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News like this make me sad. google is becoming a government agency-like customised fortress from the cold war, and general computing gets phased out, just like
by pmlnr 9y ago
News like this make me sad. google is becoming a government agency-like customised fortress from the cold war, and general computing gets phased out, just like Cory Doctorow said.[^1]
Technologically, it's fantastic, but I do not welcome the philosophy it's bringing.
[^1]: https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/18/on-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/18/on-the-war-on-general-purp...
- Buge 9y agoI agree with Doctorow that it is a problem if I the consumer am prevented from making my computer do what I want by secure boot. But Titan doesn't really have that problem. Google owns the computers, and Google can make the computers do what they want because they have the signing keys. If Titan-controlled devices were sold to consumers with no way to disable it, that would be a problem.