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Yes, and I will. I'd much prefer if the team came clean themselves, saying why they did it, and who paid them to destroy the RISC-V project. Atonement, Patterson. Now.

The 1.1 spec is corrupt, intentionally sabotaged. Stay away from Patterson and co.

More or extended features are not automatically a good thing for the users. Microsoft extended Kerberos with incompatible changes, re-published it under a diffeerent name, users lo…

Friends don't let friends write new operating systems in unsafe programming languages.

Here [1] is a 2016 video [12:22] summary of the attempts by Hillary Clinton trying to start a war with Russia and Iran, in her own words, on camera. [1] Hillary Clinton Is A Threat…

Compare the fall of the US dollar, 100 USD dollars from 1913 now have a purchasing power of less than 4 dollars. [1] When talking about the USD, it isn't a question of if the USD w…

Actually, the headline could be more technically correct written as "sentenced by algorithm executing on backdoored remotely controlled computer", as that is the case today. Enjoy …

Also, a TPM does not protect you from rubberhose key extraction. There is, however, a file system that can give you some modicum of protection against that, the Rubberhose File Sys…

I'd be cautious with that, as the Purism security guy is not necessarily a free man to do what is best for the customers of Purism. He needs assistance, support and protection from…

Ah, paranoia is a good motivator to learn more. You might want to see this[1], for example. I think his solution is likely to be a trap, ie. not actually safe, but the presentation…

TIL that twenty years ago, Paul Graham put Object-Oriented Programming under Pitchfalls and Gotchas in his notes titled Five Questions about Language Design.[1] It is misguided, bu…

In fact, the PR firm for the makers of a vodka brand did hire someone to order Vodka with a loud voice in various places when exporting it to the USA began, according to Carl Hamil…

Bitcoin is already regulated, with the algorithm that determines the difficulty of successfully calculating a transaction block, and the max number of Bitcoins. The USD, on the oth…

“the FBI’s gross abuse of its power,” its “serial deceit” by which it “manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not…

by James Corbett corbettreport.com April 11, 2021 I posted Episode 398 of The Corbett Report podcast, “Science Says,” around 10 PM Japanese Standard Time on Friday, April 9th, 2021…

# IP address, should things get uglier still. corbettreport.com. 3599 IN A 77.235.50.111

md5sum ep398-sciencesays.mp4 a5ab6b2a0f88bdc86fe79f1a96526a71 ep398-sciencesays.mp4 I provide the md5sum of what I just watched, as some Youtube employee deleted his channel and al…

The right to modify needs to be protected, just as the right to repair anything without exclusion.

This just in: Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640553