Justina Colmena ~biz <[email protected]> wrote:
it must feel refreshing to rant about the things you find unfair and yet won't lift a finger to actually change, oh except finger after finger on a keyboard into a mailing list noone reads > "We" are suffering from many of the same hardware problems you are, when you > can't get documentation from the manufacturers of hardware devices, __without > an NDA__, to write OpenBSD drivers for them. > > * General bit rot: Rowhammer, hard drive crashes, etc. > * Proprietary patented intellectual property with "No user serviceable parts > inside." > * "This product contains a _____ known to the State of California to cause > cancer." > * "The NSA" with all the undocumented back doors for the cops in everything, > the USA crypto export regulations. > * The FBI warnings on the movies, the Mounties in Canada and the State > Troopers in the U.S., the copyrighted content, the child pornography, the > firearms, the weed, and all sorts of other information deemed illegal for us > to possess on our own computers. > * The "hack job" in the mainstream media: we're all "hackers" if we don't > use Microsoft® Windows® on an approved Intel® microprocessor as approved by > the corporate boss. > * The "evil maid" attack of some lady digging in a guy's computer with a > private investigator or a subpoena for an anti-harassment civil suit or a > restraining order or no-contact order or something like that. > * The drug dealers and the hit men on the "dark web", the Bitcoin miners and > the crypto currency mining bots. > * The constant double-dealing between "full" KVM virtualization and > Linux-kernel-only "paravirtualization" in the cloud. > * The SWAT teams with their doorbuster warrants for anybody who runs a > "server." > * No IPv6 support anywhere under the sun. > * ... > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
