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if you're working on trusted computing at a tech company, know i'll be very mad at you in 20 years when we won't be able to buy real computers anymore and we'll have to either rent a shitty vps from azure or go tear down whatever 2020s era iot devices are still left to steal their MCUs
don't make stuff you know will be used against humanity pretty please
I really hope ARM gets its IBM PC equivalent soon
that's what allowed open platforms to flourish on x86 and the alternative is your software support being held hostage by hardware vendors, as we've been seeing happen with embedded devices like whatever phone you're probably reading this post on
@[email protected] arm has always been a "fire and forget" device business model, so nobody cared about standardizing. Just getting Windows to support ARM was a huge multi-year effort that resulted in Armv7 standardizing a few things like interrupts and timers. The closest thing to a reusable computer ecosystem we have on ARM is Raspberry Pi.
one thing I loved about the internet 15+ years ago is that people didn’t treat me like a child, even though I literally was one; and that in part shaped who I am today, in a positive way.
#ageverification does not protect children, being a parent does
Man do we really need to throw kernel exploits at android phones nowadays to both have root access and keep using banking apps?
(shame on Revolut for not providing a usable web interface)
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