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You can look through my comment history here, if you like, to see that I've been consistently banging the same drum at least since 2020, but unfortunately without connecting this p…

Not irrelevant. I'm responding directly to somebody saying people like me basically don't exist so that I am a data point. We do exist. We're rare, but not that rare.

Hello. I would not trust any corporation (sometimes it's profitable to remove something so they retain control of some market) or government (sometimes it secures their power to ke…

In my phrasing, 128k + 7 -> 81k + 5 for all positive integers k. Pick a power of 3 n to be the coefficient for k on the right/reduced side, and then the left side will have at leas…

I've been down that road, and it's unfortunately a dead end. You can generate an infinite number of reducing forms, each of which itself covers an infinite number of integers, like…

There are indeed modern releases that live up to nostalgia for games of yore and they are... games that are incredibly similar to their predecessors. Game design has gone through a…

UEFI is not a big bloat of closed source. UEFI is a spec that defines a newer, more feature-rich and easily-extensible way to boot than legacy BIOS. There is a common core, used by…

Two "fun" examples: 1) System trying to boot would hang at seemingly random points. Could never be pinned down to a particular instruction, but could be caught doing it when steppi…

I'm "lucky" enough to deal with buggy hardware on a semi-regular basis (I start writing firmware before the hardware is finalized and run on prototypes), so I really do get bugs wh…

I think there's lots of information that should be censored, and if I were made data czar of the world I would surely not be corrupt and do a diligent and thoughtful job removing o…

Voluntary removal of one's own information does not, in theory go against the free exchange of ideas, but it's a difficult path to follow. How do you grant removal powers to only t…

No, no information should ever be banned from any public/commons - the end. You want to ban certain information from a particular place you control? Go nuts. The wider public? No. …

People saying that we should not bother colonizing Mars at all are clearly wrong. I can buy the argument that we should not yet do it, but come on. The Earth will one day be dust, …

Firstly, this article and the discussions on this page are about Signal, it's hardly irrelevant. For the particular case of the company Signal, there are many actors claiming that …

You prove to still be misunderstanding. Firstly in that "Signal's Audience" is not a thing under contention - it's willing parties who are already both using Signal being prevented…

You are badly misunderstanding the situation. A world with 3 TV networks is a world of limited airtime , so of course people will not give their slots up freely for others. That is…

Again I lament the falling respect for and understanding of free speech as a principle that helps us all. Only when communication between two willing parties is unhindered is it ev…

So you're okay giving someone else the power to declare something "a threat" and sacrificing your rights to neutralize it? China is perfectly happy to declare all kinds of opinions…

I'm going to skip over defamation for now, both because I'm not a lawyer and because it's slightly more complicated. You can tell that's different because nobody preemptively censo…

You're thinking I'm upset specifically about reddit banning the group because that's the article I posted it on. That's sensible, and on me somewhat for not being quite clear enoug…

I've been having this argument more and more lately. People keep coming around to "surely, we must prevent *THIS* content?" and every time the answer is no. Somehow, we seem to be …

No! God, I don't understand why people keep falling into this mindset. Do not hide/remove/censor/block/stop speech because of its content, ever, for any reason! Let all speak their…

I'll just repeat again what I've said a few times in comment sections on UEFI-related articles: UEFI is not Secure Boot. Secure Boot is a feature that is implemented by UEFI-compli…

The three "biggest deals" here are all... a lot less important than they look. Clarifying info on all three: "Did Intel get hacked?" I can't confirm the exact mechanism by which th…

The number one (by a wide margin) reason for Intel123 is that somebody is trying to email a zip to somebody else, but a mandatory filter notices "bad files" (oh no, executables!) i…