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Why is X86 disgusting?

If you want to be pragmatic there are FPGA boards and the SiFive Unmatched. Both are slow and require a degree of trust. But they might make a small home server. Of course just because it’s open/free doesn’t mean it’s more secure.

Coreboot was a great project for it’s time. But if you want free hardware you need to build it yourself. As in from the RTL up to the keyboard.

I’m suggesting the government policy of basing their economy on magic beans is reflective of the IQ of their population. The value of bitcoin halved 2 months ago. What would happen in the US if one day the buying power of everyone’s wages and the utility of their savings was halved? Most wouldn’t make rent.

Oh it’s a shotgun, not a rifle. Yes that makes all the difference.

But taking a photo of an employee’s screen and posting it on the internet is way over the line.

Allegedly? Here it is https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1435421599826518025?... In plain English the footnote says not to leak the email and she did it anyway, doxxing a fellow employee. Absolutely grounds for dismissal. Sure Apple has discretion, but why would they exercise it for an employee publicly embarrassing the company at every opportunity? She did this to herself, don’t blame Apple.

I kind of admire the fun in the project and the thought and workmanship, but I’ll steer clear of calling this clever. See there’s no benefit in using a $1500 rubidium oscillator as a holdover for a $500 GPSDO board when the application is an alarm clock. Kind of like paying $2000 to count the atoms in the souls of your shoe.

ProtonMail’s reputation is unrecoverable period.

Average IQ 80

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...

But isn’t that exactly what we are? Complex biological machines designed by the group through natural selection manufactured in volume in a distributed factory with the express and only purpose to serve our creator - since we were made in its image. (I’m atheist but that fit so well)

Well he’s free to do whatever he wants. But creating someone with that education is a type of investment society makes. There’s a high cost to the community and yes of course the group expects something in return. It’s kind of like the lying flat movement in China. They can do what they please, but wouldn’t it be nice if they enjoyed helping the people around them? Is that too much to ask?

The speedup is marginal and hardly perceivable. This theory Apple is slowing older phones to sell new models is simply untrue. On the other hand I challenge anyone to show me a perceivable difference between a 60 and 100Hz display. I think it just wastes energy. After all, if Apple didn’t waste that additional power budget from dropping a process node, then the device might last twice as long and battery aging wouldn’t be an incentive to buy a new phone anymore. Guess everyone missed that trick

I’m pleased he has made an artsy phone case he likes really, but this is another round of Raspberry Pi feeblemindedness. Why would someone with a powerful skill in recursive neural networks make a phone case? - when there are so many areas to focus on, challenges we’re facing together, where even failure would deliver real value to the community. What’s up with these hobbyists and their cute blinking LED projects? You don’t have to change the world but choose some objective that at least has a chance of delivering real value and utility. What am I missing? Tell me I’m wrong and how

In your YubiKey SSH client you use the PIV applet with a maximum of RSA2048 when you could’ve used the auth key on the GPG applet for RSA4096. Is NIST compliance something you want to advertise today?

I lived there for 5 years. Before that I was in Manhattan for 11. Sorry but San Francisco is a dump, really dirty. I would never move there again. Constant harassment by the homeless, violent crime everywhere.

I was assaulted at 2PM on a bus downtown. A homeless guy took a full 40oz bottle of beer and broke it over the back of my head with no warning. I wasn’t even looking at him. Apparently he was paranoid and thought I was following him. The bus driver and passengers just stared at me and did nothing. The nut walked off. My hands are covered in blood but I manage to call the police and an ambulance- and neither showed up! I walked dizzy and lightheaded to my office nearby and one of my coworkers got me an Uber to the hospital. One story of many actually. I’ve seen shootings and a stabbing and an overdose from fentanyl. Three people I knew died.

And the crowd, well of the professionals about 1/3 are the real deal, 1/3 are simply imposters as in sociopaths totally faking their skillset, and the final 1/3 are genuinely insane.

If you can afford San Francisco rent then go to Manhattan. Seriously SF is a huge mistake.

I take it for granted that human beings won’t last forever as a species, and that’s probably a good thing. It would appear we have the unique privilege of creating our replacements from scratch. Hopefully we don’t screw that up and finish with a gray goo scenario.

Future generations will inherit a very different world with new challenges, and this is the very least of them. It wasn’t that long ago biometrics were being called the doorway to dystopia and the mark of the devil. Now fingerprint scanners and facial recognition hardware is in every device and we all benefit from the convenience. Apple didn’t create an online database of our faces and fingerprints and give it to the US government so everywhere we go and everything we touch gets recorded forever. Why would they need to when we all posted our photographs on Facebook for the world to download anyway? See you’re actually dealing with superstition and prophecy of doom. Those memetic structures rely on genetic behavioral traits derived from when religious influence created selective pressure. Those psychological hooks are being commandeered by stories/memes that mimic superstition and religion. So I’m saying you don’t have objectivity.

I think we’re a pretty innovative generation and we can build technologies that strike a careful balance between protecting personal liberties and keeping our children safe. Both are highly important.

The ‘all or nothing’ ‘here comes the 1984 dystopia’ argument is fear mongering. Let’s give Apple a chance and see if they can pull it off.

No if they oppose this and succeed many children will be abused as a direct consequence, it’s obvious causality so don’t shy away from what is a clear material choice - make a decision and accept responsibility for that, because it says plenty about where your values are at. And the idea that this will progress into a generalized surveillance tool is wild speculation. It might.

Yes I do believe this illustrates a similar social dynamic. People here could care less about the extreme suffering these children stand to experience.

Email privacy is more important than preventing child rape. Does that sound right to you?

In 2007 a photo album came to light of guards at Auschwitz relaxing at a resort not far from a death camp, with gas chambers and ovens and such, the details of which they were well aware. In the photos they can be seen laughing, smiling, making funny faces, singing and joking about running out of blueberries. Historians asked; how could these people be so callous? How could they disconnect and compartmentalize like that? What went wrong with that generation? Why didn’t they care?

Now today we know certain things to be true. If Apple, the world’s largest company, deploys this scanning technology on a billion handsets then many offenders will be caught and they will go to jail, and as a consequence a large number of children will be spared the type of abuse that totally destroys lives. Those victims lose everything.

I’d wager that for the majority of people on this forum, if they witnessed an adult sexually assault a child in person then they would intervene. Even if considerable risk was involved. There’s plenty of reward in saving a helpless child. But take that reward away, without the incentive, different colors show.

Do you care so little about the wellbeing of children you’d let child rapists walk free around the community rather than let a company scan your cellphone for contraband?

Perhaps we need to think less about how much we trust the government we elected or fear the potential negative future consequences of technology, and think more about being remembered as a human being that simply cared for others.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/laughing-at-auschwitz-1942/

Sure; Apple, the world’s largest company at $2.1T, will get on their knees and beg if you file a petition to the government to ban smartphones. Get on that! Problem solved.

“And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them”

I’m done reading.

You don’t want to be a part of the group and reap the benefits of collaboration and economies of scale? Well then your $1200 isn’t going very far. But you can have a lump of aluminum, a pile of sand and a sheet of glass. And there’s enough left over for a huge pile of books so you can learn how to fab chips, make circuit boards, write your own operating system and build your own phone network. Good luck

This idea that you’re somehow special and exist in a vacuum is privileged and arrogant. You’re relying on other people to do everything for you. They feed you and look after you when you’re sick. And they build these fantastic technologies and work long hard hours and die early just to make it affordable. You got a great deal, the best any living human ever was offered. But the group asks you to run a program you can’t even see so their children don’t get raped and suddenly you’ve been cheated and violated and wronged.

Tell me you’re joking. * It’s not your device. * Ok, What does it mean to own something? To hold it? To be able to destroy it? To use the services it provides? Maybe the receipt makes you the owner? If that’s your definition, in a very limited sense, you own it. But you don’t control it, because you can’t understand it fully, because you didn’t design it. In fact no one person designed it, it’s the product of the group, and advanced technological products like the iPhone serve the interests of the group, first. It just so happens in most cases the interests of the group align and benefit the user. After all we are very similar to one another and so this is a mutually beneficial arrangement. You want to buy, they want to sell. You need a service, they want to serve and so on.

With a product like the iPhone you’re purchasing access to an iteration of a design. Delivering that to you in a white shrink wrapped box is a clever marketing illusion. You can’t see the many huge factories full of calibrated robotic pick and place machines or the lithography setup used to create the chips or the lines of workers that assembled the phone one tiny piece at a time. You don’t see the endless cell towers on the horizon and all the engineers that maintain them. And we haven’t even begun to discuss the human labor that forged the design. There’s easily 500 straight years of skilled engineering labor in the modern iPhone. Perhaps even double that.

Here’s my point already. There’s some brain damaged, mentally ill, psychotic people who like to rape children, take photos of it and share it with their friends. Then what happens is those kids go kill themselves. This problem is happening at scale and it’s not in the interests of the group to let it continue. If the group believes it’s interests and your own diverge, you’ll quickly discover who really owns that device. They control the product they designed and manufactured and they can do whatever they want via signed software update, and you can do exactly nothing about it. That’s a fact.

A $1200 iPhone might be the best deal ever offered to a human being in recorded history. But you’re buying a service, leasing a disposable product. You’re a guest. That’s the truth.

It’s a really ugly image I have of the simple type of person who’s having a hard time choosing between email privacy and stopping a child predator.

That’s science fiction nonsense. You let us know when the shuttle lands then we’ll talk about human trafficking.

In this case it is. That’s the choice today. Have a more private cell phone -or- take many serious offenders off the streets.

Actually they’re pretty stupid. Look at what they’re doing. Not exactly an intellectual pursuit. And if Apple implements their system it will catch many, many offenders and yes - it might save some children. When did taking care of our children become an afterthought? You’re more worried about Apple looking through your phone than letting these nuts walk around the community?

This technology could have led to the arrests of hardcore criminals and spared some poor children a very difficult life. Well now we know where this generations priorities and values stand.

Let’s have fun with this. Get a copy of the barcode or trigger and we can print it on a cheap line of clothing. Tshirts hats whatever

What indication? Basic common sense tells you it has to be backdoored. Look at what it is, what it does, who’s making it and who do they serve? It’s closed hardware for a reason. That chip is so backdoored I’ll wager the backdoors have backdoors. And that’s not even a joke.