I felt the same when the current-gen CPUs were announced, but when I looked closer at AMD's chips, I learned that they come with controls for greatly reducing the power use with very little performance loss. Some people even report a performance gain from using these controls, because their custom power limits avoid thermal throttling.
It seems like the extreme heat and power draw shown in the marketing materials are more like competitive grandstanding than a requirement, and those same chips can instead be tuned for pretty good efficiency.
Indeed, mass media influence toward giving up your rights is very common, especially in democracies. (Ironically, these are often the same rights that are necessary for a healthy democracy.) It has been going on since long before I was born. See also: propaganda, engineering of consent.
They don't need to backdoor end-to-end encryption when they can instead snoop at the endpoints (e.g. the apps).
Governments can force service providers to either do that or no longer operate in their jurisdiction.
This won't stop especially knowledgeable people (including criminals) from using encrypted comms, but it will make it much harder to access for everyone else, thereby robbing the general population of an essential safety tool, among other things. It's terrible for democracy and dangerous to vulnerable populations. The article is worth reading.
the NSA listed Cavium, an American semiconductor company marketing Central Processing Units (CPUs) - the main processor in a computer which runs the operating system and applications - as a successful example of a "SIGINT enabled" CPU vendor. Cavium, now owned by Marvell said it does not implement back doors for any government.
the NSA compromised lawful Russian interception infrastructure, SORM. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: "you talk, we listen". The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised "Key European LI [lawful interception] systems.
among example targets of its mass surveillance program, PRISM, the NSA listed the Tibetan government in exile.
In case anyone here is unfamiliar with Cavium, their chips are used in network routers from well-known brands. For example, some models from Ubiquiti (the company behind EdgeRouter and UniFi).
We are all in Stallman's debt for his foresight and work on Free software, and especially for the GPL. Even so, I find this particular self-promotion campaign to be overreaching, unnecessary, tedious, and shrill.
So no, I will not call it GNU/Linux, except perhaps in a tiny minority of cases where GNU is actually present and clarification is actually needed.
People who interject with or insist on it are just adding noise to the conversation.
I like this idea in principle, but in practice, I suspect the same companies that often abandon games (and even whole platforms) would also discontinue their wikis. I would like information about the games I buy today to still be around when I play them again in ten or twenty years.
I wonder if this could be mitigated (or even nullified) by a cooperative game developer, through DMCA takedown notices sent to Fandom. There is a lot of art on these wikis, after all, and I imagine the copyright holder has some say in who is allowed to distribute it.
I expect you mean terraria.wiki.gg, rather than terraria.fandom.com (which was the first result in my web search). I don't love the fact that it has a google tracker, but otherwise, it looks nice.
Perhaps there's an opportunity here for a nonprofit organization, accepting donations like wikimedia does, to offer hosting to gaming communities?
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This would not only benefit gamers directly, but also help with cultural preservation, which is increasingly problematic as games disappear from store fronts.
Also, a wiki run by a funded organization is less likely to vanish than one operated by a single person, whose circumstances might change.
It doesn't surprise me at all that people have become less willing to contribute to wikis, now that the likes of Fandom/Wikia and Fextralife are the dominant wiki hosts. Who wants to give away their free labour and time to profit corporations, and have their work mired in cesspools of obnoxious advertising, awkward javascript interfaces, and web tracking?
I think what we need are independent wiki hosts. For example, have a look at https://bg3.wiki/
The point of CSAM scanners is not to protect children, but to circumvent due process by expanding warrantless surveillance. That is antithetical to FOSS.
By the way, copying your question to every community you can think of at the same time ends up looking pretty spammy to those of us who are members of more than one. If you must make many cross-posts, you might want to space them out a day or so, at least. You might even find that there's enough membership overlap that you don't need to cross-post much.
I felt the same when the current-gen CPUs were announced, but when I looked closer at AMD's chips, I learned that they come with controls for greatly reducing the power use with very little performance loss. Some people even report a performance gain from using these controls, because their custom power limits avoid thermal throttling.
It seems like the extreme heat and power draw shown in the marketing materials are more like competitive grandstanding than a requirement, and those same chips can instead be tuned for pretty good efficiency.