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| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Share information about #UEFI http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI the latest attack on computing | Feb 10 01:00 |
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| schestowitz | "Only about 10% of the code is from the BSD licensed core, but you don't get your software freedom even with that portion and that is evil by itself. The reason you would want other people to run an OS on top of your OS is to spy on them. I'm considering UEFI a hypervisor, malware with spyware and backdoors like Windows itself." | Feb 10 01:00 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2355112 | Feb 10 17:55 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Share information about #UEFI http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI the latest attack on computing | Feb 10 17:55 |
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| schestowitz | " | Feb 10 17:56 |
| schestowitz | @Will - I can perfectly agree with you, to some extent at least. I also think it is probobly made to spy on users, or just to gain more control over them. | Feb 10 17:56 |
| schestowitz | Well, I guess we can always buy hardware from small FLOSS-compatible vendors [USA - luckily - has quite a bunch of them. The rest of the world is not that lucky], or just use alternative BIOS firmware [like Coreboot, but it doesn't work with most motherboards out there]. | Feb 10 17:56 |
| schestowitz | Anyhow, I must say it really irritates me and I realize there is no simple solution for this problem. The most reasonable I can think of is "vote with your wallet". It works pretty well in most forms of capitalism. | Feb 10 17:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 10 17:56 |
| schestowitz | "We should boycott UEFI hardware and start anti-trust proceedings to put what's left of Microsoft's executives in jail. It's time to break the power of that idiot plutocrat, Bill Gates. The world deserves it's freedom and we can have it if we look out for each other as we should. UEFI and the war against general computing are crimes." | Feb 10 17:57 |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 10 17:57 |
| schestowitz | I don't know if you can force company to do what you want just by putting regulations on them. The best regulation is to avoid buying their products | Feb 10 17:57 |
| schestowitz | Bill Gates is long time "CEO emeritus". He's not in charge for years now. I don't understand why people still talk about Gates. Talk about present CEO - Ballmer, which is FAR more worse than Gates ever was ... | Feb 10 17:57 |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 10 17:57 |
| schestowitz | "+Dr. Roy Schestowitz As far as I know, UEFI itself it's a good thing - simply an evolution from the antique BIOS mechanism. And pretty open, well standardised. But UEFI+SecureBoot it's another story..." | Feb 10 17:57 |
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| schestowitz | lol | Feb 10 21:52 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2357964 | Feb 10 21:57 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #UK to launch first-ever satellite controlled by a mobile phone… and the scientists have chosen #Android handset http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2275582/UK-launch-satellite-controlled-mobile-phone-scientists-chosen-Google-Nexus-handset.html | Feb 10 21:57 |
| schestowitz | "The moon Nazis powered a capital class space ship with an android. It was thousands of times more powerful than what they were able to build themselves." | Feb 10 21:57 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: UK to launch first-ever satellite controlled by a mobile phone¿ and the scientists have chosen a Google Nexus handset | Mail Online .::. Size~: 135.78 KB | Feb 10 21:57 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2355112 | Feb 10 22:24 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Share information about #UEFI http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI the latest attack on computing | Feb 10 22:24 |
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| schestowitz | " | Feb 10 22:25 |
| schestowitz | Any non free software is a bad thing and UEFI as it arrives on people's computers is 90% non free. It's an entire OS you have no control over. It's got "runtime" services, so we can assume it's never really out of memory. If it has the ability to read and write the rest of your memory, it might as well be a hypervisor. If you don't have all four freedoms, you don't have control of your computer and UEFI is giving us a taste | Feb 10 22:25 |
| schestowitz | of how bad things can actually be. | Feb 10 22:26 |
| schestowitz | Bill Gates is still the majority owner of Microsoft and still has ultimate control. What's more, he still pushes Windows and exploits "retail price" for tax break purposes with his Gates Foundation. There has been little real change in Gates management of Microsoft. The place is still following the strategic direction Gates gave them in the late 90's - that every software and service must promote Windows and Microsoft, and | Feb 10 22:26 |
| schestowitz | that every other company is an enemy to be deceived and destroyed. | Feb 10 22:26 |
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