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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 03:43:47 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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   @chronovore @ShadowJonathan the law moves slowly, but it moves.
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     *Ada :collar: 🇦🇶 (chronovore@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 03:43:52 JST *Ada :collar: 🇦🇶

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     @ShadowJonathan with the EU's movement on the right to repair and reduction of ewaste, this is more likely than you think.

     what nintendo has done might actually turn some heads, can't wait to have legisltation in 12 years :ms_dead:

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     jo (shadowjonathan@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 03:43:53 JST jo

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     I wish large influential bodies like the EU would actually go as far as to make this law; once a product is no longer supported, an update should be released that allows full access to its boot components, to allow consumers to be able to develop or flash custom firmware for it at any time

     No computer chip is sacred enough to demand full industrial secrecy, especially when you're selling those chips to consumers, that's not secrecy, that's artificial scarcity, and in some ways, planned obsolescence

     All of this wastes the abilities and capacities of the high-tech fabs we've built to churn out chips, the only EOL destination it sees is a dispassionate throw into a garbage dump, literally the most wasteful you could ever be with a high-energy product like this

     Not to mention the incredible disservice and apathy that does to the sourcing of the materials, which often come at high cost, and not just money

     Literally everything about this makes me angry

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     jo (shadowjonathan@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 03:43:54 JST jo

     literally the only correct update Nintendo could've released for the 3DS was one which opened up the firmware at least a little more, and/or removed restrictions to playing games (I'm almost sure that there are still cross-region restrictions, and so removing them would be the correct option)

     When a device is past its end of its lifecycle like that you don't lock it down more, you give people the tools to still re-use it

     You're just making more E-waste otherwise

     Literal Jesus fucking Christ

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     Rairii (rairii@haqueers.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 15:42:32 JST Rairii

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     @ShadowJonathan i heard that MS destroyed all their copies of (HSMs storing?) firmware private keys for their windows phones

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     :yell: Ibly ?️‍⚧️ θΔ (eeveeeuphoria@yiff.life)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 15:42:33 JST :yell: Ibly ?️‍⚧️ θΔ

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     @Rairii @ShadowJonathan talk about going a step and beyond, that's really fucked up

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     Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 15:42:41 JST Andrew

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     @EeveeEuphoria @Rairii @ShadowJonathan imagine if some random ex employee discovers they have a copy of that key and now they're the only person in the world who can make custom ROMs for those phones, not even Microsoft can stop them

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