[kwlug-disc] HTTPS Everywhere sunsets in January 2023

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

 > Isn't crypto a brutal form of capitalism. The one in which there is no
 > court and a way to return stolen?

I read a blog post in the last few days which talked about this.

https://www.devever.net/~hl/ruthlessness

Terence Eden also wrote a recent blog on the theme, working through what 
would happen if his house burnt down and he lost all his 2FA tokens and 
password vaults. If everything is crypto and the rules are only software 
he, and we, would be in trouble

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my-digital-life/



The original conception of the Butlerian Jihad from the Dune novels was 
also supposed to be a revolt against this kind of strict over 
automation, and results in the banning of computers and mechanized 
automation.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad/DE

(At least in the original books and the Dune Encyclopedia.
i.e., the correct version,
i.e.i.e the version that I like :)
)

Dune also comments on the over dependency on rules the even without 
computers, and how human judgement can be effectively eliminated, making 
those systems just as ruthless and in-flexible as machine automated systems.

Which also reminds me of Charlie Stoss's description of corporations as 
old slow AIs.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html


And now I am going to stop my SF/automation spiral. :)


Andrew