remul/436 Feb 21stNo, @functionzer0 there is nothing better than "Modern Life" except maybe future life. It is amazing that such freedoms and choices and life does exist. Yet there is a lot that gets hidden from us as children and no one ever teaches us to deal with it... I wish it would happen sooner, but better lives will result from better parenting. Better parenting will result in lowering our tolerance for abusive relationships.
But I don't believe that it has to be a choice; we deserve truth which will create happiness. We are here to act on our virtues for truth to be happy.
Then again, what do I know... Evy2/243 Apr 28thHave no fear, Evey's here!
Anyway, I kind of lost my password, so now I'm Evy2. Happens.
@remul @Omen
Thank you for your kind words, guys (or gals or whatever is hiding behind those letters)! It looks like you're much wiser than me, which is actually something I didn't really expected in onionland. I'll think about it more.
@adamredlig
Adam, I don't think that's a good idea. First and foremost, javascript can't be trusted. Not only that, I'm no expert on cryptography, but I think that trying to implement pgp in javascript is a really good way to die insane. And even if that works, changing crypto-javascript to crypto-javascript-that-sends-you-secret-messages-to-site-admin is easy, right? Such site is in no way secure.
Do you need private communication or anonymous communication? Those are separate things, and for just private communication (if you don't mind authorities knowing you communicated) you need just email client and pgp. Thunderbird works, right? And any modern linux distribution includes gpg and some user-friendly tools. And for webmail users, are there any tools you can use so you have flashdisk with you keys and just encrypt and decrypt things? There should be.
But the biggest problem is, that not many people want to communicate privately. And that's much harder to crack than writing some app, right? Omen/241 Apr 26th@Evy
don't fret, as much as @remul says that things won't get better for a long time, things won't get much worse for a long time as well. As much as 'the system' is attempting to tighten its grip on your rights and the internet, it's still pretty easy to slip between the cracks (using tor, for example). It's because of things like that that I think the world is heading more and more towards a cyberpunk future (a' la' shadowrun, minus the D&D). Stay frosty, bro, don't resort to violence unless you know for sure that you are in the majority, and even then, you have to do it in such a way that the whole world, or at least the people that would support you, would know about it. remul/240 Apr 26th@Evy Be the change you want to see in the world, maybe. Being the person you want to be and inviting people to the rational, moral, better side of life is the most one can do. Politics will rot your brain ... violence won't solve the problem of violence ... people will be stupid and wrong and evil and there's nothing that can directly be done apart from you being a part of this small shine of light coming from a minority of the world who have even the slightest bit of reason.
It's irrational to be rational in an irrational world... but there's no going back to ignorance if you've already seen past the bullshit and corruption in the world.
Unless you just want to go insane worrying about it, maybe you could develop a philosophy and live by it. Don't let anyone force you into a way of acting that you don't agree with.
It is us who will get the human race back on track... and we won't see it in our life time—but that's no reason to give up on the future: we can't blame the past generations for not speaking up unless we, ourselves, speak up.