There are recent parallels in both the firearms and 3D printing industries. California 3D printers now get to have restrictions on them because of recent legislation. When technology bridges the “moat” to some Unreachable Fortress it’s inevitable for lobbying to appear since you can’t move the Fortress. Chinese open source models and weights are that bridge, and here we are.

I’m sure there’s market research, focus groups, and unfilmed talks where people air the ideas out to gauge if they can get national traction, but it’s hard to tell with techbros if we’re seeing the vetted idea put to film or if he really thinks the idea that there’s just one computer on earth (that he owns) that everybody can buy time on. I trend towards the latter given the market for software you actually own instead of license, and unlocked hardware.

There are already rumblings about RISC-V.

No. They have already told off a 27 year old to ensure that the backdoor(s) they put there on purpose are still there when he gets done. It’s been worse than you thought for years.

• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html

Someone with no understanding of what quality software looks like who also doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of every Cisco switch and router on the planet either being old and unsupported, or new and absolutely full of security holes.

They can buy it on the used market and destroy it.

<proper noun> absolutely hates the idea of [other] people <gerund> their own <noun> at home, argues they shouldn’t <verb> <noun>.

I happen to like verbing my own noun.

After all the time and money that was spent guarding all of that data the US just gave it all away.

I never see anyone framing it for what it was: a cyber attack. After all the damned money spent on guarding all the stuff they got access to, all it took was them just coming and taking it. And I still only see unverified internet comments that they may have gotten into classified places. Was that what all the history of the Cold War and all the planning for large scale cyber events amounted to?

What was that about a KGB grandkid?

x = "I disagree."
y = false
puts x unless y

I miss it when writing python.

It doesn’t work until reddit gets to that specific person’s make/break feature and breaks it.

Reddit? The Lemmy alternative?

I won’t go there, but someone go into that thread and try saying something good about Lemmy and see if it sticks.

Apart from what everyone else here has said LegalEagle did some videos on this, and the big takeaway was that everybody needed to get a lawyer ASAP instead of trying to plead their case in the court of public opinion via podcast/youtube videos/whatever. Reckless Ben got the audio from his court case and used it to make a youtube video (he was representing himself). This whole thing went from ordinary mess to Great Big Mess with no signs of anyone trying to dial it down.

It think this is the one depending on how far the rabbit hole you want to go down:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH09tltEw1U