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Yes, and I will. I'd much prefer if the team came clean themselves, saying why they did it, and who paid them to destroy the RISC-V project.

Atonement, Patterson. Now.

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The 1.1 spec is corrupt, intentionally sabotaged. Stay away from Patterson and co.

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More or extended features are not automatically a good thing for the users. Microsoft extended Kerberos with incompatible changes, re-published it under a diffeerent name, users lost open source benefits and became locked in to the Microsoft version, and the original developers were not provided with the changes. Microsoft did almost the same thing with Sun's Java when Microsoft made its incompatible version, despite Java being available in a free as in freedom version and at no cost.

The four essential freedoms[1] might not make you rich, but they will keep providing you with true freedom.

Wolfram Mathematica would be a more valuable contribution to the future of humankind, if the essential freedoms were guaranteed.

[1] gnu.org The Free Software Definition: The four essential freedoms.

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Friends don't let friends write new operating systems in unsafe programming languages.

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Here [1] is a 2016 video [12:22] summary of the attempts by Hillary Clinton trying to start a war with Russia and Iran, in her own words, on camera.

[1] Hillary Clinton Is A Threat To All Of Humanity https://www.corbettreport.com/hillary-clinton-is-a-threat-to...

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Compare the fall of the US dollar, 100 USD dollars from 1913 now have a purchasing power of less than 4 dollars. [1]

When talking about the USD, it isn't a question of if the USD went to zero, but when people stop using it entirely in international trade, and it actually becomes worthless. It is currently on artificial life support, but there isn't any sustainable way to continue that.

The cost of yet another war of U.S. aggression would send the dollar into a final value implosion. Yet if you peek at Gettr.com, war propaganda against China is everywhere. It's not just the Republicans, a few years ago "Madame President" held a public speech in a park, and declared war on both Russia and Iran for no particular reason. Iran is backed by China, perhaps because Iran hasn't started any wars. YouTube has "helpfully" one way or other deleted the video of that talk.

The history of Rome is repeating, unless the Federal Reserve is shut down and replaced with a non-criminal central bank, without private profit interest.

[1] Visualizing the Purchasing Power of the Dollar Over the Last Century https://howmuch.net/articles/rise-and-fall-dollar

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Actually, the headline could be more technically correct written as "sentenced by algorithm executing on backdoored remotely controlled computer", as that is the case today.

Enjoy your dystopia of greed, fraud, and injustice.

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Also, a TPM does not protect you from rubberhose key extraction. There is, however, a file system that can give you some modicum of protection against that, the Rubberhose File System[1][2], created by Julian Assange in the 1990s. It comes with a description that is worth looking up and read.

[1] This appears to be a copy https://github.com/sporkexec/rubberhose [2] A partial archive.org copy https://web.archive.org/web/20010819035021/http://www.marutu...

Edit: add URLs

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I'd be cautious with that, as the Purism security guy is not necessarily a free man to do what is best for the customers of Purism. He needs assistance, support and protection from abusive people, and small popes.

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Ah, paranoia is a good motivator to learn more. You might want to see this[1], for example. I think his solution is likely to be a trap, ie. not actually safe, but the presentation is at least a good example of how complicated it is to get security right.

[1] Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware [video] https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10690-open_source_is_insufficien...

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TIL that twenty years ago, Paul Graham put Object-Oriented Programming under Pitchfalls and Gotchas in his notes titled Five Questions about Language Design.[1]

It is misguided, but perhaps it can help explain the origin of the numerous misguided attacks on OOP published here.[2]

[1] Five Questions about Language Design. http://paulgraham.com/langdes.html#:~:text=Object-Oriented%2...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

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In fact, the PR firm for the makers of a vodka brand did hire someone to order <insert brand> Vodka with a loud voice in various places when exporting it to the USA began, according to Carl Hamilton's book about the design of the bottle.

The practice is known as astroturfing, for the artificial grass. Okdo seems to do alot of it for Raspberry Pi. At this point I'm more or less expecting to see articles and videos on having Raspberry Pi take out the trash. If it could be done with any microcontroller or SBC, but it is pushed, the headline always includes the brand.

edit: typo

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Bitcoin is already regulated, with the algorithm that determines the difficulty of successfully calculating a transaction block, and the max number of Bitcoins.

The USD, on the other hand, has no such algorithms, and so in the last year alone the USD was weakened with three trillion new dollars without any backing.

Regulating the USD would be a high priority, but realistically you shouldn't expect that to happen. There's more value, from the perspective of owners of real estate and other assets in letting the USD melt down, create a crash on a scale that has never been seen before and just take whatever you may still own in exchange for some food and water.

The slightly less serious analysis from a couple of years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_CxQFziFU

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“the FBI’s gross abuse of its power,” its “serial deceit” by which it “manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not outright false claims.” As a result, “years of major claims and narratives from the U.S. media were utter frauds.”

The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence, by Joyce Nelson https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/03/the-dangers-of-priva...

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    by James Corbett
    corbettreport.com
    April 11, 2021

    I posted Episode 398 of The Corbett Report podcast, “Science Says,” around 10 PM Japanese Standard Time on Friday, April 9th, 2021, and then went to bed. Sometime shortly after midnight, the main Corbett Report channel was removed from YouTube.

    And, just like that, 14 years of work—some 1700+ videos, 569,000+ subscribers and 90 million+ video views—was erased from the digital ether. . . . Well, the GooTube portion of that digital ether, anyway.

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# IP address, should things get uglier still. corbettreport.com. 3599 IN A 77.235.50.111

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md5sum ep398-sciencesays.mp4 a5ab6b2a0f88bdc86fe79f1a96526a71 ep398-sciencesays.mp4

I provide the md5sum of what I just watched, as some Youtube employee deleted his channel and all content apparently due to this video. Deleting content is logically equivalent to burning books, Alphabet.

Edited for typo correction.

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The right to modify needs to be protected, just as the right to repair anything without exclusion.

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This just in:

Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640553

Submissions

Video: Urgent Warning About Poisonous Jabs – “An Agonizing Situation”

Programming Language Design

Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order ]video[

Mission Accomplished: The Corbett Report Removed from YouTube

Science Says

States Have Banned Vaccine Passports

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