though, of course, it's a good first step. Regaining control over our government is doable if we can organize better.

@jwcph@helvede.net I've kind of started to accept the theory that whatever economic or capitalist models we're trying to apply to any of this simply don't make sense. These companies are no longer trying to make money. They're trying to outspend each other and most certainly outbullshit each other in the name of capturing some theoretical "infinite market" of the future, where he who controls the AI controls the universe.No one is thinking about long term profitability of anything, as no one believes projections in that space are even possible. They're YOLOing like crazy, because they all have the same AI brain worms telling them the they need to serve the Basilisk or else...Hopefully that eventually manages to run all of those companies to the ground, before they manage to destroy society and the environment.

@parismarx thank you for this collection.Are you aware of the following hashtags:#did #didit #diday (Digital Independence Day) Most of the messages will be in German.The project started end of last year at the #ccc (Chaos Computer Club), the biggest German hacker society. https://www.ccc.de/en/Maybe interesting for you.Best regards from GermanyPeet

@usernomnomnom @mcv @pluralistic You're basically talking about a physical authenticator & I agree, seems much more secure - the problem is it's utterly impractical to identify yourself with such a thing every time you load up a new website, or even sub-page...