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Yes, and I will. I'd much prefer if the team came clean themselves, saying why they did it, and who paid them to destroy the RISC-V project.
Atonement, Patterson. Now.
The 1.1 spec is corrupt, intentionally sabotaged. Stay away from Patterson and co.
More or extended features are not automatically a good thing for the users. Microsoft extended Kerberos with incompatible changes, re-published it under a diffeerent name, users lost open source benefits and became locked in to the Microsoft version, and the original developers were not provided with the changes. Microsoft did almost the same thing with Sun's Java when Microsoft made its incompatible version, despite Java being available in a free as in freedom version and at no cost.
The four essential freedoms[1] might not make you rich, but they will keep providing you with true freedom.
Wolfram Mathematica would be a more valuable contribution to the future of humankind, if the essential freedoms were guaranteed.
[1] gnu.org The Free Software Definition: The four essential freedoms.
Friends don't let friends write new operating systems in unsafe programming languages.
Here [1] is a 2016 video [12:22] summary of the attempts by Hillary Clinton trying to start a war with Russia and Iran, in her own words, on camera.
[1] Hillary Clinton Is A Threat To All Of Humanity https://www.corbettreport.com/hillary-clinton-is-a-threat-to...
Compare the fall of the US dollar, 100 USD dollars from 1913 now have a purchasing power of less than 4 dollars. [1]
When talking about the USD, it isn't a question of if the USD went to zero, but when people stop using it entirely in international trade, and it actually becomes worthless. It is currently on artificial life support, but there isn't any sustainable way to continue that.
The cost of yet another war of U.S. aggression would send the dollar into a final value implosion. Yet if you peek at Gettr.com, war propaganda against China is everywhere. It's not just the Republicans, a few years ago "Madame President" held a public speech in a park, and declared war on both Russia and Iran for no particular reason. Iran is backed by China, perhaps because Iran hasn't started any wars. YouTube has "helpfully" one way or other deleted the video of that talk.
The history of Rome is repeating, unless the Federal Reserve is shut down and replaced with a non-criminal central bank, without private profit interest.
[1] Visualizing the Purchasing Power of the Dollar Over the Last Century https://howmuch.net/articles/rise-and-fall-dollar
Actually, the headline could be more technically correct written as "sentenced by algorithm executing on backdoored remotely controlled computer", as that is the case today.
Enjoy your dystopia of greed, fraud, and injustice.
Also, a TPM does not protect you from rubberhose key extraction. There is, however, a file system that can give you some modicum of protection against that, the Rubberhose File System[1][2], created by Julian Assange in the 1990s. It comes with a description that is worth looking up and read.
[1] This appears to be a copy https://github.com/sporkexec/rubberhose [2] A partial archive.org copy https://web.archive.org/web/20010819035021/http://www.marutu...
Edit: add URLs
I'd be cautious with that, as the Purism security guy is not necessarily a free man to do what is best for the customers of Purism. He needs assistance, support and protection from abusive people, and small popes.
Ah, paranoia is a good motivator to learn more. You might want to see this[1], for example. I think his solution is likely to be a trap, ie. not actually safe, but the presentation is at least a good example of how complicated it is to get security right.
[1] Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware [video] https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10690-open_source_is_insufficien...
TIL that twenty years ago, Paul Graham put Object-Oriented Programming under Pitchfalls and Gotchas in his notes titled Five Questions about Language Design.[1]
It is misguided, but perhaps it can help explain the origin of the numerous misguided attacks on OOP published here.[2]
[1] Five Questions about Language Design. http://paulgraham.com/langdes.html#:~:text=Object-Oriented%2...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
In fact, the PR firm for the makers of a vodka brand did hire someone to order <insert brand> Vodka with a loud voice in various places when exporting it to the USA began, according to Carl Hamilton's book about the design of the bottle.
The practice is known as astroturfing, for the artificial grass. Okdo seems to do alot of it for Raspberry Pi. At this point I'm more or less expecting to see articles and videos on having Raspberry Pi take out the trash. If it could be done with any microcontroller or SBC, but it is pushed, the headline always includes the brand.
edit: typo
Bitcoin is already regulated, with the algorithm that determines the difficulty of successfully calculating a transaction block, and the max number of Bitcoins.
The USD, on the other hand, has no such algorithms, and so in the last year alone the USD was weakened with three trillion new dollars without any backing.
Regulating the USD would be a high priority, but realistically you shouldn't expect that to happen. There's more value, from the perspective of owners of real estate and other assets in letting the USD melt down, create a crash on a scale that has never been seen before and just take whatever you may still own in exchange for some food and water.
The slightly less serious analysis from a couple of years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_CxQFziFU
“the FBI’s gross abuse of its power,” its “serial deceit” by which it “manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not outright false claims.” As a result, “years of major claims and narratives from the U.S. media were utter frauds.”
The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence, by Joyce Nelson https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/03/the-dangers-of-priva...
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
April 11, 2021
I posted Episode 398 of The Corbett Report podcast, “Science Says,” around 10 PM Japanese Standard Time on Friday, April 9th, 2021, and then went to bed. Sometime shortly after midnight, the main Corbett Report channel was removed from YouTube.
And, just like that, 14 years of work—some 1700+ videos, 569,000+ subscribers and 90 million+ video views—was erased from the digital ether. . . . Well, the GooTube portion of that digital ether, anyway.# IP address, should things get uglier still. corbettreport.com. 3599 IN A 77.235.50.111
md5sum ep398-sciencesays.mp4 a5ab6b2a0f88bdc86fe79f1a96526a71 ep398-sciencesays.mp4
I provide the md5sum of what I just watched, as some Youtube employee deleted his channel and all content apparently due to this video. Deleting content is logically equivalent to burning books, Alphabet.
Edited for typo correction.
The right to modify needs to be protected, just as the right to repair anything without exclusion.
This just in:
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640553
Fraud alert.
Quote from Ross Anderson's `Trusted Computing' Frequently Asked Questions - TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium / TCPA Version 1.1 (August 2003) https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html:
24. So why is this called `Trusted Computing'? I don't see why I should trust it at all!
It's almost an in-joke. In the US Department of Defense, a `trusted system or component' is defined as `one which can break the security policy'. This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but just stop to think about it. The mail guard or firewall that stands between a Secret and a Top Secret system can - if it fails - break the security policy that mail should only ever flow from Secret to Top Secret, but never in the other direction. It is therefore trusted to enforce the information flow policy.
Or take a civilian example: suppose you trust your doctor to keep your medical records private. This means that he has access to your records, so he could leak them to the press if he were careless or malicious. You don't trust me to keep your medical records, because I don't have them; regardless of whether I like you or hate you, I can't do anything to affect your policy that your medical records should be confidential. Your doctor can, though; and the fact that he is in a position to harm you is really what is meant (at a system level) when you say that you trust him. You may have a warm feeling about him, or you may just have to trust him because he is the only doctor on the island where you live; no matter, the DoD definition strips away these fuzzy, emotional aspects of `trust' (that can confuse people).
During the late 1990s, as people debated government control over cryptography, Al Gore proposed a `Trusted Third Party' - a service that would keep a copy of your decryption key safe, just in case you (or the FBI, or the NSA) ever needed it. The name was derided as the sort of marketing exercise that saw the Russian colony of East Germany called the `German Democratic Republic'. But it really does chime with DoD thinking. A Trusted Third Party is a third party that can break your security policy.
25. So a `Trusted Computer' is a computer that can break my security?
That's a polite way of putting it.
Ross AndersonReference?
An Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
It was a Eureka moment, and entirely based on such a simple statement that was never brought up in lectures
Young me picked up the basics of cryptography at seven or eight, a couple of years before classes in the first foreign language began at age nine or ten. In Finland, for the Swedish-speaking minority, the first foreign language to learn is Finnish — often mentioned as one of the world's most difficult languages to learn. Neither the textbook nor the teacher mentioned how languages work, and specifically not how they are in no way related to cryptography. Young genius me concluded that surely the teacher will soon tell us how this crypto works, so we could move on. While waiting for that to happen, I skipped more or less everything. It took a couple of months to realize the actual situation, by that time the damage had been done. Picked up Finnish seven years later, the natural way through a colleague at a summer job.
That little omission had a detrimental effect on my average grades throughout the school years though, and therefore I certainly do not judge anyone's abilities based on their paper qualifications.
only a best-intentions step above asking for “papers please” in a German accent, but whatever.
This is the connection to The Third Wave, and we all recall the Der Spiegel cover photo of Trump in a photo studio doing a nazi greeting so I'll not link it in this tread.
Good to see that many US legislators learned to avoid turning Ron Jones' 1967 experiment[0] into an actual real dystopia.
HI seems to be in real trouble though, at least for now. Maybe spend more time on Retraction watch, the number of retracted Coronavirus COVID papers are now well over a hundred[1]. Does anyone actually see that reported?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Third_Wave_...
[1] https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-p...
Guardian's "WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies" Documentary: Guardian hacks continue PR war against WikiLeaks
wikileaks.org/Guardian-s-WikiLeaks-Secrets-and.html
RISC-V was OK before the 1.1 spec. Version 1.1 is self-sabotaged by the RISC-V team, in such a way that you can't create a cycle-accurate software emulator running at reasonable speed. The dirty deed is in changes in the instruction encodings, multiple bit shuffling instructions in the emulator are now required to decode some 1.1 insns.
To me, this indicates that the RISC-V team has bad intentions, and I dropped RISC-V for this reason.
The Free Software Foundation held a public election on how to do long options three decades or so ago.
This was likely before the effects of Eternal September began destroying the public Usenet, so the vote may well have been held there, in one of the newsgroups relevant to the FSF, GCC or GNU.
The '--' alternative won overwhelmingly, as I rememeber it. A few hundred votes were cast by email.