the CA/Browser Forum and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
starting the ASO (anarchist standards organization). it’s the same as ISO but all freely available and also purely by coincidence our standards all end up the same as theirs
@matildalove @soatok
ISO: "We created global standards for everyone to follow"
Everyone: "Can we see them?"
ISO: "No"
We have now reached the part of the gangster movie, where they are fighting over who gets what share of the money from the bank robbery.
@valpackett @ariadne Anything pre-bootguard (Ivy Bridge and earlier), and also any Haswell ThinkPads with socketed CPUs (ThinkPad T440p/W450/W451/L440/L540) do not have bootguard. Anything with MEv11 (Skylake and Kaby Lake/Kaby Lake Refresh, so T460/T470/T480-era) has bootguard, but it can be bypassed with deguard.
people are MISSING OUT on U+2044 FRACTION SLASH!
9400723⁄205473
👆 this does NOT use sub-/superscript letters!
@missionlibre The text of the petition says:
Today, there are no fully-free Linux kernel drivers for contemporary Wi-Fi hardware.
This isn’t true. The drivers (the code that is running in the kernel, on the main CPU) are fully free, but the firmware (the code that is running on the wifi card) isn’t.
Thread: How fascist policies are destroying the research that's been studying my brain for 8 years
I've been part of a Stanford adolescent brain development study since I was a kid - 8 years of my life contributing to science. Yesterday I saw firsthand how Trump's authoritarian bullshit is literally erasing scientific knowledge.
For years, this study included questions about gender identity - because, you know, that's actually relevant to understanding how adolescents develop. This year? Completely gone.
The researchers explained that Trump didn't just gut NIH funding - he made it illegal for any federally-funded research to even mention gender identity. They can't use the word "gender" at all. Only "sex" with binary options.
I watched these scientists - people I've known for years, who've dedicated their lives to understanding human development - have to explain how politicians are literally censoring their research. They called it "awful" but they had no choice: comply or lose all funding.
This hit me hard because this study has been part of MY life for 8 years. Watching authoritarians destroy scientific knowledge that includes my own data, my own contribution to understanding adolescent development - it's personal.
And this is happening everywhere. Universities across the country are being forced to choose between scientific integrity and keeping their research alive.
What we need to do:
This isn't just about research funding. It's about whether we'll let authoritarians decide what scientists are allowed to study about human beings.
Fascism doesn't just come for marginalized people - it comes for knowledge itself.
Akkoma 3.15.2; https://berkeley.edu.pl <akkoma@berkeley.edu.pl>
from Canada