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… for no good reason.

oh no not the votes

the extremes are literally happening irl tho

.. because of datacenters that don’t exist for demand that isn’t there.

.. and just resets the cycle

which means you can ignore all the real consequences of their global campaign?

would the rest of the world be wise if they ignored european fascism the last time around?

a friend of mine hacked his modem with custom firmware that could bypass authentication. that was back in the adsl days, so i dunno.

very useful and informative

i’m both satisfied with my decision to leave mainstream social media and i’d like the landscape to be better.

i find some yellers to be justified in their anger and break from polite decorum. given circumstances and stuff.

but also shame on apple for making it so hard

i have a feeling those kind of people would blame “dei” regardless.

now? it has been doing it for decades, just elsewhere.

which ends up just meaning the racist uncle gets to shout his opinion and don’t you dare tell him he is wrong.

sure, let’s just finish our grueling shift during repression by the gestapo in silence.

nothing to see here, i don’t wanna upset the colleagues with such nonsense like “politics”

the us has been provoking those trade wars.

and like linux, we can figure those shortcomings out and slowly figure out how to solve them.

its ok for small comms to remain small, but something can bring the mainstream to better options, much like something brought them to the current mainstream over other niche and mainstream options in the first place.

there’s budding discussion about this on asklemmy atm.

the ideologically better option has reasons to be better. they are just longer term reasons that have to be sold and explored to it’s potential within our constraints. we have to show it’s good.

the fediverse itself is an experiment in this, and i say we are growing a nice community over here that could eventually bring more people in, or at least shift perception and use of the internet in a healthier direction. not unlike some of our predecessors.

i was aware of coreboot and opensil, but i figure they are not ready for something like this yet?

they would solve the hardest part. nowadays everything lives under pci express and a lot is orchestrated by the cpu/pch, which is the responsibility of…. firmware to initialize. deciphering and reverse engineering this process would not be trivial at all.

i know some smaller controllers have firmware baked in, and some are on an outside flash chip that may or may not be able to be read and copied. some may have good documentation available and even reference implementations you might see repeated on different boards. some others might be easy to obtain. memory is about signal integrity, not firmware.

but yeah, i don’t think it would be easy (or possible at all) to have firmware be all open. i would bet there are clauses in some of their licensing officially forbidding us of all of this.

if people are impressionable, they can be swayed. it just feels immovable because it takes time, but culture can and does change.

someone else had to convince them the landscape we are in was worth investing into, it was just not with words but fame, dopamine and a bit of cash. we could probably make freedom from corporations more compelling, because it is quite compelling.