I mean he has accepted a position as a luminary at the x86 ecosystem advisory group the most dominant and proprietary instruction set ever formed by companies with vested interest to keeping it in use and prevent competition (RISC-V & ARM) from catching up.

Nothing is devoid of global politics.

Russian maintainers were unceremoniously kicked out citing compliance issues.

RISK-V and ASML have been targeted by them in the past to prevent Chinese use.

reading the broad points regarding RISC-V, I think my worst case scenario is apparently just the present day.

but then the project loses momentum, the userbase fragments, opensource projects are fragile as they are mostly volunteer work; I guess the discussion of government threat and overreach towards opensource projects is mostly discussed in the context of cryptocurrencies and other ‘disruptive’ software

https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024

https://lemmy.ml/post/21715588

what’s the recent Linux drama?

https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024

https://lemmy.ml/post/21715588

It seems everett always solves his problems by resorting to violence

Its just an analogy, imagine you take your horse for a health check up and the insurance company directly asks the horse about your riding habits

Reminds me of that story from reddit where op caught a falling microtome blade and suffered from blood poisoning because the nurse messed up his blood types

Skill issue

El Psy Kongroo

The code did have a fi at the end, i am using fedora.

but there is no such directory

Blocking it browser wide worked, but it is a bit inconvenient; the site was prompting everytime i was just browsing it even though i clicked remember the decision.

Yes

I didn’t deny it; its akin to a first year med student reading about all the subtle little ways that the body hints something is majorly wrong and noticing symptoms exhibit in them, I guess i am just not jaded enough to accept that online anons can just send a swat team to my house if i comment on the local weather online.

Welp repressive countries have more stringent teams of computer forensics experts now. Though compared to our neighbours i wouldn’t call my country repressive(yet)

Feasibility aside, the shitty laws in question attacks content hosting platforms first(safe harbor laws). So no matter how many vpns i hop through, the site would simply limit the visibility of my post in the region and go about their day.

Honestly i believe there is no point in speculating whether there are backdoors installed in popular privacy and encryption apps; for all we know, the powers that are may already have a digital fortress’esque quantum computer decrypting everything from your signal messages to onion sites in a matter of seconds.

I think(my personal headcanon) that there probably was a Manhattan project like top secret research project that has yielded some very fruitful results, now i guess we have to just wait for some whistleblower or a disgruntled employee to feed it a file that blows it up.

I would assume that because it is a popular open source software relied upon by millions that it theoretically shouldn’t?