Then they get nukes and the means of delivering them.

Unfortunately, we are at an era no area can just be ignored.

Theocracies oppressing their own people while aiming for expansion, particularly, must be dealt with.

Else, they will eventually oppress the entirety of humanity.

> Theocracies oppressing their own people while aiming for expansion, particularly, must be dealt with.

> Else, they will eventually oppress the entirety of humanity.

We poured trillions of dollars into Afghanistan trying to do just this. It failed. It is not within the power capability of any state to bring liberty to people that do not want it.

The era of global internationalism you're alluding to is receding. If the Iranians and the Saudis want to nuke one another, that is very sad, but we will not be able to stop them in the long run. The best we can do is to keep as far away from any such conflict as possible.

The world are not children, to be minded by us. They're autonomous humans with agency, many of whom sadly happen to be blood-thirsty fanatics, chomping at the bit for a chance to do some genocide. As demonstrated by the last fifty years of Western policy failure in the third world, we do not have the capacity to fix this and it is folly to try.

> Then they get nukes and the means of delivering them.

Remind me, which country was the only one in the world that actually used nukes to kill hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians?

Appears to be written with Claude.

Many bought or otherwise contributed to the hype of these machines based on the openness of unlocked FPGA and open source HDL/firmware.

Now, after the fact, they want to lock the FPGAs of already shipped devices to only accept Commodore-signed firmware.

Worse, try and present it as a good thing for the customer, with such patronizing headline and article. Disgusting.

Archive: https://archive.is/VLzX3

I can see where they're coming from. However, they could refuse servicing modded devices, and instead gate their support form with a mandatory question that says, "Have you ever uploaded third-party mods to the FPGA?"

Exactly this.

These laws are worthless for as long there is nobody willing and able to enforce them.

Like this, it is a fantasy. I could write international law.

With IPv6 privacy extensions it's impossible to tell which device you're talking to inside of a /64. You'd need to do something silly like DHCPv6 to get that kind of remote device-level tracking.

>I explicitly asked about IPv6 connectivity and they said, "yes."

ABC, Always Be Closing.

Kind reminder we should be using Libressl.

Many of these attacks target the bios.

BIOS is usually a SPI chip. It'd make sense to perhaps tie the write enable line so that it cannot be written to, unless jumpered.

It used to be a thing motherboards did. A BIOS flash enable jumper.

They kept the CMOS reset one, but for some reason got rid of the flash write enable.

Please elaborate.

To understand the age verification push, got to follow the incentives[0].

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfukJ6uVHXs