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Apocalyptic Net Loses of Mass Surveillance (blenderdumbass.org)

submitted 1 week ago by blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Mathematical prof that surveillance harms x 1K more than it could potentially help.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i didn't know that he was behind it; the licensing details are confusing to me as all legalese is.

[–] blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Richard Stallman very likes recursions. This is why GNU ( something he named ) is a recursive acronym. And GPL ( something he came up with ) is a recursive license.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i don't know much about stallman; but little i do know makes me inclined to agree with this. lol