this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
423 points (95.7% liked)
Privacy
46698 readers
1149 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Some people: Hey do you want to play a game where you're forcred to limit your options while you give up ever more figures representing various subjects of a European medieval kingdom until you only have a couple of pieces left on the board which represent the nobility?
Me: Not really
Same here, I was just quoting the movie War Games
Never seen it, is it good?
It's a great early 80s movie about Matt Broderick('s character) hacking into a "supercomputer" that's programmed to simulate and potentially execute nuclear war, check it out if that seems up your alley
Sounds okay, is irony the right word to use when we have mad men trying to use AI for that exact purpose? I also heard that it's the reason why Chomsky was MIT so that generals could eventually just talk to computers.
Fucking computers, paul cockshott had a great video on the history of computing machines, they were always used for shitty fucking purposes. I loved the book WE as a teenager maybe I should reread it.
I miss the days when I used to love technology and be excited about all the great things it could potentially do for society. Now I'm a luddite trying to stick to older and simpler stuff at most while I cynically point out all the awful ways technology will be used by the selfish and the powerful
You and me both friend. You're in the company of one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck