• guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip
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              13 days ago

              Pardon me, but do have a quote from any of these links that actually talks about age verification? I skimmed through them and didn’t find anything substantial

              • alapakala@quokk.au
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                13 days ago

                Just like Alcohol & Guns, in order to activate these vendor locked motherboards + CPUs, sellers will be required to attestate proper identification in order to unlock these killswitched devices.
                All they are waiting on is for the masses to accept buying these. Otherwise you will not be able to compute.

                Unless we all collectively operate a fabrication facility, you will have no options.

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                  13 days ago

                  The firmware gotta somehow interact with the userspace right? What if we just switched to FreeBSD or some other OS?

                  Theres gotta be some way to weasel trough this.

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                    13 days ago

                    The firmware gotta somehow interact with the userspace right?

                    In the locked UEFI, sure…

                    weasel trough this.

                    By holding corporations accountable?

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          13 days ago

          there’re dudes rolling around with 80s datsun trucks in a world with emission hardware lockin

          it’s a matter of how much effort you’ll be willing to invest getting around it

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              9 days ago

              Decrypting? I don’t think any of the similar-strength protection measures which have been defeated were done by brute-forcing the decryption key. There would undoubtedly be attacks which exploit other flaws.

              That said, I agree that libre hardware would be the better option.

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                9 days ago

                🤝 I already Q.E.D. what I intended 🧵.
                You’ll have to talk to my wife if you desire further engagement regarding novel ways to bypass these attestations. But directly definancing these Nazis/Zionists is far more impactful ventures.

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              13 days ago

              not like you get a choice other than to comply

              being upset about it here won’t do much

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                12 days ago

                I don’t think you are in my scope either:
                What computer have you designed?

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                  12 days ago

                  we talking hardware or software here and how deep does one need to go for it to count?

                  do i have to mine my own silicon? maybe rub some silk on amber to generate my own electricity

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                    12 days ago

                    we talking hardware or software here and how deep does one need to go for it to count?

                    Are you free to alter anything? Is your scope not the 4 freedoms?

                    do i have to mine my own silicon? maybe rub some silk on amber to generate my own electricity

                    If you want to add this to your scope, go for it.
                    I still don’t see your schematics, so I believe our negotiations are over.