when Intel introduced a cpuid instruction, around 1998 or so
there was a debate on the Linux kernel mailing list as to whether Linux should provide a way to call that instruction
you know, because of its potential uses for surveillance and how that was sharply at odds with the idea of computers being owned by their users
at any rate, it's really startling to us to see people complying in advance with this current wave of surveillance stuff
many of them are people we have ideological differences with, but we would have at least hoped that libertarians (in the modern, US-centric sense, not the historical one) would understand when someone is seeking to control them, and resist it
like, if you're not based in California, and are willing to say "people in California are prohibited from using this", this current law does not apply to you
and that would be the correct form of resistance, for the record
@ireneista Not everyone can afford to take the risk, but I applaud those who can and then do.
Irenes (many)
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