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.
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.
that's not really a "fall." that's normal inflation. a small amount of inflation is desirable because it incentivizes people to use their money rather than sit on it and let it accumulate value.
coincidentally that's actually a big problem with bitcoin... it's a deflationary currency so all the wealth is accumulating in the hands of the early adopters who are just sitting on it. this hinders its adoption since people are incentivized to not spend it.
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.
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.
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]
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.
FWIW, I don’t know if I’ve read too much Gibson or not Enlight marketing textbooks, but <insert brand> Vodka would be visually attractive to me on a bottle label.
