this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
126 points (96.3% liked)
Programming
17668 readers
182 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Had Trusted Computing happened as it was originally envisioned, you wouldn't be. You'd be using Windows because that's the only operating system you'd be allowed to use.
And now here we are again, facing down a plot to extinguish FOSS competition under the guise of security. Yes, it's happened before, but that doesn't mean the outcome is guaranteed to be as favorable as it was last time.