Taking this to an extreme, if you can’t gain access via software (unlikely if it hasn’t been updated in 5 years), you could disassemble it, locate the SPI interface for the NAND (assuming it uses SPI), and use something like an arduino with a loaded SPI reader sketch to read it. You can then pick it apart to find vulnerabilities, or just replace it.

I vote for Debian sid (the “rolling” version of Debian). I use it and it’s great.

By “lack of developer freedom”, do you mean “lack of ability to take the freedom you got with the code away from the next person?”

Because that’s the primary restriction with the GPL.

So the only ones who could actually go after them to force anything are the ones who originally wrote that GPL code

Not necessarily, the SFC is involved in a big case regarding Vizio about this right now. The FSF was brought in to explain the intended interpretation and spirit of the GPL.

Lemmy.zip is on 0.19.5

Ah okay

Enumerating every user to get the vote count on every single post/comment seems too computationally expensive.

Because then people can vote an unlimited number of times.

There needs to be some sort of identifier

Ayyyyy

Oh I read it was a backdoored BIOS.

Yeah libreboot would probably not help much then.

Libreboot ftw

The fact that this platform is developed by transphobes is a big FUCKING deal

Not really. Usually the issue is the platform devs also control the instances/servers but that isn’t the case here.

The code isn’t transphobic. The code is code. We shouldn’t reject perfectly good code because we don’t like who wrote it. That’s just giving the software solely to the people who do to the detriment of everyone else.

Because he’s the developer. He can easily change a line of code to exploit users and servers across the fediverse.

This can be done by anyone, and applies to any platform. It’s not a problem unique to Lemmy.

I also don’t see how transphobia and backdooring everyone are at all related.

The dip in windows is corrolated with the increase in linux

Well, yeah? The users have to come from somewhere?

Its just a measurement error

Maybe

You’re not gonna get anything requiring Ring 0 access (like Vanguard) running on Linux anytime soon.

Good. Kernel mode anticheat is fucking malware. Anticheat for a game should never have the same power over the system as a driver, which needs those privileges to communicate with hardware.

Debian :)

Its a fucking typo for comedic effect🤦‍♂️

You’re looking far too deep into a joke about GNOME developers removing features.

This is the best way I’ve heard it said.

Busybox is very much widely used though?

And how is it false that the GPL makes software remain free? Read the free software definition, it’s about the freedom of users, not the freedom of people who aren’t users (that doesn’t really make sense). Free software isn’t “source code available to general public even if they aren’t users”.

Doubled down on being what?

Are you trying to argue that anything written here is false? Can you prove it?