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Random shower thought: I wonder if it would be better in the long term to stop digging out archeological findings. The more we excavate, the more damage we do for future archaeologists who will have the superpower of reading these texts without even needing to dig the scrolls free and open them.

As a wise man once said, "anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist".

Within the realm of possibility? Let's be honest, if you are a top NSA executive and you couldn't find a way to get your hands on Cloudflare's private keys (bribing or threatening the right person), you are not getting your Christmas bonus.

Ti-84 Evo 3 months ago

What prevents a motivated cheater from swapping out the processor entirely?

My understanding (IANAL) is that the GPL restricts how you /redistribute modified versions/ of the software. So I'd argue that it passes all requirements.

Can you copy and redistribute it without restriction? Sure.

Can you modify it and install the modified version on your computer without restriction? Sure.

The only thing you cannot do is redistribute the modified version. If you do that, there are some restrictions in place: you have to provide also the source of that modified version.

Please provide a link to this post you found, so I can tell which one you think is a citation to a source. If you want some examples of recent posts that should have a source but don't, here they are:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116442796907613215

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116442754144530576

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116439834987996043

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116439798112845463

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116439747793648606

(the linked post in Mastodon is the one displayed with a bigger font, not necessarily the first at the top of the page.)