The bios flaw they were exploring was the bios having flawed anti DMA protections.

From the article

According to the company, the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), which protects system RAM from Direct Memory Access (DMA) devices, is not fully initializing upon boot in some motherboard models. This means that even though the BIOS might indicate that Pre-Boot DMA Protection is active, it’s not actually protecting the entire system.

I don’t think it matters.

They are certainly a member of the community.

Choosing MIT over GPL is a political decision that empowers corporations at the expense of the community.

Yah companies can (and sometimes do) choose to give back to the community with MIT projects.

GPL/AGPL/LGPL/MPL 2.0 ensure that they do give back when they take.

I just don’t trust companies enough to use MIT.

Bad news there. Both Nvidia and AMD focus first on ML now days. As a side effect GPUs continue to be able to do raster stuff.

AMDs upcoming UDNA is all about repurposing their better AI focused pipeline. Nvidia has been selling defective (binned) AI GPUs as gaming GPUs for years. They make the ML focused GPU, and if it has too many defects they turn it into a xx90/xx80/dx70 etc.

Almost certainly blobs. The cost to create open would double the cost at a minimum. That and open modem firmware is illegal in the EU. https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/radiodirective.en.html

I read the articles and strongly disagree. ADHD is real and meaningful. It’s not a reaction to “illegitimate authority” or “working a boring job”.

Your sources are pushing ADHD denialism and read as ableist right wing nonsense. ODD too.

Many people with severe anxiety and/or depression are also anti-authoritarians. Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.

Going stupid — or passive aggression — is one of many nondisease explanations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Studies show that virtually all ADHD-diagnosed children will pay attention to activities that they enjoy or that they have chosen. In other words, when ADHD-labeled kids are having a good time and in control, the “disease” goes away.

This is an insult to people who suffer from real conditions and an insult to those who suffered under Soviet style weaponization of mental health.

Companies are allowed to participate in the community. They are wallowed to use community code. Companies donating servers and resources is actually a good thing. This includes Valve. The “greediness” you talk about isn’t a factor.

Also factually none of those projects you listed were started by IBM. Half of them were started by GNU foundation. The other half were started by Redhat before it was acquired by IBM.

The way Redhat made money was by taking community code and packaging it with support guarantees for other companies. Redhat took that money and hired people to further improve that community code they were packaging. I was at Redhat at the time.

Regarding freeBSD you are forgetting the literal largest user of BSD in the world. Netflix voluntarily gives back code to the community but they aren’t forced to.

Sony is the largest user of FreeBSD in the world. They take the code. Use it improve it and give nothing back. From the PS3 forward all of their devices are based on FreeBSD.

Microsoft also is a large user of FreeBSD in a way. When they couldn’t add a proper networking stack to Windows without everything crashing all the time they’re turned to FreeBSD. Microsoft ripped out the networking code and glued it into Windows 2000. From there we got XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and now 11. All with community code taken and used to fight community coded operating systems.

I guess it all comes down to how you see companies. If you believe that companies will always act in the interest of the community even at the expense of competitiveness I can see how one might see MIT or BSD licenses as adequate.

GPL, LGPL, and MPL on the other hand force companies to give back when they take.

I don’t trust companies enough to use MIT. I choose GPL, LGPL, and MPL.

If a company intended to give back to the community there is no reason why they would not use GPL, LGPL, or MPL. They intend to tie back anyways. Right? MIT just lets them keep their taking but not giving options open.

I know I do.

GPL forces mega corps to give back when they use community code.

MIT just lets companies take community code without giving anything back.

GPL code is code for the community by the community. Meta crops can use the code too but they have to give back.

Choosing MIT over GPL, LGPL, or MPL (all community oriented) in my book is pretty close to corporate bootlicking.

Tho has nothing to do with Soviet style weaponization of mental illness.

This is plain old political prosecution which the U.S. is well known for.

I suspected so, but I am open to evidence.

Really? I am not seeing Soviet style weaponization of mental illness in China or the U.S. Like rightwing nut jobs talk about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” but that isn’t recognized in the U.S. or China.

What are you referring to?

Here is another article you won’t read. It’s mostly for the benefit of those who might wonder what’s going on here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

You’re definitely being deliberately obtuse. Maybe even sealioning. Ukraine being given nukes after Russia invaded is a totally different thing.

As the other poster said if Ukraine had nukes Russia would not have invaded in the first place.

A lot of slurs make people upset.

If you have to resort to slurs to insult people it just shows a lack of imagination.

Same. I have been using Kagi since before they added AI features. I didn’t use them then and I don’t use them now. The price is the same.

By far the best search engine in my book. They even have a fediverse search mode.

But the controller comes with the high speed wireless puck. That puck works on anything. I don’t see the problem.

Prusa printers are MUCH better than Ender 3s just FYI. Not even in the same class. If you end up getting a modern prusa you’ll get something like the Bamboo but more community driven and with real technical support.

I’m not trying to argue with you. I’m letting you know why it’s informative to know when accounts are from .ml.

You are allowed to disagree.

Yes yes I know. I got nothing. But then again I’m not trying to argue with you.

Maybe to people inside .ml it isn’t informative, but to people outside of .ml it really is.

For people outside of .ml it’s like hearing “just look the manager in the eye and give them a handshake. Then you’ll get the job!” This advice just comes off as weird and disconnected till you realize the person is a boomer. Then it clicks and you realize why they have such a bad take.

Like .ml not all boomers have weird takes but if you see a weirdly disconnected take on job hunting knowing the poster is a boomer is informative.

Same with weird pro Russia or pro china takes with .ml.

When people outside of .ml see takes like “Putin is waging a just, defensive, war against Ukraine!” The take is so bad as to be disconnected from reality, then you realize the poster is .ml and it snaps into place. Just like the boomer situation.

Again not all .ml have such bad takes, just like not all boomers have bad takes but when you see such a bad take knowing helps clarify things. It’s informative.

I hope this helps you understand even if you don’t agree.

Weird that someone in 2025 doesn’t know that two people can suffer at the same time, and shocker even at different levels.

But it is informative. Not all accounts from .ml are weirdly pro Russia or China, but if an account is weirdly pro Russia or pro China it’s probably from .ml.