madez

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by madez 7y ago
I'm in the same boat. If it moves things in the right direction, then it doesn't suck.
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by madez 7y ago
We surely need regulation that demands at least delayed publication of firmware source and hardware documentation, I agree. The analogy to regulation in the food industry is enlightening. It's easier to achieve regulation when people c
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by madez 7y ago
The solution is rather simple; buy devices with better documented and open internals rather than what's cheapest, shiniest, and most convenient. There are alternatives, and we all vote with our wallets.
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by madez 7y ago
My impression is that the adversity extends the formal political process. For example the hierarchy in work relationships seems adversarial, because of the treatment and behaviour of labour unions. In the justice system, the harsh sentences
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by madez 7y ago
As an outsider, it seems Bernie Sanders is a candidate that seriously wants to tackle these serious problems in the USA. Apart from that, I wonder why the society in the USA is so adversarial. It is apparent in many aspects and it is damagi
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by madez 7y ago
Not everything modern is good or positive or even acceptable. JS is not uncontroversial, for good reasons, both technical and political via its influence on society. Lamenting that it is used when there is no need for it seems reasonable to
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by madez 7y ago
I understand it as that people with expert knowledge from the field, mathematicians in this case, agree with the classification of the problem on a social and cultural level.
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by madez 7y ago
You are not limited to Oracle engineers and access to proprietary source code and documentation to clean your systems pants. That makes individual fixes cheaper and the fixes can be shared publicly, leading to additional cost savings.
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by madez 7y ago
If one completely disregards political consequences, and generally anything but personal short-term benefit, I agree with your reasoning. Otherwise, I see not how that would be possible. And I think arguing just for short-term practicality
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by madez 7y ago
When someone in a company agrees on a meeting in their office with someone from outside the company, and the visitor arrives at time well-dressed and is rejected by the companies security without any explanation, then who is at fault? It is
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by madez 7y ago
I think it is appropriate to specify your statement with a significant detail; a ISA monoculture enables quicker and more efficient development of proprietary software . Free and open software deals efficiently and fast with different ISA&
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by madez 7y ago
Yes, some don't stand for what they believe but rather try to rationalize why continuing playing Blizzard games isn't supporting Blizzard, or is even damaging Blizzard. Some go even so far as that they attack those that act on the
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by madez 7y ago
Thanks for the support. We have more than Tux Racer. There are a lot of games without DRM and with full offline single-game experience, like for example the excellent Factorio. Factorio isn't without issues either, because it isn'
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by madez 7y ago
Deleting my account was a revealing relief. Not just your account as in some entry in a database gets deleted including the characters stored on their servers, but also every game you paid for and all the purchase you made inside the games.
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by madez 7y ago
I deleted my account on their service over this, and I know so did others. There was more spoken than just English.
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by madez 7y ago
That might be true. If 500.000 people block every big street in a city, you will read the signs and think about the cause. What a protest can afford depends on how many are protesting. Going to the specific event in question, the convention
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by madez 7y ago
Protest is supposed to interrupt, to be there where it isn't wanted. It is supposed to be inconvenient and blocking.
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by madez 7y ago
Changing IPs can be dealt with network-wide DHT or a known-peer approach. The NAT traversal shenanigans only have to be successful on one side. When the geek manages to be reachable, they can talk to their grandparent, given they use softwa
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by madez 7y ago
To go a bit more off-topic here, It isn't obligatory that decentralized p2p platforms manage network obstacles badly nor that you even connect to random strangers at all. When RetroShare was still in the Debian repositories, I managed
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by madez 7y ago
The parent probably meant Threaded Intercal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL ).
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by madez 7y ago
I assume you ask that because you are aware that any device with the capabilities of a smartphone can be made into a powerful surveillance device by whoever the entity is that has control over it. I see variations of that argument very ofte
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by madez 7y ago
I wish it were socially accepted to tell people to turn their Android device off while they are in company. I wish I could tell people that visit me to turn their device off or put it into rf and sound shielded containers. I don't mind
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by madez 7y ago
I bought the original Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus when they were released, and I was excited about the device and Android. Since Snowden, the ever increasing reliance on Google of many people and institutions via its cloud services, and th
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by madez 7y ago
Can you get the sources for the board for the Raspberry? Can you run it without blobs?
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by madez 7y ago
The MNT Reform seems to have open sources for the case and boards but a proprietary SoC and modules. There is also the Teres-I laptop from Olimex with open sources for the case and boards but a proprietary SoC and modules. The Librem 5 from
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by madez 7y ago
Do you mean the Librem laptops from Purism?
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by madez 7y ago
That is exciting! Open and well-documented FPGAs are definitely useful and very interesting to have in a device. Have you looked into OpenPiton [0], PULP [1], BOOM [2], or lowRISC [3]? While I'm hopeful that you find these projects per
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by madez 7y ago
Let me take this opportunity to ask you a question here after you making clear the problems you see. Hardware becomes more complex and can include internal software that from a user perspective is just part of the hardware. But in fact, it
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by madez 7y ago
Things are getting worse, not better, on many fronts when it comes to user freedom and control over their devices. Apparently many responsible engineers in this area lack the ethical consideration of their work. The more I see this, the mor
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by madez 7y ago
You, and everyone else for that matter, can go and buy a software defined radio (SDR) and play with a radio to your hearts liking. If there is a restriction on redistribution of open down to the radio firmware WiFi devices, then it's d

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