If you believe that Microsoft is stealing Recall data behind its users' backs do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users? If Microsoft isn't doing that could it be because that would be suicidal from a business perspective?
I don't believe they are proactively stealing user files, but they absolutely pit in backdoors for the NSA and other western intelligence agencies to exploit at will (and I'm sure non-western agencies do it too any time they can discover them).
If data diode points to outside, like a power plant exporting its status to web, then photosensor can be completely taken over. Sure, the web page might be completely bogus, but there will be no disruption in power plant's system. The hardware design guarantees it. That is the strongest case for data diodes.
If data diode points to inside, like a power plant getting new data from the outside, then sure, photosensor software is a concern, but since it's relatively simple, this would not be my biggest worry. I'd worry about app that runs on target PC and receives files; if file is an archive, about un-archiver exploits; an finally about the files themselves. If there a doc, are you sure it's not exploiting Word? If there is an update, are you sure it's not trojaned? Are you sure users are not click on the executable thinking it's a directory?
It's not a diagram or mock-up, it's a direct representation of the real thing for computer simulations, similar to CAD. The dimensions and shape of the components are accurate. And the author is calling it a logo because the picture is used to represent and advertise the software.
The author of the post claims that the warhead-like design "is literally the logo for this particular software framework." I can't verify this claim, but other Sandia frameworks (e.g. Sierra) use similar, equally overdesigned logos, so it's plausible.
"Let me throw shade on this open source project that does incredibly ambitious thing X and that tons of people are devoting lots of time to, by suggesting they should instead do this other esoteric thing Y that 99% of users don't care about but that I, the entitled power user, think they should be doing instead."
Banks don't care if it's "cheaper than" some other form of power generation, they care that profitability is safe over a very long time span. If power prices crash 5 or 10 years from now because of renewables overcapacity (which is already happening regionally on sunny days with solar), profitability is gone.
If its not a sustainable, profitable business why should a bank invest in it? Banks aren't meant to promote the moral or ethical good. They exist to take money from depositors, replace it with IOUs, and invest the money in ways that are the most likely to be paid back with interest.
That's obviously not to say we can only have industries that work as an open market, but I'd argue that if they don't then the government might as well run the industry rather than fund these half-in half-out companies that appear to be private corporations but only actually exist because the government blessed them.
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