Room service now!! or kiss your data goodbye

Even better. If you are programming all networking H/W yourself, you can even ignore address conventions and reserved addresses.

vacuum cleaners

Why would someone bring their own vacuum cleaner in a hotel room?

Satellite Hello World + Telescope Hello World ⇒ Hubble Space Telescope Hello World

fully boxed up & preconfigured for the lazy,

I see that as solving the skill and effort issue.

Skill issue, not money issue.

But when you are a business, everything can be converted into a money issue.

Do you have a vacancy?

The main problem is, you need to have someone good enough to setup a proper firewall when selfhosting.

Sure, it might not take $$$$, but it will take $, which is definitely more than nothing.

I have a feeling B wanted to use Signal, but expected it to be difficult to make others shift. When OP gave the opportunity, B came in and swyped it right away,

DIY ?

Now just hope the batteries don’t have a radio.

The reason for that being that all the points I have put are fully valid.

The rest depends upon the persons inference.

• Having a separate coder and a packager means there is a good chance that another person (the packager) is looking at the code.
  • And this other person is also most probably a separate entity, so if the coder is malicious, someone will know.
• Then comes the point of the distro community being more open and fragmented, as compared to a corporation, that can keeps their members’ mouths shut using contracts and all

• For the same thing, the pro corpo guys will say that they have a single entity to go to for any problems. And since they have a contract (which maybe a b2b client-provider contract), their interests match.
  • As opposed to some random chap on the internet, developing some Open Source thing as a hobby, purely for their own fun/ego/satisfaction.

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Linux distros are waay worse!
They keep on advertising things like Desktop Environments and Window Managers and Display Managers and Printer Drivers!
And they don’t even go about it subtly, like, one at a time. A single ad contains a list of around 10 or so Graphical Environments and even after you select one, it keeps on showing you the other ads, because you, apparently, can install as many of those things at the same time as your have HDD space for. And then they keep advertising GRUB and systemd-boot! (Though I must give them credit for giving me the option of “No boot”)

And even after you have finished installing, it is not enough, because you have to see an ad of 2 Network Card drivers, both being different versions of the same, because why not ?!

And turns out, everything that they give you in the package is actually third party! Meaning, stuff that has access to the lowest depths of your hardware, to stuff that you use to enter your bank details are all made by different people. So many people you have to put your trust into.

And if that’s not enough, the people who compile it and send it to you might be totally different people from those who made the code!! What kind of heresy is this?

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Interesting. And there really is nothing stopping someone in control from getting themselves a huge portion of it, while laying off staff?

That seems like a huge flaw that someone with the required people skills (read, social engineering) can exploit.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Same question here. How can they be profitable if they are a registered non-profit?

Is it somehow possible to pay employees exorbitant salaries, similar to Mozilla’s CEO?

Billionaires remember! Yacht first, island second.

Well, designing and manufacturing are 2 different things.
You’re right as in we will still have to rely on some Workshop having a million dollar fabrication setup with at least half a dozen experts working, to do the manufacturing part.

Furthermore, said setup will have to be optimised not for scale (as in workshop mode and not assembly line mode), focusing on getting one-shot success rather than mass-manufacturing and getting yield %ages. So, we won’t really benefit from things like Intel opening up their fabs, since they still expect a bulk order.

We still always have FPGAs.
Just need one with an open source VHDL compiler.

Ooh, that would be hard.
Now you would have to make sure that the tattoo guy has enough time and drive to put the effort into understanding your custom chip design and know which probe to connect to which neuron.

I feel like if (the de-techification of general public doesn’t take place in the future) && (I were to be born in the future); then
I would probably giving free chip-design customisation services to friends and family, using some open source chip design as a base.

But then again, there’s already a very few number of ppl like me…

Physical pen testing

was it really pen testing or just pen…ing😏

I have a feeling that Surgeons will be made to sign contracts instructing them to refuse BYOC (bring/build your own chip) implants.

Otherwise, just make your own chip. You decide the materials, you decide the process. You decide each and every part (alright, maybe just as much as you can fathom) of the circuit.
You decide how powerful the feedback is and what functions it provides. So you are not paying for the risk of features other than the ones you want.

Because why just hack it as much as you need to when you can go all the way? AMIRITE?