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Corebooted Thinkpads are the gold standard. Don't listen to this article - it's utter nonsense - the author even recommend Libreboot which is effectively abandonware barely maintained by one unstable individual.
Stopped reading at "Macbook is ... as trustworthy as the Libreboot ThinkPad". Anyone who trusts closed source, proprietary, for-profit platforms from PRISM partners doesn't know what they're talking about.
Strictly from a hardware POV. That wasn’t intended to be praise for Apple, but rather an indictment of the industry at large that Apple designed hardware that is easier to extend trust to.
This is how you know you need a vacation from computers - when you write an article literally fetishizing sounds they once made. The whole piece is symptomatic of a fried brain. To the author: go outside for a long walk and shut your devices off.
More baseless gender-bating nonsense. Nothing to do with technology or "hacker" news. Just some useless trivia editorialized to paint the "MEN BAD" narrative. Can't believe how the quality of front-page stories has deteriorated over the years on HN.
Imagine telling a frugivorous ape (which is what humans literally are) that fruit are to be enjoyed sparingly when our physiology and biochemistry has evolved over millions of years to eat exactly that. Then we wonder why there is all this sickness and disease.
How often do you think our ancestors ran across fruit? You basically enjoyed them once a year and even then they weren't the same kind of fruit we have today. What we have today is super fruit in size and sugar and availability 24/7/365.
I think it's more significant that wild fruits, grains, etc are quite different than what we have cultivated. I.e. wild strawberries are extremely small and many of the fruits still eaten by primates and other animals are really quite bland.
I find it a paradox that everyone seems to know our food is unhealthy for ducks..
Wild strawberries taste waaaay better then ones from store. It is actually our contemporary fruits that are super bland - they are cultivated for size and look. Not for taste and not for nutrition.
That being said, strawberries are absurd choice of fruit. They don't last.
Already apples last. You can even store them without that requiring anything modern. Bananas is another good example. In places with warm climate, you have fruits year round.
> If the US Government forced Apple to add other entries to the hash table, this would constitute a warrantless Government search of the private physical property of US citizens. This is a clear-cut, unambiguous breach of the 4th Amendment.
There's no reason not to assume this isn't already happening, being closed source and proprietary. The question to ask is, what are we going to do about it?
If you take that line of argument, you must also accept that you have no reason not to assume that binary distributions of Android and Windows haven't been doing similar things for the past decade.
I agree with you in that I don't think the problem is the closed-source aspect. Closed source software can still be audited (with difficulty). The problem is that the source material for the hashes can't be audited, even when we know exactly how the system works.
They don't have any incentive to, in fact the opposite is true - they purposefully don't fix zero days so intel agencies can use them to spy on dissidents.
