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I have no fear of that 💪

Mostly because people have already completely abandoned me lol

Thanks Microsoft for spotting that, and thanks to Google and CloudFlare for blocking or redirecting Polifyll.io network traffic.

Credit where credit is due.

Namaste.

Hideo Kojima is not real, he cannot hurt you… Only emotionally.

Ok, then let’s not think about it then. Seems like a good idea… /s

And actual slavery.

Yes paramount that you and yours understand that the big publishers are garbage.

They don’t want any downtime from tracking your ass.

You start to wonder how many CDN’s have been compromised in the past, or if they have actually been discovered. Maybe this company did it the stupid way and got caught and someone else has not been caught.

Also, aren’t there sum checkings implemented client side, or does the server give you the sum if you select the “latest” tag? I seem to remember there was some sort of checking, but I dunno.

This seems like a bit of a vendor lockin situation.

Well of course they did, either that, or they’d need to prosecute them selves lol

We’ve come a long way since FBI normalised warrantless wiretapping in the 1950s… oh well, on with the bomber jacket, off to some three letter building with a satchel full of love… in Minecraft.

Use the ever loving fuck out of hashtags.

Cast enchant couch with BO.

Wouldn’t you want to be a fly on the wall of that boardroom.

Dan: “For fucks sake, Kevin!”

Kevin: “Calm down!”

Dan: “Calm down?!??”

Kevin: “Nobody’s gonna notice…”

Dan: “NOBODY’S GONNA NOTICE THE MURDER OF A WHISTLEBLOWER!!!”

Kevin: “Well… it could be worse…”

Dan: “…”

Kevin: “…”

Dan: “What do you mean it could be worse, Kevin…?”

Kevin: “…”

Dan: “KEVIN!!”

Kevin: “Well, you know… you could pay an ex-marine suffering from PTSD to do a… you know…”

Dan: “…A WHAT, KEVIN?!?”

Kevin: “…a 3 for 1 special sale…”

Dan: “…a what?”

Kevin: “Well I’m saying, in all likelihood, it could get worse…”

Dan: “…”

Kevin: “…”

Dan: “…for fucks sake, Kevin.”

No. Some people just mask and/or live in a bubble like it’s a sport, and they are so overjoyed they are “winning”.

TL;Dr licensed firmware is garbo - open firmware ftw

This - is what we need.

The only ones who can really push the envelope on getting RISC-V into the hands of consumer, and indeed up to an IPC comparable to ARM, are companies like Deep Computing and Si-Five.

The biggest problem in the computing world, bar none, are not the predatory companies, vendor lockins, or proprietary operating systems, it’s always been licensing. This is why BSD existed in the first place, because a $1000 a month per seat to copy a file without pulling and pushing bits around is a bit too much, even if it was the 70s.

Similarly, in a time of green washing, eWaste and even planned obsolescence, one of the things that help to underpin all of these afformentioned evils is secret sauce firmware.

No matter what you say, if you don’t have access to the source code for firmware and bootloaders, you’ve got a lifetime set by the vendor based on how long they can actually support the hardware - because employees cost money. You can’t realistically expect a company to support something they’re not making money on anymore, and they’d most likely just want to sell you new hardware.

This is where RISC-V comes in swinging. I’m not saying that all RISC-V hardware will come with open firmware, but the ball is rolling and with it we can finally bridge the gap spanned by tech companies, where the average Jane or Joe can in effect easily modify their firmware code, albeit through security principles of course.

Unlike Open Source, Open Firmware is a bit trickier. Decades of industrial precedent, and indeed vendor lockins the OEM’s are beholden to, like proprietary BIOS, makes it that much harder to establish - especially when designing an entire ISA and getting it to prefab is a Lord of the Rings length journey. There is no griffin shortcut.

No doubt I’ll have naysayers. Just mentioning open firmware in the average matrix chat riles the gallery, as is the style, but even the likes of NVIDIA are opening up their code (thanks, AI) to the point where NVK is not that far from stable, untainting your kernel. Yay.

Everybody ♥️ open source, don’t they? But how about giving some love to Open Firmware? In the FUTURE 🐙 we’ll hopefully have vendors and foreign interests shoved tf out of our hardware, and good riddance, because they shouldn’t be in control of it in the first place.

I await your ire.

And shout outs to the libreboot maintainer. What in the ever loving Carmack is FSF up to? Libre ain’t a brand, it’s a philosophy.

So loweth that thou cannot get under it, so highet that thou cannot get over it, amen.

Ha! Jokes on you. I don’t even read. I just unlock my phone and use it to slap my face until swipe and autocorrect put words together in the right ordane.

Opportunistic Swedes. Gotcha.