Every time people hear what it actually involves is outrage and opposition, at least all the way back to when Intel first announced that they wanted to hardcode identity numbers inside CPUs in 1999. But the corporations involved have been relentless, and have sunk countless billions of dollars steadily forcing it forwards, and building front organizations to obfuscate and whitewash it.

With Windows 11, Microsoft was finally able to FORCE Trusted computing hardware into every new computer. Not just every new Windows computer, but every computer.

Every new Intel PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new AMD PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new ARM PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. The only processor lines that DON'T have it are the microcontrollers.

There are some unlocked smartphones available, but as far as I can determine it's literally impossible to buy a smartphone that doesn't have hardware trusted computing built in.

I specified that enforcing Trusted Computing at the internet access level is still a long term goal, they couldn't get away with it today. However they are well on the way to success. Virtually all new hardware supporting trusted computing, all the front groups rolling out standards and systems, and as it gets incorporated into things everyone is going to increasingly running into situations where they get locked out of stuff if they're not Trusted Computing compliant. Streaming already restricts you to the worst quality if you're not compliant, and it's only going to get worse as pre-Win11 computers fade out and as more things require it.

I'd hardly call exact date of birth "low information content".

And yes this does reveal exact date of birth, regardless of the bullshit obfuscation that it supposedly only reports age range. The server simply tracks the reported result every time the user connects, and on some specific day the result CHANGES to announce their date of birth.

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This is based on SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts), brought to you by the same fuckers making Trusted Computing and the TMP (Trusted Platform Module). It's part of the same shitstack to prohibit you from altering your software and to lock you out of your own files, and to send spy reports out over the internet so you can be cut off if you "fail" the Trusted Computing check.

The software can use a TPM's (Trusted Platform Module) Sealing function to encrypt your data such that it's impossible to access your own data if the software is modified. It can then pass control over that data only to software updates that carry a signed security certificate from Broadcom (or any other company using this system).

It is no longer open source, your system no longer works as you can no longer access your Sealed data if you change so much as a single letter of the code. Even recompile unaltered code won't work, unless you magically manage to get your build environment absolutely identical to the company's build environment and get byte-for-byte output. Even that may be impossible with the newer levels of non-deterministic compiler optimizations.

Also, with TMP's Remote Attestation feature can be used to transmit your machine's software configuration over the internet, so that you can be cut off if your system doesn't match Broadcom (or other company's) cryptographically signed certificate.

And then of course there's Network Access Control (NAC) / Trusted Network Connect (TNC). In the long term, the goal is for ISPs to use NAC/TNC to interrogate your computer for Trusted Computing compliance, and deny you any internet access whatsoever if your machine isn't compliant. Software with this sort of "security" certificate would pass inspection, while any attempt to alter the code would be detected as "tampering". You then get "quarantined". What "quarantine" means is that you are denied internet access - with the exception that you do get very restricted access which can only be used to download the approved software to "fix" your computer into Trusted Computing compliance.

Supposedly Google's policies are to follow whatever names the locale the user is in uses. In some cases, this is legitimate, as there are several disputed territories around the world and Google isn't a position to pick and choose. On the other, clearly ridiculous situations such as where a President writes an EO, which merely orders his government to do something, and doesn't impact the rest of the country, are an absurd extreme of this.

But, if that's what they want, I'd totally understand if the Canadian government declares all Trump properties in the US having the name "Pedophile Palace", so someone who tries to find Mar-a-lago on Google Maps in Canada is instead presented with that name.

Maybe cheap and petty is the way to deal with cheap and petty.

IIRC it isn't enabled by default, and is considered a dev feature.

The summary and article are, more or less, bullshit.

Basically they're making it sound like these cars are catching fire because ICE cars have some special fault that makes them vulnerable in a way BEs don't. But... turns out all the examples are of the electrical systems of those cars catching fire. Not the engines. The very first example is about the front seat catching fire because the power seat switch on it is poorly designed.

These are all faults that could just as easily be in a BE vehicle. If Kia had a BE version of the Telluride it would have the exact same fault.

This isn't some ICE vs BE thing despite the breathless attempt to suggest it is.

(I say the above reluctantly because I really want BE vehicles to take off, ICE cars just seem more and more ludicrous as time progresses given the massive improvements in battery technologies. But this article isn't the reason to start going "Aha! ICE cars are just as bad!" on that one criticism of BE vehicles that's legitimate.)

Cool story bro.

This article is about Debian allowing the use of genAI for code incorporated into the Debian repos despite the international legal uncertainty, the environmental impacts, and the lack of quality that's largely being ignored solely because software in general has seen a collapse in quality since the early 2010s.

It isn't about your slopware habits.

I'm curious to know whether the people in charge of Debian have a back-up plan if Debian turns out to violate copyright in countries across the world or whether their solution will be to just shrug and say "Well countries that don't allow AI generated slop without compensation to the original copyright holders will just have to do without "open source" - which today is adulterated by shitty unreadable code from slopgobblers."

AI can destroy jobs by destroying the businesses that have inexplicitly decided to rely on it.

Of course, Gates is far too part of the tech establishment in this country to actually say that.

TBH while Trump is pretty much telegraphing that he'll do just that, this story is unlikely to have anything to do with it. We happen to be in an era in which nation states have learned how easy it is to hide secret remote controls in all kinds of apparently innocuous hardware.

It's just difficult with Trump who swings wildly between ludicrous justifications of import bans, and occasionally doing what his administration's smarter advisors are actually telling him needs to be done. One of the reasons this presidency sucks. That and all the fascism.

No, Fox News has nothing to do with the CDA, which was largely about that part of the media regulated by the FCC. Fox News is not regulated by the FCC, it's a cable channel.

I'm not saying the CDA was good - just look at the degree to which radio got enshittified, and local news veered heavily right wing as companies like Sinclair bought up local broadcasters. I'm just saying Rupert Murdoch would have done everything he did anyway as he wasn't affected. The only way I can think of that he benefited from the CDA was 20 years later, when he made a bucket of cash selling Fox Broadcasting to Disney.

To be honest, I don't know why we stopped, because it's not as if modern frameworks take less time to learn or are significantly easier to visualize HTML in.

And many of the sites that migrated to these absurdly heavy web frameworks seem to be just as slow as they ever were. T-Mobile's website comes to mind. Clumsy, falls apart, and makes the fans whir in every laptop I've ever seen - and it's been like this for at least 10 years.

What are devs trying to achieve here when they use them? 'cos it sure as hell isn't reliability, maintainability, or speed. Is it just to narrow the number of people who can replace them?

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> ...which I'd prefer over hopping onto a plane and getting there 3x faster ...uhhh because?

Because it's uncomfortable and never, actually, 3X faster given it takes an hour to actually get to the airport and checked in and through security and half an hour minimum before you can leave the destination. And let's not forget that you're giving up an entire day in practice anyway when travelling.

I get it though, you like cramped seats, shitty service, anti-social co-passengers, expensive tickets, and long, long, waits. In which case, good news, because Europe has airports too! It's just almost all Europeans prefer the train, maybe because your statement above is just plain stupid.

> You know, I always marvel at the level of brainwashing it took to convice leftists to hate cars: a transport system that operates on my schedule, on my route, with no walking to stop involved, no waiting in wind or rain at said stop, which doesn't leave without me if I'm late, with no transfers needed, where I control the AC setting, the music, which doesn't put screens in front of my face with the same 3 ads on a loop during my hour-long journey, in which I can ALWAYS comfortably sit not just during off-hours, need I go on?

You know, I always marvel at the level of brainwashing it took to convince rightists to hate public transportation given cars are a transportation system that operates on no schedule with little or no predictability, that leaves you completely stranded if your own vehicle stops working, where you're constantly having to do your own maintenance, and ultimately spend hours a day staring at two lines on some fucking tarmac, stuck in a cramped metal box with uncomfortable seats, when you could just read and relax, and stand and walk around occasionally, like you would on public transport. Need I go on?

> "Oh, you need that suspicious lump looked at? Of course, as an EU citizen you are entitled to free healthcare, we can schedule an appointment as soon as 2047!" I mean fuck me, you think noone ever knows how that "free healthcare" looks *in practice* and you can blatantly fucking lie about how "awesome" it is and noone will call you out?

"Oh, you need that suspicious lump looked at? Of course, as a US citizen you are entitled to pay through the nose for an insurance service that'll require you see a primary care doctor, who's all booked up for the next 9 months, to give you a referral, and then we won't cover most of it and you'll go bankrupt." I mean, fuck me, you don't even know how "Free healthcare" looks in practice: if someone waits 6 months for a hip operation in the UK, there are questions asked in the House of Commons by MPs. Meanwhile if your insurance company fucks you over in the US, you're SoL, nobody gives a crap, half the country will find a way to blame you for it, and healthcare is intentionally rationed using high prices and constant treatment rejections because there aren't enough doctors, and there's no incentive under the US system to train more doctors - and lots of incentives to train *less*.

> LOL, wake up Sparky, it's 2026, uncontrolled immigration made those "safe streets" you speak of very much a thing of the past. OK, you are more likely to die from being stabbed (or run over with a truck, the new fashionable thing you have going on there) than from being shot, makes a huuuuge difference.

Hi, my name's blahabi and I believe any old nonsense far right nutcases spout if it fits my preconceived notions. If it shows "immigrants bad", then I believe it, despite knowing there's ample evidence immigrants commit less crime in all sectors than non-immigrants in virtually every western nation, almost certainly because they know the risks are far heavier for them.

> LOOOOOOOOL. Tell me, did you have the chance to vote for (or against) Ursula von der Leyen the way US citizens did get to vote for or agaisnt Trump? No you didn't. Same as you never get to elect the European Comission, nor the CJEU, who actually rule Europe. You only ever voted for EU parliment, which is famously the most powerless elected body in the world, so much it's a meme. Fucking democracy indeed :DDDD

Ursula von der Leven doesn't have the powers of Trump so this is a nonsense comparison. And yes, every EU citizen has the right to vote in their own countries for and against their current politicians. The major difference is there's no fucking vote rigging. While the US is doing its best to disenfranchise or erect hurdles to prevent people from voting against Trump and the Republicans.

> No such thing as a "carbon debt" except as a leftist talking point :DDDDD or do you believe in fairies too?

Facts don't care about your feelings, dumbass.

> open borders

Again, all you're doing is suggesting you're a one note RWNJ who has never actually understood the value of multicultural societies and believes any old crap about "others", in this case immigrants, to bolster your "scared of change" attitude.

> You mean "car-hostile"? I don't mind walkable, but a more appropriate word would be "walking-enforced", so no thanks.

No, he means walkable. Car hostile would imply that cars have some right to be a default form of transportation so inalienable that even the only universal form of transportation should be second tier to it. It is practical to walk and use cars throughout Europe. In most of the US, walking is de-facto banned, with road and neighborhood builders making it impractical to use that method of transportation (or even other non-car systems like public transportation or even bicycles) to access local facilities.

> Oh, noone disputes it makes a great vacation target. Go there, visit aboementioned things, enjoy the theme park atmosphere, observe primitive europeans living there in their natural habitat, make some photos to post on some (US-made obviously) social media site, then, return to civilization once that stops being fun and starts being tiresome. :DDDDDDD

Maybe if you took a vacation over there, you'd lose your... well never mind, I get it, you're too scared of brown people and think they're lurking behind every pillar in Europe getting ready to stab you.

But if you went there, you'd realize how stupid your entire reply is. I literally know right wing Republican Americans who went to Britain for a business trip who came back asking why the fuck the US doesn't have trains and walkability.

I'm pretty sure that Amazon is one of those institutions that's all-in on AI so they can join in the attempts to take over every business in the country.

Maybe they should just say "We're upping our prices because of our own greed and lust for power, just not in the usual way."

C++ has developed at lot over the last 20 years, and my understanding from C++ programmers is that there are now safe alternatives to virtually everything that had to be done using unsafe code in the past. So as long as you restrict yourself to those modern features, you can produce entirely safe C++, C++ that's as safe as Rust.

The problem with C++ is more that you have no idea what you're getting when someone drops a C++ source code bomb on you. It might be written using safe idioms, it might be using unsafe features but in a safe way. I wouldn't start a new project in C++, but I understand why someone like the GP might propose it as a way to start a project to increase security of an existing C program.