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ACPI is almost as horrible: complicated, opaque, untrusted code running on a VM instead of using declarative data tables. Closed-source firmware and silicon mu
by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
ACPI is almost as horrible: complicated, opaque, untrusted code running on a VM instead of using declarative data tables.
Closed-source firmware and silicon must end, because it's impossible to authoritatively verify correctness or rule out malware implants inserted at some point along the way.
- unlmtd1 9y agoWell said. It also makes computing much more expensive and slow to progress. But those fraudsters love their violence-backed monopoly. Image if a few vital manufacturing plants were destroyed, we would have silicone shortages. We have made ourselves fragile, backwards and weak.