Have you seen the drama over at r/sysadmin? TBH whether Reddit survives this or not (I'm assuming it will), I'd rather be over here. TBH the smaller user base is actually a plus.
maynarkh
joined 1 year ago
I guess we need open hardware for open drivers to be the norm.
This quite stupidly has some geopolitical implications as well, if "anyone" can manufacture decent GPUs, there goes the Western chip-making monopoly.
You just buy a big slab of meat, put it on a coat hanger on the patio, free smoked meat!
One bad thing I could see is that this info could be sold to insurance companies, not just medical, who could charge and deny coverage based on that.
Or just look at Visa and Mastercard being a faux-moral jackass and not dealing with porn sites. Imagine if they were able to deny you service based on medical history with drugs and such.
In Russia, wrote the embassy, the journalist’s coverage was liable to land him a financial penalty, a prison term, or a period of forced labour.
In Russia holding an empty sign or being the wrong ethnicity, or just the wrong place at the wrong time can get you that.
I remember there was a whole saga about the original never making it to 64bit. I guess this is a remake, since the source was lost too IIRC