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

But seriously where is that logo from?

El Psy Kongroo

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

but there is no such directory

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?

Then doesn’t that mean that the guy was somehow shortlisted and handpicked to be served that honeypot link?