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Comment by xtracto

3 months ago

It's a sad state of affairs when a guy born in 1953 and a 70+ years old is our reference for freedom.

What happened to GenX, Millenials and GenZ ? Why aren't there any more vocal activists doing something? The internet fuked us up. We're full of armchair experts "fighting" the cause laying in our coach.

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gck1  3 months ago

Millennial here. I took up educating masses in my country about all this. I quickly realized that people just do not care.

BiteCode_dev  3 months ago

Millenials here. We did. A lot of a lot. And nobody cared.

Even today on HN most use chrome instead of firefox and mac instead of linux and. If you can't even convince the biggest nerds that supporting alternatives is important, what chances do you have?

  • hollerith  3 months ago

    This nerd cares about security, and Chrome is significantly more secure than Firefox and Mac is significantly more secure than any Linux distro.

    • zerreh50  3 months ago

      99% of the time security is about securing the product from the user. Just like Google's action we're commenting under

    • dmbche  3 months ago

      I must be a shit nerd, I've never in my life thought about browser safety.

      How the hell is chrome significantly more secure than firefox?

js8  3 months ago

Plenty of Gen Z caring about freedom, but unfortunately lot of them being deported from the U.S. for defending Palestinians.

I mean - Western world is a bit tougher place for protesting than it used to be, due to capital accumulation. Free SW is admirable but a pretty first world problem, unfortunately, low on the list of priorities.