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Nexus 5X used to be able to randomize its MAC; not sure if it still can. MAC randomization does not seem to be present on the Pixel.

Party A: Create new regulations which benefit pharma

Party B: Remove old regulations which disadvantage pharma

"Yet" is key. You can't say the RPi is the most open platform if it's predicated on some future condition.

That said, I shouldn't be so critical. The state of free graphics drivers on ARM SBCs is pretty abysmal and any improvement is a good thing. Mostly I object to the assertion "RPi is a free and open platform," but rereading your original post you didn't actually say that. Perhaps we should say "RPi is one of the least-closed platforms." It will be great to see the FOSS VC4 drivers mainlined into the Linux kernel.

Survey of FOSS ARM graphics drivers https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3MTM

Hardware that can run the Lima free graphics driver: https://limadriver.org/Hardware/

Hardware that can use the Etnaviv free graphics driver: https://github.com/etnaviv/etna_viv#socs-with-vivante-gpu

> the origin of the open source firmware and drivers doesn't matter, it's the end result that matters

Unfortunately, the current end result seems to be a Linux that doesn't even have support for USB or ethernet.

There are so many SBCs these days it's hard to enumerate all of them, but this board looks more open than RPi. I think it uses Vivante/Etnaviv graphics. http://www.imx6rex.com/open-rex/

I think what they mean is "We really need a [primary communications device] for hackers." A netbook isn't suitable for that.

That looks like third-party reverse engineering. Which is commendable, but it's not the default state.

Straight from the rpi-open-firmware repo:

> Does it boot Linux? Yes, with some conditions. You can boot a very minimal version of Linux without the firmware and get it to work with UART and eMMC. Support for USB, DMA, and Ethernet are in the works.

The default firmware and Raspbian environment involve many non-free blobs.

Take a look at https://iridiumbrowser.de/

> Before Iridium Browser, we had to decide if we wanted to have cutting edge technologies like sandboxed processes, WebRTC, WebUSB … , or if we wanted to use a browser that respects our privacy. So we decided to use the power of free software and build a browser that can do both. We analysed the code of Chromium and stripped out the functionality which exposes data to others in a way we don‘t like. See most important changes here: https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki/Differences-...

BitWarden is new to me, thanks for recommending it! Always good to see new open-source password managers. There are already enough proprietary ones.

> Most people don't want or can't afford to have their computer running 24/7.

I'm always telling my family and friends to reboot their damn computers every now and then. In my experience most people never turn their PCs off.

Well right. It protects against silent bitrot on the hard drives. But it does this by caching and checksumming in RAM, so now you need to defend against bitflips in RAM.

It's not that ZFS without ECC is completely unsafe... it's just not as safe as it could be. ECC RAM becomes the next biggest concern once you've addressed on-disk bitrot.

Traditional filesystems will let files just sit on the hard drive, untouched.

ZFS is a lot more active... checksumming and caching mean that important information is spending time in RAM. It's not good if that information gets corrupted.

For the BSDs, incorrect or missing man pages are considered a serious bug.

PCEngines boxes would be pretty good for this too http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

I want to own exactly one wireless headset/microphone so that I can get up from my computer without having to excuse myself from voice chat.

If piracy and theft were identical, there wouldn't need to be a separate word. Theft deprives the owner of their property. Piracy is creating an unsanctioned copy of their property.

"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."

Ordered alone, the motherboard+CPU is about $2300.

The AMT feature is not enabled, but I believe the ME chip is physically present on all Intel chips since 2006.

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel

> This would also mean lucrative orders from non-US governments.

Assuming those governments trust AMD's switch.

Every government with the power to do so is looking into domestic chip manufacture.

"Just give your customers full control over the product!"

Check out the Talos II, the first owner-controllable workstation in quite a while. https://raptorcs.com/

Well, being fluent/conversational means you can still hear what words the translator chooses, and can verify it means what you meant. It's just that their word choice would be more precise.

Pascal won on memory.

This was a particularly concerning case: https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/12/14583124/nasa-sidd-bikkan...

    Bikkannavar says he was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol and
    pressured to give the CBP agents his phone and access PIN. Since the phone
    was issued by NASA, it may have contained sensitive material that wasn’t
    supposed to be shared. Bikkannavar’s phone was returned to him after it was
    searched by CBP, but he doesn’t know exactly what information officials
    might have taken from the device.

Once he unlocked his phone, they were gone with it for 40 minutes. Plenty of time to copy the device contents and peruse at their leisure.

Try startpage and searx.me. They're more of a direct Google proxy.

Copperhead supports Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, and Pixel XL.

CopperheadOS for both security and privacy. But device support is limited to the Google flagships.

CopperheadOS is de-Googled and works great. Only supports four phones, though: Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, and Pixel XL.

They will probably support the upcoming Pixel 2 as well.

Good idea but an awful name.

"Liberal" has an existing meaning which has been warped by American politics. Both the American parties have a liberal heritage. Republicans are conservative liberals, and Democrats are largely progressive liberals. Libertarianism is a reactionary liberal ideology that seeks to return to a freer, less-regulated market.

The confusion happened due to FDR. He ran on a progressive platform but the term "progressive" was poisoned in American politics at the time, so he called himself "liberal".

There is already a term for what you're describing, simply "left-libertarianism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

We do have DMCA safe harbor. Is that different from what you're talking about?

Better yet, use the https://mbasic.facebook.com website designed for feature phones. It doesn't even require javascript!

Creating food how?