wizardbeard

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

You've got a bit of misunderstanding of how bitcoin works, and they definitely aren't using the juryrigged supercomputer for unmasking. Most likely human analysts and investigators with some minor algorithmic help for analyzing tumbled transactions on the chain.

Bitcoin is inherently traceable. The entire concept of the blockchain originally was to have a distributed ledger of all transactions available and verifiable by anyone, so the banks couldn't go "no that transaction never happened".

The anonimity of being able to instantly and freely create wallets with little to no identifying info attached was a side purpose, but not a true purpose. Your wallet is effectively just a username they'd have to find a way to connect to your real identity.

All bitcoin transactions are auditable by anyone.

So most criminals use tumblers, scattering a transaction into irregular pieces that move across a shit ton of wallets before slowly making their way to the actual destination wallet.

But even those are traceable, just difficult. Over time and through seizing black market servers, intelligence agencies can build maps of what wallets match up to what. Sellers leaving donate links in forum signatures, finding the tumbler accounts from a seized market, etc. Then by using external info like knowledge of the payout amount and how many wallets its going to end up in, they can analyze the block chain ledger and connect the dots.

TL;DR- Bitcoin has always been psuedonymous, not actually anonymous, and is more easily traceable than other options by fucking design. You are only as anonymous as the distance between your real identity and your wallet address. Practice proper OpSec for shady business.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Who prevents him from buying an atomic weapon and setting it off for a meme stunt or internet points ?

You have to be joking.

Nearly every military in the world. Countless regulatory agencies. Intelligence agencies the world over. It's pretty much known that the US made stuxnet to kill one country's nuclear program. Do you seriously fucking think they wouldn't stop a single billionaire?

There's also the fact that even he's not that insane, and any other billionaire out there who wouldn't want the effects of a nuke going off to get in the way of their own shit.

If you were talking a dirty bomb, that might be within his reach. Buy some mines in third world countries, mine up some material, strap it to a conventional bomb. That's also many orders of magnitude less severe (while still horrific). Also, most mining rights in areas with worthwhile radioactive material available have already been bought up by other entities with similar financial levels of backing.

Actual nukes require quite a bit more than just an explosive and some radioactive material to build anyway, and things like nuclear material refinement facilities are quite easily visible from satelite imagery. They also require specialized hardware that is closely monitored. Sure he could pay to reverse engineer and/or get it built. Good luck keeping that secret for as long as it would take.

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The man's a living embodiment of a chode with a diamond studded piercing. There's plenty of shit to be upset at him about, or worried about, without getting anywhere close to this absurd. I sincerely hope that you weren't being serious.

If you want shock factor, talk about the slave mines his family wealth comes from, and the slave mines where we source lithium from for EV batteries. Talk about the high frequency of using child soldiers as security for said mines, in addition to the child slave labor.

Talk about the highly likely intentional killing of Twitter by Saudi Arabian government's investment into Musk as a retaliation for the Arab Spring and as a way to further control rapid information dissemination during crisises.

There's real reasons to despise him, going for such extremely ridiculous exaggerations only hurts the point you're trying to make.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Are you ok? You've doubled down on nonsense. Seriously, take a breath. Look into some treatment for anxiety.

The whole danger is that AI text generation doesn't misspell, and comes across highly confidently.

There's actual research out there on spotting AI generated text. Most of it is based off tone, frequency of some specific phrases, and sentence structure.

If you're mixing this with the idea that spam emails and scamming comments are often misspelled, that's done in an attempt to avoid word filters, and also to help ensure that people who fall for them are dumb enough not to notice, making them easy marks more likely to overlook other warning signs. If they aren't trying to get you to take an action, or a coordinated push to manufacture consent, the chance of AI is low.

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Also, the statistics about internet traffic you're thinking about is about bots. That's largely scripts and web scrapers, less so automated posters making arguments multiple levels down incredibly quiet threads on low user count social media like lemmy.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Full autonomous vehicles, and particularly significant levels of adoption of them are decades away. It's taken roughly 20 years for hybrid vehicles to become "big", and that's after the tech already existed. We still don't even have anywhere close to reliable full autonomous driving.

It usually is much more effective to make plans and changes based off what currently exists rather than anything that isn't absolute immediate future. No reason to say no to the good because you're busy waiting for "perfect".

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

... you think they don't? You need to read the fine print again. It's not proven where it's going, but they absolutely have the right to sell your genetic information and already do.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Yeah, that is an important side effect of this. In their constant pursuit of higher profits, insurance companies can use this data to more accurately analyze what factors into making someone high risk.

They sure as hell won't be discounting people that don't show those traits, but it's something.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Or literally just use the existing option in the settings menu that has been there since Windows 10 to turn this shit off.

All of this is clickbait.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Additionally, there has been an option in the settings menu since Windows 10 to disable Microsoft fucking with the start menu and settings "app" like this.

I would be shocked if it doesn't also handle whatever this shit is.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

This setting exists on 10 and I've never had it re-enable itself.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

The instructions to disable this are right fucking there in the article, and the sections OP copied to the description here.

And for completeness:
Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

You could also disable all this shit pretty easily too, for about the same amount of effort as getting someone acclimated to a new OS.

Every single bullshit thing these articles bring up, there's simple controls built into Windows to handle. Most easily through Group Policy with a Pro license, easily bought from an OEM license seller for $20 or just spoofed.

For this bullshit in particular:
Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

If you're not ready to switch, most of the issues and anti consumer shit with Windows can be managed through a combination of Group Policy, Registry, various settings and configurations menus, and a wee bit of PowerShell.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

So... you didn't read anything. Not even the comment you just replied to.

For fuck's sake, just block people. You aren't some hero protecting the innocent.

I sincerely hope you find more important things in your life to consider accomplishments and valuable uses of your time.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

It is, but there are a ton of people pushing for women's issues and other currently hot button social topics who are incredibly aggressive themselves, and pretending those people don't exist, or that it's okay when pointed at the non-marginalized group is a problem.

Let's not pretend that explicit misandry doesn't exist just because it frequently comes from people hiding behind the shield of championing women's rights. Let's not brush off misandry because men aren't marginalized.

Go to town about whether or not it's worse, but I find very often that people want to pretend it simply does not exist.

Most posts like the one you're responding to would get a lot of support if it were flipped to be a woman going off on a guy, but generally when things like thay are brought up you get decried for whataboutism.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Because that level of environmental collapse is many lifetimes away, if it's coming at all.

One of the benefits of humans dying out, which everyone seems so sure about, is that as humanity dwindles, so too will the continued damage to the ecosystem.

May not stop it, but would certainly hamper the acceleration of things.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Lol, not really. I'm rolling my eyes. It's just more doom and gloom reaction to a legitimately useful piece of technology, which could be just as much benefit to humanity as a detriment.

Plus the idea that the people who worked on this might have even been capable of working on something more "useful" to humanity is complete and utter moon shot speculation, along with the idea that this is mutually exclusive to research and development of "useful" things.

I'll reserve my cynicism for when these actually start trending towards replacing human workforce, like how LLMs are being misused. Most of Boston Dynamics's stuff doesn't have massive effects on the world, it's more specialized use cases.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

It's still not your hardware, so you can't rely on the data being private to you even if the connection is secure.

Then there's going to be all the politics present with the location of whatever endpoint you connect to, issues of uptime and availability, etc.

It's a matter of the threat model you're concerned about, but this does not fill me with confidence if this is considered a "breakthrough solution". There's nothing quite like a half assed solution to kneecap work on a "proper" one.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Depends on if you're allowed to bring the Pi in at all. Might be safer to just buy what you need "on site". There's a lot more to this than just the technical side.

Whatever you do, just be careful. A lot of places don't play easy with foreigners breaking the law. It can be easy to hide what you're specifically doing over a network, but they don't need to know what you're spefically doing to say "bypassing the filter at all is illegal", "using tor gives us probable cause".

Depending on your situation and how they check things you bring in, it might be better to just load up a/some big hard drive(s) with enough content to carry you through until your next trip outside the filter. Knew someone who was in a similar situation for a long while that would emulate their way through old console game libraries like that.

May be worth looking into how political dissidents can protect themselves. Hidden encrypted containers. Private vps outside the filter that you connect to, doing all your questionable shit on the remote server outside, so the only data transfer is video feed to/from. If hiding what you're doing is needed, steal notes from the people with lives at stake.

So much of this depends on specifics it may not be safe for you to share. Probably worth asking questions in some of the privacy focused communities.

OpenWRT won't hide what you're doing from the network that handles your internet connection. It's just an option for something you could use as a router/wifi AP.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

There's plenty of reasons to want to share images of your offspring besides chasing internet clout, and I find that simplification ignores all but the narcisistic fame chasers that will never care anyway.

Not making any judgement on whether any other reason is particularly valid. Just saying that the people who do it for likes are never going to see it as anything negative or exploitative. Better off talking with or working to stop the people oversharing for other reasons. Higher chance of success.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Toss some CRT shaders over top and this would be very convincing.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Because they've been grumbling about that forever and it will never happen unless the US government just up and loses its military.

There will never be the political and populace buy in for something like that to ever end as more than a compound of political extremists getting wiped out by the national guard.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

I mean, go off about it not competing, that's some BS. But Linux doesn't offer the compatibility and ease of use that Windows has on a day to day basis. There's not really any argument to be made there.

Frustrating antipatterns, poor design decisions, poorly communicated reasons for functionality loss with updates (what this article is about), and settings requiring hoop jumping to touch aren't unique to Windows and magically never present with Linux.

Linux is amazing, neccessary, and I sincerely hope it continues to grow as a valid competitor eventually taking over, but it's still really rough in a lot of areas as a power user.

There are a handful of very user friendly distros for people who just need to do basic stuff on their computer and have it just work. Web browsing, document editing, even playing games that are just semi-popular (instead of only the most popular) all tend to work to a reasonable degree of "it just works" now.

There's also an amazing amount of customizability and power placed in the hands of the user if they're willing to dig into the guts of it. Run your own customized kernel with the specific patches you want, re-code part of a driver to meet your needs. Build an entire distro from source code up, piece by piece, exactly to your wishes. Compatability layers between different desktop environments. Mess with your drivers. It's all open to mess with.

But what often gets left behind are people in the middle. I need a lot more than just basic functionality, and I have no fear about compiling stuff from code or making pull requests. I have the skills to make Linux work. What I don't have is the time in my life to be digging in the guts regularly to get shit working on my computer, which is still far too often a requirement with Linux. Just look at discussions in the Linux communities here to see how absurd it can be to get a RDP or VNC client working, depending on your particular setup and graphics card.

It's like the difference between getting a Honda Civic and working on a project car. You might need to change a tire, brake pads, change the oil on the Civic. You don't need to mess with engine valve timings.

I really enjoy tinkering with Linux when I have the time, but most of my life I need my shit to just reliably work so I can get my shit done. I prefer my computer to be a tool far more than a project, and Linux is still too much of a project for a lot of people.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

There's a wide gulf between googlers and power users, and between power users and the "truly skilled". I'm a Systems "Engineer" with nearly a decade experience in Tech Support, SysAdmin work, building custom system integrations/interop layers, and building custom automations.

Got no problem doing deep troubleshooting, compiling from source, finding issues in open source code bases, fixing them, submitting pull requests, etc.

Doesn't mean I want to have to do all that regularly when I have other shit to get done.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago

Yep. To add on, this is exactly what all the "AI haters" (myself included) are going on about when they say stuff like there isn't any logic or understanding behind LLMs, or when they say they are stochastic parrots.

LLMs are incredibly good at generating text that works grammatically and reads like it was put together by someone knowledgable and confident, but they have no concept of "truth" or reality. They just have a ton of absurdly complicated technical data about how words/phrases/sentences are related to each other on a structural basis. It's all just really complicated math about how text is put together. It's absolutely amazing, but it is also literally and technologically impossible for that to spontaneously coelesce into reason/logic/sentience.

Turns out that if you get enough of that data together, it makes a very convincing appearance of logic and reason. But it's only an appearance.

You can't duct tape enough speak and spells together to rival the mass of the Sun and have it somehow just become something that outputs a believable human voice.

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For an incredibly long time, ChatGPT would fail questions along the lines of "What's heavier, a pound of feathers or three pounds of steel?" because it had seen the normal variation of the riddle with equal weights so many times. It has no concept of one being smaller than three. It just "knows" the pattern of the "correct" response.

It no longer fails that "trick", but there's significant evidence that OpenAI has set up custom handling for that riddle over top of the actual LLM, as it doesn't take much work to find similar ways to trip it up by using slightly modified versions of classic riddles.

A lot of supporters will counter "Well I just ask it to tell the truth, or tell it that it's wrong, and it corrects itself", but I've seen plenty of anecdotes in the opposite direction, with ChatGPT insisting that it's hallucination was fact. It doesn't have any concept of true or false.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Those 2 things are the polar opposites, and agnostic theist an oxymoron

Expecting people to operate in a purely logic driven manner is a great road to disappointment, and one could argue that it also reveals a deep lack in understanding of your own self. People are not logical beings.

Life is not debate club. You can insist all you want that it's not a logically compatible "belief system" (or however you want to label it). You can argue that there should be a different, more etymologically sound name for it.

But regardless of your objections, agnostic theists do exist, and "correct" or not that is what they are called.

Edit: I'm not even one of them, I just absolutely loathe this sort of behavior online, especially when discussions of theism and belief systems come up.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Man, when I first messed around with Linux I hosed the MBR more times than I can remember. Either through Windows smashing it with an update, or my dumb ass doing stupid shit in gparted.

Pretty sure I was able to recover the important files somehow, but my parents banished me to the old family desktop for that pretty quick.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

My brother in christ, both parties have been doing this for ages. You aren't looking at the right lines. This one is about wealth, not about party affiliation.

If you had the money to put safeguards in place to protect you and your stuff in the event something went wrong, you probably would. It would be a mistake not to.

A simple example is keeping some money set aside as a savings or emergency fund. For rich people, lobbying for more favorable laws, and helping more friendly judges rise up the ranks is a similar thing. Some have went on to make and plan apocalypse bunkers too.

When you have enough money that you don't have to worry about spending a certain amount, you just go and do it. Like people not worrying about spending on Starbucks every morning because it's equivalent to 30 minutes of their time or less.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

They also would lack the "desire" and resources to do so.

They can't act of their own volition without input, and they can't access systems they were not designed to interface with and data that they were not trained on or given through the input.

I think it's preferable that way, given the immense overhyping of this technology that is ocurring, and the existing cases of misuse.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

I'll spell it out for you a little clearer, since you don't seem capable of understanding it on your own.

Your entire attitude fucking screams "I have nothing good going on in my life, so I've adopted an extreme viewpoint that easily allows me to feel superior to others".

You see this shit on all sides of the political spectrum. An example you're likely familiar with and hate would be fanatical/fundamentalist Christians. Nothing truly going right with their life, so they adopt a belief system that gives them an outlet for their hate/anger/frustration where they don't have to feel bad about it because they are targeting the "bad guys".

Someone who was in a good place in life wouldn't be posting shit online calling for putting people in fucking gulags.

You can use all the excuses and mental gymanstics you want, but at the end of the day, you've adopted an idealogy where extreme actions are justified and right to take against your "enemy", and where anyone even slightly advocating for you to slow your roll is instantly redefined as an "enemy".

You just did that. You start spouting shit about Americans, and when the guy said he wasn't one you just said that he effectively was one anyway and kept down the path you were already on. That's absurd.

Anyway, your entire defense for your statements here is that your bad guys are the real bad guys. That's the beginning and end of it. That type of self righteousness is something to be feared, not something to be championed because you've "found the right target".

Please note, I've not made any statement on whether you're wrong or right in your targeting. That's a separate discussion.

It has been demonstrated time and time again in historical record the world over, that the fervor of people like you can and will be abused, and shifted towards wider and wider classifications of "targets".

Anyway, I hope your life situation improves enough someday that you no longer find the need to be a self-righteous asshat on the internet calling for people's torture. I'm blocking you, so I won't be around to see it.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

The instance my account is on, dbzer0, was set up by a former mod of the piracy subreddit. Can't say for certain, but I'd expect that VPNs would work with it. The admin really seems to know his shit.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Man, what about false positives? Ruined date night at minimum, possibly ruined reputation, relationships.

Sorry, we put a picture of your junk into this box. We don't know what's in it, or what it does with the picture, but it says you have chlamydia, and I think the box looks trustworthy. Here's your divorce papers.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Yep, there's already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

People have taken it way past the point of sanity now, but they are better for game consoles from PS1 era and below. Especially for 2D games, as the pixel art was often designed around the square aspect ratio, and the tendency of CRTs to soften images and blur minor details.

It's how the waterfalls in Sonic appeared transparent. Every line alternated between waterfall and background, so when the TV blurred it slightly it looked transparent instead of alternating lines. You'll also often see it in old games with dithering, using a checkerboard pattern of two colors to approximate a third color in between the two when "smoothed" together.

Like I said though, people take it way too far. Most people don't need a reference quality Sony Trinitron monitor meant for professional video editing studios with less than 500 hours of time powered on so it's still in perfect shape. You do you, but there's some real elitist shit I've seen, and some audiophile level "$600 cable for digital signal" delusion going around.

As long as you aren't streching a "square" image to a widescreen one, it's really up to preference on the blur/softening side. And even the streching is just the one point I'm personally elitist about.

As moderm screen resolutions get better, we get better and better approximations of CRT screen effects through using graphical shaders. There's some mad genius shit out there that does things like simulating how the electron beam scans across the CRT vacuum tube.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

It really, really depends on the shape it's in, and if it's one of the few models that people consider "collectors" models. The only one I can think of is Sony Trinitron.

You might be able to find someone who is willing to pay for it regardless, but it's a really niche market. It's more of "it’s not just a massive doorstop, you might be able to get $20-80 for it".

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

No one's talking about diners. We're talking actual coffee shop or cafe.

Of course any place that just has a coffee machine alongside everything else they do is going to be shit compared to a place that specializes in coffee.

And any sugar bomb dessert drink is going to be "better" than a bog standard cuppa joe.

That's like going to a sushi restaurant, getting the chicken tenders they have on the menu just so parents can placate picky children, and complaining that it doesn't stack up to a wings that specializes in wings.

It's apples and oranges man.

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Look, my wife's from a small town where the main employer pulled out almost 50 years ago. Then they spent a shit ton of tax money on trying to build some stuff to become a cargo transport hub, which failed as no companies bought in. 90% of their downtown is empty storefronts and boarded up windows.

They have two entirely local coffee shops that I can personally vouch to do equal to Starbucks. Personally I think the one blows the pants off Starbucks, but I'm willing to concede in the court of opinion. There's at least two other coffee places within 10 minutes, two breakfast places, and two sandwich shops that have dessert coffee that stacks up as well, so I'm told.

You could buy the small mansion that sits on the hill overlooking a forested residential area there for the cost of a small townhouse anywhere else. Lovely town, lovely people in it. Impovershed as all hell. There's still great options besides "Yeah I think Earl put a new pot on sometime today, let me check".

Out on the highway, exits, and rest stops thereabouts, there's even franchise alternatives to Starbucks. Dunkin Doughnuts are goddamn everywhere. Tim Hortons, at least up in the northern US. East coast from roughly New York down to Virginia (don't quote me on the specific bounds) there's Wawa gas stations, where if they have the sandwich counter they have dessert drinks. Pretty sure there's other gas station chains that are stepping up too, I just don't travel like I used to, especially since the pandemic. Dunkincs my go to "I don't know the area and don't have time" choice. Much more limited menu options, but I feel it holds up.

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Look, you're more than allowed to have your own fucking tastes and preferences, or maybe you're literally addicted to Starbuck's infamously pumped up caffeine levels. Just please don't pretend like Starbucks is the only option for a good dessert coffee drink.

Oh no, you support a notably horrible corporation and like their products! Welcome to the party. The overwhelming amount of people, even the most socially and human rights concious, are far from perfect in that regard. Everyone has to make their own choices about the battles they fight and where they expend their effort.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Ugh, corporate eWaste. I do tech work for a company, and outside of getting verbal approval from someone high enough up to take home two monitors when we acquired another company and we were doing an all hands on deck full replacement of their gear, there's never been a way for me to recycle waste gear for personal use that wouldn't put my employment at risk.

No process for letting employees recycle or reclaim gear. Chuck it in the dedicated bin, once a month a third party recycler comes around, takes it away. Supposedly they wipe or destroy the drives, but no word on what they do with the rest of it. Can't find a damn thing on where/how they resell it, and I've spoken with the person in charge of purchasing and depreciating our hardware. Seen way too much hardware tossed that could go to great use, just not as a desktop anymore.

Like, my own collection of old hardware doesn't have anything in it newer than a decade old, and it's all budget stuff acquired from family.

Meanwhile there's four year old business grade desktops being effectively thrown away that I'm seeing go for $300 used. Just let me build my home network without going broke dammit!

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Have you tried using adb to uninstall, freeze, or otherwise disable it?

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

https://youtu.be/hePJ1YPMxEw

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Really the best choice here. Hooray for open modlogs!

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

You can always just not use the smart features, and if you do want them, pick up a chromecast to plug into it. Walmart's one is like $20 and holds its own against the more expensive ones.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Not if it's for legal compliance.

Oh, sorry. I meant to say "Haha, Windows sucks! Am I right guys? Updoots to the left!"

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

I mean, on the absolute highest fucking level sure, but there's an absolute ton of shit that can get in the way of that desire working out harmoniously, and that concept has vastly different meanings to different individuals.

Love can conquer all, but love alone is not enough to keep things working happily in the real long term.

Kids, no kids, how many, when?

Exclusive, non-exclusive? Is exclusivity emotional, romantic, sexual, physical, all of the above, or just some subset?

Religion, none, which? Okay with your partner having different religious beliefs than you? Open to conversion? Expect them to convert to yours eventually?

What does a committed relationship mean to each member? Spending the a lot of your time together? Just coming home to each other at the end of every night but primarily living your own lives?

Opinions on alcohol, drugs?

Do they expect you to have a relationship with their family and/or friends? Do they expect you to give up other relationships with friends of the opposite gender? Do they expect you to be okay with them remaining in contact with exs?

Any dealbreakers? Any baggage that they need to be aware of?

None of that shit is day 1, or important to every relationship. Not all of those options are reasonable, some are abusive. But it's all different shit that I've seen cause big fucking problems in relationships.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

This really isn't anything noteworthy, and the headline would be roughly true each time Windows has had a major OS upgrade/release. Every new Windows release has higher base requirements than the last one.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

It's really nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Windows Defender is more than enough antivirus for any user not downloading shady pirate shit, and it's secure enough for businesses.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Viruses and malware do effect linux servers. It's not tough to do a search for CVEs on this stuff.

At my job we've got a red mark on an audit because of some dev's pet Linux server was vulnerable to multiple critical CVEs. Thankfully it was isolated from the rest of our network due to being a dev's pet project and not something we were officially supporting.

Linux may be more secure, but there's no magic button for any OS to be perfectly protected against malware if you aren't taking proper steps to protect it.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

Don't forget the TPM module! Which has also been pretty damn ubiquitous on mobos for a long ass time.

This is all just clickbait and easy upvotes on lemmy with the big pro-linux movement.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago

The incompatible hardware is more than seven years old at this point.

wizardbeard , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

If these aren't too costly to implement and game consoles continue to use specialized hardware, this could be used to seriously hamper attempts at reverse engineering for modchips and similar things.

It also could be disasterous for right to repair, and against hobbists keeping old hardware running by using third party modifications decades after the end of a product's life.

I'd also question how much of chip design "piracy" is actually done by reverse engineering nowadays vs corporate espionage or leaks of internal design docs.