@aburka maybe it could involve some ghosts of christmas past too. i feel like stallman is absolutely a scrooge character
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@aburka but like i am mad that if stallman has that NSA footer in all his emails why is gpg not as secure as signal (bc forward-secrecy requires a stateful message chain, which requires retaining more client state) and why is there not a whole cinematic universe of self-sovereign identity. does he even sign his own emails
@aburka to be clear i'm not expecting anything from him and honestly i don't want him to be the main character of this either because i don't want to sympathize with him.
so maybe this could be a series of encrypted messages between characters with chat logs like homestuck and they introduce more identities and also reveal their linked identities as trust is built and it becomes an investigation of how trust relationships are built in a context of structured anonymity.
and they like each slowly reveal the reason they were motivated to write their own client for the protocol but it didn't provide and they start off super opinionated and huffy but in the end they band together
and like they each were so disappointed with free software and they realize they can solve their problems by working together in solidarity with each other's struggles
like how can we know for sure it's stallman sending this email telling everyone never to say "win" instead of "windows" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00029.html having an unspoofable signature on every email you send by simply admonishing others for failing to do the least important possible thing in every email
hell yeah https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00061.html
Is the intent to hide or deny the existence of Windows?
In any case, I believe this wastes resources better applied for real
Emacs work.
ok no i got it it's kafka's the trial except the judge is richard fucking stallman
everything about this book is insane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative.[1]
i had a bizarre interview last week in which 30 seconds in i made a contextually appropriate analogy to dostoevsky's imprisonment in siberia and no i will not explain further
This was an unusually productive period for Kafka, despite the outbreak of World War I, which significantly increased the pressures of his day job as an insurance agent.[3]
so like insurance agent during wartime does that mean they're stiffing soldiers on healthcare or are they insuring tanks? i can't tell because the internet archive has it under what looks very much like the CDL that hachette vs IA found to be infringement https://archive.org/details/kafkadecisiveyea00stac/page/464/mode/2up
you can't just say "the pressures" like that. i'm tagging it. i wanna know what kafka was insuring in ww1
