What do you mean by standards?
tekato
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That’s not what this is about. He’s complaining about hardware developers putting more work on kernel developers by making them patch all the CPU vulnerabilities that are introduced by trying to increase performance.
arm64 is very well supported by the Linux kernel. What makes you say it’s not?
ISPs have nothing to do with what the article talks about, this is about logical gates. Anyways, this tech sounds like a research toy to secure some grants for the laboratory.
Government comprises many departments and organizations, which do many things. It's not a single blob of all good or all bad.
I don’t remember saying the contrary. When one part of the government does something, it was still the government.
not all back doors and CPU bugs are government-imposed
Don’t remember saying every single backdoor is government-imposed. Fact is there’s at least one backdoor that is for the government, whether there’s 1 or 5 doesn’t really matter.
you don't know his actual usage
Why would I need to know his usage? Whatever it might be, a newer CPU can do the same amount of work as an old CPU for a fraction of the energy.
meaningless anyway unless you subtract from it the energy use from manufacturing and distributing a new system, as well as that from disposing of the old one.
You mean the CPU that was already manufactured years ago and won’t magically disappear due to you refusing to upgrade to it? Whether you use it or not the energy to create it was already spent.
you haven't addressed the other problems mentioned at all
And I didn’t mean to. I simply corrected you when you congratulated him for using less energy, which is not true.
They don’t allow 3rd party clients, as per their ToS:
You must not (or assist others to) access, use, modify, distribute, transfer, or exploit our Services in unauthorized manners, or in ways that harm Signal, our Services, or systems. For example you must not (a) gain or try to gain unauthorized access to our Services or systems; (b) disrupt the integrity or performance of our Services; (c) create accounts for our Services through unauthorized or automated means; (d) collect information about our users in any unauthorized manner; or (e) sell, rent, or charge for our Services.
You need authorization to access Signal servers, which they don’t give:
we really don't want forked versions of the app maintained by other parties connecting to our servers. Not only could the users using the forked version have a subpar experience, but the people they're talking to (using official clients) could also have a subpar experience (for example, an official client could try to send a new kind of message that the fork, having fallen out of date, doesn't support). I know you say you'd advocate for a build expiry, but you know how things go. Of course you have our full support if you'd like to fork Signal, name it something else, and use your own servers.
In my opinion, this is a horrible decision from Signal.
it may take legislation to give us back control of the computers we supposedly own
The government is the reason why you have backdoors built into your computers and routers.
He is adding to the world’s energy given that an FX 8350 is slower than something like a Ryzen 5600 at twice the TDP.
I guess you know more about hardware nomenclature Linux kernel developers, because they call modern Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs amd64 and aarch64, respectively.
Yes. The Google-funded Firefox that won’t take away your ability to block ads. Any other questions?