Yes, it was originally designed as a successor to HP PA-RISC and then brought to Intel. I don't know how much it changed from the original design during development at Intel.
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I don’t think this is as universal a definition of ”doomer” as you think. To pick up on one of your examples I’ve seen people being called ”AI doomers” for holding every position between ”all of these huge investments might not pay off” to ”it will exterminate mankind and make paperclips out of the universe”. Where is the line for Real Doomerism? Be careful when you draw it lest you end up on the wrong side of history.
I think your point about mankind’s adaptability is fair but you’re working with a definition of the word ”doomer” that makes it extremely easy for you to prove your point. ”Every time the end of the world has been predicted it has been wrong because we’re still living in a world” is true but not a particularly clever or interesting argument.
Also you need to chill with the ”YOU’RE using as a doomer” and ”YOU fundamentally cannot grasp” stuff. Lol, ”buddy”, you have literally no idea who’s on the other side of that screen of yours or what they can ”fundamentally grasp”.
All signs point to it being really easy for you to dismiss "doomers" as wrong and "scientists" as right retroactively. If someone was wrong about the direction of the climate crisis 20 years ago they were a doomer. If they were right they were a scientist. Easy!
You can apply this to anything that went to shit with the world in the past, not just the climate. If someone predicted the financial crisis of 2008, they were not a doomer, they were a particularly savvy financial analyst. All the others who keep predicting crises are wrong, until they're right, and then they're not a doomer, so your point always stands no matter what. Super convenient!
In the vintage computer collector/enthusiast scene, there are probably dozens of working Lisas. How's that?
I didn't mean to be sarcastic but it's just that to me, philosophically, email is a plaintext technology that had HTML bolted on to it kicking and screaming, and it's always been kind of crap. People like me hate things that are fundamentally ugly and crap even if they are useful. The web was designed for HTML from the start.
Even the point about running computers when the car is off seems wildly uninformed: a 12 V starter battery in an ICE car is about 70 Ah. That’s 840 Wh. So you can run a 5 W computer (that does nothing but periodically wake up to look for and download updates and such) for 168 hours. (Of course, any competent implementation will not let electronics run the battery flat, but it still seems like way more than enough)
Nice, a human wrote it! Thanks for the recommendation!
Another pro is that no encryption means super low power microcontrollers and retrocomputers can browse freely. The system req's go down by orders of magnitude. I think enforcing TLS in the Gemini protocol was a huge mistake; there are so many retrocomputing enthusiasts that would love to browse Geminispace on their Amigas and 486s -- it might actually have been a significant part of the userbase -- but they're locked out because their CPUs simply cannot reasonably handle modern TLS.
The issue here though was whether having a full database is materially worse than relying on existing public resources. I can do identity theft all day with public resources; I don’t need a full database dump.
The best case scenario is in line with what CGI claims: these are lorem ipsum fake docs from an old git repo for a test instance of the system.
Skatteverket, the Swedish tax authority, has been quoted in media as confirming that they use CGI's system for digital document signing but that none of their data nor that of any citizens has been leaked.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-inform...
"One of the government agencies that uses CGI’s services is the Swedish Tax Agency, which was notified of the incident by the company. However, according to the Swedish Tax Agency, its users have nothing to worry about.
“Neither our data nor our users’ data has been leaked. It is a service we use for e-signatures that has been affected, but there is no data from us or our users there,” says Peder Sjölander, IT Director at the Swedish Tax Agency."
Basically: obviously it's not desirable to have that full database in the hands of a malicious actor but I'm not sure it's such a big deal either. Again, it's public data by design.
They are absolutely trivial to get. One click on mrkoll.se.
No. CGI has nothing to do with BankID.
IMO the most credible reports suggest that the source code and data involved are related to these four services:
https://www.cgi.com/se/sv/business-process-services/e-tjanst... "Mina engagemang offers a user-friendly and flexible solution that allows your customers to manage their cases directly through a personal portal. Here, users can view, track, and interact with their ongoing cases, which enhances both transparency and efficiency in the communication process." -- some kind of ticket/case management system for gov't agencies
https://www.cgi.com/se/sv/business-process-services/elektron... "With our secure end-to-end e-ID and eSign services, we can help you streamline document and contract management, gain access to all desired e-ID issuers, and improve cost efficiency." -- this sounds like a bad thing to compromise, but is to the best of my understanding a system for digital signatures on documents, and has no relation to BankID
https://www.cgi.com/se/sv/business-process-services/e-tjanst... "Gain better control over your organization’s representatives with our easy-to-use representative registry. By automating the identification and verification of representatives, you’ll gain a clear overview and enhance the security of your processes." -- sounds like some bullshit CRUD app for managing who can "represent" a gov't agency
https://www.cgi.com/se/sv/business-process-services/e-tjanst... "SHS is Sweden’s common standard for information exchange, enabling secure and efficient communication between government agencies, businesses, and organizations." -- this might be bad if real data was leaked
These are services used by various Swedish government agencies and it's pretty bad to have even a test instance of them hacked, but let's calm down. The entire Swedish state has not been compromised here.
Don’t forget the G4 Cube (most people do ;) which was also around at this time for reasons that are mostly unclear (looks cool though)
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
Over a thousand systems accessible over telnet (sometimes ssh too, sometimes even proper, honest actual dial-up modem)