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So cannot wait for GNUtella (and its floating peer-to-peer cloud concept) to come back but retrofitted with Signal protocol.

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It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology.

Laws can be ammended faster than implementations.

>It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology.

It's extremely possible to solve political issues using technology. If you consider the government infringing people's right to put whatever substance they want into their body to be a political issue, it's been pretty much entirely solved by crypto and darknet markets for drugs.

Which are technical aspects of a fundamentally social problem. It's not the market platform itself that dodged the government - it's the people on the market.

Solving the political issue is a different matter and very ambitious. Meanwhile, tech mitigation would be nice.

> It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology.

True.

> Laws can be ammended faster than implementations.

Really, really false.

The problem with GNU and Gnome is, to put it in the words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them.

postnote: this comment was Authored on Firefox under Wayland running on Linux 6.

I don’t think Gnutella is related to the GNU Project or GNOME in any way. It was initially going to be GPLd but I don’t think that came to pass.

As far as the mainstream I believe Gnutella, the protocol, had massive success with the LimeWire client.

Gtk-GNUtella is a GPL license.

https://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.io/#:~:text=gtk%2Dgnutella%....

>> words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them.

Yeah, that's why Windows has been by far the most used OS by the mainstream

2015 called and want their stats back.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-20...

You are missing the point. Us hackers will always find ways to circumvent the surveillance. But the rest of the population is not that fortunate. A solution has to include general awareness and mobilization of the non-tech population against this law.

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