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I always felt those averse to spy/malware awareness and general, common sense personal security/privacy/safety practices to be ignorant of life in the 21st Century. That is, those who always say "I have nothing to hide" or "I could print my texts and emails, I don't give a shit" are blatantly ignorant, reckless with their own privacy/dignity online, and should just subtract themself from the online privacy/safety narrative, because "I don't give a shit" is not an argument against, nor defense for, anything at all (because them giving a shit does not register with what I do or don't do online).

So being "into" FOSS and small projects and sustainable software/hardware, expansion of programming knowledge, broadening one's skillsets, protecting privacy (in general) and also being off/away from a multinational corporation's members/customer/user books, is nothing one should shy away from or be hesitant in discussing openly, proudly.

Just my take

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~softwarepagan wrote (thread):

I didn't say I don't discuss FOSS or these things openly. I was making an observation that the parts of that which is traditionally considered "geek culture" that are actually counter-cultural in any way (like FOSS) have become "uncool" again, whereas the pop-culture aspects of it have been absorbed into the mainstream.