Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months agoI’ve dealt with Patrons like you before and the instant someone starts yammering at me about ClearNet / Tor I know exactly what kind of person I’m dealing with.
You selected your path for whatever reasons you chose and the inconveniences that come with that path are yours to deal with. Suck it up buttercup, you weren’t promised that a privacy respecting internet lifestyle would be easy or convenient.
I guess Meta, Google, Amazon and countless other companies are with you on this one for the ad and tracking riddled mass exploitation Internet of today.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I began my struggle with F/OSS and its drivers with Slackware V3 shortly after it’s release. I long ago memorized absolutely every argument you could possible come up with and have myself repeated many of them over the years. That doesn’t change the fact that Networks and Systems are not configured for your convenience and YOU are responsible for how your own damn hardware works.
Now get the hell off my lawn.
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I really missed my opportunity on that one!
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
We are in a public community on the open Internet here where the following is written in the sidebar :
Tor was created by the USA military and the USA government has funded with millions of dollars. Many years ago Tor had a negative word association to it. But not so much anymore. Countless volunteers run Tor nodes from home, and Tor is not that slow anymore as it used to. I use Tor myself because I strongly dislike all the tracking, snooping and scandals by large and even small companies. The Clearnet Internet has become a disastrous place :(
coffeeClean@infosec.pub 6 months ago
It’s a good point. But note the bigger absurdity with his comment: that a public library is “his lawn”. If his inability to serve the whole public would be just in the private sector, there would be no issue because everyone he disservices can refuse to do business with him.
What’s sickening here is he said “I’m someone in IT for a Public Library”. So he is operating a public service in an exclusive manner telling people /get off his lawn/, which was financed with public money. And 53/55 people are okay with that.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months ago