Corporations and governments are locking computers down. Secure boot. Hardware remote attestation. Think you can have control by installing your own software? Your device is now banned from everything. We eill be ostracized from digital society. Marginalized. Reduced to second class citizens, if that.
Everything the word "hacker" ever stood for is being destroyed. I predict one day we'll need licenses to program computers.
It's gotten to the point sacrificing ideals for money has started to make sense for me. The future is too bleak. Might as well try to get rich.
I might get worried when mainstream computers won't be able to run Linux. Until then.. I'm not worried.
Seems there are efforts to bring openness to platforms that inherently have an interest to resist it and while the progress is slow.. there is progress
This is the number one issue in computing today. Everybodys running around trying to get rich building shitty extensions and frameworks without looking at the bigger picture. We need collective action. Imagine a movement where everybody becomes millitant about adblockers. Like install them on every computer and deflate the advertising industry. Smarter people than me can probably think of better ideas
Right now its death by 1000 cuts. There needs to be a big change or we could lose everything in just 20-30 years in my opinion
Corporations and governments are locking computers down. Secure boot. Hardware remote attestation. Think you can have control by installing your own software? Your device is now banned from everything. We eill be ostracized from digital society. Marginalized. Reduced to second class citizens, if that.
Everything the word "hacker" ever stood for is being destroyed. I predict one day we'll need licenses to program computers.
It's gotten to the point sacrificing ideals for money has started to make sense for me. The future is too bleak. Might as well try to get rich.