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Been thinking about the implication of Moore law (in the broad sense) and how easy it's to reinvent the wheel using cheap electronics nowadays. Giving this tre
by _lce0 10y ago
Been thinking about the implication of Moore law (in the broad sense) and how easy it's to reinvent the wheel using cheap electronics nowadays.
Giving this trend, how far are we from google/facebook/apple/whatever to start giving away hardware for free?
It's not so far fetched to envision such devices to be heavily hostile, for regular users, and makers or tinkerers alike.
- jamiesonbecker 10y agoRemember the :CueCat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat It was "hostile" to hardware hackers. That lasted about 10 seconds. Of course, it's probably a bit harder these days as they embed more and more into SoC.