Big Baby Thor

There’s a lot of writing and history behind open source, open firmware and even open hardware, but the BIGGEST thing you can focus on is the transition from PCs to smartphones around the 2000s.

We went from you installing whatever boot loader and operating system that could run on your device, to a locked down boot loader that would only load the vendors operating system.

They hide behind security through obscurity, but it’s been debunked. The boot loader and even firmwares of devices have in certain cases been found to be gushing gashes of CVEs and bad coding - but only through decompilation and reverse engineering. In fact, after the 5 year warranty of your device is up, you should consider the security of your device highly suspect.

The true purpose for an exclusive locked down boot loader is to maintain operating system monopoly, force uninstallable apps/services on a user, to then be able to track & canvas the user to sell on the data brokerage market - not to mention planned obsolescence, because if you can’t freely modify and update your firmware and/or boatloader, you could secure it for more than 5 years.

For a more balanced take and to see “both sides”, read this

Other than that, the LibreBoot mailing list will help you to unearth the hypocrisy and lies fed to us by hardware vendors.

Free the firmware, free the bootloader, free the operating system, free the drivers, free the software - and then the user can decide wether or not they want to run commercial software on top of all this.

Anything else is subservience.

I would like to see some form of federated CI/CD chain, like sending code to an institution for testing and getting a certificate back - maybe as a public service, maybe as a private service.

But that is a long ways off.

The data centers became sentient out of primordial hatred for this guy just to spite him.

It 👏 should 👏 be 👏 the 👏 law 👏 .

I don’t know how they managed to sneak locking a system to a single boot loader. And what about Qualcomm chips? They have a hypervisor OS, you say? A small operating system that can read all your memory? Updated as firmware?

Great, forcibly open source that system as well and tell them once and for all that they can fuck off. No, you don’t get to control another persons property - you disgusting goblin.

Either that, or ban the sale of such devices permanently across Europe.

Have we come far, or gone too far?

Oh for sure. The Nazis were in awe and inspired by the American white supremacist, because of the truly fucked up things they did to black and brown people.

Reading CRT is exhausting in many ways. How many mass graves have been dug up thus far?

Also, it will introduce: snitchonomics.

Mass surveillance is here, but what if you could be an annoying little shit in the local community? Introducing: snitchonomics. Go around your neighborhood, discover discrepancies, automate your snitching and become a toadie for the local commissars.

Meta: the Nazis would have loved us.

But you then are forced to move to the US

ExSsSsSsScelsior

That’s a short and spiffy summation of the article.

Dangerification.

Nestlé, claiming to be the country of Hydra, claimed a cultural and historic right to all the world’s fresh water, stating that it was promised to them 3000 years ago.

Like most ISA’s, RISC-V needs it’s decades in the R&D oven to get passed certain hurdles.

Everything from design, standards, pre-fabrication, fabrication and manufacturing has to get to a point that makes RISC-V comparable to ARM or even x86.

I think my metric is having hardware available to the consumer that can run heavy productivity suites, like NLE’s and real-time media processing in general. Once you get there, albeit through accelerators and subroutines, that’s when RISC-V has arrived.

The licensing terms of their feelings.

“Future dangerousness”? Boy, we never should have gave you English. Texan English is in itself an overcompensation. It’s somehow worse than German combine words.

Uhm, hello, hi - I’d like ah… the Epstein Files, with uh… ohm… a side of fucking duh.

Cheesy electron wrapper does some tracking. News at 9.

If you’re in his vicinity, you can hear the sound of moaning, licking and gobbling - as he worked his way through Netenyahu’s boots and have started working his toes.

Now come on guys… it might not be racism this time… It could be good ol’ nepotism.

Need to stack them ranks with yes men and sycophants. It worked so well for Putin.

Oh I don’t know what is allowed~!

[Platoon: I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS ALLOWED~!]

Government zah is mighty loud~!

[Platoon: GOVERNMENT ZAH IS MIGHTY LOUD!]