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The most useless information I’ve ever read.

The monarchy work hard to produce this image of relevance. It’s not real. They’re just celebrities.

During this pandemic they’ve been milking the UK taxpayer $70M/yr

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/18569/total-cost-of-the-u...

The firmware for the Titan M HSM is open source but the RTL is closed, secret, proprietary, and even if it was open you’d still need to decap the IC to verify they fabbed the design faithfully, which exactly nobody can do, but I digress. There’s an entirely different design based around the Titan standard called OpenTitan based on LowRISC. So we know what Titan M does do, the documented functions. But what else does it do? Or put another way can a $1 trillion American corporation design a security chip intended for the 3 billion handset strong Android market and not allow the US government to install a backdoor? I think it’s common sense, the answer’s obvious. And if the HSM can’t be trusted the entire security model is broken. But maybe let’s call this for what it is: an attempt to fleece the wealthy paranoid. Unfortunately these types of products attract attention and make you a target. Let’s say you’re going through an airport inspection and it comes out that you’ve ripped the mics out of your phone well, now you’ve got a whole lot of explaining to do. You’re either crazy or up to no good and don’t expect to be flying anytime soon. Messing with the baseband probably lights up your handset on the network as well. No - if you want anonymity, privacy, secrecy from the state then you can’t use smartphones period. This technology is a fantastic advantage for general living in modern society but a cellphone represents 500+ years of R&D labor. You can’t rip a few components off the PCB and rewrite the bootloader and call it secure. This is just nonsense.

“Privacy Protection: No Tracking, No Google” - but the remote attestation and secure boot are based on Titan M: Google designed silicon. So do you trust Google or don’t you? Because they built the phone, and wrote the software, and designed the HSM. Nitro ripped out the mics and deleted the play store. Good luck evading the government with that.

Wrong. The past is not the future. The future is the future. Facebook is Facebook, AOL was AOL.

Is having perfect privacy worth turning a blind eye to the organized mass rape of children? That’s the choice, no exaggeration.

Considering there’s nearly 8 billion alive, there must be a whole lot of activity at this exact moment. I wonder what the current number of ‘victims in progress’ is. Has to be at least 25,000. Visualize that. Quite the price to pay.

Such luddite nonsense. VR/AR is a fantastic emerging technology and Facebook are working hard to make it a rich accessible experience for the masses. My $300 Oculus Quest 2 entertains me every day and makes my life better.

This kind of thing is why Google is my favorite company

You can't insist on a signup for a demo of your product. 3/4 of your visitors will just click back. Myself included. There's no way I'm receiving junk mail for 50 years.

I think this is right on point. We need to protect critical infrastructure before these yahoos miscalculate and cause a tragedy.

This article is unreadable the advertising is so so offensive.

So I have to make 50 accounts for every news service and hand out my credit card for yearly subscriptions everytime I want to read an article? Do you know what a PITA it is to keep track of and cancel those subscriptions? Half the articles are clickbait, opinion pieces, or have a strong political agenda with painful lack of objectivity. The assumption then is I'm going to pay upfront based on a headline? No way not in 2021. The news services need to get together and back one single payment processor, and accept payment on articles that are actually read, and there needs to be a one click option at the end of every article to cancel payment to prevent them taking advantage. And they are taking advantage and clearly have no respect for their readers looking at current tactics.

This NYT practice of offering an article as clickbait then waiting a few moments after you start reading to block access and ask for a subscription is getting really old. Everytime is a slap in the face and reenforces my position on never buying news articles. If only there was a filter or plugin to blackout links that pull that trick.

I used Atlas and got the full 5K from AWS last month. Digital Ocean denied me any credit at all even after I followed all the many steps and sent screenshots of the Atlas signups and all our sensitive company info. But I don't think much of their service so whatever. I would suggest people avoid going through the DO process, it's a scam to collect information on new companies.

Fantastic Google! Dream come true

He's right.