nlgranger @ nlgranger @lemmy.world

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I listen to the news almost every day and missed that. I guess it shows how bad things are that it didn't make the news...

One person on board with her is a European Union member of parliament from France. That provides a lot more protection than Greta's reputation can.

Most of the interesting channels I follow seem to rely on sponsorship, donations or merchandising. For specialized subjects, the youtube algorithm doesn't acknowledge the value of the audience in terms of advertising (ex: tool brand for car channel).

Hi! Nothing to ask but I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your work!

I believe @Dojan was referencing the Puritans, not the founding fathers.

It's a misconception/misrepresentation that they are more uneducated or idiotic than average. They may look like it (or the media make them so), but actual idiots wouldn't be as capable as they are to push their agenda forward.

technology is still advancing

Actually not really: performance per watt of the high end stuff has been stagnating since Ampere generation. NVidia hides it by changing models in its benchmarks or advertising raw performance without power figures.

We had police just following orders during WWII in France. This is not a proud moment of our history, we pardon but we do not forgive.

None of the researchers in my lab go to conferences in the US anymore (there is remote participation since covid).

There might be a few shortcuts in the message but the general idea remains: the connection between liberalism and authoritarianism makes sense.

They already suffered from his shitty actions, he did not become a terrible person overnight.

We in France experienced a higher than usual participation rate during the last representatives elections. Turned out the extra voters had roughly the same distribution as the others. At least it was not game changing. In the US, the winner takes all voting system also demotivates voters, in some counties the argument that voting is useless is legit.

Maybe consider donating your blood (its not quite "donation" in the USA though, is it?).

I'm not saying this is a small issue and nothing should be done. I just noted that the issue is not as big as some other hardware-based vulnerabilities we encountered in the past. And every threat model calls for a corresponding counter-measure.

You are assuming activists are well funded in some way, and that they are not repressed. I'm assuming they are repressed, which is why they have people that buy and configure their equipment and hand it to them so that it hasn't been tampered with. If you cannot afford that your should use your computer as if it was compromised.

You’re basically saying consumers don’t need any kind of antivirus either Where did I write that?

And what makes it so hard to release patches for consumer hardware. AMD focusing on where its money's at and OEM/motherboard manufacturers being cheap and lazy and not pushing forward updates when they have them.

Agreed, firmware security by chip manufacturers has been underwhelming to say the least and we can blame them for that. But in this specific instance I still don't see the benefit of a fix for consumer usage. Companies have a responsibility and accountability toward their users, so a fix is due, for personal laptops/PCs the threat is toward the owners themselves (activists, diplomats, journalists, etc.). The latter do not buy second hand equipment, and if the firmware is compromised while they own it, they are already in danger.

Consumer usage is not really concerned by the attack scenario of this vulnerability from what I understand. The prerequisite is to have access to the bios so it's already game over at this point.

A negative price is absurd and has no physical reality, it is the result of speculation and abstract rules not grounded on reality. It always costs to build and operate whatever power source and networks were involved, you don't have to pay electricity to f*ck off if you produce too much of it.

They are bad at writing software and firmware support is sketchy. That second point is technically the motherboard vendors fault but it could be due to confusing design and documentation on the AMD side. Hardware-wise they are great AFAIK.

Good point ! 😆

I suspect Capitol Hill is just not where Trump voters live, so they did not have the opportunity to go there easily. Also he is not a great speaker and he is just another old white male president, no one assumed it would be an opportunity to attend to a historical event.