Harm Reduction Guides for Mainstream OSes?

dadnerd:

We cannot control others. I exercise my agency and completely avoid all privacy invasive tech. I am talking about others. We do not and cannot exist in a vacuum within our highly-connected societies. Are you going to never message anyone who has an iPhone again? Never email anyone who’s gonna read that email on Windows?

Are you saying that this is what im saying? Im not saying that u should do these things. I am also responding to the very beginning of ur post, so I dont think its off topic.

dadnerd:

As time progresses, and AI becomes more and more integrated into the mainstream closed-source OSes like Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, I feel like it’s going to be increasingly important to teach people how to harden these OSes to reduce harm.

I agree with you when you say “I feel like it’s going to be increasingly important to teach people how to harden these OSes to reduce harm”, which is why i said this

anonymous630:

I can understand the necessity of harm reduction for established technology

But my point is that “As time progresses, and AI becomes more and more integrated into the mainstream” is wrong. U are suggesting some causal connection between the progressing of time and the integration of AI. I am telling you, maybe not you specifically but to everyone who holds that view, that there is no causal connection. The actual causal connection Im stating is between political power and AI’s integration. It is not the case that as time progresses, AI becomes more mainstream. What is actually the case is that as corporations exercise their political power, AI becomes more mainstream. To combat this, the root of the cause is to exercise ones own political agency. That is what I am saying. It’s true that I didnt answer ur question as to what good harm reduction guides there are, but my reply is still on topic because I am responding to an underlying belief you have. I apologize if reading it wasted ur time. I wrote that in hopes that I can change people’s minds in being politically active. After all, we both presumably agree that privacy is a right. Fighting for that right is inherently political, which is what im trying to say.

anonymous630:

If you believe that you have political agency, but do not exercise it, you are refusing to do good. If you don’t believe that you have political agency, and also do nothing about it, you are also refusing to do good.

Maybe I shouldnt have moralized it so much, since that tends to anger people. I apologize for that too.