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  • Their statement is that Alpine is designed such that it is friendlier to corporations who want to lock down their devices and prevent you from modifying them.

    You cannot use coreutils and have a DRM locked down device.

    You can use Alpine w/ musl + busybox and make a DRM locked down device

    Alpine's licensing favors large corporation's rights in preventing the user from modifying their device

    Operating systems using coreutils favor the end user's rights

  • If they can take my unlocked device by force, they can probably also break my fingers to coerce me to unlock it See also: https://xkcd.com/538/

    Randall is right in pointing out you need to consider your attack vectors, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't take reasonable precautions

    Most people are more likely to run into the type of attack OP references than someone who can break LUKS encryption stealing their device

  • My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.

    Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it "on sale."

    Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea

  • Wasn't France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180426180007/https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

    It's great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time

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  • That's already how it functionally worked for each major release

    Here's their previous strategy: https://web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/source.android.com/docs/setup/about/codelines

    Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product's needs and goals

    When the n+1th version is ready, it's published to the public source tree

    The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.

    We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we've chosen to implement for Android.

    As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away

  • If the executable binary has to be signed with a key, similar to the module signing key, Microsoft could sign their binaries

    This, along with secureboot, would prevent the owner of the machine from running eBPF programs Microsoft doesn't want you to run, even with root

  • I agree, but the wording of that is imprecise...

    Google reimplemented the same API (which should be legal) but "use" sounds like they called Oracle's implementation of the function

    Oracle tried to argue that writing your own virtual machine with the exact same same interface as theirs (even a clean room reimplementatio, or an improved version) was copyright infringement

    If Oracle had won, it would likely have killed things like OpenJDK, WINE, Proton, Rosetta, etc. and would have made licensing around OpenGL/Vulkan very confusing (for a few examples)

  • Where did Microsoft put an official announcement saying the statement from an official Microsoft employee, Jerry Nixon, speaking at an official Microsoft conference, Ignite, was incorrect?

    Edit:

    When reached for comment, [Microsoft] didn't dismiss them at all

    Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered

    https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

    How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax?

    I was looking at a grocery receipt, and there are three different tax rates depending on the items. The receipt doesn't even specify which items are taxed at which rate - just the total at each percentage.

    I understand the goal of lower or higher taxes on groceries is to incentivize purchasing healthier options over more processed foods, but does it really affect purchasing decisions when the final price of the items is opaque to the consumer?

    Games @lemmy.world
    ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

    Halo on the Gameboy Color

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

    Silverblue vs uBlue

    I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

    The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

    My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

    So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

    uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

    I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

    Death Metal @lemmy.world
    ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

    Perpetual Night - Aconitum

    I tend to lean towards melodic death metal and symphonic metal, so hopefully this fits!