OF COURSE, because what we needed is MORE dystopia, not less, duh

definitely! I don't agree with everything that Richard Stallman says, but one thing I agree with him on entirely is Software.

and as for nixos, I'm deeper into nix than most people, almost all of my machines (including servers) run nixos!

there is a link in the post, but yakihonne (nostr client for long form posts) can be rough sometimes, copy pasted the content for anyone else:

For too long, our lives and activities have been surveilled and trackedby powerful third-parties like Big Tech platforms, banks, payment networks and governments. They have erected a panopticon prison of monetized monitoring, analyzing our most personal data and transactions for their own undisclosed interests. This is a fundamental violation of privacy and economic freedom.

it is time to stop. A pivotal shift is underway and we need you! Free and open source software is the antidote to this suffocating climate of surveillance.

FOSS liberates code from the controlling grip of proprietary licenses, allowing users to examine, modify and truly own the software they run without informational monopolists looking over their shoulders. And Bitcoin takes away the government and banking sector's choke-chain over money itself.

This is a revolution, but we don't seek chaos, we don't seek destruction; we're not going to burn buildings down or engage in violent protests. We won't march down the street and demand change, instead, we'll code our way to freedom.

Our revolution is digital, fueled by lines of code and secured by cryptography. We will build decentralized systems and platforms where privacy is the default and freedom is non-negotiable. We shall rebirth genuine privacy rights.

Compare the transparent code of Linux's codebase to the opaque nature of proprietary software, compare the transparent mathematics governing Bitcoin's codebase to the concealed algorithms Big Tech Platforms use to surveil and manipulate. Bitcoin's rules are open for all to verify, while Microsoft's are a collusion-prone black box.

They will fight us, they always do, but we will persevere. The petty bureaucrats and Big Tech CEOs will keep fighting us how they can, they will fight to preserve their ability to monitor and control not because they have any real legitimacy, but because FOSS and Bitcoin threaten to make their invasive rackets obsolete.

We shall create amenable territories where true privacy is the default.

Does this terrify the corporatist data oligopolies and bureaucratic surveillors? It should! No longer will free individuals be tracked and traced without consent. Value exchange, speech and human action will be freed from the shackles of centralized control, operating in a world where trust is built into the system, not imposed from above.

We will not fight with guns or bombs, there will be no blood shed; instead we will fight with ideas. We will fight with the most potent weapon at our disposal: knowledge. Encryption is our shield, and open-source protocols are our weapons. We are simply restoring privacy as the bedrock, putting the individual squarely in control over what information gets optionally revealed rather than having our data surreptitiously expropriated by middlemen.

We are coding a future where privacy is sacrosanct, economic freedom is a given, and surveillance capitalism is a relic of the past. We are crafting tools that empower the individual, disempowering the surveillance state and the oligarchs of information.

This is our battle. Not fought with weapons, but with wisdom. Not with anger, but with algorithms. Our armor is anonymity; our shield, encryption.

So we call on you, the coder, the thinker, the dreamer. Join us. Take up the tools of freedom. Contribute to the code of liberation. In every line you write, see the chains breaking. Witness the old world of control and surveillance crumble.

Join us, join the revolution, start coding. Together, we will reclaim our privacy, our freedom, and our dignity.