Literally everyone that “threatens” to “switch to linux”:

Hey look, an article documenting 2020!

I’ll assume that Loongson are equally as backdoored, but by Chinese intelligence rather than US intelligence.

RISC-V and OpenPOWER are the last remaining non-user-hostile ISAs. That and possibly old x86.

Social inertia and an extra helping of users hate having to learn things.

The CSAC also accused Intel of embedding a backdoor “in almost all” of its CPUs since 2008

Hmmm They couldn’t be referring to the extensively researched, reverse-engineered, and years-documented Intel Management Engine, could they?

CSAC is only just now coming across this information? Better late than never, I guess.

I’ve been wanting to get an old book like this and go through the install process of some OG linux just for the learning experience.

I don’t have favorites. Just ones that suck the least.

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I’ve resigned myself to just pre planning longer routes to avoid tolls. I am not putting a transponder in my car and I am certainly not going pay for that privilege or to help normalize it.

They’ve been dismantling cash toll stops to erect automated readers in their place.

Sorry, I stepped out of my cryochamber just a couple days ago. My energy suit is still powering up.

The non-capitalist solutions have been here all along, mostly things licensed under copyleft. But people just need to have the wherewithal to actually use these solutions.

Article author struggles with clean links

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack btw

The pioneers of this dirty business were overwhelmingly founded by ex-Israeli signals intelligence personnel,

That’s interesting. Must be a coincidence.

and related Clinton-era initiatives, like the failed Clipper Chip program, which would have put a spy chip in every computer, and, eventually, every phone and gadget:

“Don’t worry, guys we tried to backdoor all devices but failed, see?”

Meanwhile, Intel ME, AMD “Secure Processor”, and ARM “TrustZone”:

A bike rack maintains plausible deniability.

Messing with your plates or getting fake plates could land you in court.

I see they have the lobes for business.

Running software designed and compiled only for XYZ system is always going to incur overhead when translating or emulating to ABC system.

Game authors and publishers who only build for Windows are giving users a big middle finger and essentially saying “You must suffer through Windows in order to enjoy our product hassle-free lol”.

What worked for me (which may or may not work for others) was to wean myself away, at first with only playing games that were built natively for linux.

Then moving the line in the sand to only DRM-free native linux builds.

Then advancing to only open source games.

These days, I just don’t even play games and I find that it really frees up what kinds of things I want to do on my computers, such as daily driving exotic CPU architectures (and also I have so much more free time for actual meaningful pursuits like learning new skills).

It greatly raises the cost of exploring competing software for the average person.

Google are actually doing really awesome work with manifest v3. A pimp needs to smack their b1tches around every once in a while to remind them who’s boss.

Disable unused interfaces in BIOS.

Netinstall with only basic utilities.

Reduce Debian